Post by: Guitarzan01 on February 27, 2007, 03:55:00 PM
Anyways, i have a v1.0 that has been used and abused in so many ways, but still boots and has all the features of a regular xbox, plus its softmodded.
When i bought the xbox for $40, it had a dirty disc error. I've cleaned other kinds of drives before, so i opened up the tompson. I found the mirror was plated with dust and anonymous gunky substances. I cleaned it off, and plugged the yellow wires and IDE in. My main mistake was not putting bottom case for the drive on, and letting some of the pins touch the grounded metal case...
"POW"
I Fried the drive beyond repair and fixed one trace on the motherboard. I put it all it, not realizing my unsheiled solders were touching the bottom of the metal case. I bought a broken xbox and replaced blown up drive with the samsung from the one i bought.
"POW"
Fixed another trace...
Then, a thin piece of metal sheet got inside and under the PSU. I left it plugged in, and turned it upside down to put the screws in, while being plugged in. The peice of metal touched 3 pins and:
"KA-BOOM FLAME SPARK SIZZLE"
Small flames literally came out of the side fins. I removed the PSU to find almost all the transformers were dusted black. So, I went and got the PSU from the broken xbox i bought and converted it to the v1.0 plug, and its been fine ever since.
Anybody else got a story?
Post by: jimbobjim on February 27, 2007, 04:10:00 PM
1. Bad ram upgrade (something went POP).
2. Took out a solderless modchip and it FRAGed (still don't know why).
3. Flashed TSOP with wrong MS kernel and had to buy a modchip to fix (Dont know if that one counts).
I've also killed a samsung 616t dvd drive, and a stock hdd with a hotswap.
I've lost count of the amount of cases i've thrown due to bad paint jobs/cuts etc...
I'm not bothered though, it's all part of becomming a better modder.
Post by: Guitarzan01 on February 27, 2007, 06:53:00 PM
Post by: Guitarzan01 on February 27, 2007, 07:39:00 PM
Post by: coldasice on February 27, 2007, 10:13:00 PM
Post by: Guitarzan01 on February 28, 2007, 05:31:00 PM
Post by: brandogg on February 28, 2007, 07:20:00 PM
Post by: xboxgamer733 on February 28, 2007, 08:55:00 PM
I try to be extremely careful when handling someone else's console.
Post by: Guitarzan01 on February 28, 2007, 09:27:00 PM
Post by: Soligna on February 28, 2007, 10:08:00 PM
But I haven't really fried anything, most I've done to fry something is I accidentally flung(solder connection to wire didn't stick and the wire popped backwards flinging solder) solder into the mobo connector for the dvd drive and turned my xbox on without a drive plugged in. Noticed the solder after it was on turned it off, removed it but now my dvd drive is really funky only works half the time.
Post by: jimbobjim on March 01, 2007, 01:38:00 AM
QUOTE(xboxgamer733 @ Mar 1 2007, 04:02 AM) 
I try to be extremely careful when handling someone else's console.
Me too. The three i've broken were all mine
Post by: CJLee89 on March 01, 2007, 04:53:00 PM
my cousin got a face full of sparks and i just about died laughing. we concluded the power supply is deffinately dead now. but all-in-all it was friggin awesome.
Post by: Guitarzan01 on March 01, 2007, 05:48:00 PM
Post by: capboy210 on March 01, 2007, 07:09:00 PM
Post by: Guitarzan01 on March 02, 2007, 01:14:00 AM
It's strange, i've never heard of a corrupt eeprom in a stock xbox before. The xbox was never opened, never tampered with, and probably babied(I bought it from a friend, he's like that). But oh well, i payed $20 bucks for it, and it has a samsung 605b in it and everything else.
Post by: networkBoy on March 02, 2007, 11:09:00 AM
I particularly like this one from the hall 'o shame:
Though I am proudest of this:
(the two resistors are the same size as the LPC resistors on the xbox. how's that for some trick soldering?
for those who care it is two 50ohm resistors forming a 100 ohm termination for a differential signal with a center tapped load to ground of 15pF.
The signal was 400mV Pk-Pk on a 1V dc offset (hence the cap is ideally neutral to the diff signal, but provides a load to and common mode signal). I had to build a total of 28 of these to load the entire system bus.
-nB
Post by: capboy210 on March 02, 2007, 03:29:00 PM
Post by: Guitarzan01 on March 02, 2007, 03:32:00 PM
Post by: CJLee89 on March 02, 2007, 06:12:00 PM
QUOTE(Guitarzan01 @ Mar 1 2007, 07:55 PM)
Wow... how many retards does it take to fix a fuse... LOL
well have you ever tried replacing one without a soldering iron? i didnt think so, so we decided to have some fun. kinda like plugging a car speaker into 110V.
Post by: Guitarzan01 on March 03, 2007, 02:14:00 AM