NeMesiS
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Someone asked me this mourning if they could program an "OpenXenium" with the "XeniumPGR". Well, they can now with this adaptor board...
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3 hours ago, Bowlsnapper said:
As you can see the DVD bezel is just like, a fucking MICROMETER up too high, but I doubt it would be noticed.
Yea, every console is slightly different and not every print is the same, it's difficult to get it to be 100% perfect every time.
3 hours ago, Bowlsnapper said:Xerc also works just fine and it's fun to play with a feature that I've only heard about but never actually installed.
Glad you like it, wasn't a product that sold very well so I'll probably discontinue the XERC with a better idea I have.
3 hours ago, Bowlsnapper said:Good kit, Nem! Very cool and nice work. It assembles and performs as well as any well designed 3d printed kit can. I'm impressed.
Thanks for the feedback @Bowlsnapper
3 hours ago, Bowlsnapper said:Sigh... I'm gonna have to put LEDs in this thing, I already know...Fuck.
LoL... I got a RGB bundle for that with XERC implementation.
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"ACE Console Repairs" received the parcel I sent today including a surprise gift which was a custom "XeniumMods" themed controller I ordered from "XboxDesignLab" about a year ago. You can actually get custom elite controllers now.
He also received the final revision of the flex cables to test out, possibly tomorrow on live stream.
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More of less finished revising the design but will spend the next couple of days double checking things and make any final changes if required. With any luck the next prototype batch will be the last.
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47 minutes ago, Bowlsnapper said:
Trying to figure out the 60 mm fan encasement by the way. Finally getting started. I don't know how this thing goes together.. I have the four blue parts and then some black parts and I think this thing may have to screw through the underside of the casing. Can you confirm that for me?
Check Dempseys notes and images he posted the other day... (Previous page)
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4 minutes ago, Bowlsnapper said:
What is responsible for supplying the 5 volt power to the LPC? Sometimes my LPC ports die and I would like to know what might be responsible for that When I'm soldering around the board. I think it can be caused by clock cap leakage, because it's not an uncommon thing for me to experience when I'm coming across these consoles. Do you know Nemesis?
No idea what the issue would be, not something I've come across...
You could try asking "ACE Console Repair" during one of he's live streams.
EDIT: He's live streaming now actually..
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I was able to overcome the above oversight fairly quickly and the results make a bit more sense.
Now we have 2x I2C Ports, one dedicated to the hdmi mod and the other dedicated to the pwm fan controller.
Removed 5v entirely and RGB port now has 3.3v. Increased the size of the expansion port from 8pin to 12pin,
matching pinout of the 10pin connector from other xenium designs plus SCL and SDA. This was kinda a good idea for compatibility with other xenium modchips and/or mods based on the xenium as it would be very easy to make a 12pin to 10pin adaptor cable. So for example, this new modchip design can still work with my RGB bundles from the previous revision.-
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I knew that the connection between the modchip and hdmi mod would come back to haunt me,
especially with the 5v line I wanted to pass through as on the v1.6 motherboard it is 5v standby power.
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12 hours ago, trencherfield said:
Quite probably, the simple spi2par2019 onto a Pro Micro alone, connected to the SMB, without the Openxenium SPi connected, will still show the in game temps, game playing and fan. I don't think the Xenium Spi is required there.
You can probably thereby, as I have done for an OLED, meddle with the code in Arduino ISE and just utilise that with a Pro Micro quite simply and pull in the registers you want to display.
Looks like an easy starting point.
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Looks like the Aladdin XT LCD conversion just runs as a Smartxx LCD, so will probably go blank in game like the others.
https://github.com/Ryzee119/AladdinLCDhttps://bitbucket.org/psyko_chewbacca/workspace/repositories/
Yea exactly...
Probably wouldn't even waste my time cleaning up the code to remove SPI and just leave it as is. Add an algorithm to adjust fan speed according to the CPU temp. Have a minimum fan speed of 10% for temps of 40c and below (idle), slowly ramping up to 100% for temps of 55c and above. Say if the temp is 48c then the fan speed should be around 45 to 50% as for example. I was thinking the fans should ramp up in a non-linear fashion much like the below graph, thoughts?
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2 hours ago, Dempsey_86 said:
or a heavy smoker haha
LoL... Maybe even a handful of incense sticks could do it...
I've started compiling the test kits with the hardware that I've completed so far,
I'm hoping to send around 10 to 12 of these out to testers.I made quite a bit of progress in revising the schematic and PCB for the HDMI mod.
It's more of less complete but I wanted to take the weekend off to give me a bit of time
to think of any other changes I might want to make before ordering another batch.I've had a really stressful week but all is fine now...
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Components and PCB's for the programmer arrived Wednesday and Thursday.
Managed to assemble 18 of them for now, many of which will be given out along with test kits for the XeniumICE modchip and XeniumHD+ HDMI mod when they are ready to be sent out. I made some final changes for the final revision including rerouting the traces for the LEDs and adding a USB type-A port for a power source, as I don't like the micro USB ports on the RPi Zero as I almost broke one off already.-
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Final revision of the flex cables has arrived.
Glad that's over with...
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6 hours ago, trencherfield said:
An openxenium with the Spi2par2019 fitted to an LCD can do this.
https://github.com/Ryzee119/spi2par2019
Well... I've mentioned in the past that I would like to do a PWM (and FLK) fan controller to complement the dual fan caddy. The SPI2PAR would be a great place to start for this project as it has all the I2C side of things there along with the addresses for the CPU, MB and Fan. As I would like for this to be a standalone mod, I would do without all the Xenium SPI stuff. I would like for the PWM fan controller to change fan speeds on the fly by continuously checking temps via I2C, kinda like how XBMC can control the fan whilst at the dashboard. And of course, we could add small OLED display to the caddy somewhere (or externally) to show temps and fan speed much like your image above.
