X3 helps to install spiderchip

[Jzor]

Ok, so this guy solicits my services to get a spiderchip installed in his xbox. I'm thinking, ok no big deal solderless modchip will take me all of 5 minutes to install.

Wow, was I mistaken. The damn thing didn't line up with the lpc right!!!! Putting the screw in would take it out of alignment.

Ok, so what to do... I decided on a wire install. Solder some wire to the pogo pins and solder the wires to the lpc, no big deal.

Then it hit me... I still have the X3's wire install adapter! Rearranged the pins on it to match the spiderchip and soldered that thing into the LPC. Then soldered the wires to the spiderchip.

See... without Team Xecuter the whole xbox modding world would be screwed!

 

[fretster]

See... without Team Xecuter the whole xbox modding world would be screwed!

and at the very least, the idiots that buy spiderchips.

 

[FoxRacR17]

The soldering points on the chip's pogo pins seem to be very good, so i would assume that you have experience soldering, so why in the hell did you buy a spider chip and not a X2.6? or X3?

 

[mobomelter]

he said someone asked him to install their chip.

 

[Jzor]

Yeah, someone asked me to install their spiderchip for them. I would have never EVER suggested anyone every by one of these pieces of junk. I myself have an x3 in my box.

 

[FoxRacR17]

Oh, yeah, i see that now. Lol, sorry, i was posting this when i remembered that i wanted to take pics of my new blue case mod's and post them on X-S. But thats was very smart of you to do that. Good job! Way to think on the ball!

 

[SchOX]

I did the same for a friend with an aladdin... (used the X3 wireinstall kit...)

 

[catogtp]

very creative. i like it.

 

[IvanK]

Had a similar problem with the 2.3Lite+. Mobo was out of alignment with the screws, not the chip. Loosened up all the screws, moved the mobo over a hair, tightened them up and the 2.3Lite+ came up like a charm.

 

[Jzor]

For this one, when the LPC was lined up the hole in the spiderchip and the hole in the mobo were about a half a centimeter offset from eachother.

 

[Martin C]

Has anyone tried plugging one of these into a 2.x programmer?

If so and it lights up, did you try plugging it straight into the pinheader on the Xbox?

Martin

 

[Jzor]

The pinheader socket on this thing is misleading. You think it is a socket for pinheader installs but it isn't. That socket on the chip is for a future usb programmer they say they are going to release.

 

[Martin C]

The pinheader socket on this thing is misleading. You think it is a socket for pinheader installs but it isn't. That socket on the chip is for a future usb programmer they say they are going to release.

Did you try and check for any continuity between the socket and the LPC pogos?

It would really surprise me if that 2x6 socket wasn't all that dissimilar to the standard LPC layout...

Martin

 

[Jzor]

Well, the customer has the box back. I never considered that a USB programmer would act as a fake lpc bus to power up the chip and flash it. Silly me. So it probably would have worked as a pinheader install however radio shack doesn't carry the right stuff for me to fabricate a pinheader anyways.