Alpha Two known alpha kits for the Xbox 360 - Alpha 1 (ATI R300) - Alpha 2 (ATI R420) Both units were in G5 mac cases. The difference between alpha 1 and 2 is that Microsoft upgraded the graphics card. Recovery wise Alphas can go slightly above the kernel 1000. "Xex0" recoveries only. 2.0.0198.0 (Seen on alpha 1) - 2.0.1232.0 (seen on alpha 2) Beta If you are getting into XDKs and collecting isn't a part of the reason why stay away from the beta units. But, I'm going to give you the run down here. There are two documentations for beta units. The most common one that most members in this scene follow and my new and improved list. For my list, I grouped the units based on the units 6 digits. Beta 1 units have X801054. Now you may ask to yourself that "beta 2 and beta 3 and all the final units for xenon have the same 6 digs of X803600." Well the reason I have X803600-009 as beta 2 and X803600-010 is beta 3 is because the changes between the boards is pretty great. In addition, I believe that having 3 major beta boards is a nice thing. Lastly, obviously the board changes from 010 to 011 was a huge leap because 011 is final. My documentation: The above list uses motherboard revisions. Not the sticker revision as that number is unclear to what it represents. *Note* But honestly, using Beta 1,2 or 3 is a very inaccurate system to use, as everyone has their on personal idea of which unit is beta 1,2, or 3. So, I advise not using that identification system and instead use the motherboard revision. Motherboard revision from: 008 to 010 do not receive titan boards. 007 and below do, and the revision of the titan boards differ from board revision to board revision. O Internal boards were from motherboard revisions: 001 – 010 - Internal units are usually white (there has been different color beta internal kits seen) and have no sidecar. They have stress wires for the lamprey board and most the time they will have argon wires for the ROL to be programmed. They would come equipped with a prototype HDD which will vary depending on the unit it’s on. Example: 007 internals will sometimes get white prototype HDDs and 008 devs will sometimes get grey prototype HDDs. - 007 internals and below received black Rubber USB doors. Where as, 008 internals and above received the normal USB doors. - 007 internals aren’t called XeDKs. - *Note* A black internal kit has been seen before. The case and stickers match a 005 but we aren’t quite sure if it is a 005 or not. - *Note* There has been a gray 007 internal kit. We believe it was used for testing the dyes. O Dev boards were from motherboard revisions: 007 – 010 > The dev board for 007 is called a XeDK, as the MFR label said "Xbox 360 XeDK", but nowhere else said Xbox 360 so we assume they were just testing names. At the time, the name of the Xbox 360 was xenon. XeDK = Xenon Development kit. The 008 was never distinguished as XeDK. 008 development kits had no MFR sticker/label, they had the secondary serial number seen on all beta units. In addition, 008s are the first kit to get the engraved “Xbox 360” on sides of the case. During this stage, Microsoft probably moved past calling the Xbox 360 a xenon and was reformatting the labels which explains why 008s didn’t receive one. 009 development kits are the first betas to get both the name "Xbox 360" engraved on the case sides and the correct label that says: “Xbox 360 XDK.” - 007 development kits (XeDKs) are a light-ish black and have a matching sidecar. Black Rubber USB doors too. - 008 development kits have a pitch-black case with the same color sidecar 007s would get. The sidecar differs from a 007 sidecar because it won’t say PIX / DBG it will only say PIX. DBG refers to Debug. They will also have a more final faceplate with normal USB doors. - 009 and 010 devs come in the normal final development kit case. The sidecar for them are also in the final development kit case. These units will have the secondary bar code and the sidecar. These units might also come with various other beta/prototype stickers. Other details about beta kits: 007s and below can't go past the 1838 kernel (xex1 only) 008s can only use xex2 recoveries. 009 and 010s are basically final. 