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1 hour ago, prtscn said:
Can you post your temperatures with XBMC. You can ignore CPU. Posted it so people who have stock CPU TIM could compare to mine CPU temp.
Also, I posted temperatures of Xbox 360, phat falcon v2, with stock paste. There is an image in this thread. Very similar TIM material.
Also, there is no temp sensor in the gpu. That is the MCPX temp.
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35 minutes ago, prtscn said:
CPU (repasted TIM) - 46C
GPU (stock TIM) - 42C
Does LCD mod shows temp. while in game?
Using XBMC, UnleashX readings are unreliable.
You claim the temps of 2 different components. You're not attempting to compare them to each other are you? That wouldn't make any sense.
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5 hours ago, prtscn said:
What argument? My argument is that replacing thermal compound yields no practical benefits.
Capacitor removal is not beneficial, but essential, because it will leak and will cause huge damage to the board.
Where is your testing and data to support that it yields no practical benefits? or are you just talking out of your ass?
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The Xbox cannot read games in Rar format. They need to be extracted.
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2 hours ago, prtscn said:
Two different things.
Xbox clock capacitor is well documented, and people proactively removes it.
xbox "repaste" is based on a general practice of computer maintenance, thinking that OG xbox uses regular thermal paste. Which is not.
Not a bright comment on your part. Every analogy will have a difference. That's why it's an analogy rather than the exact same thing. Maybe look up what an analogy is.
The argument is that repasting is somehow dangerous and shouldn't be done because the negatives outweigh the positives. They actually do not because repasting is not difficult. It's not risky.
Replacing the clock cap is literally removing a component from the board. It's risky and not easy for most. So... it disproves the entire argument you're on. -
I do want to point out though, that literally everyone talks about removing the clock cap as good advice. If you disagree I'd like to see your explanation for this.
That COMPLETELY nullifies any argument against changing thermal paste. It's not difficult and not as risky as removing a capacitor. -
You guys have given me a great topic for another youtube video. THANK YOU!!!
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Anything that heats and becomes softer then cools and becomes harder will lose its softness over time. Properties change.
Also, the material will have a particular thermal transfer property that won't be very high. It might be slightly better than air but not by a whole lot.
Compare that with Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut with over 12w/mk and you'll understand why it's not "pointless" to change out the thermal paste after nearly 20 years. The cooler you can make a cpu and gpu run, the longer lifespan they will have.-
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15 hours ago, prtscn said:
the compound used is sorta like a rubber, under heat it softens. like ps2 rubber pad, but more advanced and more efficient. same for cpu.
More advanced and more efficient than what?
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3 hours ago, prtscn said:
i get dirty disc error, any hdd fix or tutorial?
You probably have a bad rip. Re-rip the dvd with dvd2xbox.
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1 hour ago, shadowfire36 said:
what is a dead drive ?
how is that possible ? my hd works perfectly fine, if i change it with an other dvd drive than he dead one i get error 13-- i have tried 5 different drives
(including a samsung 616dt)all 5 drives(including the 1.6's dvd) work in other xbox's just not the 1.6
There is some other variable you're leaving out. The original Xbox dvd drives are 100% NOT LOCKED to the motherboard. They didn't start doing that with dvd drives until xbox 360. Most of us here have swapped every different type of dvd drive into every different xbox. We know that isn't what is going on. Wipe that from your mind and start looking for other variables.
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19 minutes ago, keivah said:
Hello ladies and gents. I am new here but I have been in the console modding biz for quite a long time now. It just so happens doing the boat load of digging I do on a normal night of nothing, I might have stumbled on the biggest Xbox archive I've seen since ISO zone.
I'll comment back if it's a false alarm or not since I have not extracted any ISO images from this site yet.
Don't share that link here. This site is not for piracy.
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5 minutes ago, thewolftakeover said:
Idk, I would never lose that source. And true, you interested in helping with the neXgen project? It's our best shot at not starting from ground zero.
Of course I am.
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4 hours ago, thewolftakeover said:
I've been looking all over trying to find the devs. It's harder than ever now. The IRC chat is vacant. The site is defunct. Other have suggested starting from scratch or going for neXgen dash source and working my way up.
I really wanted the unleash x source code but it proved impossible. Even if we were to contact these people, the odds of them having that data anymore is extremely unlikely.
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15 hours ago, thewolftakeover said:
I've been using EvoX's telnet features to poke around with memory with games. Have been making some progress with Crazy Taxi 3: High Roller. Haven't made a trainer yet, but have ran into some concerns:
1. I would like to have better control over value much more like Cheat Engine would have.
2. Too many games close out access to the Debugger (notably Fight Night Round 3 and THPS4)
3. A live memory edit would be nice
4. Working with floats does NOT have to be this hard.
5. CXBX is just a nightmare to work with.
Does anyone have any solution to these problems? Does anyone care?
