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Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: _Igor_ on March 29, 2005, 02:53:00 PM

This is a little off topic and i wasn't sure where to put it but i thought it fit best here.
If the mods dont think its apropriate here, then please move or dellete it, i just thought it would be interesting to hear some of the stories of some stupid things you have done while modding your xbox.
me personally:
I was working on my box, i had just turned my soldering iron on, cleaned it, sharpened and tined it. I was working on the edge of a circuit board and was pressing down very hard on a component. Well after a second or two the soldering iron sliped off the edge of the board, and slipped effortlessly into the skin of my left index finger.

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: nicmel on March 29, 2005, 02:54:00 PM

today I removed the jewel (apparantly I didnt need to) and when i put it back on it is upside down. I'm not changing it again, It's unique, which is the whole point of modifications

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Post by: cyfi on March 29, 2005, 02:57:00 PM

i whent to feel the air from the new 12 volt mod and i put my finger in the fan by mistake. it was bleedin

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Post by: brojimh on March 29, 2005, 03:58:00 PM

I replaced a power supply and without it screwed down, I reached in to hold it in place so I could put the power cord in it.

Needless to say, I let go fairly quickly!

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Post by: Shadow1218 on March 29, 2005, 03:04:00 PM

i cleaned my soldering iron under water and then turned it on by accident 1 minute later.....Oh and when I stuck my screwdriver in the PSU. It didn't break but there was shower of sparks and a LOUD popping noise.

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Post by: Infamous_One on March 29, 2005, 03:58:00 PM

Reading this topic.

oh and inserting my penis into a girls vagina 9 months later a kid that i wasnt ready to have.

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Post by: ilikepie on March 29, 2005, 03:05:00 PM

After soldering i turned off my soldering iron. While moving my xbox i knocked it over and burnt my carpet

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Post by: sapper on March 29, 2005, 03:46:00 PM

well i got one i thought was funny. Several weeks ago i recieved an xbox from a fellow X-S member because he said he installed his pin header but the chip would still not function. I recieved his system and realized very quickly what the problem was. He installed the pin header upside down. Yep, thats right upside down.

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Post by: XBOXCUSTOMS69 on March 29, 2005, 04:08:00 PM

Well, i got one. I had 2 identical v1.0 mobo's, one worked just fine, and one was broken (unfixable). So for some stupid reason i started tearing chips off of the broken one. I later found out that the one that i tore apart was the good one, i was pissed.

One of my customers came back to me wanting his xbox returned to normal (unmodded) so he could go on live. He had a tsop flash, so i reflashed the bios with an original. When it restarted, it gave me an error. Upon investigation, i realized that id forgotten to re-lock the hard drive. I had to order a damn mod chip to fix it.

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today I removed the jewel (apparantly I didnt need to) and when i put it back on it is upside down. I'm not changing it again, It's unique, which is the whole point of modifications

My friend did the same thing.

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Post by: XxXDarkwraitHXxX on March 29, 2005, 04:21:00 PM

QUOTE(Infamous_One @ Mar 29 2005, 02:04 PM)

oh and inserting my penis into a girls vagina 9 months later a kid that i wasnt ready to have.

I have 2 words for that: TROJAN MAN!!!!!

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Post by: flashfreak on March 29, 2005, 04:22:00 PM

i've made so many mistakes. its so annoying. i'll make a list:

1) Accidentally put my finger b/n the psu and the cpu heatsink. I got electrocuted and sent the power off throughout the house.
2) Tried to frost my jewel with newspaper underneath to catch the spray. The newspaper is stuck to the top of the jewel and will not come off! I've tried everything! Its got crappy glue marks all over it too.
3) Installed a chip for a friend (duo x2) and it didn't work. We tried everything and nearly paid $80 for some1 to have a deep investigation of it. Later I figured out that you simply needed the wire to the eject button on for it to work.
4) Didn't have anything to wipe the soldering iron on in range :P so i wiped it on some old carpet, but for the next month or so, the iron smelt foul.
5) Plugging the xbox into the mains once, it was dark and i was feeling around with my finger to find the power socket. Eventually i found it and guided the pins in with my fingers. Zaaap!

Theres a lot more but mainly small things that aren't important. I'm sure everyones had the problem of putting the xbox back together and realising you missed something. I'm so sick of that so I test everything all the time now.

By the way, there was a thread like this a while ago but I'm sure its gone by now.

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: thecheat on March 29, 2005, 04:25:00 PM

QUOTE(cyfi @ Mar 29 2005, 10:57 PM)

i whent to feel the air from the new 12 volt mod and i put my finger in the fan by mistake. it was bleedin

QUOTE(brojimh @ Mar 29 2005, 11:04 PM)

I replaced a power supply and without it screwed down, I reached in to hold it in place so I could put the power cord in it.

Needless to say, I let go fairly quickly! <_<

done both of those, electrocuted myself countless times, and lets just say mr. soldering iron likes to burn me. and danm my 12v fan was a deep cut. and ive killed my hands on the metal shielding(cutting =sharp edges) and i electrocuted myself on the cc inverter. so yea i never learn.

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Post by: rmbell on March 29, 2005, 04:58:00 PM

did a double HDD mod, and appearently mixed one of the powers up, so a poor defenseless 120gb got 12v to the 5v pin and 5v to the 12v pin. So ya, melted chips smell oh so bad.

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Post by: Northcarolina ReDn3k on March 29, 2005, 05:57:00 PM

on my first mod i was putting my box back together and i screwd it back together and it wouldnt turn on. so i opended it and i found a huge hole in my ide cable wheere a screw went through it.

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: nicmel on March 29, 2005, 06:08:00 PM

and i thought mine was bad, look at the jewel
http://img.photobuck...ne/DSCF0366.jpg (still incomplete though, please don't knock it)

These show the mess I made of the jewel! I didnt even need to touch it, i just went ahead without reading up first.
http://img.photobuck...ne/DSCF0367.jpg
http://img.photobuck...ne/DSCF0368.jpg

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Post by: wizz_kid on March 29, 2005, 06:10:00 PM

i have countless soldering iron burns and both of my irons smell foul lol...many people do stupid things when there modding but you gotta live with it its just modding
Regards
WK

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Post by: Software2 on March 29, 2005, 06:16:00 PM

QUOTE(rmbell @ Mar 29 2005, 07:58 PM)

So ya, melted chips smell oh so bad.

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Post by: XxXDarkwraitHXxX on March 29, 2005, 06:20:00 PM

I was holding the CPU heatsink clip down (i broke it;long story) and I rested my hand on the psu while it was on. Lets just say that I have quick reflexes.

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Post by: burke1503 on March 29, 2005, 06:22:00 PM

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Post by: wizz_kid on March 29, 2005, 06:22:00 PM

sorry to be off topic but dark wraith this has happend to me and i wanna know where u can get the black clip have u bought a new one?
Regards
WK

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Post by: Software2 on March 29, 2005, 06:32:00 PM

Ah, I know what stupid thing I've done!
I have left my soldering iron on overnight FOUR seperate times. One time, it was on for 2 days straight.

The simple fact that I'm telling you this should indicate nothing happened, thankfully.

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: XxXDarkwraitHXxX on March 29, 2005, 06:39:00 PM

QUOTE(wizz_kid @ Mar 29 2005, 04:28 PM)

sorry to be off topic but dark wraith this has happend to me and i wanna know where u can get the black clip have u bought a new one?

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Post by: ruli00 on March 29, 2005, 06:55:00 PM

and it was.

ouch

-ruli00

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Post by: killerbootsman on March 29, 2005, 07:04:00 PM

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Post by: Shadow1218 on March 29, 2005, 07:11:00 PM

the only topic better would be, "post pictures of half naked girls"......but that would be banned...

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Post by: BmoreI9s06 on March 29, 2005, 07:43:00 PM

iunno if i wood call this stupied or creativity but i have a rock in my xbox to hold down my solderlessadpater, check out my thread for the pics.

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Post by: Shadow1218 on March 29, 2005, 07:44:00 PM

yeah, that is just weird

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Post by: hawaiianblood44 on March 29, 2005, 07:45:00 PM

Blood,

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: thecheat on March 29, 2005, 07:47:00 PM

QUOTE(BmoreI9s06 @ Mar 30 2005, 02:49 AM)

iunno if i wood call this stupied or creativity but i have a rock in my xbox to hold down my solderlessadpater, check out my thread for the pics.

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: wizz_kid on March 29, 2005, 07:51:00 PM

QUOTE(thecheat @ Mar 30 2005, 01:53 AM)

you spelled stupid wrong.....

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: thecheat on March 29, 2005, 07:55:00 PM

well im from alabama so i have look out for those kind of things becuase everyone thinks were red-necks and cant spell for shit.

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: tutyet on March 29, 2005, 08:02:00 PM

i think it was my first install, i didnt understand the tut and i solderd both the d0 points to the chip.

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: ninjax on March 29, 2005, 08:03:00 PM

QUOTE(BmoreI9s06 @ Mar 29 2005, 08:49 PM)

iunno if i wood call this stupied or creativity but i have a rock in my xbox to hold down my solderlessadpater, check out my thread for the pics.

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Post by: Dark_Woofer on March 29, 2005, 08:18:00 PM

Things i've done :
- Screwed a TSOP chip by trying to unsolder it
- Burned myself i dont know how many times with that soldering iron
- Solder splatch over the board, the DVD drive and the front panel
- Electrocuted a few times
- Burned my case with the soldering iron a few times :x

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Post by: freakk123 on March 29, 2005, 08:30:00 PM

Once I had two soldering irons on at the same time (both me and a friend were in the midst of some soldering), sitting on the floor in stands. A wire somehow got pulled and one soldering iron made it over to the power wire of the other, burning through the insulation and touching the wires through which the power was running. It took three shots of sparks before we found what was causing them and unplugged it.

