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[KingViper]

@shadowarach

I have a cheap radio shack soldering gun with 2 settings, 20 and 40 watts.  I am using it on 20, I would NOT recommend using anything more powerful, as it can easily lift traces.  That is a good point also, don't linger with the soldering gun, if you can't seem to get a point, take a break from it, you dont want to overheat and have lifted traces and/or ruin the chip.

@BRINET

Tacking I believe is actually a welding term.  But I think welding and soldering seem close enough, so I said tack.  I just mean to solder the corner pins down so that they hold and the chip no longer moves.

The soldering flux is the same radio shack stuff you are using.  I have no clue, maybe yours is old. (can it get old?)

I was pushing on each leg with a hobby knife.  Anything small will work, like a small screwdriver made for glasses, etc.

No you cannot solder on some ram now and some ram later, well you can, but your xbox wont work till all of it is on.

@everyone who cant get the video to work

My original mpg files worked properly, they were the only ones I released, so if they are in Divx, I didn't encode them, so I have no clue why they aren't working, but like people said, I would assume you need to update your version of divx.

I WOULD LIKE TO THANK CHIMP FOR ALSO HOSTING THE VIDEO.

KingViper

[BRINET]

KingViper,

What's the catalog# of the flux u used?  Is it possibly this?  

Also, after u finished the job, did you clean up the mobo up w/ anything?

Thanks,

Brian

[KingViper]

The catalog number of the flux is the same, but the package looks different.  Mine came with a little brush, which I hardly use, and it says RadioShack all over it.  Same catalog number though.

If I clean anything up, I just use a Q-Tip with some rubbing alcohol.  Don't use anything but rubbing alcohol cuz it evaporates fast.

KingViper

[BRINET]

ya...I used rubbing alcohol on my arctic silver upgrade and it cleaned everything  up nicely.  Anyhow, thanks for answering all my questions.  I definitely want to do this now.

[KingViper]

I made a torrent file of my videos also.  Here is the link to the torrent file which is hosted on a freeservers.com account, not illegal whatsoever.

BitTorrent 64mb Xbox Memory Upgrade_KingViper

That specific server, because it is free, only supports certain extensions, so it is a JPG right now, and once you download it, you must rename the extension to .torrent

Thanks

KingViper

[shadowarachh]

hmmm....dunno what the equivalent would be on my soldering as it has a temp setting not wattage readout....goes from 300 to 800 some odd degrees F.

anyone know waht the conversion would be?


thanks for reply KV

[WeatherB]

Excellent videos... I've watched the installation one so far!

Has there been any consensus on whether adding the extra memory will reduce slow-downs in games (from the search, some say yes, others say the upgrade is only good for linux)?

[Pandoriaantje]

QUOTE (KingViper @ Feb 25 2004, 05:37 AM)

I made a torrent file of my videos also.  Here is the link to the torrent file which is hosted on a freeservers.com account, not illegal whatsoever. BitTorrent 64mb Xbox Memory Upgrade_KingViper Thanks KingViper

Can't dl  the torrent...

[KingViper]

Bump

I dont want anyone to be deprived of extra memory on their xbox...lol

KingViper

[A@ron]

pulled the vids...

A@ron

[Eventide]

Just curious, can you combine RAM types from xbox motherboards?  I've got a scrapped motherboard with 3 RAM chips (don't ask), but their model number differs from the number on my other scrapped motherboard's RAM chips.  I could just use the 4 chips from the latter motherboard, but I was just curious.

And I love your removal method, worked like a peach for me

[KingViper]

Yes, you can mix and match memory.  I'm glad the removal worked for you, some people claimed that it would be VERY "dangerous" to remove memory that way.  I didn't know what to tell them, I have never had any problems.  I'm glad to see you didn't either.  Good Luck

KingViper

[KingViper]

Bump

[WeatherB]

Viper,
After you install the extra memory, can you boot the xbox with the modchip disabled (to access XBL)?