I've just spent all day getting the parts and trying to install the X3 using the X3 1.6 pin header tutorial on this site, getting quite frustrated. I've soldered and resoldered, with the utmost care each time, to no avail, the problem is always nothing happens when i plug it in and hit the power switch (with the chip on)
If I remove the chip **and remove the "power/eject no solder adapter"**, it powers on fine, and hell i can even play top spin
If I keep the power/eject no solder adapter on and try without the mod chip, same thing, no power, nothing happens.
The fact that it doesn't power on lead me to hook up the old trusty multimeter to the "power/eject no solder adapter" (short-formed to power thinger from now on). I found something I don't understand; the picture shows the 2-wire cable that goes from the power thinger to the X3 being plugged into the hole that's veritcal (the horizontal one is unused). So I tested the vertical one, to see what it's connected to. BOTH pins are BOTH connected to the bottom-leftmost and bottom-secondFromLeftmost pins on the power thinger's receptacle for the plug from the xbox power switches. How can this be? How can it be that each pin is supposed to be connected to the SAME TWO pins on the input? Can someone please test this and see if mine is broken or something?
Anyways. Please help - i'd like to get past having no POWER. Keep in mind it works fine if I take off the modchip and the power/eject thinger, so no nothing is busted, and my solder job can't be horribly wrong either. Also, I have reason to think that my solder joints aren't the problem...
On another note, what the hell is that potentiometer (round thingy on the corner) on the X3 ? What's it do?
HELP!
thanks
X
- potentiometer????
If I remove the chip **and remove the "power/eject no solder adapter"**, it powers on fine, and hell i can even play top spin
If I keep the power/eject no solder adapter on and try without the mod chip, same thing, no power, nothing happens.The fact that it doesn't power on lead me to hook up the old trusty multimeter to the "power/eject no solder adapter" (short-formed to power thinger from now on). I found something I don't understand; the picture shows the 2-wire cable that goes from the power thinger to the X3 being plugged into the hole that's veritcal (the horizontal one is unused). So I tested the vertical one, to see what it's connected to. BOTH pins are BOTH connected to the bottom-leftmost and bottom-secondFromLeftmost pins on the power thinger's receptacle for the plug from the xbox power switches. How can this be? How can it be that each pin is supposed to be connected to the SAME TWO pins on the input? Can someone please test this and see if mine is broken or something?
Anyways. Please help - i'd like to get past having no POWER.
Keep in mind it works fine if I take off the modchip and the power/eject thinger, so no nothing is busted, and my solder job can't be horribly wrong either. Also, I have reason to think that my solder joints aren't the problem...On another note, what the hell is that potentiometer (round thingy on the corner) on the X3 ? What's it do?
HELP!
thanks
X
- potentiometer????
