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Not to sure about this one but it looks like the legs could be bridged/shorted together. I suspect if there was one blob of solder there are probably more.

Looks like it could be a damaged trace or lifted pad.

Looks a lot like my first attempt many years ago. As a tip, heat the pins one at a time with the soldering iron and allow it to heat up, touch your solder to the leg and via and it should flow nicely into place with little effort. As Bowl said, use plenty of flux to help it flow where it needs to go.

Delimiter is an application for windows that delimits the amount of ram an XBE uses. Most games are hard coded to only use 64mb so using this application would allow them to use or attempt to use the full 128mb. It's possible that's why I said I wasn't sure if it would work. Only way to find out and be able to recover would be to either temporarily split the tsop or to install a chip. Ram can go bad though. Is it possible that one chip is heating up more than others. Checking with an actual temperature gun or infrared camera my give some clues if this is the case.

Maybe it is your ram upgrade. Have you by any chance attempted to flash a bios that doesn't see the extra ram and trying it again. Maybe something is being addressed in a specific chip that isn't working properly. I'm not sure if this suggestion would work but might be worth a shot. Have you used delimiter on the games you are trying? If so, maybe try a game that hasn't been delimited.

That makes sense. Well, if nothing else the option is on the table.

I have a working one with that revision that I'm not using. I'm in Canada though so not sure what it would cost to ship to you. You can have it if you'd be willing to pay shipping on it though. If you want to PM me your address I can see if I can get an estimate.

Usually if you flip the short cables around, it will be a tight fit but it will work. The only option for the cerbios.ini file you will need to set is "DriveSetup = 0". Jumper the adapter to master but if that doesn't work try cable select. It may result in error 13 and if so it's likely not going to work properly.

Any chance you'd tried booting a game backup or installer disc without the chip just to see if the tsop flash you tried actually took. Maybe it worked and it's just failing to load the dash because it's also softmodded. At least with an installer disc if it does indeed boot it should have an option in the menu to restore the drive contents to stock.

It will. Since it's just a softmod it only modifies the files on the HDD so restoring the stock files and partitions will bring it back to a working state. If the eeprom is retrieved technically he could also use the old ndure 3.0 softmod method and just build the hdd already softmodded with FatXplorer. I've done this so I could get multiple xboxes to a state where I could flash the tsop without a game save exploit and then rebuilt the HDD's again without the softmod to work with the tsop. It's a bit of work but it does indeed work if all else fails.

Have you tried booting from the other flash bank? Could be that the bank you're attempting to boot from is empty and resulting in the frag. The 2.3b has a 1mb flash memory which lets you use either 1, 1mb bios, or 2 x 512k bios's.

There are no known public softmods or hardmods for the one. Aside from using devmode there isn't much else you can do to modify the OS at this time.

Your cable may be faulty. I had this issue with a faulty cable and was rectified with a new 80 wire IDE cable.

Sweet. I'm back to work now so haven't been around here to post much. The brighter side is, I can now start to afford more things to tinker with.

Sounds like a Sharp. Run wire leads from the top tsop point and connect them once the console boots. Then flash with gentoox. Alternatively follow this guide. Once it's flashed you can leave the wires connected or properly bridge the point and it will work normally.

Cerbios will only show up as an option when formatting or creating a new xbox hdd. As for using cerbios on a softmod I'm not too sure as I don't have any experience using it that way. If all of your zipped games are each in their own folder within the zip archive you can select multiple zip files at once and extract them to a single folder from the right click context menu. This doesn't really save time but saves you from extracting each one individually.

Your best option then might be to backup your c, e, and f drives. Then use fatxplorer to recreate the drive using the option for Cerbios. In doing so you can point it to the locations where you saved the files from each drive during the backup and it will copy the files back for you. Essentially create an xbox hdd backup folder. In this folder create C, E, F folders and copy the files from each partition in to these folders. Then when recreating the drive you can point to these specific folders for each partition and Fatxplorer will put the files back into their proper folders on the newly created hdd.

As long as you have the proper eeprom.bin file backed up to relock the drive, I'm pretty sure it is possible to unlock the drive with the xbox using config magic. Just be careful not to change any settings and just unlock the drive. This should allow you to use it on pc and then use fatxplorer to relock the drive when you're done.

Since it's softmodded already use ftp to dump your eeprom.bin and unlock the drive with it. If you don't have the eeprom.bin already on the drive use one of the many tools for softmods to dump it to the hdd and use ftp to get it on your pc. After that no more hotswapping required. Evox dash has the ability to backup your eeprom.bin to the hdd. Just remember to relock the drive before putting it back in the xbox. If it's not accepting the password you are typing in, tell fatxplorer where your eeprom with the load from eeprom option just unlock it with that. It will store the password for future use.

Consider it a lesson learned. I also learned this the hard way and haven't had an issue since replacing mine with a startech adapter.

Can't verify it's validity but a quick internet search lead me to this which might be helpful.

Using a heat gun like that may have knocked some components out of their positions on either side of the motherboard especially if there is no air flow/speed control. 600F isn't a bad temp as it's 315C but if there is no air flow control and a large nozzle it is very likely to dislodge some adjacent resistors and/or capacitors. Some of the smaller ones are really hard to notice they are missing or out of place. I managed to do this with a small tip and a rework station when I was removing a chip from a failed upgrade but was able to put them back in place and have the xbox still work. Also check for bridging on any of the surrounding resistors as when the xbox wouldn't boot after replacing the components that I knocked off, it turned out to be a bridge on one of the resistors close to the ram chips location.

I bought a pair of those and while they work they aren't the greatest. The wii2hdmi soldered directly to the motherboard gives a better quality picture in my experience. I've also in the past made a modded 360 cable that provided a better picture then the cheap ones do.

Ah, you maybe right but I would think if that was the case the system wouldn't display the cerbios logo before it freezes and frags. I think it would just go straight to a frag upon pressing the power button. At least that's what the system I removed the ram from does. Before I removed the ram it would boot but since it had bulging caps I didn't want to fix I decided to use it for the ram upgrade practice and as a donor board for other parts if needed.

I don't think they have been reversed but I could also be wrong on that. Might not be that hard but since they are really cheap I'm not sure if there would be a reason to other than to redesign the layout for other applications. It's possible your eeprom got corrupted. I've read somewhere on here that a red/orange frag can be a corrupted eeprom but could also be other problems as well. If you have a backup you could attempt to restore it with a programmer to see if it works.