There are other things, but nothing in particular comes to mind right now

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Post by: _Igor_ on March 29, 2005, 08:42:00 PM

i was working on my box once, and my cousin and her daughter my second cousin, came over to visit for a while. She sat and watched me work and when her mom said they were leaving she had a pillow in her lap that i had left on the floor. When she got up she apperently forgot about the pillow and it got tossed directly on my bran new, perfectly clean soldering iron. That was my favorite pillow too.
I got lucky on this next one:
I was tinning a very springy wire and was trying to get some excss solder off of it, the wire slipped off the iron and catapulted the still hot solder strait for my eye. Luckily i happened to be blinking when the solder hit me but wow that has to be one of the most painfull burns, second only to the time i stabbed myself with the hot iron.
Another on:
I was working with a high temp glue gun and got a large piece of glue on my finger. After the burn subsided i pulled the glue off and a VERY deep chunk of skin came off with it. I prolly should have seen a doctor about it but i didn't and i am none the worse for wear......well somwhat

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Post by: EzE01 on March 29, 2005, 09:11:00 PM

i have burned myself and eletricuted myself .. but... who hasnt
i have a hole in my carpet and ive left my iron on over night

oh and a glue gun over like an hour that was bad big pile of glue on the carpet
cutting drilling or ANYTHING b4 mesureing or makeing sure i wanted it like that
not puting clear coat on a controler after paint (that was my 1st mod)

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Post by: Northcarolina ReDn3k on March 29, 2005, 09:15:00 PM

the sheets were burnt and smoking when i got home...!

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Post by: thecheat on March 29, 2005, 09:23:00 PM

90% of these accidents could have been avoided if we would only have to apply for a soldering licence. and pass a soldering test. my motto that i stole from someone "some people shoudn't be able to mod their xbox... much less use power tools."

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Post by: Poppeseed on March 29, 2005, 09:25:00 PM

HE would Shoot it at his Face.

I once left my soldering iron on for 4 days, and then went to do some more modding, bent over to plug it in and almost burned my face, it hit the iron, and I jumped up and knocked my chair over.

I also was using a Dremel cutting disc, set it down in my garage on the concrete floor, and it ran around in circles...

I've grabbed the metal end of a soldering iron before too, that hurts...

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Post by: Mr.INSANE on March 29, 2005, 09:25:00 PM

i accidently deleted a main part of my softmod while updating linux good thing i fixed it and ive been shocked many a time

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Post by: EzE01 on March 29, 2005, 09:28:00 PM

QUOTE(Mr.INSANE @ Mar 29 2005, 08:31 PM)

i accidently deleted a main part of my softmod while updating linux good thing i fixed it and ive been shocked many a time

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Post by: tctsk8r on March 29, 2005, 09:33:00 PM

QUOTE(_Igor_ @ Mar 29 2005, 08:48 PM)

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Post by: Software2 on March 29, 2005, 10:02:00 PM

I wanted to test an industrial strength glue/sealant, to see how strong it would be. So I poured an inch or so into a plastic cup, and set it down on the floor. I came back the next morning, to discover it had dissolved the cup, and had bonded with the carpet... Quite a big bare spot there now.

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Post by: killerbootsman on March 29, 2005, 10:05:00 PM

QUOTE(sheliak @ Mar 30 2005, 05:08 AM)

I guess the stupidest thing I have ever done is going through three v1.0 mother boards to get my UV xbox to work. I still don't know wtf went wrong. Luckly I was able to fix one of the mobos. There's a link to the xbox in my sig. The problem must be somehow related to the Knight Rider under glow circuit. I don't know, fuck it, it works now.

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Post by: cyfi on March 29, 2005, 10:40:00 PM

a picture is worth a thousand words

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Post by: wizz_kid on March 29, 2005, 10:50:00 PM

QUOTE(Software2 @ Mar 30 2005, 04:08 AM)

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Post by: ChInEsE ChIcKeN on March 29, 2005, 11:48:00 PM

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Post by: Software2 on March 29, 2005, 11:48:00 PM

QUOTE(wizz_kid @ Mar 30 2005, 12:56 AM)

LOL LOL LOL

that made my day i dunno why hehehehe

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Post by: m82a1 on March 29, 2005, 11:52:00 PM

i couldnt play xbox for 5 days!!

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Post by: ramos on March 30, 2005, 12:51:00 AM

The color combo or the jewel. Your choice.

I've burned myself quite a bit, left the soldering iron on overnight, twice.
I also have an outlet that doesn't have a cover on it ATM. I was plugging my TV/Xbox in one night, and pushed my fingers in too far, and touched two screws on the side of the thing. Flew across the room and knocked over my chair.

Tried to hook up something with a totally differnet power cord, lost power to the house on that one.

About the glue one, similar happened to me. Used to skateboard and heard that gasoline was ideal for cleaning your bearings. So I took some gasoline, and a bowl and poured it into the bowl. Was too young to realize that styrofoam and gasoline don't mix well, and had a nice garage covered in gas.

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Post by: hb2k on March 30, 2005, 12:55:00 AM

Used tin snips to make a dvd window.

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Post by: -PanZer- on March 30, 2005, 01:10:00 AM

QUOTE

About the glue one, similar happened to me. Used to skateboard and heard that gasoline was ideal for cleaning your bearings. So I took some gasoline, and a bowl and poured it into the bowl. Was too young to realize that styrofoam and gasoline don't mix well, and had a nice garage covered in gas.

Dissolve enough styrofoam and you got a nice little firejelly mixture, its fun to light on fire and fling at things or creatures....

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This is what happend to me. I wasnt modding a box but messing w/ a dvd player. I was heating up the solder and lifted a component. SOlder splashes in my eye. I DIDN't blink. Yeah u get the point. BTW this was w/ a 40w IRON.

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I got lucky on this next one:
I was tinning a very springy wire and was trying to get some excss solder off of it, the wire slipped off the iron and catapulted the still hot solder strait for my eye. Luckily i happened to be blinking when the solder hit me but wow that has to be one of the most painfull burns, second only to the time i stabbed myself with the hot iron.

Use Eye Protection, I have some goggles left from my chem lab that I use, always use em when working with solder or a dremel....

As for me well, I havent been moddin long but I have managed to drip solder on my halo le case, luckily it was on the inside toward the back so its barely noticeable from the outside....

O yeah, and dont plug in you xbox with the cover off

Thats how i avoid electrocution

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Post by: Big_L on March 30, 2005, 01:30:00 AM

I returned an xbox back to walmart after my first install attempt, which failed horribly. I dunno what was worse, the fact that they took it back, or that I left the mod chip inside.

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Post by: BaRTiMuS on March 30, 2005, 01:33:00 AM

But im a cook so my fingers arent as succeptable to burns as most peoples.

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Post by: cyfi on March 30, 2005, 01:36:00 AM

QUOTE(Big_L @ Mar 30 2005, 12:36 AM)

I returned an xbox back to walmart after my first install attempt, which failed horribly. I dunno what was worse, the fact that they took it back, or that I left the mod chip inside.

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Post by: Software2 on March 30, 2005, 01:36:00 AM

I'll probably have some new major screw ups by the end of the week. I know something is bound to go wrong with this new mod.

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Post by: giwen on March 30, 2005, 04:03:00 AM

QUOTE(brojimh @ Mar 29 2005, 11:04 PM)

I replaced a power supply and without it screwed down, I reached in to hold it in place so I could put the power cord in it.

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Post by: Cossack1977 on March 30, 2005, 04:22:00 AM

Oh were do i start.

Is this stupid things with xbox or in general.

Here's a couple out of a possible 100.
1)Was wet sanding using a bucket of water and an electric sander. Lucky im alive.

2)Used artic silver adhesive to put on some cooling chips onto brand new pc mobo and then found out that it blocked a few cables to tried to pull it off and removed most of the traces on the board at the same time.

3) yeah did that screwed mod up and took box back to kmart minus HDD. LOL.

4)was sstanding on a table to change a light globe and slipped and broke 3 ribs funny thing is i can reach the glove standing on the floor

5)A few mates way to drunk decided to do some roller blading on the driveway. my car was in the way so we decided to push it back not drive it. HMMM big brick pillar next to car, car door open 5 guys pushing guess what bent the door nearly back in half.

6) and yes i can keep going.

7) one more. had a perfectley working xbox with a chip me and bro decided to pull that chip out and put the new ver in for no good reason. hmm fucked up removing old chip and ended up buying new box same day.

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Post by: cyfi on March 30, 2005, 04:28:00 AM

damn i should start buying xboxs, takeing out all the insides, fill it with rocks to the appropriate wieght and give it back, haha

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Post by: Cossack1977 on March 30, 2005, 04:31:00 AM

come off and back on like new even the security ones on the box

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Post by: popwar on March 30, 2005, 04:32:00 AM

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Post by: Shadow1218 on March 30, 2005, 09:09:00 AM

Well I put my soldering iron on one of those cheap radioshack stands and went to the bathroom. When I came out, the stand was burnt through and my soldering uron was covered in black shit......then it stopped workijng.....dam you radioshack!!!

