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Problem with Xbox mod chip
#1
Posted 19 February 2004 - 04:57 AM

I bring my Xbox around with me to several places; usually during the week, it goes from my house, to work, to friends' houses, and back again. I've been using an Xbox carry case, and I think it's not safe enough for the chip, so I'm going to get rid of it.
The problem that I've been having is that after the system gets moved (after a car ride, not after you just pick it up or something), and you try to turn it on, the system just turns on and off over and over or I get the red light. This is ONLY when the chip is turned on, not off, so I know it can't be my Xbox. However, if I press the chip in a little bit or move the wires a little, it then turns on without a problem. Tonight though, I was playing some games for an hour or so, and then when I went to reset, the system cut off and started acting up again, so it seems to be getting worse. It's working fine now, but I would like to know if anyone thinks something might be loose inside the system...I'm kind of afraid to open it up as I didn't mod the system myself.
Lee
#2
Posted 19 February 2004 - 05:02 AM

#3
Posted 19 February 2004 - 05:17 AM


The chip seems to be dead now...looks like I got a good two hours of play time out of KOF 2003.

Lee
#4
Posted 19 February 2004 - 05:24 AM

Lee
#5
Posted 19 February 2004 - 03:40 PM

all the other points are pretty clean and it would take a monkey to mess them up. D0 tho is tricky to non-professional solderers. As for people like me and the electronics elite, we get it every time

-jin
#6
Posted 19 February 2004 - 04:47 PM

#7
Posted 19 February 2004 - 06:26 PM

Lee
#8
Posted 19 February 2004 - 06:45 PM

#9
Posted 19 February 2004 - 07:10 PM

I opened up the Xbox, and right away, I see that the chip (or part of the chip?) is attached onto the left side of the metal casing, right next to the DVD ROM drive. The entire left metal side looks like it's been bent out; it's not making a straight line like the other sides of the metal casing box are. So I simply pushed the side in, and the system booted right up. If I pushed in too much, it wouldn't boot up, but making it straight again seems to have it working every time. I'm afraid to bend the metal with my hands, so I just took some very strong packing tape and taped it, and now it's working.

EDIT: I think it HAS to be related to the metal side of the Xbox. I took the tape off as it was making the chip get pushed in a little too tightly against the DVD drive after the cover was on, and just bent in the metal walls a little. Walked around with it, did a few small jumps, etc. Plugged it in, same problem. Just pressed in the side a tiny bit and it turned on again without ny era. I think I'm going to have to keep playing around with it, but I am convinced nothing has come undone and needs to be resoldered.
Lee
Edited by LyteEdge, 19 February 2004 - 07:29 PM.
#10
Posted 19 February 2004 - 09:45 PM

#11
Posted 20 February 2004 - 11:46 PM


I figured out the problem! Turns out that it was indeed related to where the mod chip was placed. Something must have hit the system hard enough when I had it in my trunk to make the metal side of the frame with the chip attached get "bent" inwards. Whenever it would touch the DVD drive, some sort of short must have happened, causing the chip to keep turning on and off. I finally caught this by removing the Xbox shell and turning the system on with the metal side bent a little back out, and it worked perfectly. Reattaching the shell caused it to do the same problem. So I bent back the side even more and put the shell back on, and it's working great. I may sand down the inside plastic from the Xbox outer casing though; I think the grooves on the inside were part of the problem causing it to press into the DVD drive more than it should be. But I'll most likely be buying that extra modded XBox my manager has; just seems like too good of a deal to pass up.

Lee
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