KaosEngineer

I don't know but I found this article on the Internet: https://www.powerelectronictips.com/choosing-capacitor-ripple-current-capability-matters-farads/ It talks about the how the ripple current rating and ESR value affect the life expectancy of a capacitor.

For IGR (In Game Reset), try the button combo of holding both triggers, and the back and black buttons all at the same time. I know M8plus's IGR seems a bit tricky to activate when compared to other BIOSes. I find that I have to pull both triggers then press back and black together to get it to work.

The wire you show to cut is not pin 6. Pin 1 is the pin with the square pad on the opposite end of the connector. The numbers alternate between the short sides of the connector LPC Debug Port (Looking down on Top of Motherboard) 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 <---square pad When installing an Aladdin XT plus 2 into a v1.6 Xbox, pins 4 and 6 should be removed from the pin header before soldering it into the LPC Debug Port.

The Xenium (OpenXenium) has so many more features than the Aladdin modchip. Biggest one being multiple banks so you can flash and boot different BIOSes. (Not that anyone needs to boot more than one BIOS but you can't try others without wiping the one 256KB bank that an Aladdin has to try another.) Limited to using one 256KB BIOS with an Aladdin modchip. The XeniumOS can format a new hard drive in the Xbox without any other software. Albeit, doesn't do G drive and I believe only supports 16KB clusters for a maximum size of 256GBs for the F drive. Therefore, to properly format the extended partition(s) on hard drives larger than 250GBs, you'll have to re-format the extended partitions with XBPartitioner v1.3. @KingLuxor's eBay listing contains a bullet list of features of the OpenXenium modchip: (copied from there to here) Supported XeniumOS features: (taken from project repository) Software controlled BIOS bank switching (any BIOS combinations that fit into 1mbyte of flash memory (4x256k, 1x512+2x256k, 2x512k, 1x1mbyte). Instant boot to a chosen BIOS using the power button. Boot the XeniumOS with eject button. Ability to boot from the onboard BIOS (colloquially known as TSOP booting). This will completely disable OpenXenium and release D0/LFRAME(1.6) to boot the Xbox as if stock. All the standard features in Cromwell/XeniumOS. (EEPROM tools, Hard drive tools, FTP/SMB Server etc.). Three general purpose outputs. These are normally bitbanged as a SPI master (MOSI,CLK,CS) with the most common use an LCD, however could support any SPI peripheral in theory. Two general purpose inputs. On a Xenium, these are I believe intended to be MISO lines to complement the SPI interface but could be used for any 3.3V digital logic. Three outputs are connected to an RGB led (Or an external user added RGB led). Reserved memory on the flash chip for non-volatile storage of an EEPROM backup and XeniumOS settings. If you bridge the two recovery pins on power up, it will attempt to boot the XeniumOS recovery BIOS if available. This functions the same as a genuine Xenium modchip. LFRAME abort mechanism (Ref Intel LPC Interface Spec Rev 1.1 Section 4.3.1.13) for a v1.6 console to prevent the Xyclops responding to the MCPX LPC Memory Read requests during boot (and conflicting with an external LPC memory peripheral). This is generally accepted to be better than shorting LFRAME the ground constantly which some traditional LPC memory addons do.

What conductive spray? Where? Not on the motherboard, I hope! Aladdin Always-On Mode BT is the signal that should be tied to ground. @SS_Dave previously posted a picture in this thread showing that connection. Remove the wire currently going to the front of the motherboard that picks up the power button status --- ground = pressed, Vcc (+3.3Vdc or +5Vdc don't remember which exactly, most likely the later) = not pressed. Optional Indicator Connections L1 is an output signal from the modchip used to flash the eject ring LED to indicate either write protection disabled (5+ second power button press) or hard drive activity on some Aladdin's with another wire connected from HD or HO on some versions of the Aladdin to pin 39, I believe, of the IDE connector on the bottom side of the motherboard. See: https://i.imgur.com/VcqfaTB.jpg

UnleashX Skin - OGXbox Screenshot - a static image doesn't do it justice as the blue in the background is not a static image but a video loop, BG.wmv, being played making it shimmer.

