big F
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I had similar a few years back luckily the actual damage was only to the clock cap connections and once I removed the SMD components and cleaned everything it all went together again and works to this day.
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Five years from now…….. Do you remember when you could only fiy 32 Tb in an OG
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Not specifically looked but was just going on the previous thread where it was stated it was on there.
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Shame, the STL was shared on Thingiverse so could be built by anyone. That said the resin shrinkage is something I have seen before.. im sure this could be compensated for or may have been due to materials used.
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As, you seen to think its the hard drive. A simple test would be to swap the drive and test it again. If the problem persists then its going to be the ribbon cable or the DVD drive or a main board issue. So you will need to eliminate each in turn.
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By stuttering I mean the data flow stutters which glitches the processes.
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So its doing it on a retail disc and a burnt iso. Could be the dvd drive itself, not transferring data fast enough, causing stuttering that glitches the game. a simple test would be try another dvd drive in there.
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Nice have both on different machines.
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Off topic, but, what do you use the old AMD system for. i have a couple of that vintage, that run odd ball stuff that hates new os’s and one that runs Amithlon OS.
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Having played a-lot with a fair bit of Chineseium junk, there could be quite a bit of variance on the components fitted. Just had a thing where the board blew a mosfett due to a resistor bridge being way off value. The voltage getting to the mini mosfett is supposed to be about 5v and is actually 12v. Some other boards the cap values can be way off of whats written on the can, its not unfair to think these adaptors could be the same. It would certainly explain the varied compatibility across the OG userbase.
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I have a few of these, mixed results as previously found by many. So annoying they just work 100% of the time in a PC.
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Still could be a corrupt file or two. I would start by doing a reinstall, maybe even from different source media to make sure.
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Could be a capacitor starting to fail under load. You can get them to sing with the right voltage and frequency. Coils can also make high pitched whines and hums, hums are normally due to the iron core plates separating from each other. Whines are due to the coils insulation starting to breakdown. With the early psu’s it’s not unreasonable to have a failure. The question of repair or replace is down to how competent you are with reworking vs getting a cheap replacement.
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Seen some 3d printable spacers that allow you to stack OGs but they all looked bit amateurish and lacking.
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The caps are likely to at least not be helping, always worth swapping them. I always re-solder them all, although the later PSUs seem to have lees issues. I use some of my full fat lead solder from back in the day. I collected up a fair bit when the new laws came in, as my employer threw out the non compliant stock, most of the staff took some home.
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Thats the main reason X still re flow or replace the solder on the psu connector on all my OGs, prior to that they get plugged in with the MS issued psu lead with the circuit breaker built in.
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Aliexpress sell the pads, literally dozens of sellers. May get some whenI next have an OG that needs the heat sink removing.
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I think you covered it all there. That should be the bench mark IMO
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Kinda reminds me of a few of the “ULTIMATE” Xbox modding videos where their idea is a bunch of minor mods that I was doing 20 years ago , and a few cosmetics that do nothing that makes it any better than standard. Leaving a PATA drive in the thing not memory modding it or an 80 wire conversion etc. Ultimate for me would be CPU mod, memory mod 256mb SSD mod and HDMI for an actual minimum.
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Certainly in PC’ of that era under volting and upping the multipliers was a method I used on a few P3 processors, that refused to work correctly with good old multiplier tweaking.
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Was thinking the same.
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Help! I bought a used modded OG Xbox, but the games on it won't load.
big F replied to trappy76's topic in Hardware Mods
I think its safe to say your optical drive might be foobar. You could try a restore via one of the PC based xbox tools and see if it allows you to boot. An alternative is set the drive up in another already modded Xbox and then swap it back. -
I have a few applicators of the OEM stuff at work, when weget repairs returned they always send some even though the cpu and gpu block are already set. Maybe I should do a few tests. I have some genuine Artic silver 5 and some MX4 and a no name as5 clone that has worked well on PCs. Also some where I have a few of the stick in place and cure pads, that many laptop OEMs like to use.
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Help! I bought a used modded OG Xbox, but the games on it won't load.
big F replied to trappy76's topic in Hardware Mods
Usually if the box has a mod chip there will be write disable switch or jumper. Once write is enabled most chips can be updated in the modded dashboards. You could as it’s a v1 look at TSOP modding it and remove the mod chip. From the sounds of the issues I think a firmware and OS update will have you up and running.
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