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Mods, please forgive me if this is in an incorrect place, if it is, please move it to the correct one? I looked for a more suitible one and couldn't find it, but if you know of one, thank you for moving it. Please forgive me as I am new to the forums.

Ok, I'm running a v1.0 Xbox, Thompson DVD drive, original 8gb hd, Dash 3935 kernel 4983. I've put in a new heat sink, modded the fan to 12v and straped another fan with duct tape to the outside of the box. I have never seen the temp hit 120F on the CPU after these mods.

I am using the font exploit and PBL 1.4.1 by Gueux with the X2 4983.

Here's what happens:

In any game (DVD or HDD run) in any polygon intensive area (DOA3 on most levels, and ANYWHERE in Ninja Gaiden)(DVD is original) randomly the game wil freeze, audio will be a short 1/10th of a second loop, and sometimes ejecting will work, and if it does, my Xbox pretends not to have run any PBL. (I've tested this by letting the game freeze, ejecting it, and running a non font signed program).

Now, I say polygon intensive because I can play The Sims and Future Tatics for hours, and never freeze or crash at all.

I did try clearing out saves, cache, and IGR was never on (Even double checked it) and to no avail.

I am running into the following conclusions:

1. That the PBL I am using is causeing problems (Since it seems to have been wiped from memory when the crash/freeze occurs)

2. That the previous owner of the Xbox let it overheat alot and it may have burned the chip permenatly. Is this at all possible?

3. That my dashboard is too old. Anyway to update this without losing my data?

I'm going to try older (read: 1.3.5) releases of PBL and post my mileage in fixing this. If anyone as similar problems, or a suggestion for a solution, please post it.

Edit: Typos and forgot the bios I was using