Xbox mod repair service needed

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I have a modded Halo edition Xbox done by sonofx (Jose) that is having hard drive errors. I have already sent it back to him once, but the problem is reocurrring. Apparently he thought it was the plugin on the hard drive it self since he hot glued a a piece of plastic to push the connection tighter on to the hard drive. I'm still getting the errors, but if I pull the plug off and then put it back on, the error goes away... for a little while. Anyway, if there is anyone out there who can help me, please send me a PM.

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What did he mod, was it a drive flash? Why the hell was he screwing with the hard drive? Red ring it and get it fixed, if he ripped the warranty sticker, I think some are for sale on ebay.
 
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MasterAmado said:
www.xboxscene.com/

the forum is very good and people there can probably tell you exactly what is wrong with it. Just curious did he soft mod it or did he install a mod chip?
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At this point, chips don't do anything worthwhile, they just let screw around with flash banks, and if you don't know what your doing, your likely to brick your xbox. But if it's original xbox, by all means chip it, softmods for that box suck.
 
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Okay, can you take a picture of what he did? If I can get a peek in there, I should be able to diagnose something. Got any other ribbon cable you can try to make sure it's nothing wrong with that?
 
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Can also pop the hdd into a desktop machine and run smartctl on there to make sure that it is healthy and not dying. If it does have some bad sectors you can use fsck or something similar to fix them. (and a good time to image it just in case as well)
 
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Right, it could be the hard drive as well, messing around near magnetic media is never good. Look at the coleco adam, it kills it's own tapes.
 
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Spazmonkey said:
Right, it could be the hard drive as well, messing around near magnetic media is never good. Look at the coleco adam, it kills it's own tapes.
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well and people had a habit of putting these cheap ass big hdds in those xbox originals. Ones that ran hot as is, but then crammed in that case with no real ventilation around the hdd cage.

Heat will bring those guys to an end much much quicker.

Either way... I would say if you are opening it up anyway... just pop it out and throw it in a desktop or test machine. Run some diagnostics on it (if using linux use smartctl, fsck, sensors) and see how it's doing. That way you can image it as well so even if it is fine, you now have a backup of all your game saves and such.

If it is the drive, you have it all ready to roll to just clone out onto a new one.
 
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Running the hard drive on a test machine is beyond my know how. I appreciate eveyone's help, but I don't want to turn this thread into a tech forum. If someone out there is willing to do the work, please contact me.
 
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