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That capacitor is just to smooth power goes into the SPDIF port. It has nothing to do with the actual signal itself. Start by cleaning the AVIP cable and port connections. It's possible you have some dust causing poor contact. Try connecting a generic high intensity red LED between the outer legs of the existing SPDIF port and directing that into your SPDIF cable. If that works but the port does not, it's the SPDIF port burning out. Also try using the SPDIF output from the xbox to another device like a cheap Cmedia CM6206LX USB sound card or Turtle beach DSS. Try another device with SPDIF audio out to your current sound system (again cheap CM6206LX sound card is great for this).

I still have several eye toys on hand to mod up, so I can test the white LEDs pretty easily for you guys. Also if anyone wants a pre-modded "full conversion" modded one hit me up. I write the Xbox Video Chat EEPROM image to the camera's EEPROM, change out the USB cable for a 5ft non breakaway Xbox cable, and of course do the short jumper wire to ground the HW descriptor pins. I wrote the guide on CM so if you see any inaccuries or need anything explained better or further described please let me know. Here's a quck overview video I did of some of the in app functions for the Xbox Video Chat softare early last year. I recommend watching the 2nd video because Twitter has the crappiest audio codec support, and the first video is silent.

Awesome! With PrometheOS unlocking HDDs, Pinecone for personal scans, XCAT for automatic submission, and ENDGAME as an easy entry point for XCAT we are in a golden area of easy Xbox data preservation.

I appreciate it, thank you! If you want to see for yourself what's on those HDDs you can still use Pinecone to give each a scan though.

XCAT v1.00 is now out and just waiting for you to start archiving your lost Xbox Live content and updates. I could do a whole writeup but why would I when it's all covered on Consolemods and RetroRGB. https://www.retrorgb.com/xcat-a-huge-win-for-xbox-preservation.html https://consolemods.org/wiki/Xbox:XCAT We have a support channel on the Xbox Scene discord where you can ask you have any questions or list any concerns. https://discord.gg/xbox-scene Download is available on Digiex.net or Xbins. Please check out the Unarchived DLC/TU list to see the simple list of what's missing. https://consolemods.org/wiki/Xbox:Unarchived_DLC Please go forth and Archive your content!

I highly recommend checking out OperationSports.com forum, we've found several original Xbox Live official roster updates there and they definitely have skilled roster modders in their ranks.

I've been testing this for 2 ish weeks as they've added some of these new features. Here's a video unlocking a factory locked stock orpaned WD HDD with vendor comands. Here's a video of unlocking a factory locked stock orphaned Seagate slim HDD with vendor commands. It also works on rubber jacket seagate models, but I didn't have a factory locked (maximum security) HDD to test it on. This did unlock every drive I threw at it. Because Team Resurgent was still working on fixing issues with older generation Xenium chips, all of the unlocking was done on an Xblast Aladdin modchip I converted myself from a cheap Aladdin XT Plus 2 from China and a 49LF080A from Digikey. Special thanks to Modzville for helping me figuring out the Xblast Aladdin stuff. I'm impressed at the incremental updates, but floored by the double massive feature drop of other modchip support and Vendor Specific Command orphan HDD unlocking.

One important note in the start of this thread. @MadMartigan backed up their Xenium flash image first, which was also named flash.bin, and FTPd that off the console before trying to flash anything. That is a critical step before writing any new flash image to your Xenium modchip. After having their backup, off the xbox in a safe location, they went about trying to flash PrometheOS. This also isn't really a PrometheOS problem. This is a documentation issue sort of. The Xenium Tools app is very self explanatory but you really need to pay attention to the prompts and text on screen to understand what is happening. MadMartigan was just continually writing their original xenium backup over their chip's flash memory.

Are you looking for modchips or actual eeprom chips? Every revision Xbox can use any generic 24C02 256b SOIC8 package EEPROM chip.

This person stopped responding to me on the X-S discord. As much as I would love to get access to these drives, the only person we have in SoCal is Modzville and he is unable to pick them up. I just hope someone is able to convince them to dump the drives themselves or get them to someone who's willing to do the work.

No, I knew better. I've helped well over a dozen people un-F$*# their eeproms so they'll work with Insignia. On another note I have 2 of these eeprom programmers and I can't recommend them enough. These are a must have for people with a lot of consoles.

Yup that was my bad, sorry. My brain has been mush for the last couple weeks.

Thank you for your hard work, time, effort and money you put into this. I know it was a lot of work, and I greatly appreciate it I'm sorry if it seemed like we were gatekeeping, that's not the intention. All methods we're now using for gathering user keys and unlocking HDDs will be public soon. The original author has to do some writeups, take some screenshots and pass it over to us to get onto Consolemods. I can't promise it will be quick, but we'll get make everything public to help anyone looking to unlock an old drive, or even softmod without a game (when Eaton is able to add User Key re-locking into FatXplorer).