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17 hours ago, sweetdarkdestiny said:
I have a Samsung SDG-605F laying here with a dead laser but the controler board is working fine (Pic of it : https://imgur.com/a/8CfCD6V ) In case you're somewhere in the EU, I could send the contorller board to you for postage.
Thank you for the offer, but I'm located all the way in Canada so that's a little far.
19 hours ago, SS_Dave said:I have heard of Philips DVD drives doing this and I believe it's a possible short on one or more DATA lines on the 40/80 way IDE cable, If that's the case you are better off getting a replacement DVD drive.
Cheers
SS Dave
Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing.That sucks. Do you know what causes this short?
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5 hours ago, sweetdarkdestiny said:
What a HDD do you use and which bios do use on your ModChip? If you use a SATA HDD with converter, do you use a 80 wire cable with it?
I tried with stock HDD and 80GB IDE drives. I also swapped the DVD drive into a different working console, and the same result happened. Green flashing light and 07 error. This was on stock bios, m8+_16, and whatever bios was on my x-chip.
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Hello everyone, I am writing this today to see if anyone would potentially know what the issue is with my Xbox's dvd drive.
A little backstory. I got an unopened 1.6 many months ago. The console would give the lovely 07 error, so I figured the hard drive was the problem. I swapped out the hard drive with a known good working hard drive, and chipped the console, and would still get the 07 error. In my quest to repair the xbox, I noticed that the green light was constantly flashing whenever I turned the console on. I swapped out the disc drive and all of the console's problems went away.
That brings me to my issue. I currently have a Samsung SDG-605F that stops the console from detecting the hard drive whenever its IDE cable is connected. If I connect only the power cable, the console will open and close the console no problem. When I then connect the IDE cable, the console flashes green constantly and the drive will not respond to the eject button being pressed.
I've taken a look at the drive's motherboard and there is nothing that stands out as wrong. My thoughts are that the firmware has gotten partially corrupted, the dram chip on the drive's motherboard is dead, or there are issues with the MediaTek controller on the drive's motherboard. I'm not sure what the issue is. I am hoping that someone here knows what the issue is and what I would need to do to fix it. Thank you for reading through all of this.
DobaMuffin
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If you wanted to have a plug and play solution to an OGXbox ODE, I recommend starting with a project like https://github.com/zeldin/iceGDROM which already implements the IDE and SD card interfaces. It would just need to be modified to work with whatever custom sequence the original xbox uses.
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13 hours ago, ttsgeb said:
So, I have no current plans to look at this project again, as other projects have taken over my life.
As such, I'm offering up all the kicad files I have for it, and if someone wants the non-operational prototypes to try and troubleshoot, I'll send them your way for the cost of shipping.
Sorry I didn't get further on this project. Hopefully someone else can take it up and turn it into something functional.
XboxPSU.zipYou don't have to apologize for not getting further on this project. You put in the effort and got some prototypes created. That's more than a lot of projects ever get accomplished.
I hope your other projects go well. I'd see about working on it personally, but uni just started so I'm going to be having very little time to do personal projects. I wish you the best.
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40 minutes ago, sweetdarkdestiny said:
Dash is unleashed but XBMC4Gamers reports also high temps and i cleaned the sensor with ipa.
Caps are:
3300uF 6,3V (Panasonic EEU-FM0J332) : https://www.conrad.de/de/p/panasonic-eeu-fm0j332-elektrolyt-kondensator-radial-bedrahtet-5-mm-3300-f-6-3-v-20-12-5-mm-1-st-1475998.html?insert=62&searchType=SearchRedirect
3300uF 6,3V (Panasonic EEU-FM0J152) : https://www.conrad.de/de/p/panasonic-eeu-fm0j152-elektrolyt-kondensator-radial-bedrahtet-5-mm-1500-f-6-3-v-20-10-mm-1-st-1468925.html?insert=62&searchType=SearchRedirect
Edit: i have test it with the multimeter 67°C and with a finger and damn the GPU is realy realy hot.
I have a quick question for you. What do the temperatures look like with everything back in the system? You mentioned the gpu heatsink is hot, which makes me think you tested the system without the HDD Caddy and Dvd drive Caddy installed. Those help to direct airflow from the fan over the heatsinks.
