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Xbox mod
shmokes:
Oh yeah . . . did anyone ever answer you about that pot on the corner of the chip? It controls brightness of an LCD screen, if you decide to install one, which you don't because they cost money and are useless.
pointdablame:
--- Quote from: shmokes on December 06, 2006, 10:28:58 am ---which you don't because they cost money and are useless.
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I thought I was the only one who felt that way. I just don't see the point.
ChadTower:
No one had answered it, actually, but I happened upon it about an hour ago while reading the flash tutorials.
Next step is to figure out how to resolve the loose connection issue.
shmokes:
I can kind of see the point if you get a vacuum florescent display, but you can't even read an LCD screen from more than five feet away from the thing. I have one in my Xbox. Or had one, anyway (long story). Useless.
Chad, do you just need downward pressure on a chip? I had a box that I had done a solderless install in that had a tendency to come unaligned. I put a small chunk of Styrofoam between the chip and the DVD tray, so that when the Xbox was all put back together the DVD was constantly pushing down on the mod chip. Maybe something like this would work. It's been about a year and a half or two years since I put that chunk of Styrofoam in and it's run perfectly ever since.
ChadTower:
I haven't worked out which exact direction the pressure needs to be in yet. I was considering a more permanent solution like adding a tiny bit of solder to each of the pins to increase their thickness. Barring that I was thinking a bit of wood to hold it in place like you describe. Styrofoam makes me nervous as IIRC it carries a bit of charge and I'm not sure about its conductivity.