Topic: Check Your Chameleon Carfully (Read 211 times)

slappy00 · « **on:** September 22, 2003, 09:34:00 PM »

I got my Chameleon today w/adaptor and was all set to start enjoying the wide world of XBOX mods whaen after cleaning and scraping the lpcs a bitand installing the chameleon, I got reset/reset/FRAG with no blue light.

No problem, just giggle it a bit and.... nothing, no led: reset reset FRAG....

Whipped out some AWG 20 and grounded the D0 to the case turned the xbox on Reset-Reset-FRAG ...

undid the AWG 20 and put the chameleon back on turned xbox on ... waitied for it to frag and then whipeed out the multimeter and checked it for +3.3v (on the solderpads of the cham)... yes there is +3.3v the hell is going on

So i start looking at the chip very carefully and noticed that one of the legs connecting the center chip (says chem 1.3 on it (sticker-style

) ) to the pcb was broke-off the leg was right below the "P" in "PIN-H" written on the pcb....

Now normally i would whip-out the ol' 20W and some tin and take care of it, but this is hella-small connection and there is no way i could do it w/o bridging the adjecet pins....

so i am going to send it back to ez-2000....

Check your chip chances are if you are sure you did the install right the chip is bad... sucks to be me...

as an aside EZ2000 really has a problem packing their stuff adiquately I got my cham in a priority enevlope, with only some popped shrink-wrap protecting it

...

deadly · « **Reply #1 on:** September 22, 2003, 09:57:00 PM »

I got my chip a couple of days ago.With a plastic bubuly wrap and at first nothing worked so i was afraid that my chip was mess up so then I screwn in my chip good and very thing worked/.

jalalabadass · « **Reply #2 on:** September 22, 2003, 10:27:00 PM »

well i havnt read one good review about ez2000. more of you should try www.xbox-wired.com. havnt read one bad review about them.

deadly · « **Reply #3 on:** September 22, 2003, 10:31:00 PM »

I got mine from easybuy2000

slappy00 · « **Reply #4 on:** September 22, 2003, 10:45:00 PM »

im getting my new chem from xbox-wired (probably have to wait weeks if i wanted to get an exchange from easy2000) .. hopefully wired will send a quality product ... packed nicely instead of ghetto-style Easy2000

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deadly · « **Reply #5 on:** September 22, 2003, 11:24:00 PM »

Yea i wished they packed it better.You know how the US and CAN post office treat the mail.The package when i got it looks like they realy took care it.

Grade "A" service.

Looks like they stomp the living *hit out of it.

slappy00 · « **Reply #6 on:** September 23, 2003, 08:31:00 PM »

QUOTE

BTW- Make sure you don't put the cham on the adapter backwards... like me... and also make sure you push down on the adapter hard, but not crazy hard, after aligning it. It also helps to hold the adapter as someone screws it in for you. Worked everytime.

Doesnt help pushing down when a leg off of the IC is broke-off....

Trust me I did everything imaginable, before i checked it carefully: I think its the crappy shipping enevlope they send it in.

deadly · « **Reply #7 on:** September 23, 2003, 11:30:00 PM »

You should see what easy2000 sends it in.At least you add some white little spongy things.It's a envolope that will get mess up alot if little pressure is added.

ArmyofONE · « **Reply #8 on:** September 24, 2003, 04:57:00 AM »

QUOTE (deadly @ Sep 24 2003, 08:30 AM)

You should see what easy2000 sends it in.At least you add some white little spongy things.It's a envolope that will get mess up alot if little pressure is added.

we use box's becuase why not their free with fed ex and also i would never pack a chip in a envelope just not safe would cost me the seller to much to keep replacing chips and such.

jalalabadass · « **Reply #9 on:** September 24, 2003, 06:11:00 AM »

Army, may I ask how many orders you get per day?

slappy00 · « **Reply #10 on:** September 24, 2003, 08:08:00 AM »

I would show you guys what Ez2000 shipped their chip in but you can probably get an idea just with short explanation:

Its a priority envelope with the chip wrapped in bubble wrap, an invoice, and some styrofoam covering some pinson the adaptor.

When i got this envelope I could see the chip bulging through the cardboard. When i pulled the chip and adaptor out I can safely say that over 70% of the bubble wrap was popped, offering no more protection than food-wrap.

If the sneaky mailperson didnt just leave this on my mailbox i would have outright refused it and had it sent back...

slappy00 · « **Reply #11 on:** September 24, 2003, 01:42:00 PM »

akillamuthafucca · « **Reply #12 on:** September 24, 2003, 02:23:00 PM »

got mine from ezbuy2k and it came intact everything worked fine.
there packaging sucks though. I could give them a few pointers on how to pack something so delicate and small. Well they are canadian what are you gonna do lmao

ArmyofONE · « **Reply #13 on:** September 25, 2003, 10:23:00 AM »

QUOTE (Kazaki @ Sep 25 2003, 01:35 AM)

*looks at tiny apartment mailbox*...

I'm so having the rest of the chips mailed to my friend...

were did you order from?

Kazaki · « **Reply #14 on:** September 25, 2003, 01:21:00 PM »

EZBuy... I'm sure sooner or later one of their chips will break in my mailbox... my mailman is stuffy-happy :-P

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