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So, I have had my Xbox basically my entire life. So, It's had a bit of a run. It's currently completely unmodified. Lately, though, I have been having a few problems with it. 1) Ty the Tasmanian Tiger 2: Bush Rescue played perfectly fine, and loaded quite fast, but it had issues with FMVs. 2) Robots did not load at all. I thought the disk had decayed, but now I am not so sure. 3) Spongebob: Battle for Bikini Bottom ran Okay, but dialogue audio would start a second or so later than it should. 4) A known working copy of Halo 2 that I had played a few months ago can no longer be read. THis is what tipped me off to the possibility that it could be the optical drive. Are these symptoms of a dying disk reader? If so, what should I replace it with? Is it finally time to hard mod my beloved xbox to give it a longer life? Side note: Is it normal for the picture to be weirdly dark when adapted from the video output to HDMI? I have heard of old consoles like this having capacitor issues with the display out after some time; could that happen to the Xbox?
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Having a strange issue: I was playing around with an R3Dux that I installed. I pulled my 2tb HDD from my main xbox (with an open xenium, prometheOS, etc.) and plugged it into the R3 xbox. Wasn't able to see my F/G partitions so I changed a setting in config live and that fixed it. I pulled the drive and and tried to access the F drive in fatxplorer and now I get this: I've tried writing a new partition table using Rocky5's XBP table writer, but still get the same error. I can access the G drive just fine. Any advice? I'd really like to avoid having to format this drive, it's my only copy of my game library (on the F drive ofc). EDIT: Hmm, loaded it in "recovery mode" in fatx and now I can mount the F drive.
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Got in a 1.0 Xbox today with error 16 on the harddrive so need to manually unlock and get the data off that way. (XCAT reasons) I've always had a hard time doing the unlock on FatXplorer but this time it just doesn't work right at all. I input the key and it unlocks but then gives me this message. No combination of removing passwords or unplugging anything lets me into the HDD. I'm using a USB 2.0 IDE HDD reader and powering the HDD with the Xbox. I have gotten it to work with this exact setup before on other Xboxs.
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Hi all, First post! I have recently flashed my TSOP on my 1.1 xbox with the latest 2.4.2 Cerbios and everything seemed to have worked. I installed a larger 6tb HDD and XBMC4Gamers is the latest version and works just fine. The problem I just recently discovered is that my Samsung DVD drive doesn't want to read and discs! Neither Backups, Originals, or Utility discs. I have to reinstall my older 1tb drive to get the xbox to boot from a utility disc! I've tried reflashing my TSOP to some other UMA setting and nothing seems to detect a disc in the drive. I swapped my 1tb drive back into my Xbox and the DVD drive will read a disc!
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There's a tutorial I found on Wayback, but Wayback wasn't able to find all the pages for this mod. It's for using a PC drive on an XBOX. The DVD drive is an LG DRD-8160B. It's not similar in layout to the 8163B that there are drawings for. What I need are to locate the X and Z points on the DVD's pcb. This is all I've got...
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I'm trying to install the debug dashboard on a Rocky5 softmodded Xbox (v1.2). Getting a black screen, probably because of the ShadowC that Rocky5 uses. I've tried copying the debug dash files to the real C drive but it seems that I've run out of space. The shadow C file is around 500MB so there's hardly anything left. Should I just delete the shadow file? Or will that brick it? If I keep a backup can I somehow restore it if I brick it? P.S. I've replaced the original HDD with a 1TB drive (using a SATA adapter). I did not null the key but I gave a backup of the password.
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Aside from the power connector, the other reason for regular 3.5inch DVD drives not working is the firmware. Couldn't we copy the firmware from the Xbox drives eeprom? On some Phillips drives it's even conveniently socketed. I even read the eeprom in my xGeku yesterday and it isn't blocked out or anything, or at least it looked like it was all there? Seems like it would be easy to flash it onto a modern dvd drive. Or at least the segment of code meant for the Xbox. Could this be a possibility?
