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Hi

The other day I grabbed my console from my loft, it's a 1.1 with a Samsung Drive, fitted with an X2 chip from back in the day.

Before switching it on I had it apart and removed the clock cap, I cleaned up the area and couldn't see damage apart from to one of the unused VIAs under the cap (it looks like it's designed to allow a different sized cap in this spot right?).  I did a visual inspection of the other caps and couldn't see any bulges or obvious leaks.

I don't know which version BIOS is on the X2, looking around the HDD it's likely 5031 or 5035, and it's got an EvoX dash on it, I found a Slayers 2.7 disc so I'm guessing I used this.

Now the actual problem!  The tray keeps ejecting whilst I'm sat on the dash.  It ejects, I close it and the dash reports INIT in the disc status, i hear it trying to read and then it gives up and ejects again, then goes around in a loop.

I had to goto work then, so switched it all off and left it.  Returned from work later and try again.  This time whilst it was doing the eject, init, eject ini loop I was searching for solutions and trying it with the X2 disabled and enabled.  Finally the tray stays shut.  I launch a game off of the HDD and it's fine.  Booted my Slayers disc and it was fine.

Search results were saying that Samsung have tray getting stuck issues normally.  Check for things obstructing in the drive and give it a grease.  Other results were saying that the clock cap could have caused some damage that relates to this (but that also depends on mobo version).

I'm leaving it off again now, to see if it misbehaves after cooling down again (which is what happened earlier), and then I'll be pulling it apart again to have another look.

I'm a bit gutted that I ordered a bunch of Cap Kits from Console5 last week for other machines but wasn't thinking about the old xbox at the time.  Ordering just the xbox kit will cost more in shipping (to the UK) than the caps and be slow at the moment.  I'll have to look for a UK supplier or stop being lazy and buy the individual caps!

Can anyone advise on what is most likely out of the causes I mention, or even if there's more things to look at

ta

Pete

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35 minutes ago, mmmonkey said:

Hi

The other day I grabbed my console from my loft, it's a 1.1 with a Samsung Drive, fitted with an X2 chip from back in the day.

Before switching it on I had it apart and removed the clock cap, I cleaned up the area and couldn't see damage apart from to one of the unused VIAs under the cap (it looks like it's designed to allow a different sized cap in this spot right?).  I did a visual inspection of the other caps and couldn't see any bulges or obvious leaks.

I don't know which version BIOS is on the X2, looking around the HDD it's likely 5031 or 5035, and it's got an EvoX dash on it, I found a Slayers 2.7 disc so I'm guessing I used this.

Now the actual problem!  The tray keeps ejecting whilst I'm sat on the dash.  It ejects, I close it and the dash reports INIT in the disc status, i hear it trying to read and then it gives up and ejects again, then goes around in a loop.

I had to goto work then, so switched it all off and left it.  Returned from work later and try again.  This time whilst it was doing the eject, init, eject ini loop I was searching for solutions and trying it with the X2 disabled and enabled.  Finally the tray stays shut.  I launch a game off of the HDD and it's fine.  Booted my Slayers disc and it was fine.

Search results were saying that Samsung have tray getting stuck issues normally.  Check for things obstructing in the drive and give it a grease.  Other results were saying that the clock cap could have caused some damage that relates to this (but that also depends on mobo version).

I'm leaving it off again now, to see if it misbehaves after cooling down again (which is what happened earlier), and then I'll be pulling it apart again to have another look.

I'm a bit gutted that I ordered a bunch of Cap Kits from Console5 last week for other machines but wasn't thinking about the old xbox at the time.  Ordering just the xbox kit will cost more in shipping (to the UK) than the caps and be slow at the moment.  I'll have to look for a UK supplier or stop being lazy and buy the individual caps!

Can anyone advise on what is most likely out of the causes I mention, or even if there's more things to look at

ta

Pete

Check for trace corrosion caused by a leaky clock capacitor. 

 

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Well I didn’t have a chance to try it for over 24hrs.  Switched it on and it behaved perfectly normal!  I hate randomness like that.

I’ll pull it apart regardless and check the traces and the drive anyway, just as general maintenance.

i doubt I’ll be using the drive anyway, just ordered the Startech SATA for it and will put games on a larger HDD for playing anyway.  So if the drive plays up, it’s just a case of disconnecting it and using a BIOS that allows it to boot without a drive right?

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If you are going to use a hard drive that above 500 gigabyte you will need to upgrade the BIOS file 

I have a preference to the X2-5035.67.bin 512kb or the IND-5004.67.bin 256kb as both support up to a 2tb or 3tb(2.2tb useable) and both can have the DVD drive disconnected.

 

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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The .67 refers to partition 6 and 7 

 

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You need to run Xbpartitioner 1.3 and set the extended partition 6,7 to 926.78 gigabyte each. I have found that you can have problems if both are set to max (927.78 gb)

 

Once the drive is all set up then you are better of removing the drive from the Xbox and connect to a PC and use FATXplorer to copy the files over

 

 

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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