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Hello together, I received a new xbox with following Problems. it automaticaly turns on when lt la plugged ln Error code 5 Sometimes there it does boot into the dashboard Xbox does have a modchip, but l can’t identify which one it is. How can I repair/fix this issue. Already saw one wire is broken, will try to fix it. -
Just picked up a few xboxes and some extras. Among the extras was an Xbit 1..5 chip. Id like to test it and find out if it works. But im not finding any info on how to install it anywhere. Does anyone have any info on the chip and maybe an install/Flashing guide? would be much appreciated, as this will be my First chip install!!
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Hello together Hope to get some help signed up espacially for this issue I have a xbox version 1.3 with error code 16, so i bought a modchip while booting top left in the screen there is a „x“ Symbol. modchip is a Duo x 2 Problem is After this screen there is again an error 16 Message. Below the the cable i have soldered, d0 has already been corrected with a thinner wire. Backround to the console, i had done a tsop before and changed the hdd. Big Problem i don‘t know where the „new“ hdd is located. So i only have the original hdd onhand. Also some of the traces had corrisions, that is the reason of the additional wires. I‘m also sorry for my english as i‘m originaly living in Germany hope i explained it good enough that you Can understand my Problem
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Yesterday I installed the OpenXenium modchip from one Xbox to another (both 1.6 revs). I had to disconnect the LPC rebuild PCB, which was kind of a nightmare, but it worked. After installing it, the Xbox booted with modchip connected. But didnt't start without it. Which I thought was weird. So I tried reflowing a couple of the connection with no luck, instead the Xbox wouldn't boot with or without the modchip connected. I decided to remove the LPC rebuild PCB and restore the LPC by handwiring it. Now the Xbox does boot without the modchip connected to the LPC port, but with the modchip installed it doesn't. The green power LED turns on for approx 1 second. And on the OpenXenium a RED led. I have already ordered a new LPC rebuild PCB. Hope anyone over here knows how to solve this. I already meassured al of the pins on the LPC port with a multimeter and all expected voltages are present. I have bridges the two pads on the OpenXenium which are neccesary for a 1.6 rev.
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Hi all, I have been trying to install a Jafar xblast socket edition in my 1.4 xbox with no luck. The xbox boots fine when d0 is disconnected so fairly sure my issue is localised to the LPC. I have gone over my soldering to confirm continuity and voltages I've noted: -Pin 2 I have 1.6k ohms to test point the in the attached diagram but 0.2 ohms to the screw hole ground point. does anyone know where the pin 2 trace runs on the top of the motherboard? -Pin 12 has 12.5 ohms to the test point. I have also checked voltages on the LPC all my pins read correctly except pin 5 reading 3.3v on its first boot then 2.2v and finally 0.15v. Any advice on where to look next would be greatly appreciated.
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i have this modchip that i find in a broken xbox and when i used it has an old bios so i used the hexen disc and flash it for xbox 1.6 with evox m8 but the flashing freezed on erasing for more than an hour and i had to shut it down. ofcourse the 1st bank was erased and no longer been used. so i said maybe i did chose or do something wrong so i take the chip and put it on xbox 1.4 and used the other bank and i also try to flash and same issue occured. any one knows what is the issue? why it can erase but cannot write? and since now i have an empty banks how i could flash bios on any of the banks. the 1.4 xbox is tsop flashed
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Hey there, a few years later I got my Xecuter3 stopped working flashing green/red. Got that chip since, what, 20 years? So okay, not great but, well... Luckily enough I had a left over from back then, so I swapped the modchip and everything goes well, back in business! Fast forward a few weeks ago, Xbox refused to boot (black screen, flashing red/green). Removing the modchip the Xbox I got the original dashboard back. Are those known to fail? the last one I used failed really fast! Given I have made the ram upgrade (128mb), what could be my option from there to have my console working again? Thanks!