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1 hour ago, neighbor said:
yeah, I've read about it long time ago. Just have no idea what you can do with it? are you about to work on kernel stuff?
I want to learn about the Xbox hardware, and I figure I need to start somewhere. I already have a few motherboards to test and then play around with, along with having a few miscellaneous items like a tsop socket, extra ram, and a PC buzzer.
Kernel debugging would also be cool to try, and since I already have the main IC needed for it, I figured I might as well buy the rest of the components, and build a couple of the boards myself. Then I'll have one for a test system, and one for a retail to debug conversion.
So to answer your question, I not working on kernel stuff right now, but that doesn't mean I won't in the future. It all depends on what I'm capable of doing.
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Well I don't see how this is rare. looks like a standard modded console to me.
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On 7/30/2020 at 2:16 PM, micielk said:
Hello there
My name is Chris I'm from Poland
Hi, I hope you enjoy this lovely community and that you have a great time playing original xbox games.
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14 hours ago, neighbor said:
What that board does is replaces the expensive board found in original devkits, and allows for people to use a serial port on the console. This is done through super i/o, and is mainly used for kernel debugging with WinDbg.
The particular board I linked to in my first post was created by xbox7887 on the XboxDev discord. It also contains a USB serial converter allowing you to connect it very easily to modern PCs.
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7 hours ago, neighbor said:
so what's this cable for?
What cable are you talking about?
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6 hours ago, OGXbox Admin said:
Official
Lucky you. I know I couldn't get my hands on official hardware. Though I'm not afraid of soldering so I will just convert a retail console and solder up a board for kernel debugging.
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11 hours ago, OGXbox Admin said:
I'm doing it as we speak. I was googling certain information and came across your post on the forum I created. lol weird. Back to searching for meaning....
Are you using official Microsoft hardware, or a diy solution for debugging?
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3 hours ago, skeggia92cr said:
Good day to everybody, I'm Matteo.
After 17 years my dream come true. I'll got a modded xbox. I'm pleasure to be apart of this community!!!
Hi. Glad that you've decided to join this wonderful community. You'll interact with lots of people here, and I'm sure you'll have a great time. Enjoy your new toy.
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Building off of what SS_Dave said, I used X2 Bios Manager v2.3 to create my 1MB bios file to flash to my x2.6.
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1 hour ago, KaosEngineer said:
I've still not verified that is is in fact based on the Evox M7 BIOS, not quite sure how to tell, as I found some info but for the X-Shock modchip (another one I'd never heard of) but it looks very much like the ALX2+ series.
I'd say the fact that XBTool auto identifies it as EvolutionX M7 is as good of proof as any. Just above the checksum at the top of the program, right along with the kernel version.
1 hour ago, KaosEngineer said:All the interest is more my own personal interest to know if they developed their own BIOS or used some other dev team's BIOS
If I had to take a guess from what I can see, they just used the M7 bios and edited it to look exactly how they wanted it to. Most of it was probably edited using XBTool, and then what they couldn't edit with that, they probably used something like kernelbasher to edit. Though I cannot confirm that last part as my pc is missing a necessary dll to be able to run it. I guess you could always try to recreate it using an unmodified evox m7 bios.
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1 hour ago, KaosEngineer said:
Okay, it does show the flubber animation when I boot the blue ALX2+ BIOS by setting the DIP switches to the bank I flashed it to.
However, it doesn't complete the boot process. ALX2+ never gets displayed below the big X logo even after waiting for over a minute. But, if I select that BIOS bank from the X3CL BIOS Tools menu to boot. After a few seconds the ALX2+ text appears and evoxdash appears.
The ALX2+ BIOS doesn't have In Game Reset (IGR)
or does it.
Strange things a happening. IGR doesn't work when running evoxdash but if I start UnleashX from evoxdash then press the IGR button combo it does work. The screen clears and up pops the original booting dashboard of evoxdash.
Occurs with or without evoxdash's IGR enabled. The ALX2+ BIOS's IGR, I guess it supports IGR, does not work when evoxdash (+3935 version) is running.