We can dump the entire memory using scripts. That's a start, I just haven't started on it. Actually Putty isn't working for this job. An
In conclusion, can anyone provide EvoX / RemoteX source code so we can work on the telnet feature?
Big thanks to: mandragor for EvoX Trainers Telnet v1.1
I don't believe that source code was ever released. Unless an original dev happens upon this thread and happens to want to give it out... odds are very very slight.
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The minimum isn't 5 posts. You have to be an active member for a while. If you're looking for downloads without participating in our community, the download you're wanting can be found elsewhere.
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43 minutes ago, Roxas said:
I was just wondering, too
A little information in the message would be helpful
It would... unfortunately I've went through the forum code extensively and have yet to find the message so that I can modify it.
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11 hours ago, HDShadow said:
Love to say I agree but, with respect, it looks unfinished and unpolished.
I do not want to step on anyone's toes here but these are meant as honest criticisms (BTW in most cases easily fixed):-
1.The free memory display overlapping the dash version.
2.Date display overlapping the main menu.
3.Chip ID overlapping the main menu.
4.CPU/MB Temp and C:\ free space not well aligned.
5.Preview area neither 4:3 or WS.
6.Main menu items not all same upper/lower case and whilst very readable bland default font choice.
7.All that space on the right unused and at the bottom too; better place for Temp. display.
8. 4:3 skin design format may not adapt attractively to WS which most users are going to be using.
9. There will be resolution display issues too in 720p and 1080i as the skin.xml info menu items do not include any X/Y scaling.
Functional and usable undoubtedly but is anyone here really going to use this in preference to, for instance, any of the ones in KaosEngineers' Top 10 UX skins? Rocky5 also drew up a similar list of good quality, well finished UX skins a few years ago and his XB Softmodding Tool skin, which is basically a UX one, is none too shabby either.
If it or something like this is going to offered as a OGXbox Forum recommended UX skin I would think one based on the Forums own colour scheme and design would be something worth working on.
Most of those issues go away when it's in widescreen. That's what it was created with.
As far as the forum colors and matching... I change them semi frequently. I understand you don't like the skin but most of your commentary is quite off the mark when you actually use it in widescreen. -
Welcome Jim! We'll be happy to help you on your journey.
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Welcome and thank you for your service.
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49 minutes ago, coptimus said:
Hello everyone. I've asked this question on FB, but would like to verify with this crowd here.
I have softmodded an v1.6 using Rocky5 most recent version. I would like to swap to a 2TB SATA drive. I understand this can be done with a hot swap, cloning the original drive with chimp and then formatting with xb partitioner.
Is this correct? Why does this work if the bios is supposed to need LBA-48 to see a large drive? Is it because each partition is small enough to not need LBA-48?
Thanks in advance.
It needs LBA-48 to read anything larger than 137 gb.
So since softmodding is just getting the xbox to replace the bios in memory with a custom one, if you set an exploit to load a boot from media bios that supports lba-48 on the first 137gb it will gladly load it into memory and give you use of the rest of your drive. -
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13 hours ago, QuazyPat said:
Hey all!
I purchased an OG Xbox ~8 years ago from a PlayNTrade before all of them in my area closed down. I used it a bit at first and built up a small library of games, but then life happened so it sat in boxes with some of my older consoles for a while. I've been getting back into older games/collecting recently so I figured I should set it up and finally mod it.
I just completed a softmod using the Rocky5 tool (via Splinter Cell) which was a breeze. The only hold up was that I had to test several old flash drives before I found one that worked. Of course, it was the last one I tried.
My main purpose for modding is to create backups of my games for when the disk drive eventually dies, and so that I can play them off the HDD directly. I'm looking to download DVD2Xbox, but I see a message saying I don't have permission to download it. Is there something particular I have to do? Are the files hosted on another site?
Thanks,
Patrick
We don't allow people to just start downloading after they join. You have to be an active member of the community to do that.
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Board startup date: April 23, 2017 12:45:48
Xbox Gpu Repaste Is Pointless
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I think now is a good time to restate all premises because the conclusions will undoubtedly be drawn with video evidence soon.
#1 Replacing the stock paste with better paste will yield no significant results IF the stock paste hasn't already failed. It's very brittle and can crack and fail fairly easily. Thus the reasoning behind changing it out.
#2 The differences between thermal pastes are minute. The thermal conductivity of these pastes can be known by their w/Mk rating that should be listed somewhere for a given TIM. Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut has the highest w/Mk of all TIMs known to me. It is what I will be testing with and I do expect a very slight improvement.
#3 Liquid metal would result in a huge improvement in theory but cannot be used because the heatsinks are aluminum and gallium creates an alloy with aluminum that destroys its rigidity and thus renders the heatsink useless.