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Thought I'd have a crack at the old legend yet again with a completely different build. This is the work of Khoa Hoang, so major props to him. @maximus64 OpenX3. This uses the original CPLD of the Xecuter 3, the Lattice LC4128V, along with the usual same Xecuter flash chips and passives etc. Currently, I've hacked this onto a redux pcb purely because its what I had on hand and didn't want to hack up the other second duff X3 purple I have after fixing the first one shown in the tutorial I made for that, as I didn't know if this would work. This actually may be an even easier fix for broken Xecuter 3 chips in due course, but I'll get to to that some time in the future, as that just complicates things here. So it's on this PCB due to a couple of trace mods only, so ignore the redux pcb, I'll get around to doing a new PCB in due course. I'm still finessing it but it's running sweet as of now, bit of meddling to do regarding that backup chip as usual. It does boot whatever is flashed on it, but being a pain over ID. Still can't get the ID of that Xecuter 'Backup' chip. If anyone can help with that it would be appreciated. It's not AM29F002BB (redux) nor AM29F002NB (n/c pin 9) either. It will read and program, but it's not the correct ID. It responds 0x 7F 7F, which means it's several steps in according to jtag standards as far as I can tell. May need Spi. Anyway, not much else to say, but it's another working Xecuter 3 chip and on the original CPLD. Config live and all that jazz all there and bank switching etc. Mentions... Maximus64 - Openx3 Psycho_Chewbacca (aka Benny T) - legend in his own right. Ryzee119 (code) Ernegien (Xbox7887) - did the x3 IO registers. Team Donkey - OpenX3 Schematic/pcb etc. ^Props to them lot and anyone else involved. Will have a look at doing the skins thing at some point if I sort the backup chip. https://github.com/Ernegien/x3cl-skins I could have done this a while ago I guess before redux, but getting more used to the Lattice software.
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Hello everyone First wanted to say thanks to this forum, I have gathered alot of useful info here. Now onto my dilemma. I have two OG XBoxes one is mine from when I was a kid and softmodded way back when. It is still softmodded, however after lightning struck our house, the network port hasn't worked in over 10 years. This is a version 1.4. So I was ecstatic when I found a second OG XBox with controllers and a bunch of games a couple years ago for $20 at a rummage sale. This is a version 1.2 I removed the clock capacitor from both of them before they could do any damage and confirmed both to be working after doing so. Recently I decided I wanted to mod the new XBox and bought a Xenium Nemesis Modchip. I got everything soldered into place pretty easily, and went to boot it up and to my horror got the start three times then flash red/green with no video output. I went back and double checked my solder points, everything looked good, then I saw it.....somehow a large solder splash landed on the R7T2, R7T3, R7T4 resistors. Hoping for the best I removed the solder splash (it wasn't fully attached) and ensured the resistors were still soldered to the board. Tried booting up again...same behavior. And my journey began.... To keep things clear and concise....here is a list of everything else I tried with no change in behavior. Tried with and without the modchip Removed the d0 wire and modchip Reflowed the modchip lpc connector Installed the modchip into my old XBox, quadruple checking for splashes, and it works just fine and boots into PrometheOS Scoured the board for any bad traces or fried/missing chips, additional splashes, none found. Cleaned entire board with rubbing alcohol Used compressed air to blow off board. Swapped power supplies, both work on good board Checked the LPC pin voltages, everything matched the below page except pins 5 and 10 read 0 volts, not sure if that's because it's FRAGing or not. https://www.ogxbox.com/forums/index.php?/topic/239-lpc-diagnostics-v01/#comment-945 Followed the traces from the LPC pins to their respective points using the baldbouncer image on the above page and they all check out to no resistance Compared the resistances between the new(bad) board and the old(good) board and they match for those three resistors. R7T2=1.8k, R7T3=5.3k, R7T4=4.7k Replaced the 6 CPU capacitors using the kit from Console5 Reapplied thermal paste to CPU and GPU Use hair dryer to warm up the board (saw in a youtube video it helped with some bad capacitors) Here is a link to an album with several close up pics of the motherboard: https://photos.app.goo.gl/GbRpT2M8hbqE2grm7 So my ask is, is there anything else anyone can think of, or do you see anything of concern in the pictures that I could look into? Ultimately I would just love to have a modded XBox with a working network card, so I might have to just give up on this board and keep looking for another. Thank you for reading my novel!
