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Should be fine as long as all the coper coated wires are insulated its not going to do anything bad.

Back in the early days IIRC TSOP was widely known about and anyway with boxes needing to be Live enabled TSOP was only for those who got banned from live. MS didn’t ban that much in the early days. Then started the mass ban days where whole continents got banned in one go. It’s after that that TSOP became a serious option. The as many will know M$ upped their game and started HD inspection on log in to live, banning your box just on spare space if it was more than would be on your average 8 or 10g drive.

Those erasable chips are old but installed in so many things. The bios image on it won’t last long with the Xbox lid off as UV erases them. It’s cap is off, to be fair we used to just stick a label on it with what was programmed on or a bit of black tape.

Normally only one or two of my 20 or so OGs goes online, several have the ability but rarely need to even the Kai link enabled ones. There’s a few that don’t even have a network cable plugged in <Oh the horror>

What dash number is this on ?

Yes TSOP is super easy to do and does everything needed by most except for some more advanced stuff. unless it’s a 1.6 then you have to mod chip I make a point of TSOPing all mine even if they end up with a chip installed, just because the factory bios has no real use these days.

Wow not seen it done like that since the early days, before modchips became commonplace. There used to be a computer fair regularly near me and a guy would do this for you while you waited.

Still didn’t say if a manual address works.

Looks like this has been picked up by the Hackaday website. Should get some interest now and will push a rush for OGXbox on eBay. https://hackaday.com/2022/06/06/original-xbox-v1-6-ram-upgrade-stacks-tqfp-chips/ link above if you fancy a read.

That will be a shame I think. Maybe its the original owner, trying to get it back.

Ha !!! Made him pay £24 for it. Maybe he’s a member here

There is the equivalent to that transistor in PC boards that along with a few of its friends is often the cause of the same issue in PCs.

Yup that is essentially what I do. I have a reader that can also connect to all six pins of the chip if needed but mostly just do the 2 pin reads. Not done this in a decade or so now. Makes me want pull out the reader and do it

You can go old school and grab an eprom reader pull the code from a known machine then drop the code on to the unknown one. I used to do this all the time in the old days, it takes seconds. Once you have access you can null the eprom and all aftermarket bios’s dont care about HD locks

Interested to see how this pans out.

As its custom silicon in there and not re packaged pc North and South bridge chips I doubt there are any paths for more than 128. unless some one comes out with a dev box that says otherwise I doubt M$ would have bothered.. That said the properly proper prototypes may but we will never see those as they'll be locked up in what ever storage facility M$ have for all their skunkworks prototype stuff.

Well this puts another project on my new work bench in my new workshop once my leg is outta its cast.

Probably the same issue as with original post. My guess is the network control chip on the board. Not sure how you could test it but guessing a swap out would work. Never looked at this but hopefully its separate from the rest of the silicon chipset.

@nikeymikey does setting a manual IP etc work for it ?

This guy seems to have an uncanny knack to find various electronics that are in this state just lying by the road or path. He’s done Playstations and other stuff all look the same Total click bait BS. The muddy clay water they are obviously coating things with that looks like rust once baked on doesn't even cover the whole MB just seems to miss the area under the totally destroyed DVD drive. When electronic devices are placed in a river or drainage inlet or outlet the silt and mud gets everywhere and turns the pcb a funny colour after a few weeks. Reminds me of a youtube video I once saw with a total restoration on an Xbox where all the guy did was open the case and blow the minimal dust out and clean and polish the plastics, padded out to 15mins with whole bunch of pointless waffle, clearly just there to get advert money from the people who clicked on the video. That said I kinda like that rusty apocalypse look of the case. Would be great to matt clear coat and leave it as is.

Thats good to hear. It could be a ground breaker. Now if only we could figure out the resistor. values on the cpu and board to give the cpu a little overclock.

I have seen plenty of people twist and pull that heatsink off. Also more than a few that pry it off with a screwdriver…….. Amimals This will incite the same issues that plague the 360, any of the solder points that were lightly iffy will be stressed and could break. The only sensible way is to heat it with a heat gun from a rework station and it comes off easily once things get warm.

Well if I get it I will post all the details here, as I think it needs documenting.

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.