Hey Slot...So I used to mod pretty big back in the day, can find me all over Xbox-scene, etc etc. Modded controllers with extra buttons, chips, tsop, softmods, you name it. I have a Halo Edition xbox with Executer3 chip, with the front panel, big hard drive loaded. Like 10 years ago, my kid let a Popsicle melt on it, and it wouldn't start up after that. It sat for almost 11 years and I broke it out last week. I had another xbox with the same board (1.4) so i swapped chip over and it worked fine. But my HDD was locked to the broken one (dual bios start for xbox live). Just used your video to make the cable and pull the eeprom off the old board and flash to the new board and booted up flawlessly with all my old games. So thank you for that!
Nice guide. great to see someone still using the old hardware hack methods. We invented this way to dig about in the xbox eeprom in 2004 over on llamma's site.. so we could unlock the drives, or to lock replacements.. and the plans still exist on afterdawn.. keep on hacking :D regards Janrocks ;)
To save parts and money you could use a full serial cable with both female ends just cut one end off and use a multi meter or a light to find the pins for each wire and that should work to.
I made my own today following this tutorial. Took me a little over an hour because I didn't have an adequate soldering iron. It felt like it was bought from a toy shop :( ... A good soldering iron is half the job. I used to solder alot at my old job, but those were high-end soldering irons and could have made this job a lot easier.
kinda would like the list of items to be in the description I made one before with a breadboard but after seeing this it looks like cake and will last longer without parts being removed and lost.
There you go guys, im building my own today EPROM Xbox reader parts 9 pin female serial conector Housing for serial connector 2 5.1 volt zener diodes 2 3.9 Kohm resistors 1 alligator clip Pcb Header Heatshrink Cable (quadshielded data cable reccomended)
Thank you for this tutorial. Believe it or not I went to cashies and got an Xbox. Working perf and great condition! When I went to softmod by hotswap the HDD motor spindle died! LIKE completely died! But you arrived! I am about to make the eeprom reader so thanks for this tutorial!
Yep, l actually went throgh the same; the damn xbox died after softmodding it. The very next day when l turn it on l hear the clicking meaning the hdd died, now l need an eeprom reader to resurrect my xbox.
part list incase others need 9 pin serial connecter serial connector housing 2x 5.1 zeta diodes 2x 3.9 kohm resistor small aligator kit julian line header quad shielded data cable
Hello, In another tutorial i came across, they suggested using 4.7K resistors, whereas this video suggests using 3.9K. Does it have to be exactly that or are we allowed a small range?
What software do I use to read/write the EEPROM? Is this I2C or ICSP? I presume the former. Edit: Yep. I2C programmer for 24xxxx series EEPROMs. PonyProg can read/prog with this adapter.
is there a method for reading/writing the EEPROM off an Xbox HDD, without the original xbox motherboard that it came from? I have a locked HDD but not the Xbox nor the EEPROM =(
Great tutorial! Yours are the best! Just of of curiosity though, is there any reason why you used heatshrink on the SCL wire, but NOT on the SDA? Is it important to leave the SDA wire "exposed" ?
My soldering skills are very bad. I followed your link in the video and sent you an email regarding my buying a pre made one, but you have yet to respond.
Can you please write down the type of the cable you use @1:00 ? I can't make out clearly what you say (English is not my main) Quad shielded something cable? What search terms for it should I use? Thanks again!
Hi ! On this video, you sold a second ground wire to the aligator clip, but what is it for ? On your second video, I can't see it plugged ? Thanks for your help ! ;)
Can you explain how this works exactly? How does this read the EEPROM off of your Xbox exactly? Do you just plug one end into the xbox and the other into a monitor and it just displays it? I'm just confused by the actual functionality.
