Listai Posted February 27, 2020 Report Share Posted February 27, 2020 Hi everyone! I picked up an xbox on FB marketplace for $20 as I couldn't resist as I'd always pined over the system back when I had a PS2 and GC in the early 00s. It wasn't in the best condition but I was determined to bring it back to its former glory. (That gunk in the grills is cigarette residue, the whole thing stunk to high heaven) Resolute in my mission I cracked it open and spent the better part of three hours cleaning it. The system itself is a 1.6 and all of the capacitors appear to be in good shape, the DVD tray wouldn't open at first but after I disassembled it and gave the belt a clean it now works like a charm. I've gone all in and have since ordered an Aladdin X2 modchip, an LPC rebuild board an 80 wire IDE cable and an IDE to Sata adapter. I'll be installing a 3TB HDD but I'm waiting on those components to come from China before I can start modding in earnest. I'm picking up an HD AV pack from a friend (who found it in his closet haha) and will be setting it up on my Sony PVM 20L2 (which sadly doesn't go above 480i) but I've picked up a few games over the years in the hopes that I'd eventually get the system to match! Anyway I missed out on this system as a kid so I'm looking forward to playing through the exclusives and the superior versions of PS2 games I loved (Burnout 3, Timesplitters etc) Thanks for reading! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xbinwin Posted February 27, 2020 Report Share Posted February 27, 2020 Great job! You're in for an awesome ride and lots of fun Are you aware that only 2TB can be used/recognised by the Xbox though? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Listai Posted February 27, 2020 Author Report Share Posted February 27, 2020 5 hours ago, xbinwin said: Great job! You're in for an awesome ride and lots of fun Are you aware that only 2TB can be used/recognised by the Xbox though? Yup! From what I understand only 2.2 will be usable. It's getting hard to find 2TB 3.5" locally so I don't mind going a bit over Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SS_Dave Posted February 27, 2020 Report Share Posted February 27, 2020 Nice job on the cleaning. I have done the rags to riches on several Xboxes and and working on a Cyrstal Xbox at the moment. This is some of the crap from the bottom of ultrasonic cleaner after the all but the casing's have been in it. I was going to ask why a 3tb drive and not 2tb as my 2tb has over 80% of the Xbox games and Coinops with space to spare. Cheers SS Dave Soft modding is like masturbating, It get's the job done but it's nothing like the real thing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhegg Posted March 9, 2020 Report Share Posted March 9, 2020 Xbox is a great system. Congrats for your decision. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infamous Ob Posted April 6, 2020 Report Share Posted April 6, 2020 Starting off with hefty modifications. Very nice. I'll be following up on this project for sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmysmalls Posted April 6, 2020 Report Share Posted April 6, 2020 Congrats on the find. This is probably the console I've had the most fun with in my life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoojjy Posted April 9, 2020 Report Share Posted April 9, 2020 Excellent purchase Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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