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Post by: flashfreak on March 30, 2005, 05:11:00 PM

i just read how some1 else has had a hot glue accident but them im sure a lot of other ppl have too. i put some down but it was in the wrong spot so i tried to move it with my finger. u wonder why they call it hot glue

leaves a burn just like the soldering iron does, maybe worse sometimes

edit: added more funny things i'd read:

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I returned an xbox back to walmart after my first install attempt, which failed horribly. I dunno what was worse, the fact that they took it back, or that I left the mod chip inside.

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3) yeah did that screwed mod up and took box back to kmart minus HDD. LOL.

i wonder if they'd ever come after you. its actually a good idea. get some old ports (av, lan and power) and glue them in the back on the box, leave in controller ports and put something heavy in there. you'd probably get away with it! but then later they'd hunt you down and you'd be in a lot of shit. i dunno what they'd call it or who would come after you, but it'd be funny, for a little while.

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Post by: hawaiianblood44 on March 30, 2005, 05:53:00 PM

i know somebody who tried to weld their chip. stupid dont you think.

Blood,

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Post by: Software2 on March 30, 2005, 05:56:00 PM

that's nuts! Did they know anything about circuits?

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Post by: crazyclown1337 on March 30, 2005, 07:12:00 PM

definitely burnt myself, left the soldering on overnight at least 4 or 5 times, and I've left it on for a couple days once or twice... it still works, spent at least 3 or 4 hours trying to figure out what was wrong with my controller port LED mod when I realized that since they werent inserted into teh case they werent grounded

on a side note when I was like 9 I put the car in neutral, pushed it out of the garage and on to the driveway. I decided that the way to stop a car that weighs a couple tons from rolling is to go to the other end and try to push it the other way with my scrawny little arms... luckily my older bro sprinted out and hit the brakes before it rolled across the street...

ahhhhh, good times!

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Post by: KiemRaekerm on March 30, 2005, 07:14:00 PM

The stupidest thing I've done was probably accidently touching the PSU when the Xbox was on. Got a little shock, which wasn't too fun. I have a monster list of stupid things my friends (who can't mod worth shit) have done. Instead of using a dremel or drill, one of my friends tried to use a woodburner to cut a jewel hole. It's now melted all around the jewel. Another tried cutting through the DVD tray for the DVD window with a hacksaw. It worked but looks like shit. And he also tried painting his Xbox, while it was completely together, and used very little tape. Then to fix the horrible paint job (before he realized the Xbox was broken) he used regular paint (not spray paint). Yeah...

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Post by: thecheat on March 30, 2005, 07:41:00 PM

your friends should not be allowed to mod their xbox's, or use power tools.

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Post by: Dingbat773 on March 30, 2005, 08:07:00 PM

QUOTE(freakk123 @ Mar 29 2005, 09:36 PM)

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Post by: thecheat on March 30, 2005, 08:09:00 PM

i promise you this thread will never end.....

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Post by: tctsk8r on March 30, 2005, 09:37:00 PM

I left a burn that looks like a taradactoly (SP) This will never end i need to turn off the notification I have gone through 50 emails.

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Post by: sheliak on March 30, 2005, 09:42:00 PM

QUOTE(okandroid @ Mar 30 2005, 10:45 PM)

First time modding an xbox, soldered a chameleon chip in. Probably worked fine but I freaked out cause I got no video; tv was off. Desoldering the chip fucked up my mobo and made me buy a new one. Im taking a hiatus from modding two xboxes later. Stock biatch.

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Post by: Northcarolina ReDn3k on March 30, 2005, 09:48:00 PM

QUOTE(thecheat @ Mar 30 2005, 09:15 PM)

i promise you this thread will never end.....

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Post by: okandroid on March 30, 2005, 09:53:00 PM

QUOTE(Northcarolina ReDn3k @ Mar 30 2005, 09:54 PM)

I promise that you will never end..you post soo much uselss things..i geuss you are x-s's new #1 spammer...thats a award to yuo congrats

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Post by: thecheat on March 30, 2005, 09:55:00 PM

well most of the time i post im at school and have nothing better to do, im in the 9th grade learning how to use excel......nuf said

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Post by: Northcarolina ReDn3k on March 30, 2005, 09:58:00 PM

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Post by: n3r0 on March 30, 2005, 09:59:00 PM

this site is blocked in our school so no useless posts from there from me.

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Post by: ruli00 on March 30, 2005, 10:11:00 PM

QUOTE(n3r0 @ Mar 30 2005, 11:05 PM)

this site is blocked in our school so no useless posts from there from me.

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Post by: killerbootsman on March 30, 2005, 10:12:00 PM

QUOTE(thecheat @ Mar 31 2005, 05:01 AM)

well most of the time i post im at school and have nothing better to do, im in the 9th grade learning how to use excel......nuf said

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Post by: TheMuffinMan on March 30, 2005, 10:19:00 PM

Haha I've pissed off my school enough they've improved all security

1) Bypass bios password for CD Boot option (remove jumper near ATX power on Dell's - disables)
----Fix : they now have locks on the backs of the pc's
2) Proxy Services (used to use Netscape Navigator (really easy) removed that,
----Fix : blocked the term Proxy and took away rights
3) I can't right click anymore haha
4) Deep Freeze (fun little program)
5) Took away Control Panel
6) For some reason took away Shutdown/Restart/StandBy from shutdown menu in PC
7) Removed access to drive C: and Task Manager

We're really limited now haha

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Post by: killerbootsman on March 30, 2005, 10:25:00 PM

*edit* no not only miniclip, but you get it.

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: RocafellaSqualie on March 30, 2005, 10:59:00 PM

I'll be ok, right?

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: wizz_kid on March 30, 2005, 11:07:00 PM

QUOTE(RocafellaSqualie @ Mar 31 2005, 05:05 AM)

Most stupid thing I have done is chewed on some cooled glue from the hot glue gun and accidently swallowed it

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: Software2 on March 30, 2005, 11:26:00 PM

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: n3r0 on March 30, 2005, 11:46:00 PM

QUOTE(ruli00 @ Mar 30 2005, 11:17 PM)

Hack? or if you can't, try a proxy server that's what I do at my school.

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: zviper on March 31, 2005, 12:33:00 AM

QUOTE(ruli00 @ Mar 30 2005, 09:17 PM)

Hack? or if you can't, try a proxy server that's what I do at my school.

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: Software2 on March 31, 2005, 12:51:00 AM

QUOTE(el_diablo @ Mar 31 2005, 02:21 AM)

the gamecube power supply felt kinda good actually =/

Wow... you know you've been shocked way too many times when that happens.
I tip my hat to you, sir.

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: Smoko on March 31, 2005, 01:09:00 AM

I was just bridging the two point to flash my TSOP, and feeling confident I had done a good soldering jop I put it all back together and woundered why it wouldnt turn on. After pulling it appart again, I noticed I forgot to plug the PSU into the motherboard >_<.

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: --DANNY-- on March 31, 2005, 01:44:00 AM

Setting a hot soldering iron down on the table, then picking up the xbox and moving it, knocking it down onto my bare foot.

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Somehow I was shocked while plugging the power cord into my xbox while holding onto the metal shielding on the other side of the xbox (dvd side). It didn't tickle...

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Accidentally formating my Xbox's F drive containing my 70+ games, 10+ gb of music, about 15 gb of movies/videos. (Don't ask me how I did it.... twice.)

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Soldering every single wire for a wire install of an X2.6 in the wrong place. But hey, I got the D0 and hdd activity points right!
Note to self: Don't ever attempt to solder wires to anything at 6 AM with no sleep in the past 48 hours.

-

Dropped an xbox console w/ everything in it, on my bare toe... (This didn't tickle either...)

Any sooooo many more. But I'm busy attempting to get my xbox ftp server up and running again. So ya... hopefully I don't blow anything up in the process...

-Danny

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: eminvil_12 on March 31, 2005, 03:03:00 AM

QUOTE(RocafellaSqualie @ Mar 31 2005, 06:05 AM)

Most stupid thing I have done is chewed on some cooled glue from the hot glue gun and accidently swallowed it

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: manichispanic on March 31, 2005, 08:28:00 AM

Heres My List:

Burned my soldering iron
Burning a hole in my carpet w/soldering iron
Constantly ignore the importance of safety glasses
Been stabbed by LED's
PSU electrocution

I learned patience doesnt mean 45 min between coats while painting my 1st controller. 1 coat of primer, 2 coats of Krylon Fusion, finding out it didnt need primer, trying to wipe off wet spray paint, finding out that you can't wipe off wet spray paint. Waiting for it to dry and put another coat on. Looks like ass, but it was dry, put the screws back in, cracked the paint around the screw holes. So i took off the paint with what I thought was a fine grit, but i might as well have scraped it off with a bread knife.

Lessons learned.

edit: spelling

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: Shadow1218 on March 31, 2005, 08:30:00 AM

hehe, last week i got a conduct referal (a pink slip or whatever you want to call it) for "hacking" into the school's computer systems.....it's not my fault i guessed it my first try! Hehe, but i did unblock X-S

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: Shadow1218 on March 31, 2005, 08:35:00 AM

can't edit post dam....oh yeah, and i also did a shitload of other stuff, such as changing files and locations and whatnot...the only reason i got caught was because of my asshole friend who screamed "Chris is hacking the computer!"....

EDIT: That's weird...it's been only 5 minutes and I couldn't edit it...

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: Software2 on March 31, 2005, 09:14:00 AM

QUOTE(eminvil_12 @ Mar 31 2005, 05:09 AM)

Heyyy, i swallowed hot glue aswell once it set. It looks so tasty because its in a nice lttle smooth round bubble. That's it, it looks like a little bubble filled with chewy stuff. but it wasn't, i tried to chew on it and it squeezed off of my teeth down the back of my throat.
Dont knock me! It looked good to eat. Im sure other have tried it, or maybe they haven't.

