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jtancsi1

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Pin Header Troubleshooting
« on: April 02, 2005, 01:17:00 PM »
Soldered the pin header to the Ver 1.0 motherboard (twice!) and cannot get the X-Chip to work. It's still fragging.

The troubleshooting guide says to do a continuity test to verify solder points.  

Question is - continuity between pin header and what?  Obviously there is continuity between the pin header where it was soldered on the back plane and the pin header where the X-Chip plugs in.  It's the same pin!  Are there known test points to check for each pin of the pin header?

Thanks for any advice you can give me.

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jtancsi1

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« Reply #1 on: April 05, 2005, 01:27:00 PM »
Wow! Can't believe there were no responses.  Oh well, I didn't spend the time waiting.  I used a huge ass magnifier to follow the traces from the soldered side of the pin header to nearest point i could use for a continuity check. Every pin was fine.  Found a voltage chart for the pin header, checked that, all good.

Thinking it through, i knew the X-Chip was fine because it responded properly to the X-Control software.  I was now 99.9% positive the my soldering was perfect.  

What was left?  The friggin BIOS!  I downloaded the 1.3 BIOS, flashed the chip, and viola!  the xbox boots showing the EVO-X and X-Chiop logos.

Apparently my first download must have been corrupted.  Hope someone else can learn from my screw-up.  

Now I just have to find media my Philips drive can read.  Argghh.

First 2 attempts at burning Slayer's Auto-Installer to DVD-R gave me two shiny coasters.  Hmmmm.....maybe I should check that download....... <
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christineyoung

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Pin Header Troubleshooting
« Reply #2 on: April 06, 2005, 09:11:00 PM »
I have seen if xchip not securely ( 100% ) pushed down on pin header it would boot normal xbox bios or frag sometimes. <
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jtancsi1

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« Reply #3 on: April 07, 2005, 10:14:00 AM »
QUOTE(christineyoung @ Apr 6 2005, 09:06 PM)
I have seen if xchip not securely ( 100% ) pushed down on pin header it would boot normal xbox bios or frag sometimes.
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No that definitely was not the problem. I had the chip off and on so many times, tried the nickel trick and made sure the the chip was firmly attached to the pin header every time.  I found that if I wasn't carefull it was easy to misalign the chip and only attach it to one row of pins.

Now I'm on to my next trial......properly configuring XBMC SMB shares on my LAN......grrrrr::banging head against a wall:: <
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