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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...

XBOX LG DRD-8160B.png

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1 hour ago, Marty said:

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...

XBOX LG DRD-8160B.png

Is it similar enough that the firmware will flash and function? Or are you only interested in running burned discs?

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32 minutes ago, Bowlsnapper said:

Is it similar enough that the firmware will flash and function? Or are you only interested in running burned discs?

Yes, firmware apparently can be flashed to run retail disks, according to reviews and tutorials I've read.

Unfortunately, some of that knowledge has been lost in time.

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I will have a look and see if I have a very old backup of the 8160b tutorial with the quad nand gate on one of my drives, prolly take some hunting.

In the meantime here are the xbox drive firmwares...

and also the flash tools....

Samsung_SDG-605_firmware.zip SS_Dumper_FW_605b.zip Philips_firmware.rar HitachiLG8050.rar 8050L_FW_Flasher_FIXED.rar Mediatek-MtkFlash_1.55.zip Mediatek-MtkWinFlash_1.5.3.3.zip sdg605bv2.rar

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On 8/19/2023 at 6:45 PM, Marty said:

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...

 

Take a look at this archived web page - https://web.archive.org/web/20030204002904/http://jone.fateback.com/XBOX/PCDrive/PCDrive.html

Edit: There's also this page in Superfro's multipage tutorial with W, X, Y and Z locations:

https://web.archive.org/web/20061109085145/http://www.xbox-scene.com/articles/lg-dvd5.php

Other pages as well (dvd2 is actually page 1 of the tutorial):

https://web.archive.org/web/20061109085133/http://www.xbox-scene.com/articles/lg-dvd2.php

https://web.archive.org/web/20061109085133/http://www.xbox-scene.com/articles/lg-dvd3.php

https://web.archive.org/web/20061109085133/http://www.xbox-scene.com/articles/lg-dvd4.php

https://web.archive.org/web/20061109085133/http://www.xbox-scene.com/articles/lg-dvd6.php

https://web.archive.org/web/20061109084214/http://www.xbox-scene.com/articles/lg-dvd7.php

And lg-dvd1.php is an English translation of PSXBase's original German tutorial's text.

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On 8/20/2023 at 1:45 AM, Marty said:

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...

XBOX LG DRD-8160B.png

Will open up my Lg GDR-8164B some time this week, and look for the signal points..

and i have a old pc with xbox stuff on it, maybe some tutorials....

Started modding in 2001, so i am a old guy, getting back in the "scene".

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