I just got a white sidecar, and took it apart because it needs a hard drive, and i saw that it has the PIX ports. Is it not supported with the white sidecars, or whats the deal. Im probably not even going to use PIX, but im just wondering
In all seriousness though (my posts are under moderator approval, so I figured I'd make a legitimate response for once & can't edit), that was answered here: http://www.assemblergames.com/forums/showpost.php?p=398812&postcount=3
The white sidecar is probably from a Test Kit, which is has many debugging features disabled. The PIX port is one of these, and they put a plastic cover on the sidecar port because the test kit board wouldn't support it. I believe if you uncover the port and attach the sidecar to a motherboard with full debugging capability, you should be able to use it just fine. Of course, it would lower the collector's value of the white sidecar.
True, the only real use I ever found for it, was to display the frames per second while I tried to fine tune xbmovie setups.
Pretty sure Test Kit motherboards lack the physical hardware to PIX through the Sidecar, hence why the port is blocked. From what I've seen though, all sidecars contain physically identical PIX/DVDEMU boards, be it a Development Kit Sidecar from 05, or even an XNA sidecar from 09. By this point, they just don't even acknowledge the port, lol. It's completely factored out of the equation, even though it's technically all there, just behind the scenes. -Doom
