40 Pin 80 Wire Ribbon reccomendations?

Bought a few 80 wire ribbon's to speed up some of my xbox's and while they work great, they are a BEAR to try and get in place since the 2nd and 3rd connectors are closer together than in the OES XBox ribbon. Just wondering if anyone had any particular model that fit's better? or they prefer.

 

I ended up modding one to work. I took a cable and un-clipped the top. I positioned the new connector where I wanted it and pressed it together in my vice. It works quite well.

I never could find a source for one.

 

Thanks I'll have to look into that. These are what I bought btw.

 

http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/80cm-40-Pin...%3A88237b561550a605a24b0f52fffcd9f8%7Ciid%3A1

These work fine.

 

Awesome thanks, I'll look for them in the US ebay!

 

They ship from china, just copy and paste the item number into US ebay.


361351278915

 

Thanks!

 

The best I've had luck with is ASUS 80-wire ATA133 cables.

Here's how it looks - I think you can find those in ASUS motherboard boxes - my old K8N (which I still have and still works,though I retired it now) did come with such cables. (including a 40 wire version for CD/DVD-ROM and a 34pin floppy one)

The only thing that I can find to those being so fast is that,as opposed to most 80-wire cables on the market,which use multi-stranded wire,this one achieves performance by using only one copper wire for each pin. So this would make 2 separate single-stranded copper wires for each pin, I guess.

edit: Forgot pic,whoops.

 

Thanks! I've seen all the debates about faster or not but all I know is the ones I bought that only fit if I have the case open and stuff moved around; were noticeably faster in a big way. I will defiantly look for these

 

Yeah,try and get one of these. At least,my TSOP'd 1.0 runs really fast with them. I did a comparision by booting 98SE inside XDSL,first with a normal ATA100 80 pin cable,and then with the ASUS ATA133 cable. I noticed that with ATA100 it was as fast as a 486 with a ridiculous amount of RAM,while with ATA133 98SE is almost usable. In fact,the only thing that makes it "almost" is the fact applications and menus have a +- 2-3 second delay to appear/open while with ATA100 it was much longer.

As for games,these load faster too! For example I had Midtown Madness 3 boot in a minute with ATA100 while the ATA133 ASUS cable reduced the loading to nearly 20 seconds. I wonder if those ASUS cables would improve loading times on Xboxes with SATA drives.

 

How did you get this cable to fit without taking clips apart. The connection to the DVD drive is in reverse because of the centre outdent?

 

I'm going to try one of these cables. $1.20 + $2.50 S&H cheap enough to try it. I hate when it costs more for shipping than the cost of the item.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Gigabyt...745378?hash=item3ac5269d62:g:b70AAOxyCGNTMcmH

I've ordered it but it hasn't arrived yet. More information when available.

 

Looking forward to what you find

 

Me too, as I measured a real cable and find the new one is going to be about 1-2" shorter than an original cable and the connector on the long end is on the reverse side.

Received the 19", 18.5" by my measurements, 80-wire IDE cable today.

I'd seen someone mention they used this cable from eBay so I thought I'd try it. Not sure how they were able to make it work!

They were to be 19" long, about 2" short, but it's only 18.5" making it 2.5" too short.

You can see a side-by-side comparison in the photo below. As well, the spacing between the DVD and MB connectors will need to be spread apart another 1.5". Requiring the connectors to be removed, but...

Updated photo with measuring tape added for comparison.

that's okay as the motherboard and DVD drive connectors need to protrude from the opposite side of the cable. But, doing so won't help much as the cables too short. I thought 19" might just make it without all the accordion folding in the real cable. The old adage, "Measure twice cut once", but someone already cut once before I measured it at 18.5".

Damn Microsoft for not using a standard cable.

The 80cm cable, 31.5" long, mentioned above will be way too long but cutting down to fit and flipping the connectors around should work. It's just hard to add more cable on once cut.

Update: Looks like the xbox cable is 22" long making this new one 3.5" too short.

 

well darn.

 

Update: I've been working with it more and it did finally fit.

The layout is not as clean and smooth as that of the original cable.

Had to make may more twists and turns. I'm working on getting photos. I'll update this message with them when I'm done editing them.

Update: I added a new message with all the photos. see below

I was about to request a return to the seller but continued to fight with it. Eureka!

Here are the pictures showing the 19" well I measure 18.5" -- 12.5" and 6" center-to-center distances from the DVD/center connector to each end.

First, the completed installation.



Next, a look under the DVD drive.



Here's the entire cable shown connected to the Xbox motherboard with DVD and HDD disconnected.



The cable has many more twists and turns and a couple places bunched up more than I'd like but it works.
Two pictures here rotated cable to see all the folds and twists involved.





It works just doesn't look as pretty as the original cable run.

Would be better if the cable was 22" long with 7.5" between the motherboard and DVD connectors (these two (2) connectors protruding from the side opposite that of HDD connector) and 14.5" between the DVD and HDD connectors.

I purchased a few extras (9). I should be able to get them mailed out for less than $2.50 each first-class 2 oz ($0.47+$0.21) should work. I'll have to check the weight tomorrow.

 

I didn't notice they had clips when I installed them. I just folded the cable like the original 40-wire cable (since they were both the same lenght),and connected everything back. I have two modded Xboxes that have ASUS ATA133 cables - my old 1.0 and a 1.4.

You might want to go and buy some 3300uF 6.3v caps. I see some bulging caps near the CPU heatsink. (didn't 1.2/1.3 Xboxes have this problem with the bad Nichicon HM/HN batch?)

 

I've just started working on repairing a few xboxes. I hadn't noticed them looking out of shape but I'll take a closer look. Thanks for pointing that out. I know the clock cap had leaked and removed it and cleaned up its waste.

 

The biggest question is..do you notice faster loading times? On some I have and others no.

 

You have a good eye, the tops of those three (3) caps definitely bulging about to split their tops.

I've not done any testing on this xbox yet. It has other problems that need to be fixed before I can do load time comparisons using the stock and 80-wire IDE cables. Probably the biggest difference will be from the replacement of the stock HDD with a larger 7200RPM replacement.