dertio Posted September 16, 2020 Report Share Posted September 16, 2020 (edited) Well a little history behind this dvd drive, my first console was a 1.0 xbox with dvd drive fault(the one who distroy disk) bad power supply and caps disaster, so in the 2010 or 2012 that console decides die frying the nvidia chipset the mpcx3 or something but that was the last time turn on.... anyway the think is the first time that console fail my father take to a repair shop (change the dvd drive) so that dvd drive Has been with me since 2005, so today I disassemble that dvd drive coz It was getting stuck when open or closed the tray plus bad motor belt, so the interesting stuff I found is the dvd drive was hacked or modded with wires soldered inside to specific points  I remember read something about that a lot time ago modding lg dvd drivers and flashing a custom firmware in the drive but I dunno if was true or just a random guy on internet, anyway here some pics about that mod also to make work that driver I need grab power from the hdd molex connector   The yellow wires end in the dvd conector on the Xbox make work like a original one Edited September 17, 2020 by dertio Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaosEngineer Posted September 16, 2020 Report Share Posted September 16, 2020 What brand/model is the DVD drive? Do you have higher resolution pictures than those two thumbnails? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dertio Posted September 17, 2020 Author Report Share Posted September 17, 2020 Yup sorry I'm in the cellphone let me fix the photos  The dvd is lg hitachi drive I guess... If not let me open my x again to check that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OGXbox Admin Posted September 17, 2020 Report Share Posted September 17, 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20080821024402/http://www.xbox-linux.org:80/docs/pcdvd.html 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlaskaCC Posted September 17, 2020 Report Share Posted September 17, 2020 Looks to me like the LG/Hitachi 8163B. I have modded some of those and they work great. I still have the original instructions and firmware. They were much easier to mod compared to the Samsung 616T. I always wanted to mod the 8164B but that required a special board and I have never found a source. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dertio Posted September 17, 2020 Author Report Share Posted September 17, 2020 Wooo that's a lot of information about the mod, just for curiosity about it, can you upload the information? Or is something top secret? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaosEngineer Posted September 17, 2020 Report Share Posted September 17, 2020 4 hours ago, dertio said: Yup sorry I'm in the cellphone let me fix the photos  The dvd is lg hitachi drive I guess... If not let me open my x again to check that I believe you can find the DVD drive model number on UnleashX's Settings > Storage page. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corona2222 Posted September 17, 2020 Report Share Posted September 17, 2020 (edited) tut on finding the open/close/ready points: https://web.archive.org/web/20030608143129/http://www.coverx.org:80/tutorials.php?id=1 Â theres some interesting snips on compatible drives here under DVD drive:Â https://xboxdevwiki.net/Hardware_Revisions "If the firmware from this drive is applied to a SAMSUNG 616T or 616F PC dvd drive it will behave as a Xbox one", i assume that means original discs work. but tracking one down to buy maybe just as difficult as any other solution Edited September 17, 2020 by corona2222 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dertio Posted September 17, 2020 Author Report Share Posted September 17, 2020 Yup that's right, those drivers are old and specific one so is dificult find one that the original xbo drive, luckily for me my drive still working well after all this years just needed a maintenance in the tray mechanism, anyway, reading the info I noticed my first xbox was a early 1.0 with seagate hdd, usb daughter board,conexant codec(who I love the sound quality of that) and I guess a thomson drive I dunno the only stuff I remember about that is that drive distroyer my original copy of project ghotam racing 2, halo 1 and 2. Â by the way I still having laying around the daughter usb board from my first xbox. So making maths my first xbox was purchased in December 2001 just fresh out of the oven.... But sadly that console was history a lot time ago Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dertio Posted September 17, 2020 Author Report Share Posted September 17, 2020 Ps: unleashx says gdr8050L with firmware 0012 no serial number so by the mod and the info is a 8163b replacement Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlaskaCC Posted September 18, 2020 Report Share Posted September 18, 2020 22 hours ago, dertio said: Wooo that's a lot of information about the mod, just for curiosity about it, can you upload the information? Or is something top secret? Nothing top secret. I'm happy to upload the details. The firmware (8050L) and instructions are included in the compressed file. The project requires some decent soldering skills but is worth the effort. Read through everything carefully before diving in. The file is almost 5MB and I am only allowed to upload 2MB here at the moment. Perhaps there is another way to make everything available. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dertio Posted September 18, 2020 Author Report Share Posted September 18, 2020 Great dude, about the file size, try use mediafire or mega but I don't know if this forum is enemy of external download links, if not split the file on 4 archives of 1.8mb like diskett (uff that was a loooooot time ago) and upload here  If upload the file is a lot of troubles for you well is not like I really need the file so take easy bro Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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