Everything [u]was[/u] running ok

[goosehead]

I installed my x3 chip about 3 weeks ago. Everthing was running fine, but now when I try to boot it up it frags(start up shuts down starts up shuts down and the flashes blue/red. I opened up a number of times to try to see if it was a bad soldering job, no that all looked good. then i noticed that a capacitor was leaking(white powder). It is a 1F 2.5V capacitor at location C7G10. Is my xbox dead any suggestions? What did I do wrong?

Thanks

 

[halomaster7777]

Leaking white powerder doesn't sound good your capitor is prolly dead but you can replace it.

 

[goosehead]

Thanks for the fast reply. Is it something available at my local electronics store or do I have to order through the manufacturer of the capacitor?

 

[halomaster7777]

You would have to order it online definatly.

 

[halomaster7777]

Hey I found this at bunnie's website AKA the buy who wrote "Hacking The Xbox" very good book might I add.

Aerogel Capacitor

Did anyone else notice the aerogel capacitor on the Xbox? There is a 1 Farad 2.5V cap on there at location C7G10. What...the heck. When I unplug my xbox for longer than a few minutes, I still have to reset the time. Why not use a battery? It's not like the Xbox is going to outlast the shelf-life of a lithium battery. Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought aerogels are relatively new and expensive...yeah, I'm probably wrong. I've never priced out an aerogel, so mabye they are cheap. But damn, that's the first I've ever seen an aerogel in a consumer electronics product. A brief analysis of the rationale for this capacitor is provided at this forum link.

Also, there is a resistor that's not populated at R7R4 on the backside of the motherboard. It seems to connect the FLASH ROM's WE line to the MCP. Perhaps by jumpering this you can enable in-system ROM flashing...of course, you'd need to find software that does it first.

 

[goosehead]

Hey thanks,
I'm just trying to find out where to order one from.

 

[dilated]

best burner for back ups

hi i am after some information on th best burners for macking backups
i have a optic ad7241s with with booktype set to dvd-rom at the min and am having some problems with imageburn power calabrion error it will also only let me burn at a min of x4 and am afer one that will let me burn at 2.4x i am using vabatum dvd+dl 8x dvds i have read that pionner are one of the best 111d annd 112d but am unable to find one and have seen that thay are outdated now so if some one could give me a idear of the best one to get that will do yhe following it would help me out a lot

stop power calabrion error
burn at 2.4x
and allow booktyping

thanks in advance

 

[Farly]

Re: best burner for back ups

I have the Pioneer DVR-215d, comes in at around £16. I've used it to burn well over 700 backups and never had any problems with it. Good decent burner and very easy to use (no booktype setting or any of that).
I use Aones not Verbatims, they are of the same high quality however are not as overpriced. I get them for around 33p a disc. I also burn at 4x.


Although recently I've been having problems with it crashing my PC everytime I insert anything but a blank disc, although I'm fairly sure its something to do with my SATA controllers and not the DVD drive itself.

EDIT: Been looking into buying a new burner incase it is the drives fault after all. Seen this on eBay: Pioneer A18L 22x. Might buy it, can anyone confirm if this is older or newer than the Pioneer DVR-215DBK?

 

[t0il3t]

Re: best burner for back ups

Get a Samsung SH-S243N it works great.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827151216