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rewen

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« on: July 24, 2002, 01:01:00 AM »
Hi. I am trying to adjust the POT on my XBOX DVDROM.

Becasue there are no pictures in the tutorial, I was unsure of "Measure between the TOP LEFT and the screw of the pot."

I did manage to get a reading (see the pic) but it was 1800 and that is more than just a little high. Am I doing this right? I don't want to go all the way down to the 900's because that's double the power to the laser...

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opjose

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« Reply #1 on: July 24, 2002, 03:50:00 AM »
QUOTE (rewen @ Jul 24 2002, 07:01 AM)
Hi. I am trying to adjust the POT on my XBOX DVDROM.

Becasue there are no pictures in the tutorial, I was unsure of "Measure between the TOP LEFT and the screw of the pot."

I did manage to get a reading (see the pic) but it was 1800 and that is more than just a little high. Am I doing this right? I don't want to go all the way down to the 900's because that's double the power to the laser...

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                   I doubt that is unusual.

I remember that mine read about 1500+ Ohms and I brought it down to 950.

I haven't had any problems since.

It still will not read CD-R's though. Everything else works just great.

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UsMarine

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« Reply #2 on: July 24, 2002, 03:57:00 AM »
what is the link to that tutorial?
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rewen

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« Reply #3 on: July 24, 2002, 01:14:00 PM »
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I will try 1000 in a moment
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rewen

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« Reply #4 on: July 24, 2002, 02:19:00 PM »
No matter what I set it to, it does this. But it can still tell if it's an XBOX game (shows logo when I go to MS Dashboard with an XBOX game in) and am invalid disc (will say on MS dash)-
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rewen

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« Reply #5 on: July 24, 2002, 02:30:00 PM »
OK I put my Halo copy in and connected to FTP, it shows all the files fine
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rewen

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« Reply #6 on: July 24, 2002, 02:45:00 PM »
Ok now here's something interesting. At around 1500ohms, my DVDRW's finally work, but here's the catch..

I have boxplorer on the hdd, I can use that top view the files on the DVDROM and I can run my game. BUT WHY WON'T IT LOAD WHEN I PUT IN THE DISC AND REBOOT, OR IN THE MS DASH??!?!?!?!

I am going crazy. I tried the drive in another XBOX and it does the same thing.............
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« Reply #7 on: July 24, 2002, 03:15:00 PM »
Adjusted mine to 878 Ohms it will read ALMOSt everything that I put in it.  Exception: Some cheap-ass CD-R (so cheap doesn't have any markings)

Princo DVD-RW and DVD-R used to give me hell now they read as good as an original.

Some say its stupid to adjust the laser but mine worked fine.  So for the people that say its stupid, have fun with your PC-DVD in your uncovered ghetto piece of shit, while mine sets nicely in my entertainment center...With not hint of been screwed with, except it plays everything with no reboots...Off to play my perfectly booting DVD's..

Hope you guys that try this have no problems.

NOTE: Don't go below 800 Ohms or you will screw your laser.

I'm usually in Efnet #0day (Tx-Ranger)
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