TUTORIAL: Upgrade HDD in TSOP

I can make a written tutorial if need be

 

Stick maybe hehe (in my dreams lol)

 

Great video! It almost looks too easy after showing this. I always thought I would need to deal with the EEPROM to switch out HDDs.

 

You probably still will if you are just soft modded but most TSOP mods remove the need for ATA security..
im going to be making a tutorial soon on Tsop ing and removing HDD keys from the flash.

 

Yea a video of TSOP would be very cool.

 

I would also love a good Tutorial on how to properly TSOP a xbox aswell. Preferably a version 1.0 or 1.1 with the larger TSOP chips.
Never done it before but would love to give it a go, haven't found any good tuts out there or if I do find one thats decent they dont tell you where you can find the files needed.

 

Yeah I want to do a tutorial for every variation, getting the motherboards/units is the problem haha
unless someone wants some Xboxs TSOPED über cheap
I'm going to do a Ram upgrade tutorial too, there is only one on YouTube but it's like 240p, I recently bought some 11,500lum soft fill lights so close up shots in 1080p will look nice hehe

 

Ok so I have acquired three xbox consoles to make tutorials with.
A 1.0, 1.1 and 1.4

also bought some extra tools to make a RAM upgrade tutorial

Other tutorials in the pipeline:
HDD activity LED mod
Clock Cap replacement tutorial / or battery mod tut
EEPROM dumping tutorial through LCP


Any suggestions / ideas are welcome

thanks

 

I'll end up merging them all and sticking them when you complete.

 

Ok thank you mr hex

 

Cant wait

 

Looking forward to all these video tutorial's too..

 

So jaycar stuffed up my parts order and some things did not arrive :/ so the tutorial is a bit delayed

 

Any updates on that Tsop Tutorial Video?

 

It's coming soon because I only have a few systems I have to make the videos in a certain order.
the most recent tutorial I just made is making an EEPROM reader, next one will be dumping the EEPROM (already done just need to upload, then there is Softmod then TSOP (these two may be one video, depends how long they are).

 

I've done TSOP mods a fair few times now. The more legacy equipment you have, the more likely and faster you'll succeed. When I first started modding original Xbox's a few years ago I only had a fairly recent PC with no IDE ports, and it didn't support HD passwords (so no lock/unlock with EEPROM file via my PC). As I was living in university halls at the time I didn't have access to a soldering iron or an appropriate environment to use one either. Modchips are hard to come by in my country so that was no-go either. I eventually found a way by buying a Sata-to-IDE adapter, hotswapping, then using XboxHDM to install nDure. Once the softmod was installed I FTP'd my chosen BIOS and then used a pencil on the motherboard to play join-the-dots (took over twenty attempts as graphite isn't as conductive as solder) to hack the TSOP. From then on I could easily buy a large IDE drive and use a burned copy of HEXEN (heimdall's xbox engineering disc) to set it all up. This made a nice media player for the university common room at this point! From then on I've used already-modded xbox's and hot-swapped with retail locked xbox's to softmod more of them, then use an actual soldering iron to bridge the TSOP write lines. Of course ensure to avoid xbox's that are made after a certain date in 2003, as the final 1.6 xbox motherboard has no TSOP to flash! If you buy an xbox to try this in the UK, try somewhere like Cash converters, as the staff are willing to get the consoles out of the cabinet and show you the bottom label to see the manufacture date (and they usually understand why with no further questions!) After buying a cheap old PC with IDE ports I can now do all this much faster. Retro-gaming and cheap media players all the way...

 

Cool sorry the tutorial is taking a while my wife is a little sick ATM

 

Do you have an up-to-date link for a guide/tutorial for that? Preferably with all that prerequisites info?
Thanks!

 

Honestly, it's mush easier to just use a save game exploit to load the initial softmod than it is to worry about getting a PC and swapping the hard drive.

Once you've softmodded and enabled write on the TSOP, you unlock the existing disc (so you can use it elsewhere) and copy the contents off via FTP. Put new disc in, boot off CD, partition new disc. Copy contents back via FTP. Boot off hard drive.

 

Maybe, but I just want to know my options.