Hello , nice tutorial but can i ask you a favor? Could you please mesure the voltage of the sda and scl cable and tell me? I bulit a eeprom reader but is not working, i suspect the voltage is low on mine so i would like to know what voltage you have. Thank you
Hi there, great video. A quick question though... Does it matter about the wattage of the zener diodes and resistors? And what kind of cable was it that you used, with the 4 inner wires? Thanks.
made the cable.... just have to wait for china shop (ebay) PCI-e adaptor cards for serial and ide slots/ports as... my puta is sadly way to new ( ide for hotswap if need be on softmods... and the eeprom cable for disaster hdd stuff ups :P )
Hi, i know this Video is almost 9 Years old but i wanted to ask if you can do an Update? In particular is it possible to build such and Cable with USB?
Hello, Yes it is possible either with a cheap programmer like this: s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_De1VLFR OR with a raspberry Pi Zero consolemods.org/wiki/Xbox:PiPROM The eeprom is a 24WC02 if you need to know that
With this can I write an eeprom from another xbox so I can put the hdd from my... other xbox and get it to play games on the hdd? Im saying this cause my old xbox wont turn on and my hdd of only 250 gigas is full of games and I still want to play them on another xbox...
Hello Slot1Gamer ... Great video. I need your help or anyone else that can help ,,, On video 3:19 the other end of the cable is being soldered but I completly got lost which 2 wires are being soldered together ... What specific cable is being used would help too ,thanks.
yeah i had the same question what happen there also there was white wire the other end what happen with that so other end i put the black the bare and the other three wires all together hope that was right but other end where the some how a black wire gets hooked up with there bare ?????????????? so that would still have a black a white a red and a yellow so now the re and yellow are going to a double header but i am stuck at the black wire that was in the core with white but we are putting by the sounds of it another black wire that gose to a alligatoer clip and double header to one prong ??????
@2:56 mark, you say to solder the 2 diode legs to the ground wire(Black) , but what about the white wire. What happened to it? or did i miss something!?
It was an extra wire embedded in the cable he used. He opted to connect the last three points to the silver true ground wire instead and dis regarded the white wire.
@punishrs hey I was wondering if you ever received your EEPROM reader from the guy from UK I order from him in a been like four weeks and I still haven't got it because I hope it still comes
you can write an eeprom with one of these things? i accidently erased and eeprom off my 1.6v Xbox and messed up my modchip trying to flash a new bios to load another eeprom so im running out of options
What kind of data cable did you use? Every time I try to find the one you have in this video by using Google it gives me Ethernet cables. Is that what you had in this video or was it something else?
Iirc it was actually multi core shielded audio cable, all the same stuff really, you are reading data at a fairly low rate and not much of it to boot . :) Always do more than one read
ok im confused bc on my db9 cable pin 4 is DTR, still red though. Is this the one I use for the serial clock line? My Pin 5 is ground, but orange. And my pin 9 is the ring indicator and this is the yellow one. Which one do i use for for SCL and which one do I use for SDA? Do I use the pin that is the Data Carrier? Which in my case is pin 1, and blue in color. Please help me, I am lost
Would 1N4148 Zener diodes work in place of the ones in your video? The 1N4148 seem to be a common component that i am able to harvest as Zeners you are using would have to be ordered into the local electronics store. Also i've read that the resistors can range from 3.9k to 4.7k?
made mine using the 1N4148 zener diodes i salvaged and 4.7k resistors. also added a female mini-usb port for a steady 5.08v from any usb port with any mini usb cable :)
Hello, I did it the same as in the video and it gives me error -14 pony and my xbox does not enter that mode that restarts 3 times, which will be to check the cable 2 times and it is identical, that some resistance will be damaged?
Hi there, I have been trying to find some help. I have a hard modded 1.6 console which will not power on, at all. I have replaced the power board and some bad capacitors but still, no dice. I have a 1.1 xbox which is stock so I was wondering how I could unlock the 1.6 hdd to use on the 1.1? Also, do you repair xboxs?
Marita Simpson Hi, yes I do repair consoles for people :) the easiest way is to softmod then TSOP the 1.1 xbox, in my opinion 1.6 aren't worth the hassle... thanks for watching
Slot1Gamer Thank you. Just to clarify: 1. Make a Eeprom reader 2. Get the unlock code for the HDD in the 1.6 (because it has valuable stuff on it..) 3. Soft mod and TSOP the 1.1 4. Plug on the 1.6 HDD and enjoy?