What is wrong with you people? That's what... 3 people now? Dang, if you need chewing gum that badly, I'll send you some! Just quit eating potentially harmful chemicals!

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: twistedsymphony on March 31, 2005, 12:27:00 PM

I have NEVER even THOUGHT of eating hot glue... what's wrong with you guys? is that like the next step after paint chips or something

I've never zapped myself with my Xbox PSU but I used to work in an arcade repairing machine and have a lot of electrocutions there: zapped myself with 120V while fixing and outlet OUCH, zapped myself with a dual 80" florescent bulb inverter... DOUBLE OUCH, zapped myself with the capacitor to the flash bulb in a photo booth (my forearm hurt for a week after that), and more times than I care to admit I've zapped myself on a monitor fly-back, the first was on an old Mrs Pacman. I opened the back panel and some old wood panel from inside the machine fell down snagged the fly-back lead and it literally flung out towards me and hit my arm. while I was holding the back panel. the another time was with a 32" monitor on a BeachHead2000 machine. In both cases I flew backwards and hit my head on another machine behind me.

my biggest painful screw-up was when I was cutting a piece of cardboard to make a backing for a screen bezel... I had a straight edge across the sheet and a brand new blade in my utility knife. I put my left hand on the center of the straight edge and put some pressure on it to hold it in pace and started the blade at the left side of the sheet running it towards the right. Once the blade moved passed my hand it was difficult to cut. I was thinking what the hell this is a brand new blade. pulled the blade off the cardboard and looked at it and there was a huge chunk of my finger stuck to the end of the blade. my middle finger on my left hand was poking over the edge of the straight edge and I took it clean off. Blood was spurting comically out of the tip of my finger.

I wrapped a paper towel around it and a rubber band to keep from bleeding all over the place. and finished making the bezel

AND HOUR LATER I decided I had some time to go to the nearby infirmary to get it patched up. The nurse was like "why the hell did you wait so long"

Now there's a flat spot on one side of my left middle finger (it was on an angle) and I have no feeling in the tip of that finger anymore. Man it was a bitch to use the computer, I couldn't use that finger for weeks, and once it healed it was difficult because I couldn't feel the keys with it

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: SpookieStylez on March 31, 2005, 12:31:00 PM

sS

EDIT: WTF?...why would you eat hotglue?

..
never under estimate the power of stupid people in large numbers

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: Hexx on March 31, 2005, 12:34:00 PM

Hey twistedsymphony, that last part was hilarious, about your finger and all. LOL.
Seriously though, sorry man, it must have hurt like hell. Or myabe it's the not hurting that did you in...?

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: Hexx on March 31, 2005, 12:40:00 PM

Before anyone flames the crap out of you, change the siggy nukeboy.

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: Software2 on March 31, 2005, 12:45:00 PM

Dang nukeboy, that sig is WAY too large!

Ah, I recall a stupid thing I did... Back in the late 80s early 90s.
I was just a little kid, probably 5 or 6, and I somehow had gotten ahold of an old computer. I took it apart, and saw the insides. No biggie, right?
Except I didn't just take off the case to the tower. Oh no, I opened up the PSU and the monitor. And I was very methodical in taking them apart.

Did I mention this was out in our pole barn, far away from any supervision? If I was zapped, it would have been hours before anyone found me.

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: box_69 on March 31, 2005, 01:05:00 PM

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: n3r0 on March 31, 2005, 01:10:00 PM

QUOTE(nukeboy @ Mar 31 2005, 01:44 PM)

Got a ggod one on my forearm to match yours. Don't feel so bad about it now

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: Northcarolina ReDn3k on March 31, 2005, 01:29:00 PM

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: jameschatz on March 31, 2005, 01:32:00 PM

QUOTE(box_69 @ Mar 31 2005, 07:11 PM)

beat this one

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: SpookieStylez on March 31, 2005, 01:34:00 PM

QUOTE(nukeboy @ Mar 31 2005, 01:44 PM)

Got a ggod one on my forearm to match yours. Don't feel so bad about it now

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: dougMod on March 31, 2005, 01:35:00 PM

i left the oslding iron on for 2 days staright by accident lol and i forgot to take out the power pwrd of the PSU the first time i opened xbox and BOOm electicuted lol and wired my jewel LEDs i wired one backawrds and.. POOF smoke everywhere and all 18 LEDs dead hahha

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: SpookieStylez on March 31, 2005, 01:36:00 PM

QUOTE(box_69 @ Mar 31 2005, 02:11 PM)

beat this one

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: jbp20717 on March 31, 2005, 01:43:00 PM

Fried a v.4 motherboard once by continuously trying to get a modchip installed when the switch was on v.1-v.3

Dunno why it was switched to that as I'd taken it off another v.4 (although I have my suspiscions)

...And of course I've been shocked by the PSU (240V in Europe

)

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: box_69 on March 31, 2005, 01:51:00 PM

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: Software2 on March 31, 2005, 02:30:00 PM

QUOTE(box_69 @ Mar 31 2005, 03:57 PM)

u can still kinda see the scar want me to take a pic

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: Dan Wysocki on March 31, 2005, 05:24:00 PM

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: TheVirus on March 31, 2005, 05:45:00 PM

QUOTE(dougMod @ Mar 31 2005, 01:41 PM)

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: Metal Slug on March 31, 2005, 06:26:00 PM

. As if things weren't bad enough, I ordered the wrong version motherboard and HD off ebay, so I'm still not done re-assembling my old xbox. Needless to say, I had a great first experience modding xboxes. After that, only one of my friends trusted me to mod his xbox after I had figured out how to install an Xenium ICE...

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: FoeHammer05 on March 31, 2005, 06:30:00 PM

QUOTE(box_69 @ Mar 31 2005, 02:57 PM)

u can still kinda see the scar want me to take a pic

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: Mr.INSANE on March 31, 2005, 06:49:00 PM

one thing stupid i did was try to install a softmod with a fancy program called ltools that poc runied it and it was a friends xbox ill never use a program like that again

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: cavemaneca on March 31, 2005, 08:30:00 PM

i've never had much problems with the xbox(cept a few burned out leds in controllers. forgot to put resistors on)
but as a kid i used to fix our old christmas light sets. i'll never forget that we always tried to test them and fix them all while they were plugged in. sometimes i would touch the exposed wires for fun.
never had a solderin iron burn before though. to quick. also only got that close twice.
as far as hot glue goes, i used to put it on the palm of my hand for fun. take that Xperienced modders.

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: Software2 on March 31, 2005, 08:33:00 PM

QUOTE(cavemaneca @ Mar 31 2005, 10:36 PM)

i've never had much problems with the xbox(cept a few burned out leds in controllers. forgot to put resistors on)

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: Metal Slug on March 31, 2005, 08:48:00 PM

). What made it even worse though is that after I was bummed out about fucking up my xbox permanently, I started to look around for another xbox. But then the day after I screwed up my old xbox I got a free softmodded one! What happened was that I had sent the guy I bought my first softmodded xbox from an email saying that I hadn't recieved an xbox yet because it had been two weeks since I had ordered it. but I eventually got it. Except that since I had sent the guy the email, he sent ANOTHER softmodded xbox to my house for FREE! How is this bad, you ask? Well what did I do once I had gotten my new, free xbox? I tried patching the xbe file again and overwrote my default.xbe file AGAIN

. So I eventually bought an xenium ice and then eventually softmodded my xbox. Sorry that was so long...

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: RocafellaSqualie on March 31, 2005, 09:05:00 PM

About me doing the stupid thing with putting hot glue in my mouth, I have to agree with eminvil_12, the round, soft look of a dried piece of hot glue looks tasty but it's not. It's plain and has no flavor to it. My little brother was running around in my room while I was modding, so I told him to stop, he didn't listen, so I tripped him when he ran by me, he flew like 10 feet, which made me to laugh & caused me to swallow the glue accidently.

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: eminvil_12 on March 31, 2005, 09:07:00 PM

QUOTE(Software2 @ Apr 1 2005, 03:39 AM)

and I don't know how many with a hot glue addiction. Did you people eat wall candy when you were kids?

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: Software2 on March 31, 2005, 09:10:00 PM

QUOTE(eminvil_12 @ Mar 31 2005, 11:13 PM)

hey, if you havent trried it you can't knock it.

I haven't tried cyanide either. Why don't you glue eaters tell me how it tastes.

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: RocafellaSqualie on March 31, 2005, 09:14:00 PM

QUOTE(Software2 @ Mar 31 2005, 09:16 PM)

I haven't tried cyanide either. Why don't you glue eaters tell me how it tastes.

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: eminvil_12 on March 31, 2005, 09:16:00 PM

QUOTE(Software2 @ Apr 1 2005, 04:16 AM)

I haven't tried cyanide either. Why don't you glue eaters tell me how it tastes.

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: q3autraven on March 31, 2005, 09:22:00 PM

QUOTE(_Igor_ @ Mar 29 2005, 08:48 PM)

I was working with a high temp glue gun and got a large piece of glue on my finger. After the burn subsided i pulled the glue off and a VERY deep chunk of skin came off with it. I prolly should have seen a doctor about it but i didn't and i am none the worse for wear......well somwhat

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: killerbootsman on March 31, 2005, 09:23:00 PM

QUOTE(eminvil_12 @ Apr 1 2005, 04:22 AM)

easy, it tastes exactly how it smells, so it tasted all right.

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: Software2 on March 31, 2005, 09:27:00 PM

You know... I think the vast majority of us are repeat offenders. We've done the same stupid things over and over and over. Why are we allowed to do this stuff?

