OpenXenium and LPC 1.6

[Halo_2]

Once installed to be able to boot cerbios and retail bios on a 1.6

Do I solder d0 on this lpc rebuild to ground and then the 1.6 point on the OpenXenium chip.

[dtomcat]

If you ground D0/LFrame, then no need to do anything on OX

[Halo_2]

So don’t ground d0 on the Xbox but solder the point on the OX (1.6 point on the chip)

Doesnt grounding the d0 point tell it to boot from lpc header.

Edited November 1, 2023 by Halo_2

[Bowlsnapper]

16 minutes ago, Halo_2 said:

So don’t ground d0 on the Xbox but solder the point on the OX (1.6 point on the chip)

Doesnt grounding the d0 point tell it to boot from lpc header.

He's saying to ground the Lframe and the MCPX will boot from the lpc. The openXenium connections do not need to differ. The Lframe will do the work. However, doing this can cause damage in time, since Lframe has a fair amount of power going through it, so I would use the d0 connection on the chip, since it should only be momentary and prevent potential damage. Do I have that right, @KaosEngineer?

[zatchbot]

If that corrector is build correctly pin 3 will be lframe (d0). If you then bridge the "1.6" pads on your Xenium, you do not need any wires at all.

 

Xenium only pulses the signal during boot to force the LPC, then releases the line once no longer needed. 

 

Also, of you want to bypass onboard bios on a 1.6 with a non-Xenium, just jump pin 2 and 3. It will pull lframe to ground on the chip itself without extra wires on the motherboard.

Edited November 1, 2023 by zatchbot
Clarity

[dtomcat]

So… OX will handle Lframe if you connect 1.6 on OX. If you ground Lframe… then it doesn’t matter to connect on OX because Lframe is already grounded.    So either or but not both 

[Halo_2]

Thanks

 

And if I want to boot into retail bios just do the chip 1.6 small solder.

 

Has anyone have issues or a complete install pic of a “bluemeanie23” lpc board.

[dtomcat]

Correct.  Use pads on OX if you’re wanting to boot retail without chip.  (Can can boot retail within custom dash’s.  Since your box can’t be banned… no real reason to boot retail without chip after its been modded 

[Bowlsnapper]

46 minutes ago, Dtomcat18 said:

Correct.  Use pads on OX if you’re wanting to boot retail without chip.  (Can can boot retail within custom dash’s.  Since your box can’t be banned… no real reason to boot retail without chip after its been modded 

I'm STILL getting used to this idea and am trying to push myself to realize that having the stock bios is pretty much pointless now. Lol. I'm almost there!

How much would it cost to have lpc rebuild boards made up? Say 100? They have no components and are only traces.

[dtomcat]

$53.70 for 100 (without shipping). Most expensive part of the boards is the fact it has castellated holes on all sides 

[Halo_2]

1 hour ago, Dtomcat18 said:

Since your box can’t be banned… no real reason to boot retail without chip after its been modded 

Thanks for your help

 

i really like the M$ Dash, that’s all.

[Bowlsnapper]

1 minute ago, Halo_2 said:

Thanks for your help

 

i really like the M$ Dash, that’s all.

If that's all, you can run it as an XBE. It's right in your C partition. Necessary for EEPROM editing.

[Halo_2]

Finally sent my Xbox orig away to be Modchipped and the installer won’t install it as it looks horrible, from “console mods au” off eBay the reseller for them for Australia.

[dtomcat]

I would NEVER sell a modchip that looked like that!!!

[Halo_2]

I didn’t make it myself, bought it ages ago off eBay.

Finally got the money together to get my orig and 360 modded at the same time.

[dtomcat]

1 minute ago, Halo_2 said:

 

I didn’t make it myself, bought it ages ago off eBay.

