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[elitemods]

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I am not too sure what kind of board this is, any help is appreciated. Here is the link to the rest of the pics http://s742.photobucket.com/albums/xx63/twistedmtl1514/

P.S this xbox runs a retail dash, maybe the person flashed a dev with a retail dash thru recovery? Idk.

[mgeno216]

My guess would be a prototype before the release.  I think that because of the 4 pin fan socket, and maybe the were experimenting with the dvd drive cable placement.  But this is just a guess

Was there a dvd drive manufacture date or something like that

I have never seen that before and it is pretty cool

This post has been edited by mgeno216: Mar 9 2010, 03:02 AM

[elitemods]

Ill get back to you on that date soon.

[fahrenheit]

Are you the first to open it up? I'm guessing no.

It looks to me like someone has added pin headers to make nand reading plug/unpluggable. I can't see anything remarkable about it and the fact that some muppet has put thermal pads on the upper side ram sinks seems to suggest its has been fiddled with.

Take those pads off.

[elitemods]

Lmao @ muppet but yeah i bought this refurbed for cheap on ebay and it RRoD'd on me so i opened it up to discover two extra headers and was just wondering.

[mgeno216]

This interested me so i asked on XE and wilhelm said

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I think its just an M$ prototype in fact they do tests on retail consoles all the time I have also already had one like that mostly they got "DEV <blabla>" written on the labels.
No big deal really they just couldnt be bothered to remove the debug ports and left them installed...

That makes sense and he is like an xbox master so i beleive him