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: q3autraven on March 31, 2005, 09:30:00 PM

QUOTE(killerbootsman @ Mar 31 2005, 09:29 PM)

do you guys eat it when its hot?

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: eminvil_12 on March 31, 2005, 09:34:00 PM

QUOTE(killerbootsman @ Apr 1 2005, 04:29 AM)

do you guys eat it when its hot?

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: Software2 on March 31, 2005, 09:37:00 PM

QUOTE(q3autraven @ Mar 31 2005, 11:36 PM)

also the lead thing would only kill kids since adults are not effected by lead

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: q3autraven on March 31, 2005, 09:39:00 PM

you're the wrong one m8, it wasn't straight out of the gun hot but it was still hot(cool just enough so that you coulds touch it without it burning), and I have done all of those things

Also lead can hurt adults but not kill them

Adults can suffer from:

* Difficulties during pregnancy
* Other reproductive problems (in both men and women)
* High blood pressure
* Digestive problems
* Nerve disorders
* Memory and concentration problems
* Muscle and joint pain.

If not detected early, children with high levels of lead in their bodies can suffer from:

* Damage to the brain and nervous system
* Behavior and learning problems (such as hyperactivity)
* Slowed growth
* Hearing problems
* Headaches

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: thecheat on March 31, 2005, 10:01:00 PM

i can get dane bramige?

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: cavemaneca on March 31, 2005, 10:03:00 PM

i never said i eat hot glue. i pour it on my hands. but to say something else i was trying to open a vcr for resistors(i'm a cheap ass person) and i forgot to take of a screw on the metal shielding. trying to put it off, i slipped and put a nice 2" gash down my finger. great fun. have you ever got a kitchen lighter, stripped it down, drained it, then used the lighting part to shock yourself. if you do it on your wrist in the right place your fingers twich a bit. it's great fun. another alternative is portable curling irons. pretty much the same thing. they also sell the "safe" alternative at some stores. don't know where but i've seen them. shocking yourself is fun. get a bug zapper. annoy your friends. touch it to your armpit. lick it. hooooooooray.

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: Software2 on March 31, 2005, 10:06:00 PM

And see? Reproductive problems! If we stop you from reproducing, we'll be fine!
(Ahhh eugenics... the stuff dreams are made of)

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: killerbootsman on March 31, 2005, 10:14:00 PM

QUOTE

lol people in SLC are crazy. i live in utah county

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: Mr.INSANE on April 01, 2005, 12:15:00 AM

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: Jargond on April 01, 2005, 12:40:00 AM

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: d22k on April 01, 2005, 07:57:00 AM

whats wall candy?

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: Centurion_Dutch on April 01, 2005, 08:12:00 AM

Except for ruining one of my DVD screws nothing really, not even burning my hand or get shocked or so. Yet again, I havent installed a modchip (yet).

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: BobBrkersMyHero on April 01, 2005, 08:18:00 AM

i stepped on an LED leg the other day that i clipped off and left on the ground...went RIGHT into my foot, ouchy

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: Agrooreo on June 07, 2005, 05:15:00 AM

QUOTE(Crowley @ Apr 24 2005, 05:49 PM)

When I press my S controller 'A' button, my guy whacks, jumps, reloads, changes weapons, throws a grenade and looks right.

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: Steve-0 on June 07, 2005, 06:38:00 AM

i just went into my local maplins dressed in a full hazmat suit and asked if they sell plutoinum to power my led ring they said with the straightest face possible "no sir im sorry we dont"

user posted image

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: MickRaider on June 07, 2005, 09:44:00 AM

. Needless to say burning LED's look pretty cool and smell pretty bad.

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: lostboyz on June 07, 2005, 09:59:00 AM

my first actual mod, the old dongle LED. i thought i had everything setup right but wanted to make sure just in case, so i grab that plastic thing that goes over the end. go to my friends xbox and plug it in and something was shorting and electricuting me because i was holding on to the metal. pretty funny, blew the LED, I finally figured it out

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: BjTheClown on June 07, 2005, 01:41:00 PM

. now my 50$ xbl subscription is worthless for the rest of the summer.

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: basso4735 on June 07, 2005, 02:43:00 PM

QUOTE(BjTheClown @ Jun 7 2005, 03:52 PM)

my firends xbox HD died on him and so he thought it would be a good time to give it to me to mod it for him. he was in an hurry to get his xbox back because he was moving to north carolina for the summer,so i used my stock HD (the one i use for xbl) to get everything all set up before his 200gig drive came in. when his 200gig came in i swapped the HD's real quick and put it all back together and he was off to NC the next day. then when i got the urge to play halo 2 on xbl i switched to my stock drive and soon realized that it was still locked to my friends xbox

. now my 50$ xbl subscription is worthless for the rest of the summer.

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: HeavensHitmen on June 07, 2005, 03:01:00 PM

QUOTE

If any of you have ever touched a PSU, you should know how it feels. Not good.

actually it kinda tickles.

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: MickRaider on June 07, 2005, 04:15:00 PM

QUOTE(HeavensHitmen @ Jun 7 2005, 05:12 PM)

actually it kinda tickles.

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: Northcarolina ReDn3k on June 07, 2005, 04:23:00 PM

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: sp3cialk on June 08, 2005, 07:44:00 AM

QUOTE(Steve-0 @ Jun 7 2005, 08:49 AM)

i just went into my local maplins dressed in a full hazmat suit and asked if they sell plutoinum to power my led ring they said with the straightest face possible "no sir im sorry we dont"

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: Chance_P on June 08, 2005, 12:59:00 PM

dont rest your soldering iron on top of your xbox, i knocked it off of its little stand and it melted in and started to burn the top of the dvdrom, so i grabbed it (without thinking), burnt my hand to hell, then threw it onto the carpet and burnt the piss out of that. soldering iron - 3, me - 0

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: HeavensHitmen on June 08, 2005, 01:33:00 PM

me and orangecustoms were making a hd window on a old stock xbox hd for the hell of it and we thought we could intergrate leds in it. turns out we couldnt after that the hd died and during it, it looked like tin foil in a microwave.

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: EricJD on June 08, 2005, 01:41:00 PM

I shorted out the molex cord going to my HDD and fried it. I had to buy a new HDD

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: tmh88 on June 08, 2005, 01:52:00 PM

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: halofreak007 on June 08, 2005, 01:56:00 PM

and i burnt most of the hair of my right wrist area

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: blagmaster on June 08, 2005, 02:01:00 PM

, which part of the psu do I touch to get shocked?

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: EmTea on June 08, 2005, 03:18:00 PM

I've shocked my self two times messing with a PSU.
It's one of those things that hurt when it happened and was not funny but now I can laugh about it. The funny thing is, I booted the xbox when I shocked my self. I rember the Power/Eject LED, case fan, and my jewel LEDs turning on. I could also see the thick, blue/white arc running through the air between my finger and the psu. It felt like the insides of me where rattling like popcorn in a microwave but physicly I was still. Weird crap.
That, wasn't really stupid on my part. More of the lack of knowlage I had, I didn't think my body could jump-start a Xbox, but it did.
The most stupidist thing I've done is trying to upgarde my X2.3b Pro, which worked FINE, to a X3 on my 1.4. Completly killed my 1.4 LPC. Dustyceltic is working on it now.
Feel sorry for him.

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: sobman on June 08, 2005, 03:29:00 PM

I went on live then i ejected the cd and went to my avalaunch dash and copied a game to the dash then tried to go back on live

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: JEB-101 on June 08, 2005, 07:35:00 PM

JEB

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: MickRaider on June 08, 2005, 07:52:00 PM

QUOTE(JEB-101 @ Jun 8 2005, 09:46 PM)

I left my soldering iron on for 6 weeks when I was on vacation. lmao... no the house wasent burnt down...lol

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: dbdlowrider on June 08, 2005, 08:29:00 PM

QUOTE(XBOXCUSTOMS69 @ Mar 29 2005, 08:13 PM)

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: ChuckBales on June 08, 2005, 08:36:00 PM

I was diggin around inside for something once and forgot I had plugged the xbox back in, and touched the the heatsink and something else, got a nice zap from that one.

melted my last LED that i needed for my controller ports by holding it next to the soldering iron too long, it started to melt and was crushed by the pliars holding it

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: luap on June 08, 2005, 09:41:00 PM

long story short

hand "fell asleep." I knew i laid my hand by the soldering iron but i didnt know it was ON the soldering iron. So while i was waiting for my hand to "wake up" i was watching tv and didnt pay attention until i could smell something funny. little did i know that my skin was boiling off. my hand was on the soldering iron for about 4-5 minutes..you could literally see my bone. this happend about 2 months ago and it is starting to heal up nicely

here is a pic of it now..its alot better lol..

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: Jintao on June 08, 2005, 09:59:00 PM

i first started to mod my box over spring break, and have messed with it many a time. have yet to shock myself, and haven't burnt myself with the iron. and i'm the most accident prone person i know...

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: Chance_P on June 08, 2005, 10:12:00 PM

QUOTE(Jintao @ Jun 9 2005, 12:10 AM)

see...u guys shock yerselves and wut not cause ya think yer cool. that u know what yer doing *sigh* when will you learn ?

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: Syberistic on June 08, 2005, 10:25:00 PM

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: sobman on June 09, 2005, 12:10:00 AM

i havnt been shocked yet buy i have burnt meself... it really didnt fell good

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: halo2masta on June 09, 2005, 12:41:00 PM

I was getting ready to swap psu's and i was talkin to my friend and didnt unplug the xbox so i got a pretty good shock. I also burnt myself with my solderer before.

