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  1. Oops wrong chip name - the MS custom Xyclops chip, not the Xcalibur video encoder.
  2. Okay, I'll have to do a bit more tracing the signals to see if they go beyond there. You could use a multimeter to measure resistance from pin 2 and 3 to pins of the edit: Xcalibur Xyclops chip. I believe they go into it instead of having the ADM1032 chip. I'd never tried to figure out where they connected before. Odd... Edit: Oops, not thinking straight it seems. The temp sensor not integrated into the video encoder, MS custom Xcalibur chip, but the Xyclops chip.
  3. Wait a minute. I traced the THERMDA and THERMDC signals from the CPU to the IC U3B1 pins 2 and 3. The pictures I used were component-free hi-res scans from the now defunct web site diy.sickmods.net. What is the IC at U3B1 on a v1.6 motherboard? Is it an ADM1032 just like used on v1.0-1.4 motherboards? The chip is simply at a different location on a v1.6 motherboard - U3B1 instead of U6F1.
  4. Do you have a larger SATA hard drive installed with a cheap IDE-to-SATA adapter? Most of the cheap IDE-to-SATA adapters are slow starting after a reset and the Xbox will FRAG. If you power cycle the console, does it boot properly? What do you mean by Christmas lights: Red/Green or Red/Green/Yellow flashing?
  5. one of the two vias at the end of the new wire.
  6. Follow the trace going off to the right from the test pad that was pulled off to find a via. Cut a long enough piece of kynar insulated 30 AWG wire-wrap wire to solder from that via to the via on the left of the picture where the trace pulled off of the PCB.
  7. The CPU temp sensor diode connects from the CPU pads to the edit: Xcalibur Xyclops chip. I've not traced down which pins of the edit: Xcalibur Xyclops they connect to. CPU BGA Pads: THERMDA = AA15 THERMDC = AB16 The traces make their way moving from top to bottom side of the PCB several times along their journey to the edit: Xcalibur Xyclops chip. Image of the CPU BGA pads (Edit: Opps I forgot the D in THERMDA and THERMDC). And, these traces are already making there jump from the top to the bottom side of the PCB moving at an angle down and to the right of each PAD to a via.
  8. One or two of the traces from the CPU temp sensor diode to the edit: Xcalibur Xyclops may be damaged resulting in a FALSE positive overheating condition.
  9. Hmm, the contacts of the cable or connector on the back of the Xbox may be dirty and/or corroded. Clean them all with 90%+ isopropyl alcohol and/or electronic contact spray cleaner.
  10. I believe the temp sensor on v1.6 Xboxes is part of the custom edit: Xcalibur Xyclops chip. The custom edit: Xcalibur Xyclops chip replaced the TSOP, PIC processor (System Management Controller) and temp sensor all in one package.
  11. What do you mean by this statement? You see the Evox shield in the upper left hand corner of the start up animation when you power on the system. Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/originalxbox/comments/ui3t5u/my_xbox_boots_up_with_that_evox_logo_what_do_i/ If so, that's the indication that an Evolution-X BIOS is being used. Two Software Components used to Modify an Original Xbox Team Evolution-X created many versions of both of these software components: 1. Modified BIOS/kernel that removed/disabled the security features built into the stock BIOS/kernel. Evolution-X created several different modified BIOS/kernel releases: for v1.0 Xboxes only: 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, and 2.6 (most likely many older v0.x and v1.x releases too) for v1.1 Xboxes only: 3.6 for v1.0 or v1.1 Xboxes: D.6 v1.0-v1.6 (MULTI_VERSION): M7 v1.0-v1.6b (MULTI_VERSION): M8 and M8plus their final release. 2. Replacement Dashboard Evolution-X created several releases of their replacement dashboard - Evolution-X Dash (a.k.a., Evoxdash / RemoteX). The last release being v+3935. Source: https://www.se7ensins.com/forums/threads/every-modded-xbox-dahsboard.433141/ BIOS / Kernel Version Since the Kernel version is 5838 from the previously posted UnleashX System Info page, it is either the Evolution-X M8 or M8plus BIOS. You cannot tell exactly which from the kernel version value alone. Team Evolution-X didn't change the kernel version for every BIOS they released to better identify which one you have installed. They left the kernel version the same as the original Xbox BIOS it is based upon. Here 5838 is the stock v1.6 Xbox's BIOS/kernel version number.
