Sidecar Teardown - By Doom

Additional Sidecar details, should help for people who lose track of what goes where, or need help installing. Snapped all the pictures the other day while swapping hard drives and installing.

This is a ASSEMbler Games exclusive only.

Sidecar Teardown


Wire locations on MotherBoard


Wire Locations on Sidecar Boards


Wire Locations on Sidecar Boards


About how it should look before putting it all together again.


Final Result(Hopefully)


-Doom

 

Wow, doom! Great job on that guide! You explained things very well and the good quality pics are appreciated!

 

Awesome pics, would have helped when I opened mine.

 

Awesome guide Doom,nicely done.:thumbsup:

 

i recognize that sidecar. lol

 

Haha, indeed.

-Doom

 

Great info! Helped me a lot

tore up sidecar i got on a kit lol... looks like they were trying to tear it off!

 

Thanks a ton! Really helpful.

 

just took mine apart for cleaning, it has a Fujitsu 120 gb HDD, the previous owner said he had never switched HDD's, but did M$ ever use Fujtsu hdds in Sidecars?

 

Ja Microsoft nutzt Fujitsu HDD´s auch in Sidecars und Retail HDD´s...

 

Thanks for the answer,

but I just had a closer look at the boards in there and found some things I got questions about:

1. In both pics you can see LED's (2 on the board with all the connections, 4 under the HDD board) any Ideas what they are for? (by the way, I just got this Sidecar today and didn't fire it up, don't want to open up my Kit now )

2. On the board with all the connectors you can see a button (lower left corner. You can't press that button when the Sidecar is assembled by the way (metal shielding is blocking access to the button). Did anyone ever try what happens if you press it while the Kit is running or knows what it is for?

I mean what's the point of a button you can't press:shrug:?

 

Die Leds sind Status-Anzeigen dafür das z.B gerade der PIX-Port genutzt wird. etc Im Betrieb leuchtet da auch ne Menge... deswegen nenn ich z.B XeDK´s mit Sidecars gerne mal Weinachtsaum.

Zum Knopf...ich hatte schon min. 5 Sidecars geöffnet, aber er ist mir nie aufgefallen... :-0

 

so, as dark neo just told me what the LED's are for, did anybody ever notice this button/pressed it?

Otherwise I will just do it and see what happens, I guess the Sidecar won't explode if I press it?

 

Could be used to switch to bootloader or recovery mode (the chip on the sidecar not the console)

 

Well, as long as someone can tell me that it won't make this kinda expensive piece of hardware unsuable I would simply install the Sidecar on a Kit the next few days and try what happens...

@LEo:
In case you are right with this assumption, why is the switch hidden in a totally unaccessable part of the Sidecar?
It's one the side of the Sidecar that has no ventialtion holes, so the only possibility to press this button on a assembled SC is with something flat and long from the other side and I#m sure that's not meant to be done.

 

Kholdfuzion told me a while ago this could very well be the case, also if I recall there are actually 2 switches.

 

what do you mean with "it could be the case", do you mean it could render it unusable?

I can't find another button in the sidecar by the way

 

I have a Trinity 512mb dev kit. I heard, it don't need sidecar. Why? Internal dvd emu or....?! trinity has new features?

 

No kits need a sidecar, they do provide the additional features of dvd emulation and PIX. For what most people use their kits for they have no need/use for either.