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Selling my Raptor PCI Card. This card goes in a computer and connects to a development kit Xbox to facilitate the DVD emulation feature that dev kits support. For more info on what this card is, see here: https://xboxdevwiki.net/DVD_Emulator I bought the card brand new a few months ago. I installed it into my PC and planned on trying to use it with my dev kit, but sold the dev kit before I got to using it. It's in perfect condition. Price: $120 shipped to lower 48 states in the U.S. (if located elsewhere, pm me for shipping rates) Contact me here (reply or PM) or email me directly at my username at gmail dot com. Payment via PayPal (preferred). Shipping via USPS or FedEx. Will be shipped in anti-static bag. Photos -> Full-size: https://i.imgur.com/Do8VKl2.jpg Full-size: https://i.imgur.com/dRQo5N0.jpg More photos available upon request.
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Hi everyone, I am new here and fairly new to console repair and modding and trying to get in some practice. I recently picked up an OG Xbox with a bad DVD drive. I also bought a different drive to attempt to repair. The drive that came in the Xbox is a Samsung. It is the model without adjustable pots and the laser seems to be dead since it just will not read discs. It does not give any errors, opens and closes fine, disc spins, but it never reads. I am fairly certain the laser has failed and it's not worth saving(though if I'm wrong, please tell me). The other drive, I think might be salvageable. When it is hooked up, I get an error message on the screen telling me to contact Microsoft for repair. The drive does open when the system is turned on and it turns on when it is plugged in with the drive attached. The thing that caught my attention is, whenever I press the eject button, it causes the system to shut off. There is no noise or anything, it just turns off and I can turn it back on right away. This does not happen with the other drive, so I suspect it is the drive and not the eject button itself. I do plan to recap the board this weekend, but wondering what else I should check? Any advice is welcome and thanks for reading. I look forward to getting more involved with this community in the future as I gain more experience.
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Before you ask, yes I'm aware this is kind of a stupid question since you can just load Xbox games right from the hard drive. I also understand that any standard CD-ROM drive will also work in an Xbox. Don't read too much into "why would you want to do this". There isn't a really compelling reason. Now that that's out of the way... Has anyone had success with any sort of optical drive emulators in an original Xbox? There seems to be a few projects floating around out there made by people who wanted to replace optical IDE drives for certain obscure arcade cabinets and old PCs... There's an "IDE Simulator" by Tattiebogle that runs for a whopping $200. There's the NetPi, which uses a RaspberryPi as an ODD emulator, but isn't fully developed yet. There's plenty of IDE to SD (or CF) adapters, but that would just appear as a 2nd hard drive to the Xbox, which as we all know doesn't work (outside of Chimp). SCSI2SD - SCSI isn't IDE, but perhaps an adapter could be used? There's this project on Vagons.org where a guy is working on an ODD emulator, but it's still in development Memkor apparently makes (made?) a product like this, but I don't see it directly for sale anywhere. But I'm wondering if anyone has tried using something like one of these devices in an Xbox. The official DVT kits had optical drive emulation built-in from the factory- official Microsoft parts and everything (technically outsourced, but still). This route however has a pretty high bar for entry: the DVT kit itself + a Raptor PCI card + obscure drivers (which I assume only work for Windows XP) + the software and know-how to use it all. I recently bought a DVT4 kit and want to experiment with this feature purely because I find it fascinating. We'll see how that goes.
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Ive heard that a major part of the process is booting off of the hexen disc to get it set up. My disc drive is currently non-functional. How would I go about doing a TSOP flash with my Xbox in this state? is it possible? Any help is greatly appreciated!
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I have tried two things, cleaning the laser and lowering the resistance on the laser's potentiometer. I have heard online that it could be issues with failing capacitors. I am confused on where these capacitors are and how to test them if this is the problem. If it's not then does anyone have any insight as to what it could be? When I insert a disc it will very loudly spin up for maybe a second then go completely quite, shortly after it will spin up again (less loud this time) and after maybe 5 seconds stop and the typical disc error appears. Thanks for any responses .
