Hey in the past few days I've been getting pm's about repairing/modding xbox's after responding to someone's request to repair a moded xbox 1.
About me
I used to mod xbox 1's back in the day but stopped using my xbox 1 a few years ago. I figured the scene was dead and moved on to retro gaming and arcade machines/pinballs.
About 3 months ago I started getting into coinOPS and purchasing xboxs to flash tsops for friends and family. I've gotten back into it.
HERE IS A SAMPLE OF A TSOP FLASHED XBOX SETUP WITH STOCK DRIVE
SERVICE OFFERED & RATES
If anyone needs an xbox 1 modded or hard drive expanded, cleaned, tsop flashed, xbox fixed/replaced, let me know.
rates are as follows:
User pays shipping both ways.
General Flash/HardDrive modding
Tsop flash (for xbox v.1 -v5 only) $15
Aladdin modchip + install $25
xbox harddrive reformat $10
xbox harddrive replacement (you supply ide drive) $20
xbox softmod $5
Soldering/Repairs
Clock capacitor removal and cleaning - $15
1st Gen Xbox Trace Corrosion Repair - $30
Clock cap replacement - not offered yet can't find a good cap replacement that won't leak...
Complete Systems for sale
1 modded xbox tsop flashed v.1.2 clock cap is perfect shape (no need for removal), 40 gig harddrive, coinops lite, unleashX setup like video above. asking $115 shipped
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I've been getting pm's asking about xbox harddrive expansion, what's the max size, what type, etc...
When xbox 1 came out IDE drives (PATA) were the common drives on the market. Today they are all but gone, a thing of the past. The harddrives on the market today are SATA based, gone are the long thin 40 wire strips of ide ribbon, in favor of a faster, smaller, and better protocol. However, it's important to remember 2 things:
1. the xbox was designed to house an 3.5in 8gb ide harddrive
2. no other systems had harddrives stock from the manufacturer
With that said, the modding community broke out in 2002 and xbox harddrive upgrading was the focus. At the time I invested in a 40gb drive which was expensive and a huge amount of storage in my young eyes.
fast forward to today: IDE is gone, the biggest ide drives were 750gb, and were manufactured up to 200(5). If you find or own one of these drives I think you should retire it asap and throw it in an xbox 1. if you do not own one yet would like 1tb or even 2tb of access here's what you want to do.
1. go to this site and search for a drive of proper size you want; eg 2000gb = 2TB: http://xboxdrives.x-pec.com/?p=list
2. purchase up to 2TB Sata drive. Anything bigger will not see more than 2TB of space due to an LBA48 limitation.
3. purchase a xbox compatible Sata to IDE converter. something like this one is reported to work (i havent tried it myself yet it is in transit shipping to my house as we speak): https://www.dealextreme.com/p/sata-hdd-to-ide-adapter-card-57841?item=6
4. purchase a Molex to sata power adaptor: https://www.dealextreme.com/p/sata-power-cable-9809
make sure to partiton with xbpartitioner as the 2 tb needs proper formatting or it will error out
Finally, I can do the above for you, but it won't be cheap. for example, a 2 tb wd earx drive is 130 dollars for me. to install i need to mod the xbox with a tsop flash 15, harddrive upgrade 10, I charge 10 for the sata to ide adaptor and power adaptor as well. already that's 165 and shipping on top both ways. I can do this for you but understand the costs come from the expensive drive as I feel bad sending qoutes for the above at $165. but anyless and I am paying for your upgrades which I'd love to do if I was rich, but I am broke and jobless at the moment.
Repairs for neo geo members & pics:
received an xbox that would randomly power off/power buttons wouldn't work. dvd eject would flip console on then off again 3 times. Also x3 chip was ruined from a shorted d0 horrible solder job by previous owner or whoever installed the modchip. I'm not a fan of the X3 as it is obsolete and serves no real purpose anymore. Just flash the TSOP no need for a stock system anymore. Wires were cobbled together and soldering job looked like it was installed by a 13 year old. Seriously spliced wires for D0 on the backside? I'm amazed the system lasted as long as it did.
This is someone else's install, spliced wires, cold joints, arc'd LPC points!
Removed the modchip
The clock capacitor had blown like I assumed!
Removed, here's the cap free, now time to clean the board
After cleaning the board and removing the X3 dead modchip, I put together the xbox in stock state.
Traces were damaged, as the xbox wouldn't respond to power button presses and randomly turn on and off. I heard of this before, so I started probing with a multimeter. Found 4 bad traces on the underside of the board that was a common issue with a certain manufacturing run of xbox v.1.0 systems. The symptoms of this would be sporadic on and offs, non working power button, exactly the issues this xbox had.
Here's a pic of the 4 repaired tiny traces. Really tough to solder to, but not impossible:
Here's a pic of me soldering one of the TSOP "Write-Enable" points, which will allow me to flash the stock TSOP with a custom bios
I can do these repairs as well now.
System is working perfectly now, all back in action, flashed with Evo M8+ bios booting up to EVOX.
If anyone can find ram chips for sale please let me know.
