big F
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Well if I get it I will post all the details here, as I think it needs documenting.
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Possible 128mb solution for 1.6 consoles found......
big F replied to nikeymikey's topic in Hardware Mods
We did this with certain versions of the Amiga, before modern day chips and cheap build your own PCB’s became available. No nobody does it now as you can do it cheaper by not using 20+ year old parts from donors, with retro tax added to the price. interesting to see if it work’s however. -
Carboot sales and multi buys on eVilbay . The kind where you buy a few and pay £15 postage so when you divide the cost between all 6 or whatever you bought it’s between 5 and 10. Often it’s a tiny bit more. Been doing similar with 360’s, although they are cheaper for grubby and busted, as they are newer and the retro crowd has not yet started to add retro tax on sales.
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Did that a while ago with a donated box.
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Well chances are its at least soft modded, no prob any way as I would TSOP it or chip it in the unlikely event that it is 1.6. I was looking for something disaster area to do a before and after. Every unmodded box i have just needs a clean and or dust removing, hardly challenging. £10 now but we will see if somebody out bids me. In the UK they go for £5 upwards currently and a bit more for clear and other colours.
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Idea for a USB port for direct HDD access on PC
big F replied to SoftMachine's topic in Hardware Mods
Cute Ftp is really good, works faster than others for some reason, even when used on non Xbox tasks. -
Theres a bit of an issue with supply of some of the things like fpu’s at the mo. I have some waiting to be built along with several boards for Commodore Amiga boards. Theres no way I am paying £10 and £20 for components that normally cost £3 each from so e eBay scalper.
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Currently I am bidding on this, gotta love an unloved OG.
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If you cant get it to work with a manual address assignment, then that might suggest the LAN port has taken a surge wack at some point in its life. You have done everything else to check. So its fixable but maybe better to cut and run on that Mobo.
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Right then. The fact that other Xboxes connect on that cable and connection ok suggests it’s the particular Xbox that at fault. Not your setup. Check on the router to see if it has any blocked MAC addresses. Different routers and switches have this in various places on their config pages. But no IP is exactly the sort of behaviour you get when the MAC is blocked. A windows pc would give itself a 169 address in that situation. The XBox OS is simple and quite dumb in this area so does nothing.
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It sounds like you are using two switches/routers. Theres nothing wrong with this I have a similar set up. I am a network engineer so for me its just how I wanted a set up in my house and workshop, and works in our zoned set up. If this is the case make sure only one of the devices gives out DHCP addresses, it gets messy if you dont. On the second router set it to a fixed ip and make sure that ip is out side the DHCP pool say xxx.xxx.xxx.100 keep everything below 100 out of the DHCP pool as it will give you room. Its unlikely you will fill 254 ips in a residential set up. the set the DNS and Gateway to the IP of the primary device. It will then be gatekeeper and glue for your nettwork. Then. Just plug the xbox into what ever router is serving your network in the room you are working from. The xbox will connect at 100mb on a 1gb port via auto negotiation, all switches and routers can do this. Set the xbox to DHCP and let your router do the work. Use the dash to find out what IP the box has settled on. Then log onto your router and set the DHCP to always map that IP to the XBox’s MAC address. That way it will always be on the same IP so you can always connect to it with out faffing about. If you have several xbox’s like me and use one cable when FTPing or generally messing with them on your work bench, MAC addresses are your friends. Let the router map things for you, and you cant really go wrong.
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A simple check would be to make sure the switch pcb is ok, I had one a while back that was iffy on the connector. after that it may get a bit more involved as it could be one of the regulators or the chip that controls the PWON feature.
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This looks great. Since commercial LCD front panels are like rocking horse poop nowadays and anyone selling one knows they can charge good money, a printable one would be awesome. Added to that, an excellent base to further mod to individual specs.
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What happened to this mod, did it get finished.
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Well at least we all know where all the crystal cases went to, now.
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Its the Executer set up that is worth the money. The rest of its is just worth a few quid/bucks.
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Could be so many things. Is it bios modded or standard. Could be a broken track or two. A bad solder joint. Crappy mod chip install. if you could give us some more details we might be able to help. A high quality phot of the board might also help us.
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That mod chip install does look janky and a short circuit waiting to happen. If it were me I would just TSOP the on board bios. On a 1.0 its more elegant and unless you want advanced features a decent mod chip can give. Is FOC and only needs a bit of time and a few solder points making.
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You could look at getting a stencil made by PCBway. Annoying thing I had free access to a big box of FPG CPU stencils years back that were being trashed. Didn’t take it as back then didn’t have any abilities to rework etc. so annoying. Was right around the time when the XBox cpu was current tech.
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Yes other similar ones convert the p-on the ATX produces to one the Xbox expects, iirc ATX is a positive feed and the Xbox one’s a negative.
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Back in the 90’s we used to do it, it was cool the first few times then got old as the drives always die prematurely. The only way to properly do it is with a clean room and a donor drive to give you the parts to mod prior to fitting. If you work in electronics and have access to a clean room go for it. For everyone else a clean room is not you going round with a duster and a quick tidy up prior to doing it.
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Bounty hunting and a little score settling. Oh sorry wrong Fett… Fets normally do power modulating tasks. Like dumping excess voltage for instance. They do also have other handy capabilities.
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Looking very slick.
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Looks good, one question though, the HD has a small carbon filter breather hole in the top plate did you reinstate that when you wrapped it.
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Check and recheck polarities of the caps. Also why replace the clock cap, they work fine without them, and to be honest are as much use as a chocolate teapot any way.
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Board startup date: April 23, 2017 12:45:48