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I got an OG Xbox with a Samsung Ver B drive that won't spin up when I put a disc in the system. It doesn't give me any error messages and I can still access the dashboard menu and files, but the disc just sits there and the drive won't spin the disc. I'm not too familiar with the insides of the drives, but is there any way to replace whatever motor controls that? I tried looking up a replacement drive and all I could find were "not functioning" or "not tested" drives.
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This is my last post and I will consider replacing the hard drive, but will a bad hard drive cause the game disc to not load properly at all? The only issue I be having is that when I start project Gotham racing two it won’t let me skip, but once it gets to the second part of the intro it’ll freeze until I restart the console and then start the game up again and then it’ll let me skip The in game radio and stuff will also cut out So I just wanna know y’all opinion that well a bad heart drive cause that’s even though I have the original game disc -
What format dvd can I use with the Philips because I used the verbatim dvd+r with the RW logo and every single time it won’t boot a game at all. Unless I have original disc
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The title pretty much says it all. The DVD drive on my Xbox refuses to open if there's no game in it. I have to manually open it up - taking it out of its metal housing does the trick - to have it slide out the tray when there's no disc in there. Nothing moves at all, so far as can be seen. I hear some mechanism at least trying to work, but the tray doesn't budge. If there is a game disc in there, it opens normally. I can only conclude that the extra weight of the disc does something, but I'm far from an expert. I and a few other amateur handymen in my family have had a look at the mechanism and couldn't find anything amiss. None of us have ever worked on something like this before, so it's very possible we overlooked something. Does anyone have a clue what might be going wrong and/or how I can solve the problem?
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Dear Friends, I try to find a solderless adapter for my 8164B DVD drive to use it in my Xbox, but there is no any chance to get the "Talismoon 8164 Solderless Adapter" anywhere on the internet. (as you see it on the pic). I'd like to ask you, is there anyone, who has a complete schematics/PCB and a BIN file for "Atmel_Tiny12l" microprocessor? I think I try to build one for myself. Thank you for your help! BR: SiD
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I would like to remove the DVD drive on my 1.0 tsop . Occasionally the Xbox will fail to boot because of the drive, and I have no need for it. I looked around on the internet and my xbox, although I know it can be done; I am not seeing clear way of performing this mod. Assistance would be appreciated.
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Hey all. So, I have an already modded XBOX with an Xecuter 3 installed, and it used to work perfectly, but, I recently plugged it back in to play some Steel Battalion to find that the Hard Drive had failed. I then decided to throw a SATA SSD drive in, not for any speed gains, but to minimize the chance of further failures. I got it formatted and installed, but that's as far as I've gotten, and games on disc are already working. Obviously, I haven't worked with this thing in probably 10 years, so I just don't remember any software/steps I need to install/setup. I burned Heimdal's disc, and it's working fine, but: 1. I need a new firmware for Xecuter 3, but their site is gone. I assume if I can get the correct file, I can just navigate to the modchip's IP and use the built-in flash utility? 2. Dashboards etc: I used to use XBMC, but that scene has gotten much wider of the years, and I see a few choices on the disc, but I'm having a hard time figuring any of them out. Any suggestions? 3. FTP'ing Game images to the drive? I can't seem to get connected with an FTP client, or to get access to that hard drive? This wasn't really a realistic option back then, so I got to know ripping discs to the drive back then lol. Thanks in advance for any help that you can offer. Information has really gotten diluted nowadays, especially because of Softmods. It's good to see that the ModChip is still working, and that the SSD is actually working! -
hi does any one maybe @Rocky5 have the direct gdrive link to his trainers? my xbox has no way of being online and i would like to ftp the trainers to my xbox i do have an ethernet cord but the og is far away from the router (PS you cann dm me that link if you don't feel like putting it out on the forum as I'm sure i'm not breaking forum rules)
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Hi everyone. I have a Phillips DVD drive that i have taken apart, cleaned and replaced the belt on. When i slide the tray all the way in, the laser mechanism doesn't "engage" (not sure about the correct term, but it doesn't move up like it should to read a disc if a disc is placed in). I manually slide the black plastic part at the front to get the laser to move up, but sliding the tray back and forwards won't do it on its own. If i plug this back in, when i open the drive, and try to close again, the laser still won't engage, and the drive just pops back out and stays out. If i leave the top off and manually slide the plastic, making the laser move up, then place a disc in and turn it on, it reads the disc perfectly. I can't seem to see any broken pieces. Does anybody know something that could be causing this from experience?
