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[Chancer]

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Any ideas or suggestions on desoldering the pinheader from the LPC?

You mean apart from the ones you have not responded about?
get a better soldering iron!!
Soldering in a pinheader is a very easy job with only minimal practice. If its hard work the iron is not up to the job.
Be careful because removing it requires a hotter iron than installing it and I feel you may rip traces

[HackDaBox]

A desoldering station makes this a breeze. Or using solder wick / braid or even a solder sucker can be used but if you have no experience then i suggest you send the motherboard and chip to someone to fit it for you.

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[hogfan]

I think my iron is 15 watt.  I'll probably just get some de-soldering braid and remove it.    When I soldered it in, the solder was sticking fine to the pins, but didn't want to suck into the LPC holes.  I applied a bit of solder paste (which contains flux) around the base of the pins, but it still wouldn't suck into the holes.  I can't go out and spend $15 on a new iron that I will probably use twice.  My 15 watt iron has worked fine on all of my other installs.

[Chancer]

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I think my iron is 15 watt. I'll probably just get some de-soldering braid and remove it. When I soldered it in, the solder was sticking fine to the pins, but didn't want to suck into the LPC holes

Its your xbox. I am quite certain by what you describe here that you will do some damage.

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I can't go out and spend $15 on a new iron that I will probably use twice. My 15 watt iron has worked fine on all of my other installs.

All of your other installs?? Hmmm

[hogfan]

Yes, I have done 10+ installs, but never a pinheader type.  All of my boxes have worked fine.  My question is, if I have the pinheader soldered in where I can't pull it out and no traces or LPC points are being bridged, then are the pins not making contact with the LPC points?  I mean I can't move the pinheader at all.

[HackDaBox]

Hmmm thats not a true test. Once a couple of pins are soldered ... then the pinheader will feel strong and will not move around at all but some of the pins will still not be making a good contact. Do you have a multimeter ? maybe test your connections that way! , if not they are really cheap nowadays for a basic meter from rat shack !

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[hogfan]

Thanks for all of the help Hacksdabox.  I worked on the pinheader a bit more, and am sure that each pin is soldered in and making good contact.  Another concern I've had the entire time is that the chip does not light up When I try to boot.  Does the DuoX2 have an LED on it?  My X.B.I.T. has a green light, and the spiders have a blue one.  Should the duox2 be lighting up when I try to boot....because it is not.

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Solder a link wire from BT to G on the DuoX2 like in this picture ...

http://members.lycos...dabox/bt2g.html

You should have D0 from motherboard to D0 on DuoX2

You should NOT have a wire to BT on motherboard ( behind eject button )

Now press power to boot the xbox and the RED led should flash on and off continuously. If your RED light is not flashing resolder your D0 point and double check it's the right via you have soldered to. Use a multimeter to check there is power running throw the LPC. With the xbox on and the dvd-rom removed set your multimeter to volts DC and place the BLACK probe on pin 2 and the RED probe on pin 9, It should read 3.3V. Now move the RED probe to pin 6, It should read 5V. If you don't get power resolder the connections after you turn the xbox off. Also have a look for broken traces around the LPC points.

If the RED led flashes but the MS BIOS boots then the D0 point is the problem and you will need to resolder it. Try using the bottom side D0 as it's easier. Try booting my HackDaBox Reflash Cd as sometimes people think the chip isn't working becuase the MS dashboard boots but this is normal, it won't look different unless you have installed a replacement dashboard.

Finally if your DuoX2 chip now behaves like it should and boots up fine into the hacked bios and flashed a RED led then your BT wire was your problem and you can now remove the link from BT to G and now fit a wire from the DuoX2 BT to the BT on the motherboard ( behind the eject button ) or the alternate BT point on the bottom side of the motherboard.

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Here is a picture of the LPC pinouts to help with the multimeter info ...

http://members.lycos...kdabox/lpc.html

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