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Here's on I'm working on I'm Plastic primer, gently wet flat the plastics with mild soapy water and leave to dry (Important!!!) Wipe and clean all plastics making sure there's no greasey fingerprints on it, then I applied 4 light coats of primer, before putting on your top coat, gently sand with 3000 grit sandpaper and clean ready for top coat. 3 / 4 layers of top coat applied and leave for 24 hours to dry. Hope this helps.

Thanks for the information mate, yeah I changed the caps, shaved a 2mm off the 2 plastic legs what the video output screws go to, under the video connector there's also a bit of plastic I cut away. I'll upload some photos, but it fits like a glove now, mnay thanks

Hi I'm just fixing up a cheap faulty xbox from ebay, it came with no screws, anyway the bottom Case won't fit the motherboard all the holes are 2mm 3mm off centre? Although it fits in the tin housing great. No idea what version M/B it is so help would be great. So far I cut 2 noggins off the bottom Case, still no joy lol. See photos below. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/hlgzxwbzpzemvrd5j6zvv/h?dl=0&rlkey=yzsrj2j6jztmu42kj6mvczjd4

I have a few stock IDE cables and some old IDE Hdds about. My crystal xbox (Executer 2.6) has a 80 wire cable with SATA adapter I could try that also. Maybe the Bios is setup to skip boot from DVD if the sellers drive was faulty? I'll let you know

Ok disconnected the HDD tried various Boot Disks Hexen, Slayers, AIO etc still won't boot, tried know working DVD drive still the same, only it don't FRAG straight away takes about 20 seconds. Still on EXECUTER2 CONFIG LIVE LOADING..... Mmmmm any ideas mate? Tested suspect faulty DVD drive in my hard modded crystal and that work fine, so that's a bonus. Appreciate everyones help.

Next question lol, if it dose boot up Hexen will it setup the new HDD with the required config.ini and I'll be good to go?

Thanks peeps for the advice, I'll try to boot Hexen with Stock HDD removed, if that fails I'll try with a working DVD drive and let you know how I get on really appreciate your help.

Hi sorry, basically I brought a totally stock faulty xbox and just swapped the faulty motherboard, with the TSOP 128MB board and matching PSU so the HDD would be stock. Thanks for looking

Hi, Long story short i brought a v1.1 Board and PSU- TSOP with x2_5035 BIOS i was told from the seller, Then brought a Stock faulty xbox (Trace rot), installed new board and PSU into the faulty xbox, Kept he stock HDD and DVD Drive from the faulty Xbox...... Anyway powers up (No Flubber) say's EXECUTER2 CONFIG LIVE LOADING..... and stays on that screen, Eject button FRAG's Is it looking for somthing from the HDD? I did try Hexen and various other Installer DVD's that work on my other consoles. Faulty DVD drive? Im a total TSOP noob and would appreciate some advice please, Theres a video i upped to my Dropbox so you can see what im talking about. Thanks all. https://www.dropbox.com/s/d4t4sh6u1k9zvp0/PXL_20221128_181143241.mp4?dl=0

True but the Modchip powers up, Xbox boots and hangs just before the Microsoft word appears bottom of the screen, any idea about the d0 I asked about please.

Brilliant it kind of boots but goes no further than the photo I followed this and twisted the same wires, even tried disconnecting pin 8 still same result. Do I need to ground pin 7 wire to something it mentions something about d0 but I'm just not sure... See below it mentions it.... 1- HDD LED +ve2- LAN LED +ve3- Common +ve4- Modchip power in5- Ground6- Flash Protect7- Chip enable/D08- Bank 1 selectTo power the chip you need to connect pins 3-4To enable the modchip as the default boot bios you need to ground pin 7 (D0) and generally pin 8 to select Bank 1All the LEDs are powered by pins 3 and 5 and use an inline 220k resistor.eg. For my setup - boot off the chip, flash protect, and using bank 1I connect 3-4 and 5-6-7-8For Bank 2 you just disconnect pin 8

So pin one is the 1st pin on the left, really appreciate this help people. Oh it's a 1.6 so TSOP is out of the window, with stock HDD. I must have 2 more in the loft

Thats mega thanks don't suppose there's a circuit diagram so I can make some

Awesome I'll take a look when I get home, but uninstalling the mod chip would make it FRAG right as it has an upgraded HDD and ata133 cable.

Okay I've just been reunited with my Crystal Xbox after 14 years in my mums loft I has the 2.6 Modchip, HDD upgrade but the switch board is missing from the front leaving just the cable hanging. I'm guessing it's going to be impossible to find one and can't find info on making a custom one, so can I remove the mod chip and soft mod it. Many thanks