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Never bothered myself but the chips are normally standard stuff cheap chips in PC PSU’s No reason to think the Xbox will be any different. The only different thing is PC PSU’s PON from a +ve supply being pulled to ground, but IIRC Xbox pulls -ve up to PON. Someone probably will chime-in with a more in depth reply a d hopefully give you a chip part no etc.

Yes there is but gone are the days where you only had one console to test with. After-all these are not 300£$€¥ consoles any more.

My guess its a 2 port USB hub in there, with the standard 5 wire Xbox connector passing through for the controller.

What is the adaptor you are using. I use a straight up chopped controller lead soldered to a cut off USB A socket lead. Works with my keyboards as long as they dont have macro keys or-keys that do non keyboard functions or have a Fn button.

The chip that governs the PON status can fail, they are as bad in PC PSU’s , many of the no brand PSU’s fail in this area. MS didnt exactly go for the named brand quality stuff when contracting out the Xbox PSU gig.

True most of us here have more than one box, those who were lucky enough to have bought the full fat X3 setup back in the day or go one prior to the “rare” tax being added to any that are sold probably do use the buttons. I would still be up for printing an X3 style facia even if the buttons didn't work or were not there, just because they are cool and iconic.

If the tracks are burnt through then they'll need to be recreated to allow the xbox to work. A glass fibre pen will help, they are cheap and available on Amazon and eVilbay. Add to that some Isopropyl alcohol to clean up. Once there you can get a better idea of whats gone pooff!! Most likely you popped a couple of traces and toasted the Earth plane. soldering in track replacements sounds hard but its not. Theres plenty of videos on YouTube showing you how. Thin wire and some nail polish is normally all you’ll need. The nail polish is for sealing over the copper tracks to insulate them and save them from corrosion.

The buttons are probably less than needed these days as most of us just install a Bios and live with it some one updates it. Its far from the old days of needing to test Bios and not brick your box or get it banned fro. Xboxlive.

Yup can do that on my bank account, most credit cards can. The sales of goods act protects purchasers in the UK. The item was not as described, and due to parts missing was not fit for its intended purpose. The bank said as the seller was not willing to supply the one part that was missing, but wanted you to spend £60 to send the whole unit back to then get a £40 refund. That it was not conforming to UK retail regulations. Therefore here is your money back. Re 68k chips, its because anything not a 7mhz base chip is desirable. The fakers. Do various things from re etching the codes on them to trying to make actual working fakes or just solid hunks of resin with gold connections on. A last gen 68060 can fetch a couple of hundred pounds on eVilbay. Dont get me started on prices for Amiga custom chips. Back in the 90’s CIA chips could be bought for less than ten quid each and by then were not produced anymore now people think nothing of paying 40-50 each, you need two of them and they are prone to failure if mis treated. Oh and the fakers fake them also.

Certainly when it comes to batteries and certain electronic components, you have to beware. Test purchases seem to be a good idea that many use. Motorola MC68060 processors seem to be a favourite of the forgers. Often your expensive 060 is in fact an 030 or worse. Reworked Intel CPUs are in the same bag. Bizarrely some cheap chips that only cost a dollarbuck a time and they counterfeit them and sell just under the retail price. Be careful of auto parts as some are junk, but as with the tools its a market where some of the companies making the stuff for European and American companies and markets sell direct.

Bought loads of stuff from Aliexpress over the years. The trick is read the buyer reviews. If it looks bad it probably is. That said apart from a few late deliveries and a couple that just disappeared, and one that was just plain missing the parts listed, its all been fine. The disappeared orders were all either refunded or replaced, the only one I ever had issue with was the one who only delivered half of the tool set I ordered. Ironic as it is the parts missing were the only ones I really needed. The seller wanted me to send it back to china and only gave me 48 hours to do so. Shipping would have cost hundreds and would have still been tight. Aliexpress were not helpful as just kept saying the seller needed to work it out or would I like some money back. Eventually my back clawed the funds. Then 3 months later Aliexpress issued a refund. .? Managed to buy the missing parts from the UK manufacturer of the tool who apparently have them made in china and that seller also sells them on Aliexpress. So with a bit of effort a win win for me.

Thanks for sharing that, most useful.

