[1.6 Thermal Issue]

The Box was totally dead on arrival, no sign of life. After opening up the box it was obvious that those little electrolyte bastards were gone - see for yourself in the attached photo. After replacing them with new ones, the box still didn't even power on ... a little more investigation and it turned out that the fuse on the PSU was faulty too.

Now it works, but the thermal issue still is there in some way. It doesn't turn off that often, but after leaving it for about an hour on the Dashboard it still rises to 60° and powers off, even with 100% on the Fan which should give more than enough airflow to cool the system. Will have to do more investigation, because i simply don't want to throw away this little box.

[1.6 Thermal Issue]

Hi, it worked - after tweaking around with various fan speeds, i left it at 80%, which keeps the device at around 56°. Do the 1.6's in general run hotter than the other revisions? Main main Box is a 1.1, also with a 60 mm Noctua and a setting of 40%, idling around at about 40° in UnleashX.

[1.6 Thermal Issue]

Hi,

i just finished rescuing and polishing up a almost dead 1.6 (dead HDD, dead Fan, 5 leaked capacitors and a burned power supply fuse) which now almost works - except for the following issue:

As soon as the system has been booted, the CPU / GPU temperatures are rising to 64 °C almost immediatly and coherently. Then, it turns off after a few minutes.

What i already tried:

1. Fully cleaned and removed the old thermal paste and replaced it (holy crap, the one on the GPU felt like tarred road)
2. Hard-tweaked the BIOS to run the Fan at 40% instead of the default 20%

Both actions did not had any impact on the issue.

System configuration:

Alladin Modchip, EvoX M8+ 1.6 BIOS, UnleashX Dashboard (grabbed the version from the OGXBox Installer Disc), Noctua 60 mm 12 V Fan, Noname PATA-SATA Adaptor with 256 GB SATA SSD, new 80 Pin PATA Cable.

Any ideas what else i could try? I don't want to flash the BIOS in the current situation because of the general system instability but would perform it with a external programmer if necessary.

[UIX Lite 0.9.6 (?) BETA - the one with FTP]

Hi,

i've read over at reddit that there is some new Beta of UIX Lite which has an integrated FTP Server. Anyone know where to get this version?

Eventually someone can enlighten me what those "usual places" are

Thanks,

Egon

 

[Flash gone bad & Repair Ideas]

4 hours ago, KaosEngineer said:

You could replace the SST49LF020A with an SST49LF080A (8Mbit - 1M x 8-bit) [still in production and available to purchase: SST49LF080A | Microchip Technology] and reprogram the CPLD chip on the Aladdin XT modchip with a JTAG programmer to make it an XBlast-Aladdin modchip. This XBlast Aladdin modchip has multiple BIOS bank support. One 256KB bank holds the modchip's controlling OS/BIOS - the 256KByte XBlast OS v0.56 and 2 user programmable banks - 1-256KBytes and 1-512KBytes in size.

An external flash programmer and a JTAG programmer are needed to upgrade the Aladdin XT.

 

I'm comfortable with using a JTAG programmer, have an Altera USB Blaster here. Do you have a link to the needed bitstream for programming the CPLD? Maybe i will try this out too.

[Flash gone bad & Repair Ideas]

Thanks for all the information, i think i will go the route of buying a external USB Flasher which supports the original chip. Such a device could come handy for other things too and won't cost a fortune.

[Flash gone bad & Repair Ideas]

Hi,

i'm new to the scene and got my first chipped box a few weeks ago. Because i'm interested in tinkering around it happend that my Flashchip somehow got corrupted in the process of trying out another BIOS ... i'm kinda stuck now and absolutely want to recover from this situation by myself, so there have a few ideas risen and i may ask more veteran people about them:

Ideas:

1. Boot the XBox of a friend of mine, remove the Flash with power on and flash mine. Did this years ago regulary on PC Mainboards but also know that these devices aren't built for hotswapping them and so i'm a little bit afraid of killing the circuitry with voltage spikes.

2. Softmod the Box and Flash the Modchip then. Question 1: Possible in general? Question 2: Is it possible to Softmod "externally" on a PC. I have a eeprom backup of my box and the key isn't nulled.

3. Invest a few bucks and buy a USB Flasher which is compatible with PLCC32 chips - mine is a SST 49lf020a. Question: Can i use other Chips with similar specification too? I'm thinking of ordering a SST 39SF02070-4C-N which has very similar specifications compared to the original one, which is no longer produced or available.

Just a sidenote: The Modchip i use is a Alladin XT

Thanks,

Egon