[Hi From Norway!]

On 31/07/2018 at 2:37 AM, janders1 said:

Hi Flowlance,

Where are Your location?

Fredrikstad. What about you. are you norwegian?

[Hi From Norway!]

On 24/07/2018 at 9:34 AM, Traace said:

Hi. welcome onboard.

better practise on some dead PC mainboards (with soldering flux) before working on Xbox MB.

Some tipps how it works great for me:

1. apply flux to point and cable | 2. Apply tiny amount of solder to your soldering iron | 3. Tap point once with it (The point should hold some solder now)

4. Apply solder to your wire too | 5. Remove rest of solder from your soldering iron with desoldering wick (It should be clean now) |

6. Hold cabel in position to point and tap it once again with your Iron

common mistakes:

Dont hold your iron to long, tip points just once or twice (thats enough as long its heated up properly)  | To long while to hot - Result: Lifing pads

Dont use to much solder -> less means more here

 

Dont worry, you will improve we all did start

Thanks for the great advices! I've been skipping the flux part a lot, I should stop doing that... Lifting pads, been there, done that

 

 

On 26/07/2018 at 12:23 AM, Alaziel said:

Welcome  :-)

Thank you!

[Full Case Modding Tutorials!]

This is a great collection of mods! Going to watch everything!

[1.6 XBox Frag After Aladdin Install]

I thank you all for all your suggestion. Yes, turning it on in less than 24 hours was probably not the smartest move. We're experiencing 35 degrees in Norway these days (insane!), and I left it out in the sun a whole day and it seemed to be completely dry. 

I decided to give this board one more chance, desoldering everything and doing it over. And cleaned the board with a tiny bit of isopropyl alcohol and a tooth brush.  

All of a sudden, it works now. So there might have been some water shorting it out, I have no idea really. I don't really trust this is going to work forever, but I'm happy it finally works! I didn't have much confidence in my soldering skills so actually achieving something feels really good. So I went ahead and replaced the clock capacitor and thermal paste, and removed pin 6 from the lpc as this kept the Aladdin's red LED on all the time, even when the system is turned off.

Every once in a while I get a disc read error though (with both original and burned games), not sure what causes this. Maybe a bad dvd drive?

[1.6 XBox Frag After Aladdin Install]

Ok a small update on this case,

I couldn't find any solder splashes/balls anywhere so I desoldered everything, washed the whole motherboard in a bucket of water, and rebuilt the lpc for the 3rd time.

Now it was time to test it. To my surprise it actually showed the boot animation (with the Evo X logo in top left), but THEN... the screen went solid pink.

I rebooted it, and now the Xbox stays on with green leds, but it does not show anything on the screen. I guess this Mobo is FUBAR. 
If anyone got a spare 1.6 to sell, let me know.

 

[1.6 XBox Frag After Aladdin Install]

1 hour ago, Traace said:

Did you flash correct Bios on your modchip that is 1.6 compatible?

 

From Reddit: "If you cut the LFRAME trace it completely prevents the stock ROM in Xyclops chip to be loaded. FRAG behavior (Reboot 3 times and Flash Red And Green) is then expected when no chip is inserted"

 

So I assume -> in your case, modchip bios is just wrong,

Want a working EvoX for 1.6 (my personal bios)? Just tell me how big your modchip flash block is and location of your dashboards

 

I just tried flashing the modchip from a 1.4 Xbox using hexen, and putting a 256k 1.6 bios on it. The 1.4 system obviously would not boot with this chip anymore. I moved it over to the 1.6, but the same issue persists. I think even the Aladdin comes with a bios supported for all Xbox versions though.

[1.6 XBox Frag After Aladdin Install]

44 minutes ago, Forlorn Penguin said:

Not sure if it's related to the issue or not, but the extra wire that you have soldered to that screw plate is unneeded. Maybe try it without that?

I installed that wire in an attempt to fix this issue, no difference in removing it

[Lifted D0 Pad.]

4 hours ago, Wouter A said:

At first you need to repair te trace,  this can be done with a single strand of a wire. 

Second you can use the via on the end of the trace for the connection of d0. 

 

Please make sure your soldering iron is not to hot, this is mostly the cause of lifting pads. 

Make sure to use a good flux,  less heat is needed for soldering then. 

 

Thanks for the advice. Do you know if I need to fix it at all, since it boots up just fine? I grounded from D0 on the Aladdin chip instead, and it seemed to work.

[1.6 XBox Frag After Aladdin Install]

Ok this is really frustrating. The xbox flashes green/red (restarts 3 times). And I can't figure out what I've done wrong here. I felt like the job went really smooth.

I have also cut the trace near the xbox chip (so it cannot boot from the xbox's bios anymore, right?). 

I tried desoldering everything, replacing the wires, removing unused pins, adding them back. Grounding D0 (Even though I cut the trace, I decided to try). 

What else can I try? This was my precious crystal xbox too, and was excited to get the job done

 

Edit: I tried the Aladdin modchip in a 1.4 Xbox, and it worked just fine there. I also checked continuity on the lpc rebuild, and it seems to be fine. No shorts. Did I get any of the wires wrong?

[Lifted D0 Pad.]

So it seems like I attempted something I shouldn't when installing the aladdin chip. After soldering the wire to the pad, I did the wiggle test and it came loose, including the pad itself. The Xbox still seems to operate normally. Is it broken now? There's (obviously) no continuity on this trace now.

 

Is there anywhere else I can solder D0 to ground?

[Hi From Norway!]

Hi! Just felt like getting into original Xbox modding and found this forum.

And I just broke my first Xbox.  Hopefully I will get better at soldering... 

Yoroshiku ne!