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Hi everyone, I'm new to the forum, and after recently moving I've finally gotten my collection out of storage and into my new place. I'm slowly going through boxes and taking inventory as I go, so I figured I'd post some photos of the current set, along with some plans I have for a few of the units. First one I pulled out was the one I started with is a 2002 model, rocking an old xecuter 2.6ce chip with unleashx. I've swapped it into a crystal case, added a random Nvidia gpu fan, green led case fan, and a swanky asus IDE cable I found. The disc drive is out so I can replace the belt, and the hdd is on my testbench for recovery as its failing after 9 years of uptime. I'm planning on modding this box further with an ssd, more ram, rainbow-puke, hmdi output, and potentially a small water loop for laughs (I doubt this would be practical) I do have 2 more og boxes, one of which being this motherboard's old case with the crystals old motherboard left over from the swap (stock), and another black unit I received from a family member that is apparently modded with evox, but I'm not sure if there is a chip, or what it would be. Will post more pics as the others are dug out of boxes, along with the 360's and such.

Well... figured I'd show my "collection". First post will be my current 5 OG Xboxes, in order. From left to right: V1.1, X2 Lite w/ Cerbios 2.3.2 UDMA5, 160GB WD1600AAJB V1.6, X-Changer 2.2 w/ Cerbios 2.3.2 UDMA5, 200GB Maxtor 6B200R0 V1.4, genuine Aladdin XT Plus2 (Chip ID BF52) w/ Cerbios 2.3.2 UDMA5, 160GB Samsung SP1654N, recapped V1.6, ModXo on Raspberry Pi Pico USB-C w/ Cerbios 2.3.2 UDMA5, 1TB WD Caviar Green. V1.4 Crystal, ST TSOP w/ iND-BIOS 5004.67, 250GB WD Blue BONUS: Zephyr Elite 360 w/ 320GB Samsung HDD, Aurora dash and EXT_CLK over Coolrunner rev C1. - all running XBMC - Aladdin 1.4 and Pico 1.6 have had their cases painted - 1.4 is white/blue, and 1.6 is white/green. - 1.4 now sports Panasonic all over it, except PSU which has original caps. - 1.6 awaits a Startech adapter - I have a "narrow type" JM20330 adapter there for the time being. - all use a single selfmade HD Component pack, from a Xbox 360 cable, of course - the Crystal was an interesting story of going thru a gypsy ghetto to purchase it Up next might be 360s. I have a lot of those to go thru so be sittin' tight!

I was looking at the typical Aladdin XT 2 Plus modchips that are still available/being produced for the Xbox a while ago, and I thought to myself that the wiring to permanently ground the BT pad seemed a little inelegant. I took a quick look at the traces on the PCB and lo and behold, they trace back to adjacent pins on the Lattice CPLD chip! Going forward should I ever need to install another XT 2 Plus, I'll forego the wire and just bridge those two pins.

As I've been TSOPing and chipping recently using customised BIOS I thought it would be a good idea to add the MD5 hash info to all the programs that can make use it: XBMC, EvoX and, of course, BIOS Checker. All three have slightly different syntax requirements apparently but whatever I did I couldn't get BIOS Checker to recognise the custom BIOS I'd added. The cause and solution turned out to be very simple: I was pasting in the MD5 code from EVTool, which has an option to copy it to the clipboard. Sensibly it uses lower case letters in the ID string and after half a day wasted, thinking I'd made some syntax mistake, that was the problem. BIOS Checker does not recognise lower case letters. It will report the correct MD5 hash but say the BIOS is unknown until you change them all to upper case. I'm sure somebody must have noticed this 'quirk' before but I couldn't find anything about it so I thought it worth posting about it here.

I guess I should have posted here first. My first softmod job was a 1.0 Bert and Ernie. That Xbox had a non-modded LG DVD in it. At the time, you couldn't upgrade a softmod hard drive. I come from the PS1 mod chip era, and spent a lot of time in the Dreamcast community. The Xbox was the next logical step that blew the doors wide open. Fast forward to last year. I bought six consoles with various hardware problems (Samsung stuck trays, Philips and Thompson drive failures, caps etc..) and jumped back on the net to look up X-S and get my bearings back. I was shocked that it was gone. I found Rocky5's softmod package, watched some Youtube videos, and was literally blown away by how far things have come. Xbox isn't a niche console like the Dreamcast. It's a fantastic piece of hardware that has much promise. Here's hoping I can donate some info along the way. Cheers and thanks for having me.

Hi is there anyone on here that will help me with a project that has a 3d printer and knows how to make small curcit boards and such pm me if you know how if you help me i have a reward for whoever can $$$

How to install XDSL from a disc. Link in the description of the video. Enjoy!