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If its anything like the Celleron processors then there are a few that will really overclock. I have some of the 500mhz Cellerons that will happily go to just under a gig. I do recall getting a couple of PIII that were on a forum that stated they were also silly clockable. Would just need to go through my stash of processors.

Used the same a few years back for different reasons seemed to work The trick was finding the right solder most of the ones I had melted too close to each other. Solder paste worked but had its own issues.

When trying to read old IDE drives nothing beats an old pentium 3 era board. So cheap to buy and just chuck in a small hard drive and stripped out Windows XP and you are good to go.

When I last did this I had similar. I use a reader to pull the bin file directly from the rom. I bought it back n the day on eVil Bay I ended up just pushing the modded bios to all the boxes I had at the time and then setting the HD key to match.

There are several different types now and also a few with higher outputs although the price goes up. I did look a while ago at using a 360 supply and having a micro ATX for only the PON and 3.3v, having it shunt relays to bring the 360 supply online and deliver the 12 and 5v.

Seeing as I cannot edit this post for some reason after my phones spell checking AI crap edited the whole thing into nonsense. Tuis is what I was trying to say :- You can hook up a pico ATX PSU then run the power to it via a bullet connector and external mains to 12v psu That’s how we do it on the slimmed OGXboxes

Yes this is a big cause and easy to fix.

I think the conclusion is that the biggest benefit is fitting a modern silent fan that also happens to have a better air flow than the original one that was a compromise of size and cost. I will go for near silence and reliability over the factory fitted ones any day.

Looks similar to the schematic interface of EasyEDA, which I use.

Chalk it up to a learning lesson. All good and you still have an OG that works minus the. DVD. Hold onto it till you come across one with a failed main board and make a good one outta the two. Failing that make a slim out of it.

You can hook up a pico it’s psi, then run the power to it via a bullet connector and external psu That’s how we do it on the slimmed OGXboxes.

As I stated on the other thread. It was always going to be a thing. Capacitors b surface mount and electrolytic will leak or dry out. Changing them before they damage the board will be then new thing in a year or so. To be fair the factory ones are less than great quality wise, so replacing them with better ones will be easy.

Usually the transistors go or the control chip. Either way it’s dead Jim. You can fix em but it will often fail again. As the caps take a hit from the bad voltages when things break.

I agree this is going to become the norm, as I expected.

Ouch

Looking slick

I think it can be done, certainly it would be easier to transcode a signal that is already digital and understood to another fully understood format. Although I used to work in the video broadcasting industry I was a put it together guy so didn’t get involved with programming. My experience in programming the Pi is not that level due to being able to just use others work on my Pi’s so never needed to learn. I’m sure someone could work it out. Maybe making it a standalone device so you can just jack it into whichever Xbox you want to use at the time.

The solution on the Amiga takes the direct digital feed at source prior to it being processed by the Denise chip. Theres minor lag due to the conversion time. Some say they notice the lag but, in reality its barely a tenth second. I have not really noticed it on any of mine, and it make no difference over clocking the Pi or rigging it to use a newer one than the preferably used zero or 3 that is “standard” Theres similar with the unrelated solution for the Nintendo Wii, and thats converting component to HDMI. Audio DAC suffers lag but due to most only using it for sources that don't accompany video or time sensitive situations nobody notices or cares

It would be possible after-all the same system has been used albeit the encoding/decoding is handled differently for the likes of the BBC B, as it obviously lacks a Denise chip as in the Amigas. IIRC there are other vintage systems using it as a basis for their HDMI conversions. The only thing is possible lag, as there is a bit on the Amiga itteration, but the screen is no where near as busy as your average OGXbox title will be.

Very professional looking work there.

Being a Commodore Amiga owner I am more than familiar with this, what started out as battery failure on the older pre surface mount boards, which eats the boards in the same way as aerogel caps do. Everyone thought the later models would be fine as they used coin cells and were surface mount. NOPE! A few years back users became aware of older machines caps simply drying out so not working or giving odd issues. Then the late model stuff with surface mount caps started to show up with cap leaks and board rot. I see the same thing happening in car radios, the retro cool market is now full of guys who will fix your 1880’s or 90’s radio that has become useless and in some cases upgrade it with bluetooth and such while its with them. Its rife all over the electrical industry, and seems to depend on age and what quality the caps were when installed. Ive seen boards that are 10 years old die and boards that are 30 years old that are fine. Similarly boards made in different locations can have differnet components, that age differently. Its coming to all OG’s its just a matter of when. The 1.6 is no different and i fully expect the cap removal to be come standard in af ew years, along with the replacement of those ticking time bomb tin capacitors. Rebuilding eaten traces on an Amiga 1200 is hard enough, at times but the Xbox traces are all a lot smaller and more densely packed, so will be much more challenging. I think its gonna be a case of swap out prior to death, on mine once i find any that are showing the tell tail signs.

Capacitor rot, the gift that keeps giving.

100%. Reverse engineering is a-lot easier to explain away compared to straight up decompiling. Done a bit of both in my time and it all stopped when the IP holders asked WTF we were up to. Then they made sure all our online presence went bye bye so interest in what we were doing also disappeared. A few compulsory firmware updates and the door was shut for us. if he has any sense he’ll keep to that line of “vocality” so M$ only pay him a passing glance.

You have to remember that the core os for the original build is based on Windows 2000. Much of that code is still actively being used in the depths of M$’s current os offerings. To get anywhere with it would require a certain amount of reverse engineering or decompiling of work they still very much have active patents on. Fine if it’s just a few people messing around, but if it gets popular then M$ will hear about it really quickly. They have a department that just prowls the net looking for any IP breaches, and a law dept with ready to go lawsuits. The company I used to work for had a team both tech and lawyers doing this in their own building that half the staff were unaware of its existence. They are a similar size to M$, and thought nothing of spending a few million to flatten some internet firmware hacking upstart.

Hopefully Linux/unix based to avoid any M$ copyright shinanigans.