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Any point in getting a 70mm silent fan or doing the 80mm fan mod in a v1?

[Can I Swap a Softmodded Xbox 250gb for Another 250gb Ide Drive?]

1 hour ago, Ging3rguy said:

I like flashfxp or you could try filezilla.

Thanks - amazing how much I’ve forgotten about modding - I think FileZilla was the one I used to use

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29 minutes ago, Ging3rguy said:

If it ain’t broke why change it. I like the V1 because of the bios options and the extra fan should keep the gpu cooler.

Just needed reassurance that they don't have any other problems under the hood - that sounds good - I'll try and upgrade the hard drive later or tomorrow.  What program do you guys use to FTP - It is literally years since I added Coin Ops6  and I can't remember what I used.  I have a PC and a Mac - is it even possible to FTP from a mac to xbox original?  Thanks - you guys have been an amazing help so far.

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Okay so I did the following

1. stripped the Xbox - including removing front facia - no stone left unturned.

2. Cleaned everything with alcohol and a tips - both fans were disgustingly dirty as was the main board and power supply - worst I’ve ever seen

 I reassembled it today and noted the following:

1.  Machine fans running very smoothly and no disturbing noises from either of them - very easy to live with sound

2. Hard drive crunches and grinds every time I move to a different game on the list of my coin ops simulator

 

It seems to me that if I change the drive it will run pretty quiet or shoukd I just sell this 1.0 and get a version that diesn’t have two fans?

 

Have many people just abandoned the v1?

 

thanks

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3 hours ago, Magicaldave said:

Probably a bit of both. Those GPU fans installed on the early consoles are insanely loud. You could just try to unplug the fan and see if the noise is still happening. Console might overheat after a bit but it'll just shut down for a bit.

That sounds good - thanks for that - It might mean that my 250GB hard drive is perfectly okay which would be good because I could probably just get another xbox main unit softmod it and upgrade it to that drive.

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4 hours ago, KaosEngineer said:

You have a v1.0 Xbox there.  It has a fan on the GPU heatsink.  And, the main fan at the back of the case to pull in cool air and exhaust it after heated inside the console.

Source: https://www.eurasia.nu/wiki/index.php/XboxVersionTable

Originally from the now defunct Xbox-scene.com.

Excellent - thanks - so is the extra fan the reason it sounds so noisy or is it just a noisy hard drive?  Thanks!

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I started cleaning the motherboard last night - I went over it a few times with alcohol and cotton swabs - it was filthy - no gunk but just very dirty for some reason.  I discovered a tiny fan screwed on to the large sliver type grill (Sorry not a clue what the proper name for this is) - I'm now beginning to wonder if this is the source of the noise and not my 250GB hard drive.  Obviously someone but this extra tiny fan on years ago as the screws are just held in place my the gaps between the grills.  Does this mean that if I take this fan out the board will over heat and die?  Only thinking of taking it out to avoid noise.  Any help greatly appreciated - I have upgraded many xbox originals over the years but I have never noticed an extra fan beween the large silver grills before. 

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Thanks guys - I found another softmodded xbox with a broken dvd drive to play around with before I begin work on the one mentioned above this weekend.  

 

I had previously softmodded this other console and upgraded the hard drive to a 40GB IDE with both Coin Ops 6 lite and Visionary lite on it.  I updated the console to Rocky 5 softmod and everything seemed fine.  However, when I looked in my emulators folder Visionary lite is not longer there - thankfully Coins Ops 6 lite is still there and works perfectly.  Any idea why Visionary Lite isn't appearing on the dashboard?  I followed a video on upgrading an already softmodded Xbox to Rocky 5 softmod.  Any help greatly appreciated.  Thankfully I didn't do this on the xbox I tore down to clean last night as it has both Coin Ops 6 full and Visionary full on it.

 

 

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3 hours ago, C64MidRezzie said:

Okay so my xbox was soft modded and the hard drive upgraded to 250GB  4/5 years ago - should I just use the version of Chimp I used back then or is it better to use a more recent version?  If so could you recommend a recent version?  Or is it a case of if it ain't broke then don't fix it - just stay with the version I have as I know it works?

Okay - update here - going to try to update my already softmodded xbox to rocky 5 softmod - if it works then that update contains a newer version of Chimp so I should be good to go.

Any help greatly appreciated.

 

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Okay so my xbox was soft modded and the hard drive upgraded to 250GB  4/5 years ago - should I just use the version of Chimp I used back then or is it better to use a more recent version?  If so could you recommend a recent version?  Or is it a case of if it ain't broke then don't fix it - just stay with the version I have as I know it works?

 

Any help greatly appreciated.

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Just an update - found a 300 GB PATA Maxtor drive so I'm going to try that over the weekend.  I stripped down the console tonight and it was filthy - I plan on washing and polishing the case after work tomorrow.  It will be prob be Sat before I put it all back together and hopefully it will still work.  Then I'm going to attempt to upgrade the drive on Sat/Sun - can't wait to get this project up and running.

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Thanks guys - I have another 250GB IDE hard drive lying around somewhere that is definitely much quieter - I'll try it over the weekend - thank you so much for your replies.

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Hi - I softmodded my xbox original five years ago and didn't use it much because of a house move.  I took it out last night and realised that the upgraded 250GB drive is very noisy and sounds like it is dying.  I upgraded before using Chimp.  I am wondering can I use Chimp again with another 250GB hard drive or does the next hard drive have to be bigger than the 250GB drive?  I have looked for an answer on google but all search returns related to upgrading to a larger drive from the stock drive - there doesn't seem to be anything about swapping a drive for another drive that is equal in size.

 

Kind Regards