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So I'm finally upgrading the HD in my second OGXBOX. After initial issues, I was able to get HeXen2018 to load. I went through the process and chose to have the whole ~1TB for the F. After the process was complete and I booted up into UnleashX I noticed the f drive wasn't showing the full space. In fact it's a hell of a lot smaller than expected. Instead of the ~1TB it's showing 123,408.52 MB for the F. I attached a picture below. Thoughts? FYI it's hard modded with a Xenium ICE.
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So. I am thinking of a some what weird and not that practical mod. My issue is with space obv so I am searching for a smaller or at least thinner PSU and I'd like to know if someone has ever used different kind of disc drive on a Xbox like a thinner and smaller one again . I know it would be easier to do a disc drive delete and load games on the HDD. But I like using disc s . And it's just a side project for fun . I just wanna make a slim version while keeping the choice of loading discs.
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From left to right: DVD Ready, DVD Activity, HDD activity, LAN activity. The DVD activity light is separated from the HDD activity light and DVD Ready light is present. How was this done? I know about the HDD activity signal, but that is handled on the right of this little custom housing. The left two LEDs are the ones I am wondering about. I assume it involves tapping onto the DVD ROM drive PCB. @KaosEngineer
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I'm posting this here as I am at the end of my rope with trying to diagnose this issue. I have 23 original Xbox's and this fault ONLY happens on hard modded systems that have the Samsung DVD drive (both the SDG-605B and SDG-605F). I will give a little information first on the type of hard mods I performed to each of the systems(they are all identical). modchip: Xblast Jafar/Aladdin ide wire: 40 pin 80 wire 24" long ide to sata: startech adapter(set to master) hdd: 3tb wd red pro or 4tb hgst ultrastar RAM: stock 64mb(1.6 models and 2 1.4s) or 128mb upgrade(all other models) console capacitors: all replaced on both the motherboard and PSU with Panasonic FM(mouser) or Nichicon (console5 kit) DVD drive caps: all replaced on Samsung drives only BIOS: Cerbios 2.3.1 UDMA5 (tried UDMA2 did not help) Xbox motherboard revision: I have all revisions from 1.0 to 1.6b The issue I am having is that XBMC4Gamers gives the DVD "Busy" signal when I try to boot a game(game is brand new, no scratches), and the stock 5960 dashboard will just give a disc read error. The error can be fixed by simply rebooting the console into xblast OS then loading cerbios from there. Once the console boots again the game reads fine first try and works without stutters(the lasers are fine). The issue will happen again if the xbox is turned off then unplugged and allowed to sit a bit. If I turn it on again using the power button (instead of using disc button to boot to xblast first) the issue will happen again until I go back into xblast and reboot the bios. Also, the game will boot if I have the disc in the drive when first turning on the console. It only doesn't work when trying to insert it after reaching the dashboard (stock or xbmc). This issue only happens on the samsung drives. I have many thomson, philips and even 1 hitachi drive and the issue does not happen there. On first boot with these drives, the games always load first try without having to reboot the console. I can rotate these samsung drives between consoles and the issue follows them to whichever console I put them into. I am convinced that this is not a hardware issue because of this but some problem with either the BIOS or xbmc4gamers. I really hope someone can help me here as I have no idea what the issue can be and troubleshooting this had led me nowhere so far.
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