 

Wasn’t insinuating you did.  More of… how would someone feel comfortable sell something that looked like that 

[FrostyMaGee]

Damn! That is the roughest looking mod chip I’ve seen in a while. Actually that’s the roughest looking pcb I’ve seen in a while. Lol. Were they learning to solder when they sold that to you? The joints just look horrible and very poorly done. Not to mention all the flux they didn’t clean up.
 

 I’m sorry that’s what you ended up with though. That sucks. All of what I can see could be soldered correctly and cleaned up. If you have some soldering experience or know someone in the area that does. I can’t get over someone selling you or anyone something in that condition. Especially a mod chip. 

[Bowlsnapper]

@Halo_2 My girlfriend saw those photos and said "Oh my GOD. It looks like somebody torched it!" She's not even an electronics person or anything and could tell it was really bad. I agree with @dtomcat: I cannot believe that somebody put out a chip that looks like that. I would be embarrassed, man. 

Just throwin' it out there

[Halo_2]

The modshop is going with an old aladdin chip which is a shame as I wanted Prometheus.

[dtomcat]

1 hour ago, Halo_2 said:

The modshop is going with an old aladdin chip which is a shame as I wanted Prometheus.

Depending on the Aladdin… prometheOS can be loaded onto it 

[Bowlsnapper]

3 hours ago, Halo_2 said:

The modshop is going with an old aladdin chip which is a shame as I wanted Prometheus.

Old Aladdin... meaning single 256k bank?

[Halo_2]

Yer 256k don’t think the newer 1mb ones otherwise he would flash Prometheus to it. 

[FrostyMaGee]

6 hours ago, Bowlsnapper said:

@Halo_2 My girlfriend saw those photos and said "Oh my GOD. It looks like somebody torched it!" She's not even an electronics person or anything and could tell it was really bad. I agree with @dtomcat: I cannot believe that somebody put out a chip that looks like that. I would be embarrassed, man. 

Just throwin' it out there

Agreed. It’s just bad all around. The solder joints are horrible on top of all the other issues on that mod chip. 

[Halo_2]

The modshop has finished with the orig xbox and a little disappointed....he soldered the mod chip to the damn pin header.....what would be a 5sec job if the mod chip was to die now makes it hard to swap.

Also mainly OCD but he didn't fold the xbox pata cables the same as before.

And on the OX modchip pictured above anyone else think the OX/Ryzee119 text looks like he took flux and hot air to it, because he didn't want to install it.

Just doesn't look right compared to all the others you see on eBay.......I didn't check before I sent it away, was in a anti static bag (someone else also gave “console mods au” on eBay bad review on bad soldering too but nothing like above).

And come to think of it the 360 unlocked PCB I gave him, he said it was dead on arrival yet was official TX product from http://www.modchipcentral.com

Edited April 7 by Halo_2

[Bowlsnapper]

6 hours ago, Halo_2 said:

The modshop has finished with the orig xbox and a little disappointed....he soldered the mod chip to the damn pin header.....what would be a 5sec job if the mod chip was to die now makes it hard to swap.

Also mainly OCD but he didn't fold the xbox pata cables the same as before.

And on the OX modchip pictured above anyone else think the OX/Ryzee119 text looks like he took flux and hot air to it, because he didn't want to install it.

Just doesn't look right compared to all the others you see on eBay.......I didn't check before I sent it away, was in a anti static bag (someone else also gave “console mods au” on eBay bad review on bad soldering too but nothing like above).

And come to think of it the 360 unlocked PCB I gave him, he said it was dead on arrival yet was official TX product from http://www.modchipcentral.com

WTF would he SOLDER the chip to the LPC for? That is the dumbest, most pointless thing. The only thing I can think of is that you wouldn't want to even touch it if you wanted to change something with the chip or whatever and he wanted to make it difficult to do so so that you would send it back to them. Literally. That pisses me off.

 

I keep hearing about these modding services and seeing results that are so much fucking worse than the work I would have done.

Also... BT and D0 don't work on Aladdins yet, so I dunno what those wires are hooked up to.