ANSWERED Dumping NAND without yellow wire…fluke?

[WestCoastConsoles]

Let me start by saying I am a stickler for following the tutorials to the letter and have but had an interesting thing happen today.

I will start with my cat got ahold of one of my wire connections

I soldered all the wires and began to dump the drive like normal. Midway through the dump I realized the yellow NAND-x wire was in two pieces. I continued through the four dumps. I then soldered the wire back together and did another four dumps. All compared and matched all good dumps checked in 360 flash dump tool. I continued on to glitch this board and all went fine. Read and write with no issues. Console glitches perfectly.

I went on to console number two got the idea in my head hey why bother with the ground point this time and let's see what happens again, reads and writes with no issues.

Both consoles were slims. Glitched perfect.

Edit- not a good idea

 

[talby71]

there's a thread about it here http://www.xecuter.com/forums/showthread.php?t=80534&highlight=nandx ...someone having an argument with a mod about it
here's the other thread that it was in response to...http://www.xecuter.com/forums/showthread.php?t=80528&highlight=nandx the guy ended up shorting his nandx

 

[WestCoastConsoles]

Good to know thanks for the links.

 

[mechgamer123]

weird, usually the nand x would quit reading blocks... Sounds like you're lucky that it didn't short out.

 

[BL4K3Y]

You did get lucky, any electrical surge will likely kill your NAND-X and maybe even your console if you aren't careful.

 

[WestCoastConsoles]

I am never doing it again. Definitely not worth it.

 

[oO Elite Oo]

correct me if im wrong, but if yellow is ground from what im reading then can i solder it to any ground point?

 

[BL4K3Y]

It is a ground wire and you can use any ground point on the console's motherboard.

 

[oO Elite Oo]

It is a ground wire and you can use any ground point on the console's motherboard.

Thanks blakey8

 

[WestCoastConsoles]

I usually just tack it to the board when rebuilding NAND points.

 

[DaRkO]

lol might sound stupid, but i've been soldering all wires but the yellow since i got my first nand-x, discovered it wasn't needed after jtaging a xenon without it connected properly saved me soldering 1 extra wire over 80 consoles, so 80 wires less to solder

Also haven't had a problem with reading or writing without it, just put some heatshrink over the end of the yellow

EDIT: Also, when I say my "first" nand-x, thats not because I have fried multiples or anything of the sort, I just have multiples for different applications (eg one for coolrunner flashing, one for regular wire methods)