I've got an OLD xbox (1.5 or earlier) with an xecuter 2.6 ce running avalaunch, on a solderless xapt3r mount. But it's misbehaving. In a few ways.
Loading has now become very hit or miss. With modchip turned off, it has stopped reading certain discs, getting progressively worse and I think it might be won't read at all now.
With chip on, I am getting lots of frag boots - failing to boot, auto reset, fail, auto rest, red green flagging eject button.
When it finally boots, it is taking a long time to load, and usually crashes.
I'm suspecting that it's time to replace the hard drive, yes? If so, I cannot remember at all how to set up the new hard drive.
Is anything else likely to be dying, like the optical drive? I've not opened anything up since I fitted the chip in 2008.
All help gratefully received. Thanks.