009 kits will come with a wire that was soldered in house at Microsoft. Both 009 and 010 kits will come with the prototype Ethernet port and they will have one out of the two headers for the titan board. In addition, they both will even have the pinouts that all beta units got. Beta units receive Argon ROLs. The revisions of these varied from motherboard revision to motherboard revision. 512MB Prototypes and stress kits etc... Stress kits can be prototype. But, not all stress kits are prototypes. Note Stress kits will come with the debug headers. O Xenon - Xenon prototypes are beta kits - Xenon Stress kits don’t have the sidecar power header. HDMI - Notable features of HDMI prototype kit (not just zephyr) is the backwards AV and HDMI engravings O Zephyr - Early 2006 Zephyr prototypes have been seen to come with a blue motherboard. There were 3 or 4 known blue motherboard units. One of them came in a green case another came in a white case. - Zephyr stress kits don’t have the sidecar power header. But, they have the debug headers. - Sentinel Stress kits were used for testing XGD2 and XGD3. O Falcon - Falcon Stress kits don’t have sidecar power header - Falcon motherboard were only ever prototypes. No final Development/Test kit version of the falcon exists. O Jasper > Prototypes - Normal, Low, and High voltage prototypes - Standard prototypes (no normal, low, and high voltage prototypes stickers) > Prototype jasper's use the same board revision (even 1-GB prototypes got the same board). “Final” XNAs and some final Jasper XDKs use the prototype board. It was a very multipurpose board. The board revision is: X815841-001. All prototypes use that prototype board but all finals that receive it aren't considered prototype > Jasper stress kits do have the sidecar power header. All the stress Jasper's I've seen use the normal prototype jasper board. Final kits Xenon, Zephyr, and Jasper are the only Phat motherboards that got final XDK variants. Test kits: Test kits are white, both sidecar and case. Their MFRs read: Xbox 360 XDK. The sidecar has PIX covered. They can’t do memory editing. Development kits: Development kits have a “XDK gray” case (dark gray) and a light gray sidecar. Pix is not blocked on the sidecar. They can do memory editing. Their MFR stickers also say: Xbox 360 XDK. Other final variants: O Xenon - Demo kits: White. They will have a tiny demo sticker on the back. Some units will have the sidecar power header and debug headers and others will not. No sidecar. - Reviewer kits: “XDK” gray case. They will have a tiny reviewer sticker on the back. They will sometimes have the sidecar power header and debug headers. No sidecar. - Sometimes early xenon finals would receive early 011 boards, that still use the prototype Ethernet port. O Zephyr - Demo kits: White case no sidecar. They would sometimes get a tiny demo sticker on the back. It seems to be the date of the console that determines if it will receive a tiny sticker. Later kits most likely won’t and early demo kits most likely will. Some units will have the sidecar power header some will not. O Jasper - Demo kits: Elite black color. They do not come with tiny demo sticker on back. No sidecar. They will come with sidecar power header. Bonus Information: Test to devs [Slim] Only works with slims: If you have a slim XDK with no sidecar (which will show as test kit) you can trick the system check to think it does so your slim can be a full dev. You can do the recint.ini edit or go to a lower dash and steal it’s XBDM and replace a later recovery’s XBDM. This only works with recoveries that use the same XBDM. 21256.13 and 21256.18 are recoveries that had their XBDM changed. It's @Lehvak btw. I can't recover my info cause it's a live email I used for that account.
Tell me about the blue zephyr board Tell me about the Transparent shells Tell me about the glossy shells
What ya mean transparent shells? There are none when it comes to phats. Slim prototypes, like the engineering samples, did. The only transparent phat shells are third party, as of this current post. The glossy white shells can be seen on beta units.
Besides the blue mobo, the blue zephyrs were the same as any dev mobo. i only of one owner which is/was the Xenon.7 bloke
And now I have confirmation that transparent shells did exist in an official capacity, but not on the older models. Ive seen it mentioned being of higher quality than other boards. It makes me wonder if its as susceptible to the problems most other boards had.