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Hey guys, So I have a project where I was able to come in possession of what im assuming to be a original Xbox test kit motherboard. The reason I say this is because it is an xbox motherboard with an MCPX X2 as appose to the X3 and yet it only has 64mb of ram soldered to it. It also looks like one of the previous owners tried to run Hexen and flash a retail bios on it since the solder points have been connected. Since (I'm assuming) it has a retail bios loaded on it it wont boot due to the lack of hidden boot sector in the X2. Ive finally fixed some OpenXeniums ive been working on so I have access to a couple modchips that can fit 1mb bioses in them. I am wondering, with the lack of 128mb of ram on the board, does anyone know if the development bioses will still boot to a screen showing something at least like the startup animation? I would like to see if the board is at least still functional with a proper bios and not completely nuked since it is currently in a state of FRAG that I hope is due to a retail BIOS being flashed on there. Thanks
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So, a couple of weeks ago I got my hands on an og xbox. I didn't know anything about the console itself and the og xboxes in general. I've had experience with different consoles, as well as modding them. I got the xbox for about 10 dollars, and it has an upgraded IDE drive which is 80GB and is loaded with heck ton of games and emulators. The modchip installed is aladin, I researched about it and I think I can only use the EvoX dashboard with it, correct me if I am wrong. Initially it had games on the F drive but the EvoX displayed only some programs located in the E drive. I installed unleashX opened it through the EvoX launch menu and it displayed the games in the F drive, but when I tried to play them they were stuck on a black screen not loading. However I managed to resolve the issue, changing the configuration file of the EvoX to display the F drive directory also and now everything launches. A guy on reddit told me that my board is V1.4 and also I removed the infamous clock capacitor. There is an option in EvoX which lets me boot to the original MS dashboard, but it gives me an error code. Someone told me that I had to put my original dashboard files in the C drive, but I don't want to tinker with it before asking here so I don't f*ck something up. I've attached a couple of pictures so you can get an idea what I have on my HDD. I would really appreciate some tips, I would really like to also install the MS dashboard, and possibly switching from EvoX to a more modern dashbord but I am not aware if this is possible with my current mod chip. NOTE: In the picture of the console opened the clock capacitor is still there, I removed it after the picture was taken!
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Just bought an Xbox I thought was stock, turns out it has a Xenium ICE modchip. Unsure what revision, just going through downloads from links in pinned posts for Gen 4 chips. It seem to be genuine, rather than a clone/fake. I'm curious what BIOS version it is running and if the chip itself has any limitations (for context I have an Aladdin modded box and a Stellar too). Seems it cannot handle 128 RAM upgrade or LCD support, I am okay with that. Xbox itself has a 128GB HDD - I may install a bigger one if that is not an issue? It's not even that obvious to me that updating the BIOS is necessary. Main thing for me is to tidy up unused files and personalise the dash. Bootscreen seems washed out says Xboxbreakers and I don't recognise the dash. i would like to change that. Cleaner boot with flubber into XBMC4Gamers likely. Anyone have experience with this modchip, am I good to go?
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Since this is my first post (long time lurker) I just want to say I appreciate everyone who devotes time to making this console better than ever 20+ years after it released, as well as the knowledge I have read in others posts as it is extremely helpful, you guys rock. Now to my question - I recently installed a rp2040 tiny using modzville's adapter board on a friends xbox and it works great! Now that PrometheOS is supported on the Modxo, I flashed it to my friends box and the led on the rp2040 tiny started working, and you could change the colors through the PrometheOS settings. Last night I finally got around to building another one and putting it into my personal xbox, it also works great but for some reason I cannot get the led on my 2040 to light up. Both tinys used are waveshare brand. My xbox is rev 1.0 and my friends is 1.1 (if this makes any difference as both boards look almost the same). I am not sure where the issue resides. Does anyone have any ideas for me to try? Thanks in advance!