Welcome to a bigger world, you have started on a road to great things.

Seems the threads original site is down.

Winner, although I have the board for both my 2.6 and 3 this will come in handy as I know others dont. So maybe “we” can build a replacement board for people to have printed and then populate themselves.

I did my apprenticeship 30+ years ago. I could already solder when I started as my grandfather taught me in his repair shop. But during my M.O.D apprenticeship performing the same soldering exercises week after week Karate Kid style it eventually becomes second nature. You just did it with out really thinking beyond don't burn your fingers or the job. Loon lacing and building was my zen thing, still love doing that. Gotta love an A4 sheet with a wiring schedule printed on it Now I don't work in a job that needs me soldering at all so I am starting to feel like my skills are getting rusty, it doesn't take long to set in. I currently don't do enough privately due to a busy life but …… Once my workshop is built I am planning to get back on that horse with a whole list of board builds and car, pc and Xbox mods. That should tighten my skills back up

I think the only things to say are, even the expensive rework stuff, and by that I mean 100’s of $€£, even if you can afford them may not be 100% right for you. I have one of the relatively expensive Weller workstation, not the retail ones the ones sold only to the Defence industry and its contractors. Its a beautiful thing. But in all the years of owning it I have used my cheap Atten irons and the cheap one one on my Chinese rework station more. Just down to convenience. The other thing to say is dont look at a rework station and think, thats just a heatgun like in <insert your countries DIY chain> . Its not, that 5 dollarbucks thing they sell , has no heat regulation no actual adjustability out side just turning down the fan speed, so theres no knowing if its at 300c or 400c, unless you buy an IR temp probe. If you do that just spend the money on a cheap rework hot gun station instead, saves the hassle and guess work. Footnote, not all flux is the same, and not everyone is right, as its personal taste when it come to flux. What “ works” for me and my style of working, may not work for you.

LOL only shite if not done correctly. Its the same as so many of the youtube videos that say the phat 360’s are all crap. Again only if reballed wrongly or xclamped or cooked in yo mammas oven at gas mark 5.

Maybe a little further down the road share them on Thingiverse or similar, you can set a fee for downloading. Your models are far better than anything else on there.

Why is this the default now on eBay, and not just for buying OG Xboxes. Buyers claiming fowl to eBay because you wouldn't hand deliver their noway ever going to be couriered item they bought for £20, at your expense halfway across the country. Deciding that next day delivery is not fast enough and claiming non delivery so eBay issue a refund at your expense leaving you out of pocket and minus an item. Sorry my tele-porter is waiting on a service engineer. Listing items as mint inbox and when it arrives its anything but. I have a friend who sculpts and sells on the internet. He saw that a seller was straight up selling casts of his work, which is fairly individual. He bought one to make sure and then filed to eBay that it was fraud. Each of his sculpts is numbered so the copy had the same number pressed into it. He knew who the purchaser was and that it matched the sellers details. eBay tried to claim he was the one copying, and would not entertain pulling the listings. He has now completely given up on eBay both buying and selling.

Wouldn’t the higher rated chips be more cool/stable at a lower speed. Could be useful for emulated systems.

True but if the mod chip is old or un-updateable, and its not a 1.6 then unless you need the extra features of say LCD or other stuff then TSOP is the only way needed. I stripped mod chips out of all mine except two that have Mod chips that run LCDs then dropped them into 1.6 boxes.

Had some thing similar a while back. I ended up just soldering the links on the board, soft modding then TSOP flashing the thing. The mod chip was an early one that just didn't seem to want to flash to anything useful. The box has now got an HDMI compatible bios and a large drive, so everything one usually needs.

This is what I do, I even have a 10gb drive just for this purpose. In this day and age what else can you really do with slow 10 and 8gb hard drives anyway.

After busting my ankle I had to work from home so also was instructed to keep my leg raised to prevent swelling etc. Nothing to hand worked on my desk hight wise, I am quite tall so footstools and chairs are either too low or too high cushions and pillows are not stable….. until a delivery of broken Xbox360’s turned up (some turned out not to broken) and the box they are in is the perfect hight. So currently a box of 4 360’s have become a foot rest. Well I cant work on them at the mo so why not. Ten-ish years ago my younger self would have not endorsed this behaviour.