Consumer waste devkits

Well, in the past two days, I've picked up a PSU and a 120GB HDD for this console. Since it's an early Xenon, it runs fairly loud, but it's doing it's job so far.

It already came with XDK 9328 installed, and the disc I received with it that had Chinese text written on it turned out to be a burnt copy of Splinter Cell: Conviction.

PartnerNet works perfectly fine. Now I'm currently messing around with homebrew.

 

This confirms that it isn't a beta unit. It's either a final dev unit or prototype of a final.

 

Wrong. The chinese managed to hack that recovery inorder for it to work with beta untis, it still has its problems controllers sometimes don't sync and some other hardware glitches I cant remember right now.

 

Doesn't that enable the use of the newer XEX revision, allowing higher updates to be made?

 

Thanks for pointing that out and everything, but...

Yeah.

I guess that mine is so close to final that by the time it was made they already had their final file format down. It's essentially a very early Xenon.

 

Nope, that's an official factory 'Prototype' type fitment method, and btw, it's not clay holding them on, its a type of glue.

 

Really? Because I've never seen microsoft chain load led's before... Never mind put them by both fans, the top, and bottom of the case... The unit is no doubt prototype. You can tell because it has the wire with a resistor attatched to some smc gpios. That port is ussually replaced with a series of smc gpio points and gnd points for leds. The cut where the hdd would fit is about twice as large as normal.

 

The way to tell is to dump the flash of the unit and try running a stock recovery disk. If it works, then the unit isn't beta. If it doesn't, the unit is a beta unit with a hacked recovery.

 

Just received mine and it's in pretty good condition apart from the broken power/ av and Ethernet of course
All panels are intact, the sticker on the rear is all there and the seller even threw in replacement cables and replacement ports so now it's just a case of repairing it.

 

Well I managed to repair the av and power (haven't bothered with the Ethernet yet) and it boots just fine.
Its on xdk 7978.3 and I let it run 12 hours to see if there was any stability issues, all checked out fine.....now I've just got to fix the Ethernet, backup the nand maybe remove R6T3.

One question I would like to ask is the sticker on the rear where it says xdk 360 has no other information..... No manufactur date, serial # etc, it's never been there either, it's just empty..is this normal?

 

They remove them to avoid bricking. and maybe to keep there sources secret. If a company is leaking them the seller and company leakinbg would be in alot of trouble

 

Whilst I do understand what your saying it makes little sense to me why they would go through the trouble of removing the sensitive info ( serial number, product ID and barcode) without damaging the label in any way, shape or form... Let me show you


now what you see here or not see due to very poor iPhone camera :lol: is a perfect rear xbox label minus all the relative information for this system.....if there every was anything on here surely it would be easier to rip it off rather than chemically remove it so precisly?

Especially seeing and it still has the developers name and studio number branded into the top of the console, not to mention the pet name the guys there gave it..... Hense still traceable.

 

If it failed quality control why would it have been sent to a developer?

 

I don't think so because the developer branding is on the same half of the case as the label, maybe it was just a really early final version that got shipped out to devs?

It also shows a good half minute lag from when the system turns on to when it outputs video plus the fans are full throttle all the time, but that could possibly be normal devkit behavior for all I know xD.

 

The lag is common.
The fans at full throttle is from one of 2 ways of setting them that fast, one way can not be reset back to auto, one way can. Or it could be a bad temperature sensor in auto mode.

 

I was under the impression they had pulled the entire label off! I have no idea then

 

It doesn't bother me that the fans run loud, but it's probably worth mentioning that when I first powered it up the fans were running slow for 4ish seconds then quickly spun-up to full speed and shut down with 2 red lights (overheated)... Figured out the CPU heatsink was junk, swapped it with a identical xenon one and it's worked fine since but the fans go to full speed as soon as it starts.

I don't think anyone does lol.

 

Is it ok to run a recovery on one of these kits from china, because i heard somewhere that they are running a hacked recovery. Has anyone who has one tried it?