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: ruli00 on June 09, 2005, 12:45:00 PM

Wasted money on

user posted image

-ruli00

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: MickRaider on June 09, 2005, 01:03:00 PM

QUOTE(blue bandicoot @ Jun 9 2005, 03:01 PM)

i stepped on a soldering iron and a hot glue gun btw my toes and i yelled. i also got shocked and fell down when it happened.

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: BecomethemonsteR on June 09, 2005, 01:27:00 PM

the stupidest thing ive done? i got extended warranty

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: RocafellaSqualie on June 09, 2005, 01:30:00 PM

This thread is still alive?

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: FoeHammer05 on June 09, 2005, 01:36:00 PM

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: Videogamebuyer14 on June 09, 2005, 01:54:00 PM

Not really an xbox issue, but I pulled an aerocool heatsink off my motherboard, and it pulled the cpu out with it and bent like 4 pins.

Luckily, I rule and bent them all back into place with a baby pin.

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Post by: Granulated on June 09, 2005, 07:17:00 PM

I work at a videogame store.

I fix PS2's and Xboxes.

I had a PS2 completely out of it's case. I had it in my hand, touching the harddrive tray.

I turned it on.

Arm goes numb! PS2 was dropped on the floor, and cursing ensued. Boy, was my face red.

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Post by: Agrooreo on June 12, 2005, 01:27:00 AM

Today when I was taking the metal shielding out of the top of an exxtra case, I had forgotten about how many people have said they cut themselves on that crap and sliced a cuhuck of my finger off. Luckily it was the side so it doesn't really effect anything. I didn't even notice until my girlfriend asked me what happened and pioint to a pool of blood on my shorts. Then to make matters worse I tried to get the damn jewel off. I was using the freezer method and the first time I tried I couldn't get the damn thing off, so I put it back in the freezer and waited about 45 min. Well when I took it out I either whacked it too hard with the hammer or left it in the freezer too long b/c the damn thing almost broke in half. AND I STILL CAN'T GET THE F&*KING JEWEL OFF. good thing it was an extra case. Since I just started modding Im sure there's more to come....

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Post by: MickRaider on June 12, 2005, 01:34:00 AM

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Post by: Sylvester182 on June 12, 2005, 02:58:00 AM

I'm getting a bit irritated just thinking about it.

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Post by: punisher84087 on June 12, 2005, 03:01:00 AM

at the end of the day
oh and i only get 5.15 an hour

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Post by: mastersloth on June 12, 2005, 09:52:00 AM

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Post by: halo2masta on June 12, 2005, 09:56:00 AM

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Post by: freakk123 on June 12, 2005, 10:07:00 AM

Lets see... More stupid things that I failed to mention back on page 8 or whatever...

I have two scars on my fingers from soldering iron burns...
I've touched live PSU's two or three times...
I've broken a power/eject assembly the same way MickRider did.
First time I ever removed metal shielding, I got a deep cut in my finger.
I plunged my soldering iron into a roll of solder in boredom... Now that roll of solder is useless...

I'm sure there are many other things, but this is all that comes to mind.

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Post by: halofreak007 on June 12, 2005, 10:27:00 AM

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Post by: sting369 on June 12, 2005, 07:46:00 PM

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Post by: MickRaider on June 12, 2005, 07:52:00 PM

QUOTE(freakk123 @ Jun 12 2005, 12:18 PM)

I've broken a power/eject assembly the same way MickRider did.

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Post by: adenansu on June 12, 2005, 08:49:00 PM

3) Plugged a regular ATX psu into the the xbox's mobo. Hey look at that, the xbox, while using the standard atx power connection, doesn't use the same wiring! Luckily, the PSU took the brunt of the electronic anaphylactic shock. The humming noise is made was quite lovely, however.

4) Punched a hole through an ide ribbon by trying to force the top of the case back down.

5) Tried to take the jewel off before reading any tuts. Wasn't the best use for my leatherman. (Thankfully the "Hey this isn't working, idiot!" voice spoke up and I stopped after one attempt).

Thats all for now. But in the near future, I hope to achieve the following:

- Solder iron through the mobo. A friend of mine did this years ago when trying to install his first modchip in a ps1. "I didn't know they made HEAT. Isn't that dangerous?"

- Cardboard + Surge = Fire. Have a 3 inch fan sitting over the cpu heatsink, mounted in some cardboard. One ends sitting on the dvd tray, but the other ends sitting between the psu board and heat shielding. I'm sure thats going to bite me soon

I have plans to make a few extra case parts out of aluminium next weekend, I'm sure hillarity will ensue at the metal shop

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Post by: Jintao on June 12, 2005, 11:01:00 PM

ok...while not sustaining any modding-related injuries, i have been the joke of my school since about september of last year. see, we have a wheelchair ramp for on one of the buildings. it's quite high (maybe 4 feet off the asphault parking lot) and takes a nice amount of time to walk down (it wraps around like a u-turn sorta thing). alot of people jumped it all the time, myself included. i'd successfully pulled it off 7 or 8 times, so i went to do it again...not good. i used my right hand (books in left hand) to pull/propel myself up and over, so i was completely horizontal. my foot caught the top of the railing, and i fell...as i said, 4 feet onto asphault. i had 3 scrapes/cuts on my face. on my right eyebrow, directly above/on the right part of my lip, and the right side of my chin. i also jammed my wrist bones into my hand by about 1.5-2 inches, and broke both the radius and ulna bones. i had to have surgery where they pryed my bones back into place, and put in 2 pins to hold it there. total time was about 2-3 months. course i didn't have to do any school work, since i was right-handed *thumbs up* so now, i have a 5in scar along the top side of my wrist (we joke about me messing up suicide), 2 little scars where the pins used to be on the "thumb side" of my wrist, and my right arm will be about 1in shorter than my left arm, for the rest of my life. ahhh...the jumping skills of the white man...*curses*

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Post by: Gazcoigne on June 13, 2005, 03:58:00 AM

completely xbox unrelated but i used to smoke and one day i bought a lighter and when i got outside the shop the godamn thing wouldnt light. i opened the top part and turned the gas up and put it back together.

when i lit my cigarette the flame was higher than my head and i set fire to my eyebrows and fringe!! (some hair gel is flammable!!)

needless to say my m8s thought it was class.

i also knocked my mums good lamp over and broke the plastic collar that holds the bulb in place. i opened the lamp and glued the pieces together and whils trying to screw it all back together i found myself being electrocuted and my m8 had to run and turn the lamp off at the wall coz i was too stupid to do it before i started fixing it.

this thread is class, a good giggle reading it. reassures me im not the only idiot here.

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Post by: madcitysw on June 17, 2005, 11:48:00 PM

OK I think everyone done dumb things right? Let see what I did.

I was putting in a x2 chip in one of my friends xbox, left the solder iron plugin and somehow I knocked it into the trash can (i didn't know at the time) and well let just say that platic trash can had some holes in it after a fire started.

I was leaving a friend's house after a halo party lan and I put my xbox on top of my car while I was putting some stuff in the seat and got in the driver seat and took off. Well you guess it, I heard a tump sound and I pull over and I just relize what I done. But hey would you belive that the damn thing still worked? Yep it did.

I was trying to get the solder off of a 1.0 motherboard and burn some of the trace from the LPD (think I spell that wrong).

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Post by: mart1ster on June 18, 2005, 06:26:00 AM

Now i need a crystal case anyone got one for sale ??? im in the uk. if it helps i dont need the bottom

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Post by: JimmyDeushku on June 19, 2005, 12:20:00 AM

I've had so many things happen to me. I've touched a live CPU several times. Once I was messing around with the power and had an A/C adapter plugged into my wall. I chopped the cord in half for some reason and had the positive and negative wires in my hand at the same time. I got a good shock. Then about 2 minutes later I was just messing around with the same wires and tapped them on the metal shielding of my XBOX that had the top off, but happened to be turned on. Suddenly black smoke poured out of my case and my XBOX sadly died. I found out that just my CPU was fried and I got 2 extras from my friend (not knowing they were v1.5 CPUs) and plugged them in one by one seeing which one would work. After I discovered that none of them worked I picked them all up and all 3 CPUs discharged their electrons upon my hand. My hand was limp for several hours but I regained movement in a car on my way to Atlanta from Illinois while watching the movie "Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle. Since then I haven't had any bad experiences with my XBOXes.

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Post by: JimmyDeushku on June 19, 2005, 12:23:00 AM

My bad double post.

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Post by: .:Dino:. on June 19, 2005, 08:37:00 AM

my friend bought a spiderchip 1.0. i installed it perfect booted first time, flashed it with evox m8_16+ and then i tried a boot disc. i knew he had a samsung so i presumed it would load. nothing would boot, in the end i thought the bios was fukd, so i hot swapped it using a xapter in my 1.4 which fried the chip. he ended up buying 2 more spiderchip 1.1' which are far more unstable. this was all before i realised that he had a newer samsung i did not know of! so all it was was he had a new samsung, could have saved him £100.

electrocuted myself on the psu

installed pinheader upside down

ripped bottom d0 many times

broke a 120gb hdd trying to solder in a hdd activity light.

my god i used to be stupid

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Post by: m82a1 on June 19, 2005, 08:41:00 AM

o man i thought of another one i done
soldering in a $300 suit!
luckily no solder got on me or the suit

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Post by: mbratton on June 19, 2005, 11:33:00 AM

QUOTE(JimmyDeushku @ Jun 19 2005, 08:31 AM)

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Post by: mitchy on June 19, 2005, 01:26:00 PM

Cut out the metal grille on the side to make room for a fan, forgot to grind it down and cut two of my fingers right under the nail. When I was putting in an 80mm replacement fan, I rushed myself and cut off one of the wrong corners, so I had to superglue it back in place.

