v1.0 X3 common problem!

[letdicerol]

So I've searched and searched through these forums, and I've gotten a bunch of good suggestions, unfortunatly, nothing's worked so far. My setup is simular to a bunch I've already read, but I havn't seen a solid answer to my particular situation.

1.0 xbox straight from good 'ol Mexico, X3, pin header install. Yup, I desoldered 16 holes just to solder 'em up again.

Situation: Boot from X3 bios :arrow: resets itself twice, then FRAGS. The external switch has NEVER been blue for me, red, ever since I've gotten it.

Boots from M$ bios juuuust fine, all peachy, played a bunch of halo 2 on it with the chip in.

I've been told, "check the joints" "check you're soldering" and "check check check" I'm on about the 4th time resoldering the whole thing. I know I'm not the best, but I went through with a fine tooth comb this last time and I can't find a single thing wrong with it. I've even brought out my multimeter and tested continuty on the tracks I could find, all peachy. Even the infamous D0!!

Now, I will admit it might be my soldering, but I want to know how to check each connection. What pin should be what voltage and how to check. That would rule out a huge possibility on what it might be. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I've used a 2nd X3 on the same box, same thing, I know it's not a dead chip.

 

[ryanfarquhar]

This might not be your problem, but in my case it was the height of the pins were off on the pin header and I didnt notice it. So I had to desolder that pin and push it up further to make it flush with all the others.

Also make sure when soldering the pin header that you let the solder fill in the hole on the LPC, or you wont get a good connection.

Do you have two blue lights on your mod chip? They are on the under side so you have to look for their reflection on the motherboard.

Also before soldering did you remove the coating that they put on the board around your solder points? I used an exacto knife to scrape the metal solder points until they were shiny. I figured this out because I had the same problem on a 1.0 and did a continuity test on it and it was not getting a reading.

So I removed the wire and scraped the top of the solder point and resoldered. That fixed the problem. BE CAREFUL REMOVING YOUR D0 POINT AS I REMOVED A WHOLE TRACE BY MISTAKE. NOT PRETTY!

 

[pauldy]

Go for the simple stuff first. Remove the black wire from the x3 itself and try to boot. If you get the flashbios screen check the wires and make sure you didn't pinch them in the case causing a short. If that doesn't work check the pin header inside the x3 and make sure the pins aren't bent. If they are ok and you are still fragging then it is tiem to go after those solder points. probably the lpc as aparently your d0 is being grounded.

 

[krullshards]

Well, I am by no means an expert but from what I understand D0 is just what tells the XBox to boot from the lpc port. If that were damaged/grounded it would seem to me that the XBox would always boot to the MS Dash.

However, since that does not seem to be the case, I would rule that out. I had the same thing on my XBox (two resets and a FRAG) the first time. I can't remember if it worked with the mod disabled or not.

I went about checking continuity from the pins on the lpc port to vias and other points as far as I could see the trace run. I found 2 or three of the traces had no continuity. Apparently since I was using a crappy iron when desoldering the holes in the LPC port (I have a 1.0 too) I managed to lift a few of the traces. After repairing the traces I had vaporized, everything started working 100%.

This would seem to be very similar to your case. XBox tries to boot from the LPC bus, but because of broken traces, etc, craps out and FRAGS.

I didn't have access to a good magifying glass when I was following the traces along so I took a picture of my board in macro mode with my digital camera and zoomed in on the picture. You could do something similar with a scanner too. I was able to then find good points to check continuity.

If you don't have a scanner or access to a digital camera or whatever, I can see if I can find the pics that I took of my board. If I still have them they might help.

 

[letdicerol]

I swear to God, murphy is watching over my shoulder whenever I touch this stupid xbox (doing this whole project for my brother)

I've moved onto a working M$ bios load to nothing. I've taken the X3 out alongside any other Xecuter wire or chip. So now, it's back to stock, and I still get flashing red and ORANGE. Through my readings, I've gathered that it seems to be an audio/video problem? no?

If so, what the hell now....I'll keep searching the forums, and checking my traces.

Speaking of traces, when you guys found a lifted trace or pad, either by sight or continuty, was it very obvious? I've found a single dis-continuty(?) but it was on LPC hole #5, RST, any only up till that first trace hole. You can see a picture of where this is here:

http://home.comcast.net/~x3guide/

But since I took the chip out, where should I be checking for trace lifts that would error out my xbox like it is???

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[Sull]

Transfer Cable / Profile Modding (Need Help)

Recently I tried modding my GT, first I used SIGGGGGY and modio, and it didn't work. The profile has been sitting on my HDD but dosent show up, so today I tried again with EZ GT2.2. I tried deleting the profile I modded with SIGGGYY and it won't delete. There's just a loading sign and then poof, its still there. I try making a new folder same thing, it dosen't show up.

Please help me? Any suggestions?

 

[mobius97]

Re: Transfer Cable / Profile Modding (Need Help)

ezgt should work.. its really hard to mess this up dude. keep trying.

start over is all im sayin you dont even need siggy.