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Xbox mod
ChadTower:
Thanks for the offer, Hoagie. I'm not sure what a soft mod offers yet that a hard mod does not... so far, looks like adding the header pins in the LPC circuit is the way to go. Nothing I haven't done many times on pinball PCBs.
pointdablame:
When you mod it, use the alternate D0 on the bottom of the motherboard as was mentioned, its a bit easier to deal with.
I'm a fairly bad, and inexperienced, solderer, but I can mod an xbox with little trouble. You'll be fine. Just solder in the pinheader, and from then on its just the d0 and possibly a few other wires depending on modchip and how you want to turn the chip on/off.
If you never plan to use Xbox live, and don't mind the system being in "modded" mode all the time, you're options are pretty much open. You can get a softmod to do everything you'd want, and you can get a modchip to as well.
For your purposes, the modchip doesn't really matter either. I'd just grab a DuoX for $15 and go from there.
ChadTower:
Well I would like the ability to go on Live. I may not use it much or for long but I'd like to check it out as I've never been there.
I'll know more once I have the system and know the motherboard version. I'm picking it up in about 45 minutes.
TapeWurm:
--- Quote from: Hoagie_one on August 30, 2006, 02:46:50 pm ---I did a no solder chip and a soft mod, both were easy.
If you want to do a soft mod, I might be convinced to loan you the 007 game, disk, and memory stick to do it for teh nominal price of shipping, as long as you return said items to me.
:)
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I did a HD swap method for my softmod, since the Xbox was free and I didn't really care if it toasted it or not. But my question to you, Hoagie, is does your soft-modded box ever get caught in a boot-loop where it takes a few minutes to come out of it and load the dashboard? Mine does, esp after being unhooked for a long while. Just curious.
ChadTower:
It probably does that because the Xbox loses its kernel time settings after being without power for a certain amount of time. The bios replacements don't handle that all that well.