Butistabomb You could do this: 1:Make EEPROM reader 2: Dump 1.6 AND 1.1 EEPROM's (make a backup of both too!) 3: Use Live Tool to copy the HDD Key from the 1.6 EEPROM file to the 1.1 EEPROM file 4: Save the new 1.1 EEPROM (with 1.6 key) as a new file 5: Flash new modified EEPROM to 1.1 Xbox :D It should work but if it doesn't just reflash the 1.1 backup to the 1.1 mobo and use the 1.6 hdd key to unlock the disk using a PC and XBHDM, then copy the content off using Xplorer360. Hope that helps
Yes, you can assemble the components on a breadboard, but you might find it hard to get the leads on the RS232 cable into the breadboard holes, particularly if they're stranded.I've done about 5 Xboxs from a circuit on a breadboard assembled about 5 years ago, but might finally assemble the parts like the video, or onto a stripboard.
@@Slot1Gamer thanks for your reply, I made what you taught on your video but can't use it because of the pins that won't fit on my pc 😫😂 maybe you can do a tutorial on how to just do it using Arduino Uno? 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Where can i find a eeprom reader/writer i looked on Amazon and ebay but theres something different thnx i don't think that there the same as the one that ur making for the original xbox
got a Error 7 xbox recently, i would like to fix it. from my understanding this cable can work for me to get eeprom, then take such dump and use a program like xbhdm to make new drive for it.. is it possible to use this same cable to flash custom bios with out having to solder the unlock points on mother board , and forgo softmodding ?
hello. the error 7 you seem to be getting is related to the ide cable made sure everything is seated and plugged in properly. No it is impossible to use the same cable to flash a custom bios. To do a tsop mod you need to first have a softmodded original xbox then solder the unlock points which disables the write protection then you can boot to a hexen disk to flash a bios. search up a tutorial for more details. When soldering it is also important not to use cheap plugin solder irons as they don't have temperature control which is pretty important if you want to do a proper job. It is very easy to do a tsop mod. But if your original xbox harddrive is dead then you need your hdd key,obtainable though using a xbox eeprom reader as shown in the video,then build a new hard drive with xboxhdm you will need the xbox partitions though. use google to find them.
i can get the xbox partitions off my other working xbox that i softmodded, appears int be cable related, so thing time to get the xbhdm going with all that. thanks for the reply
Can you tell me could you do this if you have an old serial cable already can you cut the male end off and solder the resisters and diode on the other end of the cable? can you give me the resister and diode names again so I can google them to try and find best price. I purchased a cable off ebay a guy from UK was selling them, but its been 6 weeks and still dont have it, so I guess Ill try and make one...
Slot1Gamer Im in the US, Baltimore Maryland 21201 zip code. the one on ebay would have cost like 12.25 UK so I guess about 18 or so USD...or can you post the exact items needed to make one, i was looking on ebay and noticed the resisters have different OHM and Watts wasn't sure what one to get..
punishrs Hello, the wattage is just how much current they can handle. 1/4W is fine (what I used). OHM is the resistance value, 3.9k ohm is what I used in this tutorial. That 1N4733 diode is the correct one. Hope that helps
Hey Slot...So I used to mod pretty big back in the day, can find me all over Xbox-scene, etc etc. Modded controllers with extra buttons, chips, tsop, softmods, you name it. I have a Halo Edition xbox with Executer3 chip, with the front panel, big hard drive loaded. Like 10 years ago, my kid let a Popsicle melt on it, and it wouldn't start up after that. It sat for almost 11 years and I broke it out last week. I had another xbox with the same board (1.4) so i swapped chip over and it worked fine. But my HDD was locked to the broken one (dual bios start for xbox live).
Just used your video to make the cable and pull the eeprom off the old board and flash to the new board and booted up flawlessly with all my old games. So thank you for that!
