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[SICKdimension]

There should be negative numbers. I've never destroyed an xbox, but I've saved and repaired many.

[sayguh]

Everything was going horribly.  My friend and I were both pretty big newbs, he was a lil more informed than me though so i let him do most of the work.  (he  offered)  So about 2 days later and lots of tinkering he said everythhing was almost ready, he had it flashed and all he had to do was copy some apps over.  I was over joyed.  He opened it up to show me the led he put in it and turned on the box so i could see it glow, lifted up the hdd so i could see the wireing and then ..... the hdd slipped down (it wasn't screwed into the plastic thingy) and made a connection with the psu.  phhhhhhhhhhh snap crackle pop!  fire fire fire fire.  Nice lil eclectrical fire sprang up as he quickly turned it off lol.  Since he was move'n to europe in the next couple days and I didn't have the know how, neither one of use wanted to try to rebuild/repair the psu but lucky enough we had a friend with a crapped up dvd drive who was gona throw out his box .  So in the end everything worked out perfectly :-D  

*we need to start a tread of the Xbox Darwin Awards, so people can post the stupidest mistakes they ever herd of which resulted in the death of there box. *  in fact i'll make one now.

[A.Z.BEST]

... it has erased my EEprom ;P. So now, my Xbox is only flashing red, but that's not a problem. Just have to get another Xbox (it's a matter of few days) and flash my backup cheapmod with Cromwell (it's already prepared). Shoul I say that I've fucked up this box or that I've rescued it ?

[crispycritter]

I've fried 4 and currently on 78 modded xboxes.... So I am still doing good

[Silentscream__]

lemme see... modded about 12 now, fixed one that was broken (just needed a pot tweak on the stupid thompson drive) and i broke my own, then fixed it again a week later. Damn small D0 points.

[Gimplar]

one , so far, destroyed by me. Used a crappy soldering iron bought at Radio Shack..TV's volume suddenly spiked and white noise came through..I jerked a little bit and a huge glob of solder falls on a RAM module.
I've given up trying to salvage it.

[Sac2K4]

not one. I OWN ALL OF YOU! lol.. im 53/53 hoping to stay that way.

[stillbored]

I've blown two power supplies...but that's about it. Everything else has been flawless.

[Xmaster99]

[A_Guy]

 I also snapped my case in half once when I was drilling out a hole for the jewel, but that didn't effect it's performance, I just played it with the top off till I got a new one o.0

[1nick9]

 but i just cleared it up and all went well fine and i learned from my mistake. never hav pets in the room ur modding in (well even away for them to get in au the cat was outside last i looked) so not 2 sure if that counts cuz i fixed it and i hav fixed like 12 dead xboxes and modded about 50 give or take (stoped counting)


cheers


Edit: typo

[bipolardragon]

[Pope-X]

waited for the first executers to come and installed it on the lpc header and now its a happy camper in my livingroom

the other i tried to flash the bios with raincoat v0.5 but v0.5 could not handle it.. so the bios got erased and not flashed...installed a modchip now.. and it works again.. but now i get powerfailures (heatingproblems?!) dunno what that is about.. but it isnt the modchip 4 shure..

ohwell..

[celinedrules]

I dont know if this really counts I guess it would) but I was building a custom setup for my car. I had the very original xbox with the usb daughter boards. I broke the pins off of those.

So that makes me at 1.

I have modded many xbox's with softmods and larger hard drives without a single problem.

[BAP1130]

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did you know that a broken ps2 makes a great little table for sitting in the floor and soldering small gadgets?

LMAO, locked hard drives make great paper weights and doorstops too, so when your using that $200 ps2 as a table you can put papers on it and they wont fly away. How bout that!

Amazing what new technology can do!