About me
I used to mod xbox 1's back in the day but stopped using my xbox 1 a few years ago. I figured the scene was dead and moved on to retro gaming and arcade machines/pinballs.
About 3 months ago I started getting into coinOPS and purchasing xboxs to flash tsops for friends and family. I've gotten back into it.
HERE IS A SAMPLE OF A TSOP FLASHED XBOX SETUP WITH STOCK DRIVE
SERVICE OFFERED & RATES
If anyone needs an xbox 1 modded or hard drive expanded, cleaned, tsop flashed, xbox fixed/replaced, let me know.
rates are as follows:
User pays shipping both ways.
General Flash/HardDrive modding
Tsop flash (for xbox v.1 -v5 only) $15
Aladdin modchip + install $25
xbox harddrive reformat $10
xbox harddrive replacement (you supply ide drive) $20
xbox softmod $5
Soldering/Repairs
Clock capacitor removal and cleaning - $15
1st Gen Xbox Trace Corrosion Repair - $30
Clock cap replacement - not offered yet can't find a good cap replacement that won't leak...
Complete Systems for sale
1 modded xbox tsop flashed v.1.2 clock cap is perfect shape (no need for removal), 40 gig harddrive, coinops lite, unleashX setup like video above. asking $115 shipped
//::INFORMATION ABOUT XBOX::\\
I've been getting pm's asking about xbox harddrive expansion, what's the max size, what type, etc...
When xbox 1 came out IDE drives (PATA) were the common drives on the market. Today they are all but gone, a thing of the past. The harddrives on the market today are SATA based, gone are the long thin 40 wire strips of ide ribbon, in favor of a faster, smaller, and better protocol. However, it's important to remember 2 things:
1. the xbox was designed to house an 3.5in 8gb ide harddrive
2. no other systems had harddrives stock from the manufacturer
With that said, the modding community broke out in 2002 and xbox harddrive upgrading was the focus. At the time I invested in a 40gb drive which was expensive and a huge amount of storage in my young eyes.
fast forward to today: IDE is gone, the biggest ide drives were 750gb, and were manufactured up to 200(5). If you find or own one of these drives I think you should retire it asap and throw it in an xbox 1. if you do not own one yet would like 1tb or even 2tb of access here's what you want to do.
1. go to this site and search for a drive of proper size you want; eg 2000gb = 2TB: http://xboxdrives.x-pec.com/?p=list
2. purchase up to 2TB Sata drive. Anything bigger will not see more than 2TB of space due to an LBA48 limitation.
3. purchase a xbox compatible Sata to IDE converter. something like this one is reported to work (i havent tried it myself yet it is in transit shipping to my house as we speak): https://www.dealextreme.com/p/sata-hdd-to-ide-adapter-card-57841?item=6
4. purchase a Molex to sata power adaptor: https://www.dealextreme.com/p/sata-power-cable-9809
make sure to partiton with xbpartitioner as the 2 tb needs proper formatting or it will error out
Finally, I can do the above for you, but it won't be cheap. for example, a 2 tb wd earx drive is 130 dollars for me. to install i need to mod the xbox with a tsop flash 15, harddrive upgrade 10, I charge 10 for the sata to ide adaptor and power adaptor as well. already that's 165 and shipping on top both ways. I can do this for you but understand the costs come from the expensive drive as I feel bad sending qoutes for the above at $165. but anyless and I am paying for your upgrades which I'd love to do if I was rich, but I am broke and jobless at the moment.
Repairs for neo geo members & pics:
received an xbox that would randomly power off/power buttons wouldn't work. dvd eject would flip console on then off again 3 times. Also x3 chip was ruined from a shorted d0 horrible solder job by previous owner or whoever installed the modchip. I'm not a fan of the X3 as it is obsolete and serves no real purpose anymore. Just flash the TSOP no need for a stock system anymore. Wires were cobbled together and soldering job looked like it was installed by a 13 year old. Seriously spliced wires for D0 on the backside? I'm amazed the system lasted as long as it did.
This is someone else's install, spliced wires, cold joints, arc'd LPC points!
Removed the modchip
The clock capacitor had blown like I assumed!
Removed, here's the cap free, now time to clean the board
After cleaning the board and removing the X3 dead modchip, I put together the xbox in stock state.
Traces were damaged, as the xbox wouldn't respond to power button presses and randomly turn on and off. I heard of this before, so I started probing with a multimeter. Found 4 bad traces on the underside of the board that was a common issue with a certain manufacturing run of xbox v.1.0 systems. The symptoms of this would be sporadic on and offs, non working power button, exactly the issues this xbox had.
Here's a pic of the 4 repaired tiny traces. Really tough to solder to, but not impossible:
Here's a pic of me soldering one of the TSOP "Write-Enable" points, which will allow me to flash the stock TSOP with a custom bios
I can do these repairs as well now.
System is working perfectly now, all back in action, flashed with Evo M8+ bios booting up to EVOX.
If anyone can find ram chips for sale please let me know.
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30 years soldering skills here.. and I still killed 2. There was a company doing this job.. and they went broke after having to buy a heap of consoles for people. 