Something definitely seems strange. Have you tried using IGR from an older version of evoxdash?
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6 minutes ago, titchgamer said:
Noobish q...
Is a flashed TSOP system classed as a hard mod as you have to solder the points? Or is a hard mod just mod chipped?If I'm not mistaken, it is classified as a hardmod. I know if you mess it up, then you need to install a modchip, or flash the tsop flash chip directly with a new bios.
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I don't think you can lock those adapters. If that's the case, it would only work on hard modded systems. But since titchgamer has a hard modded system, that wouldn't be an issue.
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2 hours ago, Localhorst86 said:
What kind of components do I need?
U1 = ATTINY 85-20 SU?
MMBT3906 = MMBT3906 SOT32?
R1,2,4 = 10kOhm but what size? 0603?
R3 = 100 Ohm but what size? 0603?
C1= 4.7uF but what size? 0603? I assume 6.3V would be enough?
C2 = 0.1uF but what size? 0603? 6.3V?
D1 = ??? couldn't find that in the original schematicNot sure about the packages used in the gerbers, but I think that the diode D1 is a 1N4148 as seen on this OGXbox post. It allows the xerc to be connected to the ir receiver in the xbox dvd playback kit.
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6 hours ago, KaosEngineer said:
Lots of info lost on how they modified the older BIOSes. The oldest EVTool that Xbins FTP server has is v1.0
Missing are 0.8.0.b1 and 0.7.0.b1 (thanks @SS_Dave for it. Do you happen to have the 0.8.0.b1 version?)
On nghtshd's - the dev of XBTool and EVTool - old web site, the History of EVTool shows all the diffs between the versions.
Older versions up to v1.0.7 are for M8 or M8_16. No EVTool tool for M7. Not sure how these were patched other than hex editing.
v1.0.8 and v1.0.9 are for Evox M8+ (1.6 and 1.0-1.5 versions) and metoo BFM versions
(http://web.archive.org/web/20041111034638/http://home.alltel.net/nghtshd/evtool.html)
Hey KaosEngineer. So it doesn't seem that Evtool will work, but I did manage to get it to populate the fields in XBTool 1.0.23a. Looks as though the boot order is evoxdash.xbe, and then xboxdash.xbe.
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1 minute ago, KaosEngineer said:
@DobaMuffin thanks for the other photo. U2 is labeled LC374A. And, the CPLD (U3) part number is XC9536XL.
SN74LVC374APWR or equivalent part.
Octal Edge-Triggered D-Type Flip-Flops With 3-State Outputs
No problem. I'm just glad to help. And I'm glad you could identify the ICs.
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3 minutes ago, KaosEngineer said:
It has an ALX2+ rev 4 modchip installed. Currently boots the ALX2+ (kernel version 1.00.5101.01) blue BIOS in the 256KB user flashable BIOS bank or the Red colored version stored in a non-writeable 256KB section. The devs of the modchip say it's a ROM but the flash memory chip they use is a 49LV400BC-90 chip. A 512K x 8 bit flash memory chip (or 256K x 16 bit accessible with a BYTE# control line).
I believe their CPLD's logic code prevents one half of the flash memory chip from being writeable not a separate ROM chip on the modchip. However, there are 3 chips and I cannot make out the labeling on the CPLD Xilinx 95?? chip or the other part - .
These images are hopefully easier to read for the ALX2+ rev4. This one from a Reddit post, and the image on this page, though it's labelled as a different modchip, but looks the exact same.
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7 hours ago, ttsgeb said:
In the quantities I'm getting, the boards are the most expensive part, at about $6 each, most of that being shipping charges. Otherwise, it's the inductors, which run about $4 each.
Ah totally forgot to check prices for inductors. That would make sense then.
Hopefully you figure out the issue that's causing the 5v line to not work. That way a your hard work wasn't for nothing.
Board Life Status
Board startup date: April 23, 2017 12:45:48
Big issue with Samsung SDG-605F
in Repair
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That's interesting. I never though to check all of the vias under a microscope. Checked all of the ICs, resistors, capacitors, etc. If the vias don't bring up anything, then I guess I'll have to start replacing chips one by one. Probably would start with reprogramming the lpc flash chip first though.