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  1. On 7/27/2023 at 2:18 AM, trencherfield said:

    That's the issue, if a ram chip has a problem, then it probably won't work to get to the Xenium OS as its now a hardware error. Still easier just to flash xblast on a dumb chip like an aladdin. Might be a flakey glitch and only works on certain boards/setups. Never bothered testing it myself having so many chips available. Might try it next ram upgrade and see.

    Did you try holding the eject button after the frag?

    I think it was flaky glutch but I got lucky. 

    I intended to flash Xblast to an old Duox2 but the chip wouldn't fit past the hdd connector.

    So I decided to do the install blind and test the xbox till it boots. I physically couldn't see any issues after the ram install and out of frustration with frags, I started pressing/holding eject and bam! The OS came up.

    FYI, console works a treat now.

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  2. I recently did a ram upgrade using Xenium Ice by Nemesis with Xblast on one of the banks. I found that even with the console not booting with not all ram chips on board, I was able to get into the Xenium Menu by pressing and then holding eject after frag and launch the Xblast bios to do the ram tests. 

    Obviously I did this till all 4 passed.

     

    Basically did this without any Xblast chip.

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  3. Hey all, 

    I'm not new to the modding scene but querying the HD Plus install on a 1.6.

    I see that the flex cable is soldered to the resistor array network which is pre Xcalibur. 

    Question is, are these resistors actually used in a HDplus install or can they be removed and flex soldered direct to board? 

    There are 4 array resistors on the HDplus itself so it appears they are utilised rather than the one on the board. 

    Reason I ask is that in one array on my board, one of the fours pins isn't having continuity whilst the rest have continuity at 33ohms.

    The bottom pad of the board linking to the pins can be soldered to the flex but I'm not sure if I need to run a 33ohm jumper resistor. 

  4. 12 hours ago, fox said:

    Weird synchronicity, someone registering just to bump this contentious thread after I was remembering it the last couple days. My experience with thermal pastes is limited to arctic silver 5 but out of the dozen separate things where I've re-pasted a processor, including an xbox, the resulting temps are always much higher than they were with the factory paste no matter how well I apply the silver. Worst example, my laptop's average temps are 15c higher than they were before, and after two years.... So much for thermal cycles curing the paste.

     

    Either factory pastes really are superior or AS5 isn't what the shills said it is. *shrug*  Anyway I'm not repasting my xbox gpu.

    Just registered because I'm in a retro mood and decided to awaken my OgBox after years of not so fun gaming. 

  5. Very late to this discussion but I've been modding/repairing consoles for several years.

    In my experience, it's good practice to replace the thermal paste whenever the heat sinks have been upset or moved for whatever reason.

    As with the X360, you need to remove the X-clamps in order to get to some solder points and you really need to replace the paste as the heatsink has been disturbed.

    In short, if you've disturbed the heatsink, change the paste.

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