Xbox debug kit 'Red Units' label?!

Got some new kits in this week and found some strange labels that I have not come across before and wondered if anyone had ever seen or owned a kit with a similar label before.
The kit doesn't work unfortunately, it has the FRAG error, so I haven't been able to do any software testing and until I have some clarification as to what the label might be I don't really want to start opening it. Hopefully someone can shed some light.



Another thing, which may be very trivial but worth mentioning IMO, is that the power rating label is white when all the other debug kits I have/have had in the past have been black -



Let me know what you think

 

Given as it was manufactured a whole year before the Xbox ccame out in europe I'm guessing it is an early debug on par with XDK DVT3.

Also, red sort of makes me think of Redmond, as in M$ hometown.

 

Can't you run a recovery on it?

 

Don't think so. Europe had plenty of DVT3 kits.

 

Neat, sad it doesn't work. Were you told it didn't work when you bought it?

 

They were bought as faulty.

 

This might be referring to the concept of red disks and green disks that I've seen referenced by Xbox dev documents. I think that one of the two types was a DVD-X2 - that is, Xbox disk with protection and hologram - but signed with the debug key instead of the retail key. This allowed testing near-release games on a final disk format.

However, this is all stuff I learned from context, so I could be completely wrong about it...

 

Yeah, but the pressed Xbox disks that are debug formatted aren't all that unusual, and they run on normal Debug kits without issue. Not sure why there would be a "special" unit for them. Id be curious to the the ram and the media chip, but I know Kiff is working on it.

 

Backup the bios before you try to fix them or recover them! They seem pretty interesting!

 

Backup everything

 

It's all in hand, I will report back once I know anything else!