EDIT: Would love it if someone had a fog machine so we could visually see what the air flow is like within a console, maybe one with a crystal lid without the shielding. I know this is asking alot so I wouldn't expect anyone to actually do this. Something I would like to do myself when I have the spare time.
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17 hours ago, NeMesiS said:
Another project I'd like to start working on once I've finished the HDMI mod, is to try and upgrade the MCU for the OGX360 as the current Atmega32u4 is it's limiting factor for any further firmware improvements. I've already discussed this with Ryzee119 on he's GitHub but we couldn't decide which MCU to go with. So to show some initiative I want to retro fit the STM32 development board to Ryzee's 4 channel OGX360 board. I may just do an adaptor board and instead of routing traces I'll just have a bunch of pads and I'll route everything with kynar wire for testing. Along with STM32duino bootloader the firmware shouldn't require too many changes for it to work.
Threw together a quick breakout board to attach to the Master header on the OGX360 by Ryzee119.
Only GND and 5v have been routed via copper pours with breakout pads for manually routing GPIO.
Supporting Master and Slave STM32 dev boards... "STM32F030C8T6" are very cost effective:
STM32F030C8T6 ARM STM32 Minimum System Development Board Module For Arduino DIY KIT - AliExpress
EDIT: Let me know if anyone would like the gerber for this...
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1 hour ago, RMM said:
Startech uses the Marvell 88SA8052. A few other adapters use it as well
Yea and it's available in another package too "Marvell 88SA8040"
1 hour ago, RMM said:I dont know what tool you are thinking of patching a bios but I know if you are using Cerbios you can use the Cerbios Tool to load a Cerbios bios and edit the UDMA speeds along with other settings: https://github.com/Team-Resurgent/CerbiosTool
Cheers... I won't be playing around with this for some time yet...
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7 hours ago, Bowlsnapper said:
The chip supports UDMA speeds?
From memory I think the MARVELL can support the following speeds:
ATA-66 = UDMA 4
ATA-100 = UDMA 5
ATA-133 - UDMA 6
But don't quote me on that I could be wrong, I did that SATA adaptor some 6 to 9 months ago.
And I haven't had a good look at the reference schematic since then...
7 hours ago, Bowlsnapper said:Wouldn't the bios still have to be configured to use it though? I'm confused now. Lol
I would say so... I faintly remember attempting to patch bios with different UDMA speeds...
I really can't think of what I used to do it... Any idea what that was?
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56 minutes ago, trencherfield said:
Damn that's a shame.
Can't win them all...
Just happy the cables are sorted now and all my thought on that can go in the recycle bin...
53 minutes ago, trencherfield said:Ha, megga. I was thinking of that the other day, trust you! Looks superb.
Them 'Startech' red ones have almost got that....... what's the phrase....?...... (where's Bowlsnapper) 'Retro Gaming Price' now
haha
The problem will be sourcing the MARVELL ic...
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Another project I'd like to start working on once I've finished the HDMI mod, is to try and upgrade the MCU for the OGX360 as the current Atmega32u4 is it's limiting factor for any further firmware improvements. I've already discussed this with Ryzee119 on he's GitHub but we couldn't decide which MCU to go with. So to show some initiative I want to retro fit the STM32 development board to Ryzee's 4 channel OGX360 board. I may just do an adaptor board and instead of routing traces I'll just have a bunch of pads and I'll route everything with kynar wire for testing. Along with STM32duino bootloader the firmware shouldn't require too many changes for it to work.
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Just now, Bowlsnapper said:
Nice work buddy! You are a talented man. I'm sure some type of cheap adaptation can be used for use with 3.5 drives, correct?
Yea well, I want it to be more purposed for the xbox...
Having the full size molex in the correct orientation.
Might even be able to have a switch to select from 3x different UDMA speeds
I was thinking about adding a PHD connector so that the DVD cable can be connected to it for DVD elimination but with Cerbios I don't think that's necessary anymore. I do wonder if that DVD cable could power a HDD on it's own...
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Just now, Bowlsnapper said:
I see IDE up top, and SATA connectors below. And what I believe is a jumper on the left. Looks like the startech adapter.
Taa Daa...
Actually, wasn't my intention to reverse engineer the adaptor. I wanted to make a SATA adaptor based on the MARVELL ic to suit 3.5" drives. I couldn't find a datasheet for the ic for the life of me but I did come across something much better, I found a reference schematic. As the reference schematic wasn't exactly clear on a few variables, I revered engineered the adaptor. I still want to do the 3.5" adaptor but since I have a draft for a 2.5" version, probably wouldn't hurt to prototype it...
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3 minutes ago, Bowlsnapper said:
PCB for SATA to IDE adapter... With jumper. You do this?
Maybe if it was RED you would recognize it...
Uses the MARVELL ic...
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Taa Daa... Look familiar?
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1 minute ago, Bowlsnapper said:
I ordered an sl5qj. I have interposers. It's socket 370. It should work fine... Nothing to poke fun at
Ahhh righto... Wanna see a magic trick?
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Board startup date: April 23, 2017 12:45:48
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"ACE Console Repair" successfully tested both flex cables again today.
About 2 and a half hours into he's stream...