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Movax

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« on: March 26, 2007, 10:36:00 AM »
Okay, I can do more trial and error and elimination, but maybe someone has seen this before:

-I've a 1.4 motherboard in my xbox with the shielding removed 'cause it looks badass.
-I never had any problems for quite a time.
-One day I noticed when watching an xvid format video I was getting some nasty ghosting, half way down the screen,  especially noticable when anything bright blue was displayed. Not sure if the blue is just more visable or if the blue is ghosting more than other colors.
-I tried another xbox with the same TV, etc and there was no issue.
-I tried a different PSU in my xbox, no change
-Have tried various A/V cables and even a madcat RF adapter, no change.

I have yet to try the motherboard with the shielding replaced, but I doubt it will help, since it was fine before. Could this be a hardware problem with the video encoder?
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IJTF_Cinder

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« Reply #1 on: March 26, 2007, 05:07:00 PM »
I'd say you'd be best off to try putting that shielding back in as a first test. There may just be some interference being introduced that wasn't around before.
Get any new electronics since it started happening? ANY kind at all, right down to a new microwave in the kitchen? Devices are supposed to meet minimum eletrical interference standards.........but you never know.
Could even be something like a cheap wireless router being used by your next door neighbour that's misbehaving in some way that is affecting only your Xbox.
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« Reply #2 on: April 01, 2007, 05:43:00 AM »
These questions almost make me cry everytime I read them. The shielding is there for a reason, a real reason, it's not there for fun. It also shortens and eliminates some grounds loops that occur without it. Taking the shield out is frankly dumb, regardless of whether you see issues or not.

Read this!
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« Reply #3 on: April 01, 2007, 01:29:00 PM »
I can almost guarantee that the problem is being caused by the sheilding being removed in your XBOX. But yes, I agree that the sheilding in an XBOX is huge and terrible, so instead of totally removing it on mine, I carefully cut out the bottom of my shielding with a pair of sheet metal cutters, and mounted it that way, so that it fixed the ground loop problems, AND it wasn't noticable.  biggrin.gif

You may want to consider doing it yourself, it works great for me.

NOTE: BE CAREFUL CUTTING THE SHEILDING! Otherwise you can easily get some wicked metal cuts... sad.gif

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Movax

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« Reply #4 on: July 12, 2007, 11:15:00 AM »
Felt I should update my old thread:

Well, I feared that it wasn't the shielding, and I was right...Something is very wrong with the video on this board. I think it might go all the way to the GPU. I say this after playing NHL '07 - I noticed horrible texture issues. I thought maybe the disk had somehow gone bad, but it works fine on one of my other xboxes. Then I started to notice seemingly random texture issues quite often. (Even the X logo on boot.)

So this xbox is turning into a headless linux server.
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