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Hi there !

Years ago, I had a Xbox with a modchip without soldering (I can't remember the name ^^) and a bigger hard drive with Evox I think. But I sold this beauty ...

After more than 10 years, I recently bought an old original Xbox :), I remove the clock capacitor, clean the motherboard and so on.

I've read a lot about softmod, tsop flashing and mochips but finally I 've bought an Open Xenium modchip and installed it yesterday (and it's working !).

The next steps 'll be to change the hard drive for a ssd (silence !) with a startech adapter.

BUT before that I need to understand exactly what I've to do to use the Open Xenium modchip. I would say it's not perfectly clear for me :D

I'm going to create a post with my numerous questions ;)

 

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Well done on getting the Open Xenium up and running.

As for the hard drive I use the WD black, WD Enterprise, Seagate Barracuda 2tb all 7200 rpm hard drives, I have found that the cooling fan makes more noise than the hard drive.

Sure you can use a SSD and I did test a Samsung 1tb in a Xbox but the speed was no quicker than a WD Black, that SSD is now in a Xbox One where I did see a difference.

 

As for asking all the questions ask away.

 

Cheers

SS Dave


Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing.

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Did you solder it to the bottom of the board?

I normally just ground the D0 on 1.0 - 1.4 Xbox's as there is no need fo the stock BIOS.

 

Cheers

SS Dave


Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing.

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What size Hard Drive are you thinking of using?

If it's a Sata drive I would suggest the Startech Sat2Ide adaptor and a good quality 80 way IDE cable.

 

Cheers

SS Dave


Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing.

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Well, my soldering was bad, when I 've tried to launch the Ind bios there was just a black screen and the xecuter 2 bios wasn't working very well.

I 've taken a look to my D0 wire and there wasn't enough solder, so the wire didn't stay :(

Have you a bigger image of the D0 to ground ?

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1 hour ago, Lupus said:

Well, my soldering was bad, when I 've tried to launch the Ind bios there was just a black screen and the xecuter 2 bios wasn't working very well.

I 've taken a look to my D0 wire and there wasn't enough solder, so the wire didn't stay :(

Have you a bigger image of the D0 to ground ?

When you’re solder the wire to ground, you need to roughen up the surface for solder to bite to. Or just attach it to the chip D0 point.

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27 minutes ago, imacomputa said:

What benefit does installing a modchip give you?

You can add an lcd with some modchips, you can load different bios and edit the start up and not have to have a dvd drive attached, useful if you want to build a slim Xbox. If you have a tsop and mess up the bios it could be terminal apart from adding a chip. 
Main reason easier to swap and fix a hdd.

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