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I basically had this problem yesterday. I solved it with raspberry pi 3 and piprom. soldered 4 wires between pi and EEPROM that was already desoldered from the xbox that hard drive came from. 150usd SSD drive so kind wanted it working. then I read out the EEPROM with piprom. Moved it over with ftp to an modded xbox and used chimp. connected ssd as slave drive instead of DVD. Launched chimp from master drive. Then selected option unlock from file. And now that ssd is inserted and working in another Xbox.

"V1.6 Xbox the EEPROM is next to the LPC debug port labeled U7D1. (V1.0-v1.5 Xboxes the EEPROM is labeled U7C2. See attached photos.) U = First letter identifier for an integrated circuit (inseparable assembly) Other device type identifiers used on the Xbox printed circuit boards (PCBs): R = resistor, RP = resistor pack, RT = thermistor, C = capacitor, L = inductor, Q = transistor, Y = oscillator, D = diode, CR = current rectifier (diodes), J = connector, SW = switch, LED = light emitting diode, FB = Ferrite Bead, DB = ?? DBPAD - Test Point ??, LB = label (e.g., serial number sticker) 7D = location on PCB, look at the edges of the board for the number and letter sections. 1A is located on the PCB's back right corner while looking at an Xbox sitting on a table with the front panel, controller ports and power/ejects buttons, facing you. A-G rows - labeled along the left and right-hand edges of the PCB. 1-8 columns - labeled along the top (furthest from you) and bottom (nearest to you) edges of the PCB. 1 = unique number assigned to devices of the same type in this section of the PCB. AtMel serial EEPROM datasheet attached below. The original Xbox uses a 2Kbit (256 x 8 bit) serial EEPROM to hold unique console configuration information. For information on the Xbox's EEPROM content, visit xboxdevwiki.net's EEPROM page. " Found this information googling Is there a point in trying transplant of the atmel eprom from donar board? if orange flashing is EEPROM error?

This is what happen when power on.

Here you go.

are you sure because 2 of mine starting to grow.

It changes but now if I press power it flashes orange in different ways and shuts down. Inserting mod chip in other xbox tells me it's broken. But was working before. Will try reflash ship by hot swapping. But believe it's dead. I'm to afraid to stick the other mod chip inside if it won't boot without mod chip

I put that cable because it looked like many it was cut but removed it later. Where you point to broken trace I also put a wire to jump between where mod chip connection solders and small via. found next to pin header. I also replaced a transistor. next to clock cap. But I guess best practice to remove the copper trace around the solder pad that look sketchy? There seem to be some fault with Xbox BIOS. console acts all weird. when I google all info I get is stop mod for older revision xbox. I was thinking maybe to just take the bios from a donor board and solder it to this one. But don't know what chip to desolder.

ok 1,6 clock capacitor is the one next to the IDE bus. I wonder how to rewire the vias from the pin header if I ruined them inside one of the middle layers of the pcb. Or if nothing is needed.

Not much help that one just shows where to put the wires back again which I desoldered. After removing the pin header and putting it back I get new error holding power button flashes orange 1 or two times and no video then console power down. I want to first restore console to boot without Aladdin mod chip. ok I found pinout of that lpc port image search google. Can you bridge the clock capacitor solder pads with wire and remove the cap on 1.6 xbox or it has too be replaced with another super capacitor?

Ok I one of my xboxes just stopped working. I started desolder the pin header and my vellman vacuum pump ruined a few traces. So now I wonder where to solder the new wires. And should I cut the traces close to the solder points where it looks a little bit sketchy. I want to repair the visa for pin header and put some wires where it seems like I may have ruined the traces or what you call them. And also another question what is required for being able to download files in file section?