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[DaddyJ]

QUOTE(_elysium @ Mar 21 2005, 09:25 PM)

Hey,
Well i'm a total xbox mod noob, but i followed daddyj's nice litle tutorial and everything worked flawlessly..

I took pics of the entire process, so if anyone is interested I can post them here..

Thanks Daddyj for such a clear and helpful tutorial, it made my xbox-modding painless, free and easy!

Let me know if you guys want to see photos of the soft-modding!

Thanks, sure post them.

[_elysium]

Here are the pics of my recent soft-mod.
My xbox is a PAL, version 1.6 (Bought in New Zealand, the "halo" pack)



before the mod


six screws removed, the lid is off


Close-up of the standard xbox hdd


I unscrewed the hdd tray and removed the hard drive so I could access it a bit easier..


Here's a shot of the xbox logo, by now the IDE cable has been removed and my xbox hd is unlocked


here it is, all hooked up while i'm accessing the disk.


shot of the xbrowser backup tool (also known as midnight commander)


finished, with evox running!


Basically I followed the tutorial step-by-step, using the uxe exploit..

I had a couple of tries at getting the unlocking right, but after the 3rd time I had it easily..
I found it works best if you watch the xbox boot up a couple of times, to get your timing rightr then unplug the cable JUST BEFORE the MS words appear..

anyway, any questions, feel free to ask

[Skandranon]

I have hotswaped my xbox useing this method, although I read it first elswhere. This is a very well writen tutorial. Thank you.

I have a question I was hoping you could help with. I have a 160 gig harddrive and its only showing 130 gigs or so. I have been told I need to upgrade the bios to evov M8. I got the metoo m8 plus. Is this safe to use with a xbox moded in this manner? If it is do I have to put the orginal eeprom in the config file? It says you do then 4 line later it says in m8 you dont.

I have broken and fixed my xbox 3-4 times. Learning experances all of them!   ANyway I dont feel like doing that again and I want to make 100% sure I wont before useing this program.

Thanks for any help!

[Keo-Keo]

QUOTE(Skandranon @ Apr 2 2005, 12:25 AM)

I have hotswaped my xbox useing this method, although I read it first elswhere. This is a very well writen tutorial. Thank you.

I have a question I was hoping you could help with. I have a 160 gig harddrive and its only showing 130 gigs or so. I have been told I need to upgrade the bios to evov M8. I got the metoo m8 plus. Is this safe to use with a xbox moded in this manner? If it is do I have to put the orginal eeprom in the config file? It says you do then 4 line later it says in m8 you dont.

I have broken and fixed my xbox 3-4 times. Learning experances all of them!  ANyway I dont feel like doing that again and I want to make 100% sure I wont before useing this program.

Thanks for any help!

just use NKpatcher 9+ kingroach made a xboxhdm package for it..

[Skandranon]

There is no way to do this without taking the HD out? If I have to do that then I have to use a buddys desktop. Was hoping to avoid that because it sucks diging it out.

[triggernum5]

That one pic of the hdd sitting circuits down ontop of the metallic dvd drive scares me..  Doing this is a very bad idea..  I find its usually most convenient to lean the top side of the hdd against the metal EM shielding..
Killing your hdd before retrieving your eeprom.bin means chip time..

[_elysium]

QUOTE(triggernum5 @ Apr 3 2005, 02:43 AM)

That one pic of the hdd sitting circuits down ontop of the metallic dvd drive scares me..  Doing this is a very bad idea..  I find its usually most convenient to lean the top side of the hdd against the metal EM shielding..
Killing your hdd before retrieving your eeprom.bin means chip time..

Naw, it was fine

I agree though, if I was doing it again i'd be a little more careful about sitting the hdd on top of the dvd drive.. leaning it against the metal shielding is a good idea, but putting something under the drive (an anti-static bag or something) and leaving it sitting on the dvd drive would be better..

[Xamen]

Hi there, great tutorial!

Just softmodded my first xbox using this tut and everything actualy went pretty well, i can do everything, like running all sorts of apps and emulators and playing Divx films... but yeah there is a pretty huge BUT, i have a lot of backupped games here and none of them is beeing reconized by the dvd-rom, about every game or other backked up media i try to run doesnt work, dvd-rom empty is a very common message.
I tested one original game, no problem, doesnt even take one sec to run an original disc, but coppied once... damn...
One backupped game did work for a few seconds, after that the "disc may be dirty or dammaged" message came up, but visualy there is nothing wrong with the discs.
i also tried to swap regions in the evox settings, that doesn't work either, it almost looks like the laser is dirty, but that doesnt fit every sympton either, aaaH!

anyone ?

