[A nice local FB marketplace find :)]

Brand new sealed, bargain price of £10

[Heat sink clamps]

7 hours ago, fox said:

it is and it isn't, for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is shaping steel at critical temperature (usually glowing orange) and spring tempering it

it's not practical for most people

I was thinking more along the lines of bending some already springy metal, many years ago I made a metal clip to keep a solenoid secure in a diesel pump, granted it wasn't an xbox heatsink but it did the job, not pretty but.....

ok im a bodger.

[Heat sink clamps]

it wold probably be easier to fabricate a working replacement 'clip' from metal

[Slow boot with DVD (Cerbios and IDE2SATA)]

the resistor fix works! my resistors turned up this morning, good job i ordered 100 coz the first one i opened pinged off somewhere and vanished, but yeah the fix works!!, so ive got enough resistors to do another 98

[Slow boot with DVD (Cerbios and IDE2SATA)]

Well im gonna try it too, ive found the adapters out and R4 is empty on them so ive ordered 100 x 100 ohm surface mounted for the grand price of £1.60 delivered, we shall see!

[Slow boot with DVD (Cerbios and IDE2SATA)]

I had this exact issue with some 'm03c' cheapo adapters a while back (and i posted on here about it), never did get it sorted and ive still got the adapters somewhere, so if you do get it sorted please post how!

[Startech Adaptor ide2sata]

I ordered 5 x jp103's from AliExpress and ALL were dead on arrival, soldering was shocking, one even had a surface mounted resistor missing, seller refunded me but still a bit peeved as I had used them with quite a high success rate before this

[Adventures with a 128mb ram upgrade]

well done mate, ive got ram, ive got a board waiting, just need to pluck up the courage and find some spare time!

[I may have snagged an ebay bargain :)]

7 hours ago, Bowlsnapper said:

I hate you.

[I may have snagged an ebay bargain :)]

who's a pretty boy then?

[down loading games]

try some of these:

 

 

 

 

[I may have snagged an ebay bargain :)]

14 minutes ago, fox said:

the lid on it looks like someone got inside, uh oh

i know yeah i did see that but i thought if they were gonna snag the x3 they would have taken the front board aswell so I'm quietly confident lol, i will report back when they arrive

[I may have snagged an ebay bargain :)]

yep just lists as no power / red light but not too fussed as long as that x3 is sitting in there when they arrive lol

 

[I may have snagged an ebay bargain :)]

check the top xbox! yeah they are listed as faulty but gotta be worth the risk!!

[128mb upgrade worklog — Success!]

fair play for giving it a go, its something ive wanted to try for a long while but i need a better soldering iron for a start!

[Cerbios install - Flashing green on bloot]

have you cleaned the video connector? they usually flash green when the video cable isnt attached/recognised

 

[Generic SATA-to-IDE adapter with SSD]

i still have the M03C adapters i was talking about in this old post:

they work fine but there is a 40ish second delay from cerbios splash screen to xbmc4gamers loading up, so this is down to UDMA? they boot fine without dvd drive attached so whats the score? no way of sorting it in cerbios or anything?

 

[Xbox 1.0 , "Your Xbox requires service" with no error code]

ah, that error screen! as far as im aware that one never displays numbers, could be anything, failed update / corruption even.  i would probably hard mod and build a new hard drive and see from there

[Xbox 1.0 , "Your Xbox requires service" with no error code]

weird one, have you tried changing stuff like screen mode ntsc/pal settings, maybe a region setting thing or something?

[any interest in an xecuter x3 chip, wires & switchbank (uk) - not currently working!]

Ok so a few years back I attempted to flash this and killed it somehow, that's all I can remember,  I do recall trying a few things at the time to revive it but no luck, luckily the consoles HD was stock so I removed the chip and TSOP'd, the switchbank is still stuck to a faceplate and it even has the x3 holographic sticker  Also the D0/LAN/HDD wire is present but not pictured (I found it after I took the pics)

 

NOTE: THIS IS NOT WORKING - IT MAY / MAY NOT BE FIXABLE!

 

[The controler works fine in all games but in any dashboard fails and moves alone]

are you having this problem with an original duke or s controller? or a third party controller

[Xbox repairs.]

I go caps aswell, the fact thats its not fragging is a good thing

[Xbox v1.4 no power, good PSU, good CPU caps]

I would probably do the full trace rot repair first just to make sure the lines are good, especially if you say there was a problem with one of them

[Trying to flash 1.1 Tsop]

worked a treat, shorted the points to the chassis, booted ogxbox disk then used xblast to flash instead of gentoox, thanks for the advice

[Trying to flash 1.1 Tsop]

On 5/30/2022 at 1:38 AM, KaosEngineer said:

 

Another option to try would be to force the console to boot from the first 256KB of the 1MB TSOP on the v1.1 Xbox.

Follow the instructions in this tutorial:

• Coma Console Fix found

 

 

Jumping on this post as I have just rescued a bad flash 1.1 (exactly same prob as above, flashed with 256k cerbios) by attaching the 2 jumper wires (a18 & a19) to the resistor shown, so my question is now is can I flash a 1mb cerbios file or do these jumper wires now have to stay there and I just continue using like that?