[Identifying the Modifications That Were Done]

Hello everyone,

so here I am, a person with nearly no knowledge about the OGXBox  Here is a little backstory and what my "plans" are.

Four or five years ago I bought off a xBox from eBay with the goal to softmod it and play backups from the harddisk. I already hat a 120 GB HDD laying around. So I messed a bit around and got it pretty easly running and finding out, that the XBox was already somehow modded. Long story short: I swapped out the HDD and played for a couple of months with the OG Xbox until I moved into a new appartment with my wife.

At my job I found two 750 GB HDD IDE drives and thought "sweet, lets swap them out". But guess what: I did not saved the tutorials on how to swap the HDD. I remember that I burned a CD to save the HDD key, and lock the new HDD with the same key to get it working. After a little bit of digging I read about the clock capacitor issue. After realising that my XBox is now more then three years in my basement I only thought

So now I'm sitting at work and as soon as I'm back home getting my old XBox back and see if damage is there or not 

 

Well, because of my missing knowledge on how to swap out harddisks again I wanted to ask for you help! I already found out about chimp and got a Y-Molex Cable in hand. So the swapping should not be that hard. But since I want to bring back new life to my XBox I wanted to learn more about it. And there is now the your help needed:

• How to I found out what softmod is installed (if a softmod is installed, I never removed the ODD drive and see if there is a chip in it)
• Should I update the softmod even if everything is working?
• What if I got a softmod without the clock loop fix and already removed the capacitor, is there still a way to recover the XBox?

As you can see, my questions are really beginner like, but it's quite hard to find more informations and I thought it woudl help me a lot if you could help me

So thanks in advance for you help!

[Hello From Germany]

Hey everyone and lovely greetings from Germany!

As an old nerd I started to collect some older consoles to have a gaming hall like many other people out there. I bought my first Xbox 5 years ago and only swapped out the harddisk But after having it for a couple of years in my basement I thought it would be nice to bring it back to life again. So here I am and I got some noob questions .

But I'm really happy to found this forum So lets chat and discuss