Nice guide. great to see someone still using the old hardware hack methods. We invented this way to dig about in the xbox eeprom in 2004 over on llamma's site.. so we could unlock the drives, or to lock replacements.. and the plans still exist on afterdawn.. keep on hacking :D
regards
Janrocks ;)
Hey Jan rocks this is UNICRON
To save parts and money you could use a full serial cable with both female ends just cut one end off and use a multi meter or a light to find the pins for each wire and that should work to.
I made my own today following this tutorial. Took me a little over an hour because I didn't have an adequate soldering iron. It felt like it was bought from a toy shop :( ... A good soldering iron is half the job. I used to solder alot at my old job, but those were high-end soldering irons and could have made this job a lot easier.
Gle Cas Yeah using a good soldering iron makes a huge difference :)
kinda would like the list of items to be in the description I made one before with a breadboard but after seeing this it looks like cake and will last longer without parts being removed and lost.
any way I can just buy one off someone? kinda don't have the time to make one but this is a awesome tutorial.
Hello.
This is UNICRON, lol this is my design I posted back in the day with a write up on llama.
+Mike Flynn nice :) is lllama still around? It was a cool site
There you go guys, im building my own today
EPROM Xbox reader parts
9 pin female serial conector
Housing for serial connector
2 5.1 volt zener diodes
2 3.9 Kohm resistors
1 alligator clip
Pcb Header
Heatshrink
Cable (quadshielded data cable reccomended)
quadshielded data cable "reccomended" - Not really though
Great tutorial, I built my cable on first try and it works like a charm!
should include a parts list in the description
Mario Myers Good idea Thanks
@@Slot1Gamer then never does it.
@@rezafu lmao
@@rezafu hahahaha
@@rezafu True dat. Still wondering about that parts list in November 2022 lol.
Thank you for this tutorial. Believe it or not I went to cashies and got an Xbox. Working perf and great condition! When I went to softmod by hotswap the HDD motor spindle died! LIKE completely died!
But you arrived! I am about to make the eeprom reader so thanks for this tutorial!
Yep, l actually went throgh the same; the damn xbox died after softmodding it. The very next day when l turn it on l hear the clicking meaning the hdd died, now l need an eeprom reader to resurrect my xbox.
Dope closing music
part list incase others need
9 pin serial connecter
serial connector housing
2x 5.1 zeta diodes
2x 3.9 kohm resistor
small aligator kit
julian line header
quad shielded data cable
LOL!! haaaa, what are you talking about? What is a Julian Line Header? Zeta diode? Aligator kit??
Thank you for the parts list!
There was a seller selling one of these, but they blocked me for no reason. I will make my own and the seller won't see a penny.
Nice video, didn't know it was this easy to do!
Elliott Hewitt Nether did I for a while there hehe :) Thanks for watching
wish this was here when i break all those units now i can fix theme
Mario Myers Hope you succeed :D
Tested and work 100% . It helps me to make a new larger hdd without using chimp .
Could you make a tutorial on how to make Atx psu to og xbox adapter
Hello,
In another tutorial i came across, they suggested using 4.7K resistors, whereas this video suggests using 3.9K. Does it have to be exactly that or are we allowed a small range?
Is the white wire not use, in the video. Where you solder the two diodes and the ground wire together.
It would have been better if you would have put the items on your description their buddy😎
What software do I use to read/write the EEPROM? Is this I2C or ICSP? I presume the former.
Edit: Yep. I2C programmer for 24xxxx series EEPROMs. PonyProg can read/prog with this adapter.
is there a method for reading/writing the EEPROM off an Xbox HDD, without the original xbox motherboard that it came from? I have a locked HDD but not the Xbox nor the EEPROM =(
Gle Cas Hi,Unfortunately no, not with out very expensive equipment :(
Great tutorial! Yours are the best! Just of of curiosity though, is there any reason why you used heatshrink on the SCL wire, but NOT on the SDA? Is it important to leave the SDA wire "exposed" ?