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Post by: JimmyDeushku on June 19, 2005, 01:33:00 PM

QUOTE(mbratton @ Jun 19 2005, 12:44 PM)

don't you mean PSU, not CPU?

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Post by: manobano on June 19, 2005, 02:21:00 PM

QUOTE(cyfi @ Mar 30 2005, 01:39 PM)

damn i should start buying xboxs, takeing out all the insides, fill it with rocks to the appropriate wieght and give it back, haha

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Post by: Jintao on June 25, 2005, 02:11:00 AM

a recent one. not much of a problem tho

i was getting ready to make my jewel led ring. i had all my materials together, everything was setup, soldering iron and glue gun were hot and ready to go. i solder wires to the resistors and the - legs on the leds, and then my friend says "got yer molex connector" .........................DAMMIT! after i had bought everything else i needed, i forgot that stupid molex. so i just spliced into the hdd wires. like i said, not a big deal, just completely retarded on my part...

PS we can't let this thread die! it's awsome reading it! cmon guys! i know there's plenty of stupidity in this world; let's put it to good use for once *wink*

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Post by: cyfi on June 25, 2005, 03:12:00 AM

QUOTE(mitchy @ Jun 19 2005, 01:37 PM)

When I was putting in an 80mm replacement fan, I rushed myself and cut off one of the wrong corners, so I had to superglue it back in place.

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Post by: doomie22 on June 25, 2005, 06:06:00 AM

the only bad thing i have really done is gently resting the bare circuit of my old dvd drive on the shielding for testing. problem is, it was still on the shielding when i switched it on. fffrrryyyyyy.

apart from that i have only lost a couple screws and forgot d0 a few times.

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Post by: cwindsor2003 on June 25, 2005, 08:00:00 AM

Had a Xbox in a cabinet and the modchip was acting funny... So I went to wiggle it... I have a Silver Braclet on that arm and it dropped into the PSU.... It shocked me so hard I farted....

True story....

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Post by: ilikepie on June 25, 2005, 10:02:00 AM

Touching my psu for fun

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Post by: cubbox on June 25, 2005, 11:01:00 AM

QUOTE(porfuse @ Jun 25 2005, 04:57 PM)

One time I had my soldering iron on, and my cat jumped up onto the table and was walking around. And the cat burned its side on the iron.

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Post by: The Timmy on June 26, 2005, 04:57:00 AM

I don't think I've had any injuries or discomforts related to xbox modding stupidity, but I have rendered a 1.1 uselss:

I concider myself an excelent solder-er, and as such I can do really good work with almost the worst in tools.. --that said, I usually wait a really long time before changing out soldering tips.

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......and so I attempt a ram upgrade. and the rest, especially the xbox, is history.

I've also attempted a monitor repair job with both the open monitor and myself sitting on my bed (before I learned how to properly discharge CRT's, yet already aware of the high voltages involved)

I got my main xbox banned by leaving the VGA bios enabled while trying to connect to Live to update account info. --before realizing why I couldn't connect, I phoned MS for support.

while modding on top of my Oddessy DJ Coffin, I've dripped molten solder and superglue onto the carpet covering.

I've had like 4 stock xboxes open at one time, and mixed up the harddrives.

nothing too bad, but hopefully worth a giggle or two.

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Post by: Arjun on June 26, 2005, 05:22:00 AM

QUOTE(The Timmy @ Jun 26 2005, 01:08 PM)

I've had like 4 stock xboxes open at one time, and mixed up the harddrives.

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Post by: bosstitan187 on June 26, 2005, 06:42:00 AM

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Post by: destroysbc on June 26, 2005, 01:06:00 PM

weirdly my PSU blew up and sparked a lil investigation later i noticed i left a mobo screw loose and it got in the PSU and it smelt so bad

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Post by: case-a-kill on June 26, 2005, 10:18:00 PM

this was soooo bad (not in broke but frustrated...Dont rush) so after i was finished painting i put everything back forgot to plug in power switch, then after that forgot to put the dvd metal shield, then i didnt plug in power to the dvd drive. bad bad bad day DONT RUSH

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Post by: atomheartmother on June 26, 2005, 11:24:00 PM

(remember I already had been damn near killed twice) So in my hand goes again this time when I awoke on the floor I had to have my wife convince me I was not dead as I honestly thought I was, I thought I had passed over...Pretty dumb..You see it was a salt water reef and electricity can travel through salt so anyways I learned a lesson that day..sorry not xbox related just came to me...

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Post by: The Timmy on June 27, 2005, 02:14:00 PM

come to think of it.. many of the soldering injuries reported in this thread involve a part of the body that would normally be covered during the course of a regular day....

or burning carpets, burning xboxes, burning cats.

that's one thing I've learned, don't let solder splash on the top of your foot. if you burn your fingers, dropping the iron will only ensure more burning elsewhere. always look when reaching for the soldering iron. never solder over anything you want to keep in good conditon. --if that is unavoidable, at least refrain from melting down rediculously large quantities of solder. be careful of springy wire. It doesn't matter if you use a fan, or which way you lean, the solder fumes will ALWAYS be in your face. don't hold a part together while your friend solders it, especially if it's a very small part. before getting started on your project, load more than 3 songs into your winamp playlist.

and don't let the soldering bug get to you... It's ok to un-plug the iron when you're done. You don't have to look for other things to solder while you got the iron hot, that just leasds to accidentally leaving it on overnight.

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Post by: SpookieStylez on June 27, 2005, 02:21:00 PM

QUOTE(The Timmy @ Jun 27 2005, 04:25 PM)

come to think of it.. many of the soldering injuries reported in this thread involve a part of the body that would normally be covered during the course of a regular day....

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Post by: Shoo Box on June 27, 2005, 02:36:00 PM

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Post by: sobman on June 27, 2005, 03:36:00 PM

QUOTE(Shoo Box @ Jun 27 2005, 03:47 PM)

" your gettin a bit of a electric shock i think you should remove your fingers from the electric "

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Post by: Shoo Box on June 27, 2005, 04:55:00 PM

QUOTE(sobman @ Jun 27 2005, 11:47 PM)

haha good ol brain, its so dumb..,

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Post by: Staple on June 27, 2005, 06:50:00 PM

i grabbed the power supply on a plugged in and turned on xbox......i have done this a few times. its hurts

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Post by: bemad31102 on June 27, 2005, 09:58:00 PM

I once modded Five XBOXs at once. Different chips, different dashboards and diffrerent LEDs on all. Everyone wanted them today. They all paid extra for rush jobs. I thought I installed evrything correctly. Well the wrong chip was installed in a few , the wrong dash and the wrong LEDS were installed. I had a big mess on my hands. I fixed everything but my soldering looked like crap and I had hot glue everywhere. I then installed the wrong Hard drives in the wrong XBOXs. I made enough money to make a Jeep payment, diapers for my baby, toys for my three year old and was able to buy myself games and take the wife to eat (i even let here super size). The next day the person who wanted just a chip installed asked for a hard drive upgrade. When opening the XBOX it had a 160g drive already installed. I removed it and added the 120 they brought. I looked over what I did the day before and remembered someone does not have a upgraded drive like they wanted. An hour later that person who was missing the large drive calls and says one of the Emulators was not working. He came over I installed his drive (the one I just removed) and he did not even notice. About two weeks later I get three calls asking why some LEDs were different colors. One person wanted all green, one all blue and one all red. Some had all green LEDs and one or two red or blue and vice versa. Never take on to much just for money unless you have time. I offer free repairs on anything I install. These five people have come back to me a few time with minor problems that I have to fix. Never again.

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Post by: Jintao on July 02, 2005, 05:42:00 PM

so now i've joined the endless mob that's been burnt by the iron *sigh*

sorry bout the blurry pic...was in pain at the time and was in a hurry to get the AloeVera gel...ahhh...aloe vera...that little white spot is the injury. not to big, but i don't have to tell u guys: size does not matter with burns...

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Post by: Jintao on July 02, 2005, 05:58:00 PM

hmmm...i think i worded that wrong...i was talking about that even the little ones can hurt like a bitch. i know that the bigger they are, the more they hurt, yes. but even the little ones can be painful. sorry for the misunderstanding there and bout yer friend...every time i hear something about someone being on fire or burning really badly, i get like...goosebumps and stuff...can't even begin to imagine what it's like, nor do i want to...

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Post by: halofreak007 on July 02, 2005, 06:04:00 PM

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Post by: mbratton on July 02, 2005, 06:16:00 PM

QUOTE(Jintao @ Jul 3 2005, 01:53 AM)

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Post by: Jintao on July 02, 2005, 07:28:00 PM

QUOTE(mbratton @ Jul 2 2005, 08:27 PM)

kids: don't talk on your cellphone and solder :-D

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Post by: Shoo Box on July 04, 2005, 02:45:00 PM

QUOTE(hudplaya90 @ Jul 4 2005, 10:16 PM)

this isn't graphic at all. i was installing my xenium spice modchip and i had all the little gold wires installed and everything. then i put my modchip in and it wouldn't show anything on my tv screen, so i took it apart and put it back together like 3 more times before i threw it at the wall and broke it in a rage of fury. after i got done picking it up i noticed i had the chip in recovery mode.

