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[Murder Inc.]

Ok. So I flashed my drive and all went well. It works great. But, when I shut my xbox down it dosent close the tray on the dvd drive. And when first booting it up, It wont fully boot until I close the drive. Its nothing major, but something I would like to fix. Thanks for any help.

Inc.

[keine]

The link for the tutorial is down. Does someone have a mirror or want to upload it to Xbox-Scene.

[keine]

Found one:
http://www.xbox100.c...l_GDR-8163B.pdf

[deadparrot]

QUOTE(keine @ May 25 2007, 09:29 AM)

Found one:
http://www.xbox100.c...l_GDR-8163B.pdf

Thanks, I've edited that link into the OP.

[keine]

I've got problems.

8163b modded.

I flashed the drive as per instruction. Everything seemed to go just fine. I was informed of success and told to shutdown my comp. I shutdown and removed the drive.


My drive ejects fine. However when I put a disc in it freezes XBMC as it spins up and down, up and down, then just spins forever. The box hangs before shutting down after this as well. The drive refuses to eject on command after the first eject and load. If not loaded I can eject and reeject.

Does it matter than I put 3 of my resistors ON the audio speaker out points?

Basically I took my out/in/ready to the 1k resistors attached to the 3 prongs of the audio connector. I put the eject on the last prong.

The first time through, I took out the pins from the wrong end of the yellow cable. I put them back where they should have been (95% sure) and redid the other side, taking out the pins and putting them into a audio connector in the correct spots. (Anyway I can double check my cabling or do I have to replace the yellow cable to be 100% sure)

I then connected a molex, ide, and the audio cable to the back of the 8163b.

Any  suggested areas to check?


Is this tutorial CORRECT?
8163b tut
It's version 1.1. Is that the latest version?

[keine]

If I did fry my drive, how would I tell? Do I need to disconnect the audio adapter from the board, or can I leave it?

[keine]

Double checked my pinout. Even though the end of the yellow dvd power cable that connects to the mobo has two extra spots on it, they aren't filled. So I used my multimeter to check between the mobo end and the audio connector I made. All points checked out 100% like I would have expected them too. Thus, the cable it fine, and there was never any possibility that I put +5v down my eject/out/in/rdy points. I'm 99% sure. That is assuming that

Mobo end
~~~|| ~~~~~~~              ||
~~ 0~1~2~3~4~5~6
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~                          
---~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -----
    0~7~8~9~10~11~12


(Where 0's aren't used)

matches to

Dvd end

~~~      ||   ~~~~~        ||
   1~2~3~4~5~6
   ~~~~~~~~~~~
--~~~~~~~~~~~~--
   7~8~9~10~11~12
MOBO-DRIVE
1-1GND
2-2+12v
3-3TRYOUT
4-4TRYIN
5-5GND
6-6+12V
7-7GND
8-8+5V
9-9Data
10-10RDY
11-11Eject
12-12 +5v

Is that right?
 

I tested and 11(Eject) matched my eject plug
10 (RDY) matched my ready plug
3 (Out) matched my out plug
4 (In) matched to my in plug.

I am beginning to think I know where I went wrong. I DIDN"T cut the leads on the audio port. Thus plugs 2 and 3 were bridged, IN/OUT Trays (I found that odd when I checked for bridges and 2,3 were bridged.) I should have paid attention to that. NO IDIOT, you can't have your in and out bridged, you dork. I'll cut my traces and try again. No serious voltage there, so I doubt it hurt my drive.

[keine]

Cut the audio port  connectors to the port and its working at 100%!

[keine]

Ok, My 8163b is working pretty well. It plays movies and games wonderfully, however I have two problems. Just so you know what is working....Eject is working just fine. Retail games are working just fine. XBMC will see retail games from the dashboard and play them just fine. Close works just fine. Seems to work just fine.

I followed menelik's to do it.

DVD2Xbox doesn't recognize my games, but XMBC does. I read about something about my status lines being incorrect? Any more explanation? Which points are there?

Also, the drive is pretty noisy. I think this is due to the fact that if I look at my xbox straight on, I can see into the dvd drive itself. I can see the white magnetic spindle inside. This translates into the fact that when the drive inside spins up, all that noise comes flying out. How can I close this gap and reduce noise, and possibly dust from getting into the drive.

Picture might help.



See the gap on the top. If I look in there...I can see INSIDE the dvd drive. Plus the drive is noisy when it spins up...most likely due to this gap being wide open......What can I do about this? How can I seal it? The gap on the bottom also might be a problem, but I don't know because the drive sits down in the xbox just fine. Its down as low as the case will allow.

[keine]

anybody?

[keine]

False Alarm. Everything is fine. See there is an option labeled "Enable Media Detection" in DVD2Xbox, and guess...what... it was off. Turned it on and my 8163b immediately read off the disc just fine.

As for the loudness/gap....im still working on that. Any suggestions would be great there.

[Antman1]

Does this mod work with the LG8161 Drive as well?

[Antman1]

QUOTE(Antman1 @ Oct 19 2007, 08:05 AM)

Does this mod work with the LG8161 Drive as well?

Anyone know if it can be done?  is it pretty much the same thing?  I have a 8164 drive in it now but need to be able to use it with original BIOs and the guy that made the original adapter dropped all support and this is the email I got from Tailsmon now about new firmware:  
"Hello,
 
Unfortunately the developer of the product is no longer supporting it.  We only manufactured and distributed the product, and do not have the original code.  So it seems unlikely that there will be a firmware update in the future.

Thank you,
CJ
Talismoon Support"

I wish I would have not bought this thing now but as his site said "Still in development"  I just thought they would go further with it.  I want to use the 8161 drive my friend has in trade for the 8164 and flash it with the 8050 firmware.

[MartinC]

Would it be possible to replace the tray with an orignal XBOX one? Like from a Samsaug/Philips/Thompson