Gle Cas Thank you :DI only heatshrinked it to avoid the pins from touching, you need to insulate either of them.
Thanks for watching my video :D
My soldering skills are very bad. I followed your link in the video and sent you an email regarding my buying a pre made one, but you have yet to respond.
Nice tutorial, should help a lot of people out.
Thanks man this is awsome!
Floydzabarber Kevin Twiner Thanks for watching Guys!
Thanks for the MOST helpful video :)
Can you please write down the type of the cable you use @1:00 ? I can't make out clearly what you say (English is not my main) Quad shielded something cable? What search terms for it should I use? Thanks again!
It is shielded dual core cable, actually sold as shielded speaker cable.
Cut up an old USB cable will also work
Need one more addtional black wire, which not present with other components in start of video, right?
Hi ! On this video, you sold a second ground wire to the aligator clip, but what is it for ? On your second video, I can't see it plugged ? Thanks for your help ! ;)
cheers got some done need to buy wire do mine are dif colors and maybe too thin
its 4 core i need isnt it
Yes 4 core iirc
hey man ,
can i use 2 resisters 3.27kohm and 5.1v diode zener
if not about the resisters can i use one 3.9kohm and the other 3.2kohm ?
Could you use a 16 pin retention contact piece instead of the pin headers you used? I'm new to all of this and I am willing to hear input on the idea.
El cable negro y blanco a donde va conectado ?
Can you explain how this works exactly? How does this read the EEPROM off of your Xbox exactly? Do you just plug one end into the xbox and the other into a monitor and it just displays it? I'm just confused by the actual functionality.
You read the data from the chip, the cable made is a simple way to program it
Hello , nice tutorial but can i ask you a favor? Could you please mesure the voltage of the sda and scl cable and tell me? I bulit a eeprom reader but is not working, i suspect the voltage is low on mine so i would like to know what voltage you have. Thank you
Can you write down the list of things I need to make it a little easier so I can make a trip to RadioShack thanks
I actually bought a serial cable.... can you do it without desoldering all the wires?
thank you very much
Hi there, great video. A quick question though... Does it matter about the wattage of the zener diodes and resistors? And what kind of cable was it that you used, with the 4 inner wires?
Thanks.
wattage doesnt matter as its low current, the wire was shielded audio cable
@@Slot1Gamer Many Thanks
6 years later and still no parts list :P
made the cable....
just have to wait for china shop (ebay) PCI-e adaptor cards for serial and ide slots/ports as... my puta is sadly way to new
( ide for hotswap if need be on softmods... and the eeprom cable for disaster hdd stuff ups :P )
Jared Mocsay hope you succeed
Hi, i know this Video is almost 9 Years old but i wanted to ask if you can do an Update? In particular is it possible to build such and Cable with USB?
Hello,
Yes it is possible either with a cheap programmer like this:
s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_De1VLFR
OR with a raspberry Pi Zero
consolemods.org/wiki/Xbox:PiPROM
The eeprom is a 24WC02 if you need to know that
With this can I write an eeprom from another xbox so I can put the hdd from my... other xbox and get it to play games on the hdd?
Im saying this cause my old xbox wont turn on and my hdd of only 250 gigas is full of games and I still want to play them on another xbox...
and how to use it for read EPROM from xbox motherboard?
See the other video
Hello Slot1Gamer ... Great video. I need your help or anyone else that can help ,,, On video 3:19 the other end of the cable is being soldered but I completly got lost which 2 wires are being soldered together ... What specific cable is being used would help too ,thanks.
yeah i had the same question what happen there also there was white wire the other end what happen with that so other end i put the black the bare and the other three wires all together hope that was right but other end where the some how a black wire gets hooked up with there bare ?????????????? so that would still have a black a white a red and a yellow
so now the re and yellow are going to a double header but i am stuck at the black wire that was in the core with white but we are putting by the sounds of it another black wire that gose to a alligatoer clip and double header to one prong ??????
