Xbox One Prototype

Anyone have any info on this console? This is a Xbox One Prototype NOTE this is not my console someone sent me the pics just want to know what the name of the ports are. The black one looks like a IDE but in a smaller form.

Spoiler: PICs

@XboxSurgeon
@Borman


Okay I'm am sick of waiting for someone to come along. The Truth is that I own this console and I got it with no HDD so I need someone that has a working Kit and is willing to open it.

 

The ide cable looks like a gpio cable, 26 pins for emulation of the sata drive, that it is headed for the outside sort of backs that up.

 

Do you anything on the other small blue port

 

Neat. What's with the 'Warm' and 'Cold' microswitches?

 

Perhaps warm boot and cold boot? The Xbox one has a suspend mode that it can wake up from.

I'm not sure the ribbon cable is for SATA. SATA is pretty high frequency, not really the domain of long ribbon cables.

 

wow. Thats really neat, thanks for sharing these pics dude

 

Yes like @aspect said they should be warm boot and cold boot, I know that both the bottom ones are for power on and off and eject.

 

I know what cold boot would be, but warm I never knew. Makes sense though

 

Interestingly most (all?) of those pads are on the retail motherboard. The power / warm / cold / eject, a place for the power LED, the two multi-pin headers, etc.

I can't say for certain, but the headers are likely used for initial programming and diagnostics. They'll need to load code onto the Xbone and run automated tests to ensure the board is good, from there they need to flash the OS. A jig likely does this during manufacturing. JTAG is likely exposed, but must be disabled after manufacturing. On a prototype system like this, it might still be active though.

The retail board doesn't seem to have that SOCPHY test point. From the looks of it these test points have nice little probe hooks populated on them. They're also labeled, which is nice.

http://www.techinsights.com/uploade..._One/Board-Shots/xbox-one-boardshot-front.jpg

 

If we go back and look at the first few pictures of a Xbox One Teardown by Wired as we all know it was a Dev Kit, Test, Prototype who knows. But if you look it has almost everything from the pictures in my post. As well it has other things if look you will see a extra port on the back debug displays both pointed out by @drahcir and then you have to appear two wireless antenna ports next to the power / warm / cold / eject. The 2nd picture is of the extra port but is covered if you count the one from the 1st picture it has 1 extra one that you see in the 2nd picture.

Spoiler: PICs

Here is something small but don't know if its true a picture that wired has a picture of xbox one ports but if you look at the Ethernet port it has lights that retails don't have maybe just dev kits have it.

Spoiler: look

 

Is the owner of the console planning to do anything with it? Like others have pointed out it almost certainly has the potential to unveil some of the secrets of the xbone if the right person had access to it.

-doulomb

 

I don't know what do you think he should do?

 

Well I'm not sure how skilled he is, but it would definitely be worthwhile to investigate those dev pinouts. For example if there is CPU Jtag available you might be able to dump the efuses and bootloader key.

That said, I'm just spitballing here, I am pretty uninformed about the current state of the Xbone scene. Perhaps this is already done in closed circles and may be pointless. Perhaps you are knowledgeable about this yourself XeDK?

-doulomb

 

wonder what the extra port was intended for next to the ethernet on the display unit

 

Okay I'm sick of waiting for someone to come along. The Truth is that I own this console and I got it with no HDD so I need someone that has a working Kit and is willing to open it.



If you guys have any ideas on what I can maybe do to get it working please do post. This console will not Boot as it has no HDD I did plug in a blank HDD and it booted to the green Xbox Logo and sits, It will sit with a blank HDD this is why I need someone with a working one I need the FileSystem inside the HDD or the full HDD setup.

 

Is it prototype or dev kit?
slap a retail drive in

 

It's presumably very close to final in hardware terms - the rear panel label says that it's been tested for compliance with FCC rules, and that's not normally something you would bother doing with strictly prototype hardware, since the approval is based on type acceptance and any major changes will invalidate the testing.

I would also guess that ribbon cable connects to something like the XBone equivalent of a Lamprey board for reflashing the unit - and what it will do will be heavily dependent on exactly what's flashed to it.

 

Its a prototype thats what it says and I don't own this console anymore.

 

It's an FTDI port. It's used for flashing stuff on the console.

-Doom