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is this the same halo box you have on ebay?
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Good New for People That Have Problems With Xbox After Replacing Thermal Paste
fox replied to bulkchart32's topic in Repair
pfft, no between the sink and its plastic enclosure It makes no sense that MS didn't design it to fit in there tight. I planned to make a solid copper sink years ago to fit flush with the plastic..besides other reasons, but I never found enough scrap copper. Melting metals is too risky anyway without a proper setup and training, if one raindrop or a bug lands onto the melt it's blammo, you're gonna look like sandra bernhard at the end of hudson hawk. There has to be better solution to the heatsink sliding than shimming it with crap from my floor. -
Good New for People That Have Problems With Xbox After Replacing Thermal Paste
fox replied to bulkchart32's topic in Repair
no joke I shimmed my heatsink with an empty pack of rolling papers folded over, I hate the sliding too -
Good New for People That Have Problems With Xbox After Replacing Thermal Paste
fox replied to bulkchart32's topic in Repair
in my experience 99% alcohol is not actually more effective than 91% as a solvent, on anything, removing gpu paste takes just as much as 91% -
I had a 2.6ce and xapt3r which did those things all the time ( a year long ), too. I assume you've re-seated the xapt3r at times and noticed the problems go away for a awhile? All this is because the xapt3r provides a crappy connection. It's so bad I seriously doubt that the clock capacitor, even if it has leaked as mentioned, is contributing to the symptoms. I suggest learning to solder and installing the pins for the xecuter if you can find or possibly make some. Using the pins fixed those boot problems for me 100%.
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Question: Which Revision is Right For Me?
fox replied to Maztr_0n's topic in General Xbox Discussion
better front panel lights, the old yellow-green & dull red are just blah -
used one of those yesterday to find a loose needle on my floor, saved me from probably needing a tetanus shot, the mirrors are a great too, the screws... every dead drive is like a little treasure chest of $$ savings
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I thought I was hyper-sensitive
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Yeah, that struck me as odd. I used the krayzie ndure installer for my first softmod ages ago and it installs a dash. If these modern installers aren't even as capable as that primitive ass one that's really lame.
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My xbox XBMC dash is glitching after tipover accident
fox replied to hubbanubba's topic in General Xbox Discussion
this sounds implausible to me, if the problem was only bad capacitors then what is the fact that the glitching only started after the fall, a big fat coincidence? or maybe the fall made the bad capacitors just decide to finally start misbehaving? I've never heard of such a thing -
Ftp transfer fails when I transfer xbmc4xbox.
fox replied to TheXboxMessiah's topic in General Xbox Discussion
...it is? I haven't watched TV in 22 years but has the technology really changed that much? -
static maybe, how did you clean the dust out?
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so replace the wires, you don't need to buy anything
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I had the very same problem with one of my units, which ceased after replacing all the mainboard factory capacitors. My guess is one or more were failing in spite of being visually fine, probably the 6.3v ones, and not supplying the necessary amount of juice to power on. It's possible for something to have bad capacitors that look fine. If you don't eventually determine the cause of the problem then you can at least try what I did. It wouldn't hurt.
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Okay well..I said allegedly because the entry for it on that page isn't clear about the value. At least buy some others then in the range the entry said, in case 4.7nF gives you trouble.
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http://xbx.networkboy.net/encyclopedia_components_c.shtml#C7D1 It's allegedly 4.7nF.
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maybe rather than playing a game you should watch the temperatures while playing a video
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if that part of the wire on the left side is burst open, and it appears to be, I'd solder it back together and see if power returns
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True, but it's really a matter of how much value he places on the borked unit. Some people may be sentimentally attached to a particular xbox.
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Thanks for verifying that, now I have another option myself in an emergency.
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transplant a good tsop module from a working xbox? assuming your soldering skill is good enough Someone please correct me on that if it's wrong, I've heard of tsop transplants being done. I know you can swap an eeprom module in an emergency (have done it myself).
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I got a real clip and tossed that thing, it was so gross.
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lol no It did the job, but it was so ugly I wouldn't give it away.
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Sorry for my previous post sounding cryptic, my mind was elsewhere. What I meant to say is it's easier...if you're experienced with metal fabrication :3 the whole process can be done in one day. Years back I had to make a 1.0 GPU clip from a bicycle spoke, but I did so properly. I would recommend against trying to bend already springy steel into the fine shapes required for xbox heat sinks, that's difficult at best and very dangerous. Watch it spring back and fly into your eyes.
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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
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