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Post by: --DANNY-- on July 04, 2005, 02:47:00 PM

Moral of the story: READ THOSE FRICKIN CAUTION STICKERS!

-Danny

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Post by: SpikeMage on July 04, 2005, 03:26:00 PM

QUOTE(Jintao @ Jul 3 2005, 03:39 AM)

and i wasn't taking it personally per se, i just hate it when people misunderstand me, wether by their fault or my own (word something wrong, say it with a different tone, etc.). that's called "miscommunication" and miscommunication leads to arguments or possibly more misunderstandings, and arguments and misunderstandings are bad

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Post by: HMAWL411 on July 04, 2005, 03:41:00 PM

when i was painting my case i lost treack of time and since i was in a hurry i just thought about getting the paint and clear coat on, 45 minutes later i had three more coats of paint and two coats of clear coat, had to redo everything

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Post by: bemad31102 on July 04, 2005, 05:12:00 PM

Had a friend who once sat to far from the plug. He keeped yanking on the soldering iron thinking it was just caught on something, well it came unplugged stabbed himself in his other arm (and burned himself too). He gets up to stop some of the bleeding comes back to find he melted parts of the XBOX motherboard because when he left he threw the soldering iron down and it landed on the mother board. He screwed up his arm had to get a tetanus shot, bill from emergency room, broken motherboard and a very mad wife. So it was a while before he modded again.

I was waiting for my solding iron to heat up and began watching a TV show (CSI I think). The show finish and forgot the soldering iron. When I remembered I got the chip out to solder it to the board and it would mot melt. I tried again and again but nothing. I deciede to try something dumb and touch the tip with my tounge (just kidding) and it was not hot at all. I went to buy another one at radio shack and then noticed I never plugged in the first one that is why it would not melt the solder.

My first and second lifted trace or messed up D0 point was because it never would stick. I soldered the d0 point but it would come undone very easy. I resoldered again and gave a good tug and lifted the trace. I guess I pulled a little to hard.

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Post by: Jintao on July 04, 2005, 09:06:00 PM

QUOTE(SpikeMage @ Jul 4 2005, 05:37 PM)

That's rather funny seeing as I said I didnt take it personal. I didnt mention you at all.

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Post by: Ghost_13 on July 05, 2005, 12:02:00 AM

ok well here is my input on this thread.
This was when i was a total noob at everything, i knew a little about soldering, so i go and am about to install my modchip, i have all of my materials ready, so i go and plug my solding iron in and i wait like a minute and bring the iron up toward my lips to see if it is hot, (friends idea) well not hot enough, so i wait a little longer and this next time i get a little to close, and yea, never get to install that modchip that night.

Here is another, i just connected the psu to the mb to test some leds, didn't place them in the case, well i connect the power cord and i test the leds, and everything is to my liking, so i go to disconect the cord from the psu, and i start tugging on the cord with my left hand and try not to touch anything with my right which is holding the psu, but it doesn't quite work and i get shocked, and stupid of me doesn't learn i do it again.

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Post by: JimmyDeushku on July 05, 2005, 01:14:00 AM

I've burnt, sliced, shocked, and smashed the crap out of my left hand. Thank God I don't have any feeling in that hand!

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Post by: IAmCanadian on July 05, 2005, 02:08:00 AM

I've only burnt myself.. although rosin core solder does like to spurt ALOT....

oh and I had the stock fan running 36v (9v X 4) and I decided to throw shit in it... needless to say my finger went in there and the fan blade released my nail from my finger...

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Post by: The Timmy on July 05, 2005, 02:58:00 AM

I still haven't learned that I need to lable my discs when I burn them. .....got a couple of spindles of unknown's, probably some repeats too.

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Post by: rog311 on July 05, 2005, 09:33:00 AM

ohh, ive got a good one for you,
playing 4 player drinking blitz, a damn entertaining game
when i just out of the blue decide i need to remove my controller s jewel,
no i didnt have a replacement,
no i had no reason to do it.
but alas i pulled out my trusty pocket knife and jabbed away, till it came loose and the momentum of the knife put it all the way through my left index finger.
I still cant feel that finger. I miss it.

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Post by: _GhOsT_ on July 06, 2005, 01:32:00 AM

i left my soldering iron plugged in for 24 hours
not knowing it i grabbed it by the metal

dropped soldering iron onto a shirt and put a nice brown hole in it

oh well

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Post by: IAmCanadian on July 06, 2005, 01:34:00 AM

I finished a usb port mod... and reversed the wires... and fucked up a nice $60 keyboard

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Post by: thealch3mist on July 06, 2005, 02:52:00 AM

Never check an xbox on flights either!

That xray does some damage... not to mention the checkers...it seems like they stomp peoples luggage or something...

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Post by: Shutdown[Swe] on July 06, 2005, 04:48:00 PM

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Post by: sobman on July 06, 2005, 04:54:00 PM

QUOTE(Shutdown[Swe] @ Jul 6 2005, 05:59 PM)

"forced" a 1.6 mobo into a 1.0 bottom case and *poff* no xbox for me anymore

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Post by: bosstitan187 on July 06, 2005, 07:41:00 PM

first time i did a box i was checking all the wiring and i noticed i missed one so i soldered the wire using way to much cus i had no idea what i was doing droped right on the mb and there was no way to get it off lol

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Post by: brokenglass on July 06, 2005, 09:24:00 PM

a few words of advice....
solder iron not solder gun. saves you cash.

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Post by: Justice Lamb on July 06, 2005, 10:29:00 PM

Well i decided to mod my case before looking at any tutorials.
As i was taking off my jewel (using two screwdrivers and no chemicals),
i got a little cocky. I tried to pull it all of at once. Now i have two jewel halves.

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Post by: sobman on July 06, 2005, 10:41:00 PM

QUOTE(Justice Lamb @ Jul 6 2005, 11:40 PM)

Now i have two jewel halves.

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Post by: Zeusydude on July 20, 2005, 05:53:00 PM

Sprayed 20 coats of white paint (first time) then clear coated it, and the clear coat dried it up, then i had to redo it all

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Post by: halofreak007 on July 20, 2005, 07:39:00 PM

QUOTE(Stratus @ Jul 20 2005, 09:38 PM)

I was soldering in my room, I was barefoot...... Dropped the iron on the top of my foot

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Post by: Zeusydude on July 20, 2005, 08:11:00 PM

Oh ya.. i got zapped for the first time, it was wierd

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Post by: Shutdown[Swe] on July 21, 2005, 08:41:00 AM

Took it out as fast as i could and it was melted and had cracks in the paint.. OH well.. i could remove the black glue =p

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Post by: MickRaider on July 21, 2005, 10:19:00 AM

QUOTE(SpikeMage @ Jul 20 2005, 10:25 PM)

A lot of people only get a first time. Lucky that shit didnt kill you man.

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: lostboyz on July 21, 2005, 10:26:00 AM

its the current that kills you, and it all depends how your shorting it. if its between to fingers on the same hand you could be fine then if it was spots on both hands, because itd go through your heart

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: .:Dino:. on July 21, 2005, 10:37:00 AM

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: Statecowboy on July 21, 2005, 10:39:00 AM

I was soldering LED's into my control ON MY LAP WITH SHORTS ON...brilliant, and brushed the tip against my leg and got a nice scar.

Also, I just installed my first 1.6 box (with an x3) for a friend and it fragged upon startup. So, I figured no biggy, just check the solder points. Looked good but still didnt work. So we desoldered and soldered again. I was at work and we even had our tech lead take a look at it. We had all the professional equipment and everything so we couldnt figure out what was wrong.

After 4 F'ING HOURS!!!! I suddenly thought, hey why isnt that 5 volt led lighting up? Then I remembered pulling the permanent 5volt pin on the pin header. ARGHH!!! 4 hours of debugging because of 1 stupid missing 5 volt wire!

Anyway, that was stupid on my part.

Also, my friend's X3 didnt come with the 5 volt adapter or the red, green, grey adapter. SUCKS! So does anyone have an extra one of either of those items? I gave him a green, grey, red adapter from one of my other kits, but now I'm missing one. We made the 5 volt wire ourselves (made a wire, I sound stupid).

Title: Stupid Thing You Have Done
Post by: d0wnlab on July 21, 2005, 11:02:00 AM

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One of my roommates was attempting to install a Xenium ice (iirc) modchip in his v1.0 xbox his cousin gave him as payment for a successful mod. He had the soldering iron plugged into the same circuit as two lamps. For normal houses this wouldn't be a big deal but in our townehouse it must have dropped the voltage or something similiar, because the soldering iron wouldn't heat up enough to melt the solder. He didn't think of that, though, so he continually applied pressure against the LPC port holes, tried desoldering braid, etc, but since he wasn't applying enough heat it did not work. He ended up fiddling for ~8 hours before giving up and in that time slipped, cracked, etc, the soldering iron against the board enough times to brick it. Some exposed traces, still haven't put enough energy into trying to fix it..

Now he has a new xbox and bricked it before it was done because he did *something* we're not sure of while installing his LED header, he couldn't just wait and cope just with the mod, nope he needed that LED header first..

We were TSOP flashing another friend's xbox, and it was the three of us in the room: me, a xbox-smart friend who helped me with the mod (owner of the two bricks previously explained), and the owner of the xbox. We finish flashing, everything went 100%, we reboot, and it's fragging. Bad flash. The owner of the xbox, who up until then at every step was like "woah.. cool!!...", etc, had a big grin on his face and was like "woah! neato! look at that flash!" while my heart was sinking.. had to buy a modchip to save that one

. Scared me because there was absolutely no feedback that the flash went wrong.. from what we could tell it was 100%

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