Aladdin modchips require a long power button press (greater than 1 second) to enable the modchip when installed using the BT wire connected to the power button signal. A short tap to power on the console will boot the console with the modchip disabled - uses the stock BIOS on the motherboard, not the modchip's.

ind-bios 5004 (256KB duped to fill 512KB) and xecuter 5035 (512KB).

Install it at the proper location and it will become the default dashboard. Rocky5's softmod has a much longer dashboard boot order list than a hard modded console's BIOSes. The first replacement dashboard found in this list becomes the default dashboard the Xbox Softmodding Tool runs: C:\XBMC-Emustation\default.xbe E:\XBMC-Emustation\default.xbe F:\XBMC-Emustation\default.xbe C:\XBMC4Gamers\default.xbe E:\XBMC4Gamers\default.xbe F:\XBMC4Gamers\default.xbe C:\XBMC4Xbox\default.xbe E:\XBMC4Xbox\default.xbe F:\XBMC4Xbox\default.xbe C:\XBMC\default.xbe E:\XBMC\default.xbe F:\XBMC\default.xbe C:\dashboard\default.xbe E:\dashboard\default.xbe F:\dashboard\default.xbe C:\dash\default.xbe E:\dash\default.xbe F:\dash\default.xbe E:\default.xbe E:\dashboard.xbe C:\evoxdash.xbe E:\evoxdash.xbe C:\XBMC.xbe E:\XBMC.xbe

Any original Xbox DVD drive works in any other original Xbox, not 360 or One.

Easier to accomplish without opening the console - softmod. Does allow for hard drive upgrades to 2TBs same as a hardmod, modchip install, just a few more steps to accomplish the end result. Harder install but easier new larger hard drive upgrades - hardmod. Requires opening the console, rebuilding the LPC debug port to make connections to signals MS disconnected from the port, soldering in a pin header and connecting the modchip to it.

Not much info released on how to do the CPU upgrade. As for the memory, your motherboard needs to not be a 1.6 version that has no pad layouts to solder on the 4 addditional RAM chips to expand from 64 MBs to 128 MBs. Floydzabarber's YouTube video tutorial shows the steps to upgrade the RAM:

Once the modchip is installed and boots a hacked Xbox BIOS, load an installer disc, HeXEn 2018, into the DVD tray and power cycle the console. Use the menu options to install a replacement dashboard and additional applications that you want to use. Once a replacement dashboard is installed, you can FTP new apps, etc. to the Xbox's hard drive to run them from there.

You don't really need any disc installer once the softmod is up and running. Learn how it all works. After connecting your console to your home network or directly to your PC with an Ethernet cable. install the additional apps, etc. using an FTP client

Doesn't Cromwell have an option to flash the modchip? It should allow you to connect to the Xbox via a network connection using a web browser to reflash the modchip.

Can you currently boot into Linux (GentooX) on the console? You can use raincoat in Linux to reflash the TSOP BIOS as long as the write enable points are still bridged; however, hacked BIOS's don't load Linux. They are used for normal Xbox operations like Playing Games.

same bios for them which to use depends on the version of the Xbox and the BIOS's feature set you prefer.

There are a couple more variations of the center Aladdin modchip. Aladdin XT plus 2 with a different layout: and one with a Lattice LC4064V CPLD that supports an LCD:

The quality of the impedance matched 75 Ohm coax cables used to carry the component video signals from the Xbox to the TV makes a lot of difference in the video quality. The cable you linked to may not be using 75 Ohm coax to carry the YPbPr (component) video signals. You can't use audio quality cables to carry the much higher frequency component video signals to your TV. I'd try a higher quality Xbox high-definition AV cable/adapter first. One of the following options: Microsoft's High-Definition AV pack or component video cable Darren Thompson's XOSVP (github.com repo) with a set of component video cables that definitely uses shielded coax to carry the video signals (e.g., Monoprice 6ft 22AWG 5-RCA Component Video/Audio Coaxial Cable (RG-59/U) - Black), or chimericsystems.com's Xbox HDMI adapter Monoprice also sells higher quality component video cables - see those available on this page that use larger 18 gauge RG-6/U coax instead of RG-59/U. Note: The XOSVP does not provide for analog audio so a 5-RCA jacks cable - 3 coax video and 2 analog audio - is not required for it. Only a 3xRCA RG-59/U or RG-6/U component video cable and a TOSLink cable to connect from the adapter to a home stereo receiver with a digital optical input. Microsoft's High-definition AV pack does provide for analog and optical digital audio connections. Most sellers forget to include the original cabling that came with the AV pack so you'll need a set of cables for component video (coax x 3) and 2 audio cables for stereo analog audio or a TOSLink optical cable for digital audio out like those required to connect the XOSVP to your TV.

