Galindrada

Please try to check your TV's configuration. At least my LCD overlaps the Dash's settings if it is in auto-mode (both video and sound). Check if your TV isn't changing to mono when the game starts.

I've tried everything on the remote's menu, and a bunch of internet suggested button combinations to access Panasonic's service menu. Nothing worked. Today my 6 month old daughter picked up the remote and a never seen menu appeared on the TV. I just screamed "Where did you pressed??". So .. there's a specific button only for the format adjustment, by default my TV was in "auto mode" which decided to put every xbox game into 4:3 + overscan.

Thank you for your answers @HDShadow and @prtscn much appreciated, Will try to access that service menu (didn't know such thing existed) over the next few days and I'll let you know if it works. Once again, thank you so much.

Good morning, I have an issue with my screen that's very annoying. As you can see on the picture below, both sides of the screen are streched (it can be seen by the size of the icons), apparently to fill the screen. This is very troublesome because when I ' m playing any game it gives a "lensy" feeling, which is not good at all. Pretty sure that it is something related to the TV since I've tried with another Xbox with the same result. Also tried SCART and composite cable with the same result tio. Did this happen to anyone? How did you fixed it? Thanks in advance

Does anyone have one of those universal rom programmers? I saw that you can flash a custom bios using those (Cerbios as an example)? If so, any product recommendation?

Thank you for the help guys. I'll try to hardmod that Xbox then , as soon as I'm able to that I'll provide further feedback. It might be useful for people that are facing the same issue. Cheers

Thank you Bowlsnapper , your comment was both useful and funny Cheers

Any suggestion regarding which modchip to pick? As far as I can see only Aladdin os available to ship to where I am (Ali Express --> Portugal). Thank you so much

Dave , fortunately the DVD is fine. I tried another working DVD (Samsung) from another console and got the same error. Also the original DVD (which is a Thomson) worked fine on another Xbox console. Bolofski, that might be an idea , do you think that the BIOS might be corrupted? I still don't get why that FIFA 2005 demo plays perfectly fine. The console seems 100% capable of delivering everything, sound , video , etc. Cheers

Sorry to revive this old post. MadMartigan, is it possible to mod the Xbox without using the DVD tray at all? As far as I can see the sofmod needs a game to run the Rocky software. Cheers

Tried every setup. No further improvement unfortunately. Thanks for the advice though

Hi Dave, weirdly it does have and error code when there is an issue. The first time I've re-assembled the Xbox I forgot to connect the cable to the DVD , and it displayed the number + error message as soon as I turned the Xbox on. I do think it is the 1.0 because it does have that fan over the heatsink. The error only shows up when I try to play any game. Never payed much attention itself if there is any indication when the error comes up, but I do think it only flashes green. Cheers

Thanks @MadMartigan, I'll post a picture as soon as I'm back home. But is just a black screen with that message on the middle. I'm able to solder , been learning over the past few months. I'll take a look on your advice since I'm totally unaware of that procedure (or what TSOP actually means ). Bolofsky I'll try to have a look on the settings too, the screen does flicker a bit before displaying the message. And the FIFA 2005 demo displays a weird texture on both sides of the screen, it looks like it is strechted somehow. Thank you both

Hello OGxbox! I'm Aníbal , 35 and I'm from Portugal - Aveiro. I'm a retrogaming enthusiast and a competitive chess player. I got into repair electronics a few months ago and that led me to the amazing Xbox world. I just softmodded my first console and I'm very excited to find out a lot more about the Xbox. Cheers!