my80chevette Posted December 14, 2018 Report Share Posted December 14, 2018 I'm attempting to help someone with their original Xbox that refuses to boot. His family pulled it from storage around Thanksgiving and it powered on but gave error message. Initially I recommend just finding another working unit but this one holds special sentimental value. Turns out belonged to his oldest son who passed away from a brain tumor at 14. Got this as a part of his Make a Wish gift at 12 and played it constantly. So I've done softmod on Xbox, Wiis, and PS3 but never tried a modchip but was thinking that it might be a way to get this thing back up and running. Can this be done or any other ideas? I tore the system down, pulled the leaky clock capacitor, cleaned the board, checked all connections and reassembled but no go. Could use any help with this. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaosEngineer Posted December 14, 2018 Report Share Posted December 14, 2018 Possible to save, yes. What's the error number in the upper left-hand corner of the screen? (It may not have one if the dashboard is the first 3944 release.) What are the last 5 digits of the serial number and manufacturing date on the stickers on the bottom of the console? Serial Number format: LNNNNNN YWWFF L = Factory Line Number NNNNNN = number of Xbox produced this week Y = last digit of year (200Y) of production WW = week of production FF = factory number produced in 01=Mexico, 03=Hungary, 05=China, 06=Taiwan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
my80chevette Posted December 14, 2018 Author Report Share Posted December 14, 2018 Don't have it with me at the moment but when I was checking it out I believe it was a revision 1.1. I'll check it out once I'm back at my shop tonight and get back to you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
my80chevette Posted December 15, 2018 Author Report Share Posted December 15, 2018 Error code 7. April 15 2002 manufacturing date. Serial number 5013237 21502. Product ID 251501323721052 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
my80chevette Posted December 15, 2018 Author Report Share Posted December 15, 2018 Just noted a printing of KERNEL 4034 ON motherboard under the optical drive. Real shame with this not booting, about the cleanest original Xbox I've seen inside. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaosEngineer Posted December 17, 2018 Report Share Posted December 17, 2018 (edited) Error code 7 - HDD timeout - bad/dead HDD or IDE cable issue (reseat all three connections). Verify that the HDD has power. 21502 = 2002 (2WWFF), 15th (x15xx) week made in Mexico (xxx02), on factory line #5, the 013237th produced that week in the whole factory (or that week on that line in the factory not exactly sure which). April 15, 2002 makes it in the v1.0 timeframe from 01/2001–10/2002 not v1.1 from 11/2002-04/2003 (dates are rough estimate especially those near the new revision change over). 4034 BIOS makes it a v1.0. A new HDD has to be locked using the proper password generated from the HDDKey stored in the configuration EEPROM on the motherboard and the information read from the HDD - model/serial number. You'll need to read the 8-pin serial eeprom's data to obtain the information to build a new LOCKed HDD for the Xbox. Read the 256 bytes of data from the chip with either an Xbox serial EEPROM reader/write and PC with a serial port and PonyProg software or a Raspberry Pi. running Linux and PiPROM software. Edited December 17, 2018 by KaosEngineer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
my80chevette Posted December 17, 2018 Author Report Share Posted December 17, 2018 Thanks for all the information. Looks like I'll be ordering up the bits and pieces for a reader to test out my soldering skills. Any tips or tricks to make this go smoothly are appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikeymikey Posted February 8, 2019 Report Share Posted February 8, 2019 I just did exactly what you are talking about using a Pi and PiPROM. Very easy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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