SS_Dave

I suspect the aladdin will work as well Keep them aside for version 1.6 boxes Cheers

Yes the iron is to hot and you held it on the PBC too long. Could you clean that area and send a new pic please . Methylated spirits(Denatured Alcohol) should be available from most super markets and a tooth brush is good to clean that up. Also post a pic of the iron your using please. Cheers SS Dave

I have CoinOPS 8 and it seems to work fine with N64's HDMI mod on a ver 1.1. I started some random games and all seemed to work fine including the demo that auto starts. SS Dave

I tried Chimp on a version 1.1 with 1 of N64's HDMI mods and No it seems to not work.

To be honest I have never done a softmod. I do have a OEM drive here that I unlocked with a softmod on it with the intention to have a look at it one day,. I have found flashing the TSOP or fitting a chip so easy is childs play thats why it's my preferance, Been working with electronics for 40+ years. I see at least 33% of the help requests are my softmod this and that more fuel for the anti softmod for me. Cheers SS Dave

Or put in a mod chip and don't worry about reading the eeprom and tring to buidling a new drive just stick a new drive in and load up your prefered install disk then your good to go.

I have found that a IDE/PATA (40 way plug) drive thats 7200rpm with 64mb cache is about 2 seconds quicker to boot than a 7200rpm 64meg cache SATA drive. I also have noticed that one of the xbox's that has a 500gig 7200 PATA drive with no cache has a studdering sound and video on CoinOPS 8 on demo only but the games play fine where the drives with Cache don't suffer the same. SS Dave

Me Personally dislike the IND-BIOS I found it slow to boot. I use the M8plus bios thats customised to remove the Flubber,Trade mark,Splash logo. I set the fan speed to 35% ,Green power led color and Partition 6 up to 137gb and Partition 7 takes the rest. I will proberly get roasted for using a older BIOS but if it ain't broke don't fix it. Reallistcally when was the last new OgXbox BIOS compiled as the IND BIOS is not that much newer.

What Bios are you flashing to your version 1.0 Xbox SS Dave

The last 4 Aladdin chips I got have had version 1.6 M8 BIOS then if you want you can update the BIOS any way. SS Dave

I have tried using Sata to Pata/Ide adaptors and have found that some will work in 1 Xbox and not the next meaning I can put it in a version 1.1 box and it wont work then put the same one in a differant version 1.1 box and it works but all seem to work in a pc. Go figure! Thats why last time I got some Sata to Ide/Pata adapters I got several even try differant 80 way IDE/PATA cables can make the differance. While your tring to get the softmod working order 2 couple of Aladdin mod chips they come flashed with a version 1.6 bios then next time you want to upgrade the hard disk it's plug in new drive load SlaYer or Hexen or what ever install disk you like then your off and racing with a nice clean install. It seem 1/3 or more of the help requests are I can't get the soft mod working. I got asked years ago to soft mod a Xbox because they did not want the box opened I told them go away do it yourself a month later their back saying please chip it. Cheers SS Dave

Flash the box or put a mod chip in and be done with softmods!

I would be interested to see if the DuoX2 chip works in a differant box. My bet is yes on bank 2 the one with the purple logo top left. Then you could reflash bank 1. Cheers SS Dave

The reading I gave are chip out. Just TSOP Flash it remebmer a version 1.2 to 1.5 is 256kb Bios SS Dave

5 volt on the D0 wire with chip disconected ?? When I tested the 1st box that was a version 1.1 I can't put my hands on a 1.4 box just yet but a version 1.6 D0 tested 3.3 volt on the D0 wire. If I get a chance later today I will have a look for a ver 1.4 in the stack of boxes and test the D0 wire. You now have to think how much time you want to spend on it. I f it was a customers by now I would Flash the TSOP slip in a new drive, load a dash of there choice and give it back. If it was mine i would put it aside for a couple of days like I did witha version 1.6 I was fitting a chip to and it would not boot of the chip 2 days later I looked at it and found I had mucked up the LPC rebuild.

That looks ok If you test the D0 wire on the mod chip while it's not pluged on the board so the blue wire on the D0 point on the mod chip you should get a 1.8 volt spike on power up well I do with my fluke 87V in Hires mode.. Also with the chip is not pluged in do you get the Flubber boot screen? After looking at the 1st pic I would clean around where the clock was and look for damage there. SS Dave

With the Aladin chip did you link the BT like this. When you can upload a pick of the solder and D0 point on the bottom.

D0 is ment to read 0 volt with the chip enabled BT is now reading correct. Resolder all the pins on the conector and the main board Then clean the whole chip with isoproyl or metho and a tooth brush dry with a heat gun on llow temp or a hair drier. is the red light on or flashing? SS Dave

You could test the lcd assembly with heat and cold. Try using freeze spray when it's not working corectly spray it around th edge and then across the pcb on the back If it sudenly fixes it you have confermed it's the lcd assembly. If it comes good with cold on the pcb it could be Dry Solder joints, If it comes good with cold around the edge then disasemble the assembly clean all the conections and reasemble. Because the engineer that designed it doesn't have to repair it because nothing the engineer desigened ever fails. Cheers SS Dave

Hi danbrad I 2nd what Hector is saying if you realy want to use the Aliexpress units buy 2 or 3 each from a couple of differant sellers and you will proberly find 50% will work in a Xbox, also don't forget you will need a 80 way IDE/Pata cable. If your looking at 500gig drives there are heaps for sale in china NEW? or 2nd hand on EvilBay that are PATA/IDE (40pin connector) I have seen some 750gig PATA drives from China as well. Cheers SSDave

Or you could pay for a membership and get instant download A committed member is $5 Cheap in my books have a look in the store tab SS Dave

Hi nikeymikey I got this from the local electronics shop then you cut to the length you need around $1 per strip They also have the other side that you can also trim down around $2 per strip Cheers SS Dave

Thats a short list x2_5035_vOld_512.bin bios.bin Try this one if you like. SS dave

Green logo with the sheild is a 1.6 bios but boot your flash disk on that one. Then load up the 512kb bios you want to flash to the other bank and when your just about to commit to the flash flick the switch the other bank then commit to the flashing the new BIOS. Cheers SS Dave

Hello Bendoggie117 There all differant types of games computers you copy the roms(the files for each game) for the appropriate games machine in to the folder called roms. There not pre loded you have to find and copy the roms your self. eg: A commdore 64 game rom would go in the c64 rom directory. then load the c64 emulator from the main menu anfd from there you can run the came in the rom folder As an example CoinOPS 8 Massive has well over 4000 games listed there all old school types Frogger,1942,Space invaders,ECT ECT. CoinOPS 8 Massive is 85gig with 33000 + Files in 1350 folders So if you not going to use them you can remove them if space is a problem I hope that makes sense. Cheers SS dave