Original Xbox with Dead HDD

Hi all, i have an original Xbox 1.0 with a broken HDD, how can revive it? I tried to put another ide hdd into it but it doesn't boot. Thanks in advance

 

If the board is not tsop flashed then you will have to either extract the eeprom using an eeprom reader or install a modchip. Installing a modchip is the better option imo...

 

Do you think that is possible with a Xecuter Modchip? My friend will give it to me tomorrow.

 

Definitely! If he's just giving you an xecuter chip that is awesome!

 

It's a Xecuter 3 Modchip. How can i install it? After i got It installed i just have to turn on the console with the New hdd? Thanks a lot for helping me

 

Hopefully it has everything with it. The Xecuter 3 chip requires three wires to be soldered on the back of the xbox motherboard. You may have some issues if you don't get that wire loom. I can post install instructions later if someone else doesn't link them first. Currently away from my machine and have very poor internet on my cellphone which I'm using atm.

also it should work fine as long as the chip has been used before and already has a bios installed on it and the new hdd is unlocked.


well I retract my statement on it "requiring" the wire loom. It's mainly just for hdd and LAN activity LEDs. But the third wire is very important. It's for the D0 point. Without that wire the chip won't do much.

 

This is the modchip. I don't think that is a Xecuter It also hasn't got the pin header. http://www.imagebam.com/image/81bd72350946046 Here is also a photo of the motherboard. http://www.imagebam.com/image/8fc1b9350367509

 

Nope, that's a cheap mod modchip.

you will solder that via wires. Very easy actually, should be just install and go.
never really used one before so I have no idea if it can backup the EEPROM or not.
But it should bypass the tsop chip on the board just fine and load a custom bios, it may allow for the use of the other hdd.
Honestly couldnt tell you for sure tho, again never used one.

 

I've got a few stock xbox drives I could give you. Just pay for shipping. Just in case you don't get the mod chip working

 

That really wouldn't work tho, without a modchip it won't be able to unlock the drive. Xbox hdds are locked to the motherboard. I never understand when I see a stock xbox hdd on eBay with a bid on it

 

Ok, di you know But what is the wiring scheme for that chip? Because it looks different from any other chip.

 

probably cheapest to just get another Xbox, they sell pretty cheap.

 

Or make himself a EEPROM reader and get the EEPROM off then install a drive? The EEPROM reader is pretty cheap,just getting a HDD would cost a bit more (depending on whether he wants to use a SATA-PATA adaptor with a SATA drive or a simple PATA drive)

 

Someone just didn't assemble it completely.
it installs upside down with the side with the chip facing towards the side of the xbox. Pins should match up in correspondence to the solder point below it. Nothing special.

 

I believe there is a way to hook up, via serial, to the Seagate drives so you can delete the HDD password wiping the drive in the process (firmware controlled). But you obviously have to dump the EEPROM off the XBox which requires more work and if you're going to do that why would you bother to toss in a small and unreliable 8gb stock drive when you can slap in a CF card (native IDE) or an IDE->SATA adapter and use something *new*?

Eagerly awaiting the release of the new modchip design. I can't stand these Aladdin XTs (unreliable in a lot of cases) and nobody makes 1.6 rebuild PCBs anymore (and wire rebuilds suck horribly).

 

Just read the EEPROM, make another hard disk with XBOXHDM (with your EEPROM on the disc) and make a new hard disk from scratch.

Fixed.

 

What sort of problems have you had with the Aladdin? I'm far from an Xbox Xpert (tm), but I have modded quite a few of them for my friends, generally using that chip, and I've never had any problems. Just curious here...

 

I got a batch of 10-15 and found one flat out dead and a few others flaky no matter what I did. Whatever BIOS they come with seems to have problems with reliably booting on 1.6 boards but beyond that they seem decent enough especially with the new firmware that someone put out here on the boards that I need to give a shot to. They also feel and look kinda cheap. My first chip was a X2.6CE and that thing looked and felt rock solid stable.

I'm just not a fan of cheapy Chinese clones produced by the thousands. The XenoGC chips seem spot on quality though.

 

Wondering,but does an Aladdin work with X2 firmware?Or only EvoX?

Also,I pretty much seem to dislike the 1.6s. Not only there's no TSOP but M$ also took out the extra RAM pads.

 

Ah, OK - the original CPLD code didn't play very nicely with the 1.6 boards - but 1.6s are happily very rare around here.