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  3. Consumer CRT/modern flat-screen/ PVM?

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    yeah when it comes to the capacitors I just do one at a time and yes I have seen print on the PCB

    I would also have to say that my experience with TVs in general is very slim however I have a good idea of what is in them especially old CRT I have messed with those a little bit as for plasma TVs I have no experience

    if there's anything in there that is high power I will recognize it obviously I will understand the capacitors beyond that no

    please do not be concerned I am no fool I don't go poking where I don't know and I do thoroughly look

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  4. Consumer CRT/modern flat-screen/ PVM?

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    rock on thanks for the mention of the brands.. yes it's definitely a time-consuming thing sometimes I am not a pro by any means but I can get through it generally without tearing things up.. 

    haha the part I always dread is taking it apart and especially when it's large heavy and complicated my fear is always breaking something during disassembly or reassembly

    I've always had pretty good luck but the dread of breaking it rides on the shoulders pretty hard..

    my tactic if I can and is permitted I like to look at everything that I need to replace order it then take it out one at a time and replace it.. I have a horrible habit of forgetting what goes where otherwise yes I document with pictures and noting it down so that I don't lose track of where everything goes

    I would have to definitely agree about the heat output on that thing... it is tremendous of course the wife likes the heat output she prefers everything to be warmer so for her it's like a heater for the game room

    anyway I appreciate the information and I always appreciate the pictures it's really cool to see what other people got and how they have their setup pretty neat thanks for sharing

     

  5. Consumer CRT/modern flat-screen/ PVM?

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    fantastic to see that this thread is still kicking and of course Bowlsnapper demonstrating his Utopia of Awesomeness 😆

    Bowlsnapper I don't know if you remember the TV I picked up last year sometime Midsummer for free I'm going to go through it and see if anything is needing replacing I doubt it but good to check

    reason for going through it originally is because it's got some dust back there I'd like to get it all cleaned up it has 4 80mm fans at the top of the Shroud at the back they look like they could be cleaned

    IF I find any capacitors that are obviously in need of changing what brand of capacitor would you recommend for these type of TVs or if anyone else has got suggestion

    for the sake of ease I'll post the information again

    Panasonic th-42pz700u

     

  6. Who has real experience flashing an LG GDR 8163?

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    I don't know what my luck will be revisiting of this project and it will be soon as I like to pick these things back up in the winter so we'll see what happens..

    I have to admit I have not looked at the prices of the Optical drives for the better of 2 months now when I go to pick up the project again I imagine that they'll be at the same price if not greater regardless to whichever model I go with

    sometimes you'll find one under $80

    regardless this project will go slow for me as the drives are not exactly cheap so it will be one drive at a time tell I have success with at least one then I'll give it a break for a little bit

    till I have success with at least one I might as well be smashing my own kneecaps with a hammer

     

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  8. Who has real experience flashing an LG GDR 8163?

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    14 minutes ago, Bowlsnapper said:

    Good! Old computers are always good to collect. You can tell that these people are gouging. Some of them know what they have and some of them just follow the prices on ebay. These same drives, one model off and unusable in an xbox, are 30 bucks, probably. That's fucked up, man.

    a lot of the old school computer stuff is actually pretty cheap it's not that bad for two computers one that I built and the other one pre-built Dell done which I have $200 flat in both of them and that was also building one

    just don't do what the YouTubers tell you to do because then you're going to pay out the ass

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  11. Who has real experience flashing an LG GDR 8163?

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    On 8/11/2023 at 2:12 AM, trencherfield said:

    I done a fair few of these 8163b's, all been perfect for me. I can't completely remember, but vaguely remember there being 2 flash files and one being a duffer, it had a marker in the name to say it was the 'fixed' version - this is the one I use. Don't know if that's the one you have? If so ignore that then.

    Also, another guide mentioned to keep the cables short to the yellow cable, which I do, and also watch what the wires are passing over and resting on and as they come out the back too. Use the smd resistors on the pcb.

    Try a second flash, chip is old, just like the flash chip in an xbox, sometimes its not a bit perfect flash on these things.

    Just had two more 8163b's delivered, so have probably quite a few now that I need to do at some point soon. I use a USB stick on a tiny old 1ghz industrial pc board (complete with bulging caps about to pop!) think it is with dos on the stick and just load up the tool in dos.

