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it was this one, I dont do much soldering work outside of the odd project like this, in the past ive installed chips in my xbox 360, switch, and ps2 slim, im not sure why this one is proving to be so challenging lol

Sorry for the late reply everyone, I'm limited to 4 posts per day for some reason, I believe its Celsius, its not a very nice station but it displays a C when turning on before the temperature starts showing, i also dont believe its actually at the temperature its reporting lol. I didn't really make any progress today, having trouble getting a wire to solder onto the vias.

@FrostyMaGee it's a newer station, in the past I've used irons that just plug into the wall and start getting hot lol so I had no idea what temp was actually reasonable

@Bowlsnapper yes I have flux and my station has a temperature setting, I'll give that a go tomorrow, thank you

@Bowlsnapper I've been running at 450 and now that you mention it, that is way too hot. @KaosEngineer thank you, Im going to give that a shot tomorrow, once that is done where do I place the wire that was supposed to go to the pad that was removed?

Thank you for the advice folks, unfortunately while i was removing the wires to redo the install, i messed up pretty bad, the trace and pad are both missing as you can see in the attached picture, not sure how to proceed from here, any advice would be great.

Good evening, I have a 1.6b xbox, it is currently softmodded (this was done about 12 years ago) and the disk drive died on me to the point where the xbox wont boot to the dashboard (error code 12), anyway I read that since this is a 1.6b motherboard a TSOP flash is out of the question. I purchased a open xenium mod chip and performed the installation. Currently when the xbox is powered off but plugged in the mod chip emits a bright white light. This is after rechecking my joints due to having a bright red light. Im not sure which one of those is good or not. Anyway when I attempt to turn on the console with just the power and video cables and fan plugged in, no controller port cables plugged into the mb and no hard drive/disk drive, the mod chip emits a slightly less intense red light and the LED on the front of the xbox starts of green then flashes orange, fan spins up, then everything goes back to a powered down state and the white light returns. This is when powering on with the eject button btw. If I take the chip off the pin header, the xbox boots to the splash screen then ofc does nothing because there is no hard drive or disk drive. edit: forgot to mention I took a multimeter in continuity mode and the pins and points on the board are all connected as they should be, and I do have a picture of the chip itself but it currently is failing to upload here, ill try to do what I can in that regard Any guidance would be appreciated, attached are some photos of my amateur soldering work.