Will this work with any eeprom? I am curious to see what is on the eeprom of an apple tv 1st generation. Any feedback would be great!
NICE VIDEO!!!
+MrGameHeure thank you! :D
no puedo usar cable utp? o el cable del control del xbox?
El mazo de alambre va conextado a la tierra no
@2:56 mark, you say to solder the 2 diode legs to the ground wire(Black) , but what about the white wire. What happened to it? or did i miss something!?
It was an extra wire embedded in the cable he used. He opted to connect the last three points to the silver true ground wire instead and dis regarded the white wire.
@@bigraider530 Thanks for the reply Lopez, good to know others have pointed it out.
@punishrs hey I was wondering if you ever received your EEPROM reader from the guy from UK I order from him in a been like four weeks and I still haven't got it because I hope it still comes
never heard anything good from that guy
Like I'm 6 years late.. What guy was that? I just ordered one from a guy in the UK on ebay a few days ago.
you can write an eeprom with one of these things? i accidently erased and eeprom off my 1.6v Xbox and messed up my modchip trying to flash a new bios to load another eeprom so im running out of options
+demarko9999 Yes you can :)
Can you give me a list or links where you got your parts?
What kind of data cable did you use? Every time I try to find the one you have in this video by using Google it gives me Ethernet cables. Is that what you had in this video or was it something else?
Iirc it was actually multi core shielded audio cable, all the same stuff really, you are reading data at a fairly low rate and not much of it to boot . :)
Always do more than one read
hi one noob question but i don´t have a conection to a female serial in my laptop, is i possible to make it with a male connector instead?
ok im confused bc on my db9 cable pin 4 is DTR, still red though. Is this the one I use for the serial clock line? My Pin 5 is ground, but orange. And my pin 9 is the ring indicator and this is the yellow one. Which one do i use for for SCL and which one do I use for SDA? Do I use the pin that is the Data Carrier? Which in my case is pin 1, and blue in color. Please help me, I am lost
and just to be clear. i just have a regular db9 rs232 cable. should i use something else or will this work if i get the pins correct?
Would 1N4148 Zener diodes work in place of the ones in your video? The 1N4148 seem to be a common component that i am able to harvest as Zeners you are using would have to be ordered into the local electronics store. Also i've read that the resistors can range from 3.9k to 4.7k?
made mine using the 1N4148 zener diodes i salvaged and 4.7k resistors. also added a female mini-usb port for a steady 5.08v from any usb port with any mini usb cable :)
Hello, I did it the same as in the video and it gives me error -14 pony and my xbox does not enter that mode that restarts 3 times, which will be to check the cable 2 times and it is identical, that some resistance will be damaged?
can i use a 3,3k ohm resistor?
aweeeeeeeeeeesome!
Hi there, I have been trying to find some help.
I have a hard modded 1.6 console which will not power on, at all.
I have replaced the power board and some bad capacitors but still, no dice.
I have a 1.1 xbox which is stock so I was wondering how I could unlock the 1.6 hdd to use on the 1.1?
Also, do you repair xboxs?
Marita Simpson Hi, yes I do repair consoles for people :)
the easiest way is to softmod then TSOP the 1.1 xbox, in my opinion 1.6 aren't worth the hassle...
thanks for watching
Slot1Gamer Thank you. Just to clarify:
1. Make a Eeprom reader
2. Get the unlock code for the HDD in the 1.6 (because it has valuable stuff on it..)
3. Soft mod and TSOP the 1.1
4. Plug on the 1.6 HDD and enjoy?
Butistabomb
You could do this:
1:Make EEPROM reader
2: Dump 1.6 AND 1.1 EEPROM's (make a backup of both too!)
3: Use Live Tool to copy the HDD Key from the 1.6 EEPROM file to the 1.1 EEPROM file
4: Save the new 1.1 EEPROM (with 1.6 key) as a new file
5: Flash new modified EEPROM to 1.1 Xbox :D
It should work but if it doesn't just reflash the 1.1 backup to the 1.1 mobo and use the 1.6 hdd key to unlock the disk using a PC and XBHDM, then copy the content off using Xplorer360.
