first mod, fricken frag, lpc gonna kill me!!!

[db1eagle2]

So I got the chip "soldered".....FRAG. Long power press and the MSdash greets me. Apparently the D0 is correct. Tried "lightly" scraping errant flux to clean and identify proper connections, heated the pins to settle the solder and still FRAG. The multimeter shows 4 or 5 pins connected somehow, but the magnifying glass shows clean connections on the bottom of the board. Is there a possiblity that the pins could somehow be connected under the header on the topside of the board. I can't find my solder sucker so its off to radio shack in the morning.
BTW i'm thinking about using the wire harness to install to check for proper connections from both sides of the board. Can anyone suggest to not do that? there seems like there's less pins on the wire install than the header. If i chose to redo the header install, could i remove those seeming useless pins to help reduce confusion/soldering difficulties? I see that pin(s) sticking out from the empty port hole and i have to solder it!!

OFF FORUM TOPIC BUT STILL HELPFUL TO ME.
Seems like avalanch is the way to go. Are there some aspects to Evox that make it worth having on the box after i get the x3 install staightened out?

Thanks for your time.

 

[Martin C]

The extra pins on the header are there to help hold the pinheader in place.

Seems like avalanch is the way to go. Are there some aspects to Evox that make it worth having on the box after i get the x3 install staightened out

I don't understand what you're saying here??

Martin

 

[db1eagle2]

I'm saying I was going to use evox, but avalaunch seems like it has better features, so I decided to use that dashboard instead. Is Evox better in some aspects (features) than Avalaunch that would merit having it on the freshly modded xbox as a second dashboard?

 

[Martin C]

I'm saying I was going to use evox, but avalaunch seems like it has better features, so I decided to use that dashboard instead. Is Evox better in some aspects (features) than Avalaunch that would merit having it on the freshly modded xbox as a second dashboard?

I would definitely have Avalaunch as your primary dashboard - it has way more features than Evox.

However, I like to keep my options open so I have a menu option on the Avalaunch screen to load Evox dashboard from there.

Martin

 

[db1eagle2]

how would i go about creating that menu option?

 

[Martin C]

how would i go about creating that menu option?

Open the avalaunch.xml file and you'll see the current syntax to run stuff..

Martin

 

[db1eagle2]

Tried the wire install twice. Same Effect. Both lights come on the chip, hd activity led twinkles and a long power press still switches to a functioning ms dashboard. I've started to really get nitty gritty with the multimeter. I've confirmed 7 of the 11 wires, but i can't find the alternate points to put the meter to. Following

http://www.teamxecuter.com/x3/tutorials/wires/x3wire_v1015.jpg

and

http://www.teamxecuter.com/images/xbox/LPC_PINOUTS.jpg

i can't confirm blue, orange, brown, or black (LAD 1, LAD3, GND, LCLK respectively) I would be more than happy to post a picture of my solder work or of the area of the lpc ports on my 1.4-1.5 board (Halo Ed) so someone might be able to identify those locations to me. Thanks

 

[jonrees69]

Does the 'X' logo on the switch panel light up at all ??

J

 

[db1eagle2]

I got the chip working. Turns out i had an lpc hole seperate from the trace. too much solder/desoldering. I had to scrap a little bit of green plastic from teh trace next to the hole and connect the two with solder. Thanks for everyones help.