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Hello guys, hope you are all fine i am here for some help from you guys in terms of my old xbox from 2003. It has a modchip see below Picture from the complete mainboard As far as i see it runs an old xecuter 2 bios with evolutionX dashboard. I replaced the capacitor for the clock and the thermal paste already, but i wanted to upgrade the 100GB IDE HDD to a bigger one. Saw that there is the cerbios bios, which is currently the way to go. I am familiar with modding/flashing consoles, but never did something on the OG xbox. So my question is, which bios, installer cd ect. i need to flash this xbox. Also question from my side, i heard that upgrading to an S-ATA makes the xbox sometimes freezing, is that true? Thank you very much
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I have four PCBs for a Modxo variant. All have the neccessary resistors, diode, two SPI connectors and 16-pin LPC header. One also has a YD-RP2040 board, flashed with Prometheos and Cerbios, tested in my Xbox. Asking $20, which will include shipping to anywhere in the lower 48 states. I accept PayPal.
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Hi, looking for someone who can mod my OG 1.0 xbox please. I've got an openxenium and the ram but would rather leave it to someone more experienced. I'm based in the North West if that helps. Any recommendations on here? Thanks
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Hey all, tl;dr Started to recap my 1.4, testing as I went. Board eventually started to 3 boot frag, cannot get it to recover. Did I break it beyond repair? So, I replaced the power supply that I accidentally blew up and all was good. Since I noticed that the caps by the CPU were bulging, I figured I might as well replace them before going any further so I ordered a full board cap kit from Console5. I've recapped other devices before, but I guess I must have been lucky because this gave me problems immediately. The multi-layer board and large ground planes made it extremely difficult to get caps out and clear the vias of left over solder. I don't have a hot air station or board pre-heater or anything like that which I'm sure would have made things much easier (one bedroom apartment with two people and a cat, space is at a premium). Since I was afraid I was doing damage to pads/internal board layers getting caps and solder out, I made sure to test the system after replacing every few caps. I decided not to do the whole board since I was having difficulty, and would stop after these last few. Well, after replacing those last few the system no longer boots. Here's what I'm getting: The first few times I tried booting, I got the 3 boots and FRAG. I reflowed some solder on questionable joints and got a solid green light, but no AV (seems to indicate inability to load a BIOS). Unplugged my modchip, but same issue. While not impossible, it seemed unlikely that both the onboard BIOS (this board was previously TSOPed) and the modchip BIOS would be corrupted so I felt I must have done too much board damage somewhere and maybe destroyed an internal trace or something. After going back and forth checking all the caps I replaced and even trying to solder from the top side to ensure a through-and-through connection (please, forgive me), I wound up at: 3 boot FRAG when modchip installed, but solid green no AV with modchip uninstalled. This led me to think that maybe there was an issue with the LPC though I hadn't touched that area since I originally installed the pin header 4 years ago. I reflowed those joints and moved the D0 wire from the Aladdin chip to a ground/screw hole on the board. Continuity between LPC pins and their respective traces check out fine on my multi meter. Now I get 3 boot frag with or without the modchip plugged in. Anyone have any advice or see anything in the pictures that I don't? Any help is appreciated. Pictures: https://imgur.com/a/WEKo0vb The caps circled in blue at the ones I replaced and was able to still boot after. The ones in red are the last ones I replaced, no booting since replacing them. All other caps are original.
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Hello, I'm new here. I'm from Italy so my english couldn't be perfect, forgive me A friend of mine gave me an Xbox ver. 1.6, he wants me to try to fix that after he careless removed the Aladdin modchip. In other words, he removed it without using a soldering iron; the modchip was directly soldered to LPC holes. He also removed the LPC rebuild. I've got the original HDD still working, so I'd like to bring it back without installing a new modchip. My friend himself would want it alive as a stock Xbox. Here's the link with some pics I've taken: https://imgur.com/a/Fk3W0pI Any suggestions are accepted. Thanks in advance. Max
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If interested, i have a few OpenXenium Modchips for sale. *Green pcb. *No cheap/fake smd's (DigiKey) *Flashed with latest Prometheos or EvoX (just tell me what you want) Cost: 30eu + shipping ___________________________________________________________ Jafar Mod-chip, XblastOS and Cerbios v2.4.2 preinstalled (pm me if you want autoboot on cerbios) Cost: 20eu + shipping Location: Sweden Just PM me if you are interested.
