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Title: Best place to get a solderless xbox chip
Post by: fastredpacman on April 30, 2006, 07:43:11 pm
Do any of you know where to get one online? A place you guys have bought one from where they dont sell cheap clones and are good about shipping? Any help would be appreciated.
Title: Re: Best place to get a solderless xbox chip
Post by: SNAAKE on April 30, 2006, 08:37:41 pm
how about I mod your xbox with a solder chip for $60+shipping ??

otherwise you can post on xbox-scene.com forums for store recomendation ! I will talk to seller about solderless mod and see if he can hook you up.
Title: Re: Best place to get a solderless xbox chip
Post by: fastredpacman on April 30, 2006, 08:45:05 pm
how about I mod your xbox with a solder chip for $60+shipping ??

otherwise you can post on xbox-scene.com forums for store recomendation ! I will talk to seller about solderless mod and see if he can hook you up.

Thanks Snaake but I was going to purchase a chip to fix about four broken xboxes. I was going to install the chip fix the xbox and then uninstall and then do the same to the others.
Title: Re: Best place to get a solderless xbox chip
Post by: fastredpacman on May 01, 2006, 12:01:13 am
what do you guys think about this:


http://losangeles.craigslist.org/ele/154324723.html

Any thoughts Ive never heard of this chip before.!!??
Title: Re: Best place to get a solderless xbox chip
Post by: Hoagie_one on May 01, 2006, 08:59:10 am
The hypre X is brand new and is supposed to be high quality.  But i didn't think it was released yet
Title: Re: Best place to get a solderless xbox chip
Post by: dabone on May 02, 2006, 12:34:07 am
Grab a duox2 gs chip and a few extra male pin headers.

I just got a 5 pack from otbmods and they ship very quickly.


A chip and 5 extra pin headers will run you about 20.49 + shipping.



Later,
dabone
Title: Re: Best place to get a solderless xbox chip
Post by: fastredpacman on May 02, 2006, 11:28:51 pm
Grab a duox2 gs chip and a few extra male pin headers.

I just got a 5 pack from otbmods and they ship very quickly.


A chip and 5 extra pin headers will run you about 20.49 + shipping.



Later,
dabone


Hey dabone

What does this option mean?

 Available Options Information (Please select below):

-Want us to presolder the included female header to the chip for you? Choose this option to save you some work and ensure a good connection to the chip every time!

Should I get this? Is it necessary?
Title: Re: Best place to get a solderless xbox chip
Post by: dabone on May 02, 2006, 11:40:06 pm
The board comes without the female header attached. (This is the part that the male headers that you would attach to the xbox mb plug into)

You have to use some needle nose to yank out a couple of non used pins and then solder the connector to the mod chip.

How good are your soldering skills?

Because if this will cause you problems, then actually putting the male headers might not be the thing for you.

Later,
dabone

Title: Re: Best place to get a solderless xbox chip
Post by: fastredpacman on May 03, 2006, 08:08:05 pm
The board comes without the female header attached. (This is the part that the male headers that you would attach to the xbox mb plug into)

You have to use some needle nose to yank out a couple of non used pins and then solder the connector to the mod chip.

How good are your soldering skills?

Because if this will cause you problems, then actually putting the male headers might not be the thing for you.

Later,
dabone



Well Dabone what would you recommend being that I will be using this chip for diffrent xbox versions?
Title: Re: Best place to get a solderless xbox chip
Post by: spiffyshoes on May 03, 2006, 11:02:28 pm
Dabone's method would require that you solder a male pin header onto each motherboard in all of your xbox's.  Then you would only have to desolder and re-solder just two wires whenever you move the chip from box to box.  It would be the cheapest method but would still require a good amount of soldering.  Especialy if you have a number of 1.6 Xbox's which require you to rebuild the LPC.  If you don't want to have to solder at all then the best method would be to get an Xodus S.P. Solderless adapter for $23.99 which works with the DuoX2 chip.  The S.P. adapter  will work on all versons of Xbox motherboards so you don't have to wory about it not working with a specific version of Xbox.
Title: Re: Best place to get a solderless xbox chip
Post by: fastredpacman on May 04, 2006, 12:25:01 am
Dabone's method would require that you solder a male pin header onto each motherboard in all of your xbox's.  Then you would only have to desolder and re-solder just two wires whenever you move the chip from box to box.  It would be the cheapest method but would still require a good amount of soldering.  Especialy if you have a number of 1.6 Xbox's which require you to rebuild the LPC.  If you don't want to have to solder at all then the best method would be to get an Xodus S.P. Solderless adapter for $23.99 which works with the DuoX2 chip.  The S.P. adapter  will work on all versons of Xbox motherboards so you don't have to wory about it not working with a specific version of Xbox.

So you mean with this solution I could just open the xboxes throw the chip in there and fix then take the chip off with no problems or soldering?
Title: Re: Best place to get a solderless xbox chip
Post by: SNAAKE on May 04, 2006, 12:40:01 am
he is saying you have to solder the pins on the board. pin header still wont work for 1.0 xbox cuz the holes are already soldered so you have to wire install it. Its very easy though except the d0 point is tiny.
Title: Re: Best place to get a solderless xbox chip
Post by: dabone on May 04, 2006, 01:25:57 am
Quote
Xodus S.P. Solderless adapter for $23.99
Plus a chip for 15?

This one is no solder. Never used it myself, but I've been soldering for 20 years.


http://www.xbox-modchips.com/tutorials/xodus-sp-solderless-tutorial.htm (http://www.xbox-modchips.com/tutorials/xodus-sp-solderless-tutorial.htm)

Here's a guide for 1.0 thru 1.5 xboxes.
(Hey that looks pretty darn easy)


You know is not possible to reflash the tsop with a lpc based mod chip right?

I hope you are just trying to fix softmodded boxes.

Later,
dabone