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[CeanD]

Trying to install a Xecuter 2.3B Lite+ solderless on my buddies 1.0 Xbox.

Had issues at first with allignment. Sorted those out to the point the 2 blue and green would be on in every power up. Attached the external switch, and enabling the chip and rebooting always got the 2 reboot/FRAG.

Now, even with the chip out, it frags on every power up.

Anything I can do to save this `box?

[dg92117]

I have this very same issue today with TWO boxes. One was v1.1 one was 1.0. After messing around with the allignment i was able to finally get the green led to light up. But now both boxes FRAG upon boot after two quick reboots. I have tried to get video (Connexant) but nothing. I then tried to remove the mods and see if i get the orginal Xbox boot, still no go!!@#$@  
The mod chips are Xecuter lite 2.3b+ solderless. I have a feeling while i was attempting to get the green led to light up i somehow ruined the existing epprom.

I would like to know from the Experts. Is this fixable? What are the inital steps to restoring the boxes back to working order. How do i do a hard flash of the xbox bios?

Any insight would be nice, I have seen many others with this same issue and I am hoping to get a good thread going regarding a Fix or Fixes for FRAGing Xboxes, even with the mod chip removed...?

Regards,

Greg

[CeanD]

Known problem with the chips maybe? It's amazing we both had the EXACT same problems.

[Chancer]

If the FRAG now occurs with the chip out then the problem is most likely you danaged the D0 point on the Xbox. This is not a chip problem or the machine would work with the chip out.
If the box worked B4 then you damaged the D0 point but it is fixable with care.

[dg92117]

So after a few hours sleep I am convinced that I Fu@#ked the D0 points by scraping away too much PCB coating. You say I can repair this with care...?

Please explain the steps/tools involved in repairing the D0 point on the top of the motherboard after attempting to install the Xecuter2.3B+ solderless mod chip...

I am going to Radio Shack this morning to get some board wire, trace pen and a new soldering iron and solder. Could you post a reply as to the range of choices i have at repairing the D0 points.

Regards,

Greg

[dg92117]

Also, I would utimately like to get the mod chip to work, so while i am soldering do you suggest I solder the chip to the board? I also had gotten out my multimeter and started testing the LPC ports for power. I found on both boards that what I see is the LPC Port 1 (lower right) does not have power for me on either board, although the mod chip has a po-go pin for it. Could this somehow have been overlooked as the chip was upgraded? I did this very same upgrade on my brand new v1.5 xbox and it worked great. Needless to say i was the talk of the town and now everyone wants one. But I now have two boxes that don't work.....LOL

HELP!!!!! MEEEE!!!!!

[CeanD]

I am now watching this with great interest.

Mainly in the tools/techniques used to repair the D0.

[dg92117]

I guess this one has most people stumped. I did a little more research and got in contact with a guy in Utah. Seems that once the D0 point is broken you need to trace the connection to the break and jump it with a wire soldered. In my case i found there is a D0 point on the bottom of the motherboard. I think i am going to attempt to jump the D0 from there to the top and maybe with a little drop of solder it will make contact again where I scraped the PCB coating.
Again if anyone has any other suggestions on How to repair the D0 point on the top of the motherboard after attempting to install the Xecuter 2.3B Lite Solderless chip?

Regards,

Gregory

[Chancer]

Connect a wire from the trace that goes to the top D0 point to the bottom D0. Once you have got these 2 points connected the box should boot without the chip. Until the box works unchipped do not try and install the chip. How you do the soldering of the connections depends really on your skill with a soldering iron. but to clean the lacquer from the trace with no damage to the trace itself use a fibreglass pen. radio shack should have them. Repairing it is straightforward if you have the gear and the skills but obviously I do not know what stage you are at with either. If unsure then let someone do the repair for you. thedustycelt does this sort of thing in the US for very reasonable prices and he could fit the chip at the same time for you. If in the uk I can fix it no problems .

[dg92117]

Cool, Thanks... I am a fellow limey, well 50% anyway...

I will give it the old try and see...

Regards,

Gregory

[dg92117]

Ok I fixed the boards, After messing around for a few days i finally came to the conclusion that the solderless chips are not built for the 1.1/1.0 boards. I noticed the the pin for the D0 point was always just a little off and that is why it won't work.
So I ended up soldering the solderless chip and to repair the D0 point i got a fiberglass pen and removed the coating from the point back past and previous scraping I did. I then soldered the D0 point using the wire flatted along the motherboard and soldered all along it. It worked! Then I used Hot Glue to secure it so that i would not come up, another issue i had!!

I then finished soldering the LPC points to the respective points on the Xecuter Lite chip. After all that I used more hot glue to cover the existing pogo pins to be sure no contact was made with the board.

A few zip ties later Im done!!!!

So now i have a problem with the phillps DVD drive reading my burned BIOS cd that i used in my 1.5 box. I gues thats for a different forum channel!!!

Greg

[Chancer]

Greg I have successfully used Infiniti CDRW on a lot of the new Philips drives. Just keep at it and make sure you are making up the bios disk correctly. The bios image should be 512K to flash one bank and name it BIOS.BIN and add a dummy file of around 100 to 200mb.