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So I have an executer 3ce chip that is missing the reset/eject adaptor. I have the cable that connects To the chip I just need to know which wires, that are connected to the eject/reset buttons on the Xbox, to splice into. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
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Hi everyone, I recently purchased my xbox OG, I opened it, cleaned it and replaced the thermal paste. The xbox reads burned games and I noticed it probably has a modchip and a single cable soldered to the motherboard. I would like to ask you kindly, which chip is this exactly? I would like to replace the hard disk with a larger one, since it still has the original one and I would like to be able to play games directly from it, to safeguard the DVD player (a Samsung). How can I proceed? Is it possible to install a bios mod and a dash mod? My xbox still has the original Microsoft dashboard. I thank everyone and apologize for my bad English Link to image gallery https://postimg.cc/gallery/cSfvKk9 -
Hi! I've had this xbox since childhood, my dad bought it modded 20 years ago and he then upgraded the hdd and dvd drive. Now i have no idea on what modchip this is, i'd like to start fresh with this xbox, remove all the ancient media player stuff my dad put on it, and just play games. If someone knows what this is i'd really appreciate it. My idea was to remove this modchip and softmod it, upgrade the bios, and the hdd. The issue is that I dont know if it's possible to just remove this thing. Will it still boot? Even with the custom hdd? If possible i'd also consider keeping it, if i can upgrade bios and hdd. I'll follow the easiest route. Thank you in advance, all the help is appreciated! Othern images l: https://postimg.cc/gallery/GGqWxLR
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The Cheapmod Mini is a modchip in a small form-factor for the Original Xbox. Based off the Cheapmod schematics, the chip comprises of a single 49LF020 (256k) LPC flash to fit (1 x 256k) custom BIOS. Features: 256k LPC flash fitted for (1x256k) custom BIOS (e.g. Cerbios). Compatible with almost any Xbox revision - from 1.0 to 1.6b. Boot imports, backups and DVDs region free without any restrictions. Running unsigned code such as homebrew and multimedia players. Installation of a custom dashboard (e.g. UnleashX). Easy to upgrade the HDD (no HDD locking required). Very easy to install - just plug-and-play via pin header. Low-cost and affordable. Free and open-source. GitHub repository: https://github.com/m4x10187/cheapmod-mini -
Loose cable from modchip, where should it be?
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Hello everyone, I have a !.0 MOBO that I have recently installed Project stellar on along with the HD+ kit from MakeMhz. I had the ribbon cable to the video encoder professionally soldered on but the rest of the install I was able to complete myself. once i reassembled the unit I was able to get it to post with only the mod chip with no DVD or HDD drive but I had no audio only the splash screen. I then completely reassembled to see if it was an issue with no hard drive (shouldn't be i thought to myself) so unsurprisingly it still had no audio (but the picture is OUTSTANDING). anyway I took everything apart to check my work and now seem to have narrowed down the sound issue to hopefully a bad wire included in the kit or a setting issue on the MS DASH feel free to let me know your thoughts on the audio issue as well. BUT when going to try the MS DASH first i reassembled and now the mod chip itself (project stellar) wont boot idk if the xbox is bricked now or what, I seem to get power to the chip as seen by the little green indicator light on the bottom of the chip but the tiny screen does not display anything not even an error code. So I reconnected the chip to my PC and found that the screen itself does in fact work it displays "PC Mode" so I know the screen didn't die and all of the firmware and bios seem to be on the chip and website tells me that the chip is ready for install now. I figure I should get the chip working first before I can do anymore diagnosing on this thing. At this point I am lost. I'm just trying to make a good birthday present for my little brother. please any help is appreciated TIA!
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Board startup date: April 23, 2017 12:45:48