Pin outs for X2.6CE remote switch

[paul_phil]

Hi there,

Could anyone provide the pinouts for the remote switchboard for an X2.6 CE please.

The sticky pad was always a bit dodgy on my box but the plug socket was always pretty strong. However after tranporting my Xbox to a friends house the switch board has fell off in transit I've backtracked to try and find it to no avail. I'm stuck with a crappy stock box until I can figure out which pins I need to connect to turn the chip on. Can someone pleeeeease help.

I'm pretty handy with a soldering iron so I intend on replacing the switchboard with 2 switches for the on/off and one for the bank select (I'll just hard wire the flash protect to off). And have the LEDs at various points along the front panel.

Thanks for any help you can offer.

 

[CCR]

99.9% sure that holding D0 line to ground during boot will casue it to boot from the mod chip problem being i think you must also know witch wires are witch for the bank selet to get it to boot tho.

 

[PFIDR34]

Buy a new switch

 

[paul_phil]

Buy a new switch

None of the local retailers have any stock of the X2.6 switchboards,

 

[Martin C]

Buy a new switch

Hey, this guy is really generous! He's already offered to buy someone else a router - he's now offering to buy you a switch!!

Awfully nice of you - PM the guy to sort out payment.

Martin

 

[paul_phil]

Yeah, I did feel like saying, duh....never thought about that

Anyway, I borrowed a friends switch and worked out the circuit, here's the info for anyone who's interested;

The pin numbers are for the connector at switchboard side (it's reversed modchip side) looking at it with the cable coming out the top and the silver contacts facing towards you, numbered left to right.

1- HDD LED +ve
2- LAN LED +ve
3- Common +ve
4- Modchip power in
5- Ground
6- Flash Protect
7- Chip enable/D0
8- Bank 1 select

To power the chip you need to connect pins 3-4

To enable the modchip as the default boot bios you need to ground pin 7 (D0) and generally pin 8 to select Bank 1

All the LEDs are powered by pins 3 and 5 and use an inline 220k resistor.

eg. For my setup - boot off the chip, flash protect, and using bank 1
I connect 3-4 and 5-6-7-8
For Bank 2 you just disconnect pin 8

Ba da bing, I have XBMC back, wahoo!

 

[Martin C]

Nice one- glad you got sorted.

Martin