  12. Serial Number: 104637740806 Format of information that can be determined from the serial number value: LNNNNNNYWWFF L = factory line number this Xbox was made on NNNNNN = number of this Xbox made during its week (WW) of production Y = Year produced = 200Y - 2004 WW = Week of the year produced --> 8th week of 2004. FF = factory this Xbox was produced in. 02 = Mexico, 03 = Hungary, 05 = China, 06 = Taiwan --> Taiwan
  13. These questions have nothing directly related to finding a fix for these games freezing. I'm just wanting to obtain a few more details about your Xbox version. Which modified Xbox BIOS are you using? Which replacement dashboard are you using? If UnleashX, which version are you using? Next, press (Y) to display a System Info window: What is the kernel version number? What is the serial number of the Xbox? You are using an 80-wire 40-pin high-speed IDE cable with the SSD/IDE-to-SATA adapter combo?
  14. Don't know about working with the SPI2PAR2019; however, the Spi2i2c2020- mentions working with US2066 controller-based OLEDs. turfster1/Spi2i2c2020-: Open source recreation of the spi2par.
  15. Powering on when plugged in - trace rot on the bottom side of the motherboard along the front edge.
  16. The configuration EEPROM on the motherboard died, is no longer accessible or the data stored inside is corrupt. No Xbox BIOS that allows you to run XBE files (play games) will boot with a bad EEPROM. Some of the modchip OS's will boot without a good EEPROM or access to it. IIRC, FlashBIOS and other Cromwell-based BIOSes will too but you cannot do much with them other than boot Linux or flash a different BIOS to the modchip. Use a Raspberry PI, Arduino or serial EEPROM reader/writer cable to read the contents from the chip. Load it into LiveInfo v1.6. It will probably show that the content is corrupt is all which you already know from the RED flashing Eject ring. Do you have a backup of the EEPROM's content. An eeprom.bin file on your PC? If the chip is dead, remove and replace it with a new one and write the eeprom.bin file's content back to it.
  17. The images in this old Wayback Machine llamma.com archived tutorial may help. The images are not the best quality. Phillips Xbox DVD Complete Tear Down (archive.org)
  18. The LC4064V CPLD found on the Aladdin 64's, XenoFX Pro's, can do both functions. Edit: It has twice as many programmable Macrocells - 64 instead of 32 of an LC4032V CPLD. Modding the current Aladdin's with an LC4032 can only be programmed to work as a modchip - boot a modified BIOS from the flash chip onboard or act as an LCD driver.
  19. The stock dashboard does not have an FTP server to connect to. You can only connect to an FTP server on a modded Xbox running a replacement dashboard.that has it enabled.
  20. There were Aladdin 64's (a.k.a. XenoFX Pro's) that used a Lattice LC4064V CPLD instead of an LC4032V CPLD. The 12 pads to the right of the one labeled BT on the top of the above pictured modchip connected to the LCD module. And, there was a potentiometer on the three pads forming a triangle below them used to adjust the contrast of the display. XenoFX Pro Installation Diagram archived at the Wayback Machine: xenochip_xt_diagram_1_0.jpg (962×840) (archive.org)
  21. You'd need to see what the current security level is. HIGH or MAXIMUM. IIRC, the command-line tool, smartctl.exe, that comes with XboxHDM23USB Beta 2, 3 or 4 will tell you when you check the current lock status. And, Beta 3 and 4 have a menu option to check the lock status of the hard drive that Beta 2 does not have. When HIGH, either the MASTER or USER password can be used to unlock the hard drive; however, when MAXIMUM only the USER password will work. The USER password is computed cryptographically using the HDDKey, hard drive model and serial number.
  22. For Seagate and Western Digital stock hard drives, you can use the manufacturer's MASTER password if the Xbox they were installed in was not modded. Xbox stock Western Digital HDD MASTER unlock password: WDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWD Xbox stock Seagate HDD MASTER unlock password: Seagate followed by 25 space characters FATXplorer 3.0 beta knows these MASTER passwords and other MASTER passwords used by modding scene apps to unlock them: TEAMASSEMBLY and XBOXSCENE
  23. Simple google search for xsorr lead me right to it.

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