Hope that helps
i have error 06 will this fix that ?
Hey is there anyway to do it without a solder iron for now thanks
Yes, you can assemble the components on a breadboard, but you might find it hard to get the leads on the RS232 cable into the breadboard holes, particularly if they're stranded.I've done about 5 Xboxs from a circuit on a breadboard assembled about 5 years ago, but might finally assemble the parts like the video, or onto a stripboard.
The console need to be hard modded?
Do u sell them and how much
any alternative for the 9 pin vga for 15 pins 😢
You can buy a very cheap usb programmer but most likely will need to de-solder the chip
@@Slot1Gamer thanks for your reply, I made what you taught on your video but can't use it because of the pins that won't fit on my pc 😫😂 maybe you can do a tutorial on how to just do it using Arduino Uno? 🙏🙏🙏🙏
@@Slot1Gamer Arduino will be the easiest for me if there's a tutorial for it sir 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Where can i find a eeprom reader/writer i looked on Amazon and ebay but theres something different thnx i don't think that there the same as the one that ur making for the original xbox
I’m going to start selling these again
@@Slot1Gamer hey hi jw do u have a whole tut on building a portable xbox original laptop that's awesome lol thanks
@@Slot1Gamer yes please n.n
got a Error 7 xbox recently, i would like to fix it. from my understanding this cable can work for me to get eeprom, then take such dump and use a program like xbhdm to make new drive for it.. is it possible to use this same cable to flash custom bios with out having to solder the unlock points on mother board , and forgo softmodding ?
hello. the error 7 you seem to be getting is related to the ide cable made sure everything is seated and plugged in properly. No it is impossible to use the same cable to flash a custom bios. To do a tsop mod you need to first have a softmodded original xbox then solder the unlock points which disables the write protection then you can boot to a hexen disk to flash a bios. search up a tutorial for more details. When soldering it is also important not to use cheap plugin solder irons as they don't have temperature control which is pretty important if you want to do a proper job. It is very easy to do a tsop mod. But if your original xbox harddrive is dead then you need your hdd key,obtainable though using a xbox eeprom reader as shown in the video,then build a new hard drive with xboxhdm you will need the xbox partitions though. use google to find them.
i can get the xbox partitions off my other working xbox that i softmodded, appears int be cable related, so thing time to get the xbhdm going with all that. thanks for the reply
on the 3.9k Ohm Resistors what watts are they
1/4w will be fine
could you just sell me a EEPROM Reader
Do you sell these so I dont need to make one??
good
hi,which wire a normal wire or ?
+Antoine Gatt what do you mean?
Can you tell me could you do this if you have an old serial cable already can you cut the male end off and solder the resisters and diode on the other end of the cable? can you give me the resister and diode names again so I can google them to try and find best price.
I purchased a cable off ebay a guy from UK was selling them, but its been 6 weeks and still dont have it, so I guess Ill try and make one...
punishrs Hi I can make you one, however the shipping might be a killer depending where you are.
thanks
Slot1Gamer Im in the US, Baltimore Maryland 21201 zip code. the one on ebay would have cost like 12.25 UK so I guess about 18 or so USD...or can you post the exact items needed to make one, i was looking on ebay and noticed the resisters have different OHM and Watts wasn't sure what one to get..
4.7k Ohm Carbon Film Resistors - 1/4 Watt - 5% - 4K7 - would those work? and 1N4733 5.1V Zener Diode ? thanks..
punishrs Hello, the wattage is just how much current they can handle. 1/4W is fine (what I used).
OHM is the resistance value, 3.9k ohm is what I used in this tutorial. That 1N4733 diode is the correct one.
Hope that helps
punishrs Also the resistors I used where 3K9ohm 1/2 Watt 1% Metal Film Resistors
The wattage isn't very important 1/4w is fine..
but where tf do you connect it to? lol
he showed it in the video??
Anybody that builds eprrom readers I'll pay you to ship me one thanks