     

    yeah I'm going to try again and I'm going to use the fixed version next time I've done a little bit of talking and some research I think I've done everything correctly but I need to use fixed version the drive still technically partially works so I'm not too disappointed it's going to get put away on the shelf and used for Xboxes that don't have a drive to test them

    overall I enjoyed the learning experience I think I know what I need to do for next time

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  15. Who has real experience flashing an LG GDR 8163?

    in Hardware Mods

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    going back to this I either did not flash this correctly or the flash did not take I use the application that flashes off desktop of xp

    when ran the application it prompted with information to follow I did all the following steps executed The Flash

    then rebooted the computer and what you see on the last picture there is what it said

    honestly if it turned into a paperweight I'm not worried the experience of doing this was pretty fun

    I am definitely going to attempt it again I want to learn unless someone can chime in and give me some information to potentially try to correct it if possible or what I might have done wrong

     
     
     
     
     

  18. Who has real experience flashing an LG GDR 8163?

    in Hardware Mods

    Posted

    Drive Ready so does that mean that I did something wrong that I need to go back and look?

     

    I did use this drive prior to install Windows XP on a machine it also copied drivers off of a disc just fine.. just in case anyone asks

     

    while I'm waiting for verification on Drive ready I am going to go back and look to make sure all my connections are correct

  19. Who has real experience flashing an LG GDR 8163?

    in Hardware Mods

    Posted · Edited by Tartarus

    okay I believe I have successfully flashed the drive sorted out all the connections with resistors in the order it is to be.. however I'm having an issue where I go to turn the console on insert a disc it doesn't want to read however if I then reset the console with the disc in it will read the disc

    I also noticed that on the dashboard it says that the disk drive is opening when it's doing nothing

    I also left pin 9 data unconnected to anything as it didn't reference it to be connected to anything is that correct or unless I failed to understand?

    side note after I flashed it it did say GDR 8050L I was curious and went and looked at what it would say after and is that correct?

  22. Generic SATA-to-IDE adapter with SSD

    in Hardware Mods

    Posted

    This is a interesting topic I was wondering if there were others out there that could be used now that I'm learning more about it.

    when I first started I just approached it by myself and got a bunch of information from random sources and a lot of people were talking about it and using the StarTech and of course I went with one ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ only cuz I didn't know and still have little information

    I also failed to find anything else out there or at least on a quick search it's been some time now so I don't remember how well I would have looked

    so if here or somewhere else has a list that would be great or if you guys are planning on starting one even better 👍

  23. Consumer CRT/modern flat-screen/ PVM?

    in General Xbox Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Tartarus

    Set aside from PC games I think the original Xbox is probably going to be the oldest I play for consoles set aside from the Super Nintendo only cuz I have one game on there I like to play

    Then I think the only other console I ever took a liking to was the GameCube and some of the other Nintendo stuff

    I never really got into the emulators I literally just play the original Xbox games on it HA! I'm sure there's people in here who are going to find that lame

    I figure if I wanted to play those games just get the console but there really wasn't anything that I had interest in so like I said the Super Nintendo was it

    The reason why I even mobbed the Xbox is to preserve the games that I have which are very few at that but at least once or twice a year I go back and play one of them until I beat it

    once again might be lame to someone but I enjoy it

    yeah come to think about it the only two older consoles I would have ever come into contact with was the Atari and Super Nintendo when I was a kid

    Then we would not get a new console until the original Xbox was to come out

     

  25. Consumer CRT/modern flat-screen/ PVM?

    in General Xbox Discussion

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    55 minutes ago, Bowlsnapper said:

    I'm tellin' ya, any type of display based on that technology ,like plasmas and CRTs just look amazing and there is nothing like them. I watched Tron on Bluray last night and the colors were just SICK. There was noise in the conversion, unfortunately, but it still looked good. Only thing really left on my list is a 3D plasma and either a PVM or BVM. Plasmas have no pixel latency, so there is no ghosting with them when switching between eyes so rapidly. If you're gonna have a 3D display, plasmas or dual passive projectors are really the only practical option. LCDs do 3D fine, but there is ghosting due to the fact that LCDs cannot switch completely over between light and dark quickly enough to avoid ghosting.

    I'm unaware that any calibration can be done, unless plasmas have a service menu that I am unaware of... Better look into that. :)

    yeah thank you for the info I'm learning a little bit of the time with it

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