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Xbox mod
lloydcom:
Actually the laws have changed to reflect the sale of knives to certain age groups. The same as filling up a can of petrol there is some truth in that.
I want proof that someone in standing in law says it is LEGAL TO USE MODCHIPS.
Cant make it clearer than that eh?
But you cannot - you are full of :censored:
So for a laugh I will contact my friend that works for a certain company and ask for an offical statement on the subject. You can read about it here too:
www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) cites that circumvention devices, including, but not limited to mod-chips, are illegal, because the device circumvents the copy-protection features of their host systems.
Mame is illegal? I'll email Aaron today, to ask his response.
The land of Oz has until 2007 to come up with an alternative in relation to trade treaties. The net is closing down under.
:cheers:
ChadTower:
To go back on topic:
SHMOKES
Now that I've got your attention, I took the HD and DVD out, left them connected, and powered the thing up. No 3.3v LED. Pulled the motherboard. Wouldn't you know it, that one solder point you mention, I missed. I reviewed the documentation, it's never directly referenced in the LPC PCB steps. The pic shows a terrible angle where it may or may not be soldered. The v3 tutorial, which doesn't have the rebuild PCB, shows it clearly.
Awesome call. I owe you one. :notworthy:
Silver:
Good work. Hopefully get mine up and running in the next couple of days...
Amazing what some people do mod-wise. Been reading about people adding 64meg ram (requires lots of SMD soldering all the pins) to double the memory, and even de-soldering the CPU to replace with a twice-as-fast 1.4Gig PIII - this is no Zif-socket swap either...
ChadTower:
Geesh. At that point, just use a more powerful PC with the linux version.
EDIT: Hit that solder point, put it back together... still no 3.3v LED. For giggles I wiggled the mod PCB just a tiny bit... the 3.3v LED came on strong. Wiggle it again, goes off, comes back on... I guess the pins are just a tad too short. Any wiggling of the PCB makes connection to one or more pins intermittent. I'll have to figure out a solution for that tomorrow.
Hit the power button, still red LED on external switch. Then I hit the eject button to power up and it went blue. This is all with no TV hooked up so I'll do that tomorrow too to see if I get the FlashBIOS screen. This is what I was hoping for tonight, though. ;D
pointdablame:
you'll get a Flashing Red and Green if there are no video cables connected to the Xbox, just in case you weren't aware of that.