Sebas

[Xamen]

QUOTE(Xamen @ Apr 4 2005, 03:58 PM)

Hi there, great tutorial!

Just softmodded my first xbox using this tut and everything actualy went pretty well, i can do everything, like running all sorts of apps and emulators and playing Divx films... but yeah there is a pretty huge BUT, i have a lot of backupped games here and none of them is beeing reconized by the dvd-rom, about every game or other backked up media i try to run doesnt work, dvd-rom empty is a very common message.
I tested one original game, no problem, doesnt even take one sec to run an original disc, but coppied once... damn...
One backupped game did work for a few seconds, after that the "disc may be dirty or dammaged" message came up, but visualy there is nothing wrong with the discs.
i also tried to swap regions in the evox settings, that doesn't work either, it almost looks like the laser is dirty, but that doesnt fit every sympton either, aaaH!

anyone ?

Sebas

to bad this forum hasn't got a delete function, anyway.. i hooked up a new dvd-burner to my XBOX and now everything works fine, so laser must be indeed dirty or something, so now you all know there is nothing wrong with this tut!

This post has been edited by Xamen: Apr 4 2005, 07:25 PM

[CrimsonSapien]

Great tutorial DaddyJ, between your very easy to follow instructions and Ldots great liveCD, I was able to hotswap my HD and softmod it in a little over a half hour (my 1st and only n00b mistake during the process was to forget to put the exploit into the C directory of the ISO, thank goodness for external drives and laptops!   ) My next step is to load applications.

Once again thank you for this clear and concise guide.

[Xamen]

Yep, great thanks here too!!!
it worked out without a glitch actualy, i made the kid next door very happy with his totaly new xbox, i got it running loads of stuff now, emulators, XBMC and all that kind of stuff.. and that dvd-rom thing where it wouldn't read any burned games, that turned out to be that pot resistor trick wich also worked for me so 200% succes story over here!

THANKS

Sebas

[nazreal]

   Thanks for the tutorial.. I just installed on a v1.6 box by your write up no probs at all.. Damn near noob proof!! Took all of about a half hour.

[shak3zula]

Thank you very much for this tutorial. I looked at the TeamO2 tutorial, but it was geared towards using UDE/UDE2, and seemed rather outdated. This one was square on.

I used xboxhdm 1.9 and UXE Complete from the "usual sources" burned at 4x. I tried hotswapping on an old Dell Optiplex GX1 for the simple sake of not having to crack open my P4, it DID NOT WORK. I think it was a problem with the BIOS on the Dell, as xboxhdm could see the drive, but not the xbox partition. I tried about 2 dozen times too, with and with out the detection, etc.

The PC (MSI Board P4) worked the first time, and I did it blind. I booted the xbox up with out a disc, and let it get to the dashboard, took about 5 min before I swapped the cable, and the cable was off for about a minute and a half. Backing up the original xbox C took about 5 minutes, and installing evoX from the UXE/xboxhdm cd took about 2 more.

My XboX is a 1.6b version, manufactured 10/04. I don't care about XboX Live, I just wanted to play burned games. It works like a charm!

Thanks again!

This post has been edited by shak3zula: Apr 11 2005, 05:05 PM

[agass4u]

I tried my luck at hotswapping yesterday and unfortunately it did not go so well.  Basically after several attempts my hard drive will not spin at all anymore and I was unable to get my hard drive key before this happened.  Does anyone know what I can do to set up a new hard drive for my X-Box?  I realize that I will probably have to install a mod chip to fix this, but I am not exactly sure how I should go about doing this.  Does anyone have any idea were I can start, because as of right now I have $150 paper weight that blinks pretty red and green colors.  If anyone has any suggestions, I would greatly appreciate it.  Thanks.

[a_DraGoN_Jai]

hello. followed your tutorial and trying to softmod my xbox.  everything work successfully until the point where i try to boot into evox for the 1st time(to get the eeprom file)  I cant boot into evox.

i am sure the files on the cd are correct, which i need xboxhdm and the uxxe complete.
My xbox is a pal version crystal xbox.

can any1 tell me where i have gone wrong?
ANy help will be great.! thankyou everyone.

cheers.