There's nothing in the attached xbmc.log file to help. It looks to me like XBMC-Emustation is not even starting properly but going into the emergency FTP recovery mode. 12:58:28 M: 35016704 NOTICE: XBFileZilla: Starting ftp emergency recovery mode For more debugging information to be logged, you'll need add a line to the Q:/system/UserData/advancedsettings.xml file right before the closing </advancedsettings> tag: <loglevel hide="false">1</loglevel>

You can only have 4096 files/folders in a subfolder of an Xbox's FATX formatted hard drive. You will need to break down the set of roms into many different subfolders (e.g., #,A,B,C,...,Z) under the ROMS folder of the C64 emulator.

If you have the eeprom.bin backup saved to your PC as you should do first thing after FTPing to the console. You can unlock the hard drive with a PC and the appropriate hard drive utility. XboxHDM23USB's main menu option to unlock the hard drive does not permanently remove the lock. Once the hard drive is power cycled, it will again be locked. There are tools inside the Linux OS it uses that can permanently remove the lock IF you have the eeprom.bin backup. There are also other Windows hard drive utilities that can remove the lock from the hard drive if you know the password. I believe the hddinfo.txt file should have the password if you downloaded it.

Simpler to boot a different supported BIOS to use NKPatcher's driveimageutils' attach app when you want to mount a disc image to run a game from a dot iso file (XISO disc image) stored on the hard drive with the default.xbe (attach app renamed and XBE title editied) in a Games subfolder. M8plus is supported. You need to make sure that the LBA48 configuration of the BIOS matches that in use by the X3 BIOS. (Or, have an XBPartitioner partition table on the hard drive and use a BIOS that reads it to override the default built-in LBA48 configuration of the BIOS.) Here's the list of the CDROM Modchip patchable BIOSes from the BIOS chain loader app's source code - xboxapp.asm: kernel_info_table: kinfo_entry 3944, 8003BE58h, 8003bff0h, 80031656h kinfo_entry 4034, 8003BF18h, 8003c0b0h, 80031293h kinfo_entry 4817, 8003B198h, 8003b330h, 8002fd41h kinfo_entry 4981, 8004F5F8h, 8004F790h, 80034584h kinfo_entry 5003, 80042D48h, 80042EE0h, 80035902h kinfo_entry 5035, 8005D4F0h, 8005D680h, 8003BC5Dh kinfo_entry 5101, 8003B298h, 8003B430h, 8002FDD7h kinfo_entry 5530, 8003C118h, 8003c2c4h, 8002ff55h kinfo_entry 5713, 8003C138h, 8003c2e4h, 8002ff6fh kinfo_entry 5838, 8003C138h, 8003c2e4h, 8002ff6fh kinfo_entry_last What all those numbers mean as to which BIOSes work on a hard modded console to use NKPatcher's attach app along with the CDROM mount patcher that chain loads your default dashboard after patching the in-memory BIOS: Evolution-X's M8plus - kernel version = 5838 (has the same kernel version as the latest stock MS BIOS. Team Xecuter's X2 4981 (fits in a 256KB BIOS bank) and 5035 (requires a 512KB BIOS bank) iND-BIOS 5003, not 5004 The other versions listed are the stock MS BIOS versions: 3944, 4034, 4817, 5101, 5530, 5713, 5838 (used with softmods).

UXArchitect - http://www.mediafire.com/file/41bx03vvxzf0exa/UXArchitect.rar/file I have no idea if this file contains the latest version.

The nichicon 6.3Vdc HM series caps have a much higher rated ripple current 3000 mA versus 1700 mA and a lower ESR 0.011 Ohms instead of 0.035 Ohms of the Yaego's. Rated lifetime of the nichicons however is only 2000 hours. There are other ultra-low ESR caps with up to 10,000 hour lifetime ratings. https://www.nichicon.co.jp/english/products/pdf/e-hm.pdf P.S. The Yaego's will most likely work but at a lower than rated life expectancy.