Topic: Duox 2 Knockoffs? (Read 128 times)

Unseen Shadow · « **on:** April 10, 2005, 10:54:00 PM »

There are no duox clones to my knowledge. That is not to say that there arent dodgy chips that poor suppliers resell when they find out they dont work. try the other chip in another xbox just to see.

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zaker · « **Reply #1 on:** April 11, 2005, 05:17:00 AM »

They were packaged as new in a two compartment (mod & header) sealed antistatic bag, but the soldering left something to be desired, a lot of flux/sloppy around the switches.

Just wondered about the knockoffs because I did see somewhere here there were some of another mod.

Supposed to be getting replacements, we'll see how it works out.

Chancer · « **Reply #2 on:** April 11, 2005, 10:47:00 AM »

The chips are not knock offs. It would seem what has happened is the flash rom for the Blue type has strayed into the Flashroms for the White.

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Hit eject, boots xbox mode. No mod chip, just frags.

This is not a chip problem. I suspect as it happened after the HDD install that is where the problem lies. You will know when you get the new chips but 300 plus blue ones and not one faulty yet fingers crossed

ModdingManiac · « **Reply #3 on:** April 11, 2005, 11:05:00 AM »

From what I understand some distributors have customed made chips. So it could have been that some White Edition Duox2 were preflashed like the Blue ones for a particular distributor.

cubistproject · « **Reply #4 on:** April 11, 2005, 10:10:00 PM »

YES there are DuoX2 clones in the market place.

I've got a sample one coming from a port city in China. It is fully proclaimed to be a clone and no one is hiding that fact from me.

I havn't seen any in white, but that doesn't mean that they aren't out there.

Chancer · « **Reply #5 on:** April 12, 2005, 06:22:00 AM »

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Yes DuoX 2 clones do exist have for quite some time.

Not according to Team Omega. the pS2 ones have been cloned I know and I once had a Green DuoX2 that looked dodgy but DuoX chips are not widely cloned.
Could you post a picture of the clone please? How do you know its a clone?

Chancer · « **Reply #6 on:** April 12, 2005, 10:30:00 AM »

What about the blue ones? Where are these clones available at the moment and more importantly what price? They look really poorly made. Beats me why they even call them by the same name as the original.
Like I said i have seen 1 green one (sent to me by silent scream) and it looked an obvious fake.

sampoman · « **Reply #7 on:** April 12, 2005, 07:15:00 PM »

Blue are available also, but they only had white in stock at the time. You are right, one look at the chips and you can see they are clones, worse is there are many HK suppliers selling these chips either delibrately telling their customers they are original even though they know they are clones, or they dont even know they are clones, as not many people know DuoX 2 clones are on the market. So you may find some shops with clone stock and they honestly arent even aware they are clones. Easiest way to spot the clone is an extremely poor paint job on the PCB, soldering on the PCB is nowhere near as neat and clean as originals and the IC without any printing on it has been scratched down to remove its markings. Price well lets say a little more than Aladdin clones, and if you see anyone doing really amazing low prices on small quantities, then its a clone.

intruder · « **Reply #8 on:** April 14, 2005, 06:06:00 PM »

the chip can say HUNDI, AMD or FUJITSU on them..

white or blue..

you need a 512 bios for the doux 2 chip to flash..

m8plus_v1.6 comes as a 256, you must change and install in a 512
for a version 1.6 box.

Unseen Shadow · « **Reply #9 on:** April 15, 2005, 05:19:00 PM »

QUOTE(intruder @ Apr 14 2005, 02:12 PM)

the chip can say HUNDI, AMD or FUJITSU on them..

hippo · « **Reply #10 on:** April 15, 2005, 09:11:00 PM »

The mark up on a doux makes it less of a clone target it's already dirt cheap.

cubistproject · « **Reply #11 on:** April 19, 2005, 11:14:00 AM »

I've now found 2 blue clones and 1 white clone.

I'll post pictures shortly next to an original.

The ones I'm finding are extremely well made, but aren't marked with DuoX logos. They use the Xilinx CPLD. I can't see what they're using for the bios tho. I'm going re-brand them so they don't get resold as real duos.

I'll be selling them shortly... For a very very low price.

Keep an eye out.

I'm aiming for May 5th

Unseen Shadow · « **Reply #12 on:** April 19, 2005, 05:32:00 PM »

I have lots of paper work to get done this evening....would you mind passing on those pictures to me once you take them.....if i dont see come back to this thread later on today would you mind emailing me the pictures.... to this account [email protected] (not worried about spam....its got two gigs of storage....and i dont really use that account much)

cubistproject · « **Reply #13 on:** April 19, 2005, 08:48:00 PM »

I can't post pictures right now; I'm studying for my International Trade exam.

I can post a little info to help people identify thier fakes tho!!!!!

I'm starting a new thread.

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