I posted here on this topic but didn't get an answer to one specific question, now I seem to have a different problem and I'm trying to go back through the install and what happened and see if there is a relationship.
When I installed my x3 chip, soldering went great and the only problem I had was that I connected the red leads to the chip at the 5v v1.6 only connector. Yes, I looked at it twice afterward and it WILL fit without forcing it to fit into the 1.6 connector. (I learned of this mistake by reading another guy's post here).
so, anyway, I plug the xbox into the wall and it immediately turns on. After a couple of minutes I start to smell burning insulation. I unplug the box and go through the install tutorial again. Convinced I'm ok, I plug it in and again it turns on. A few minutes later I turn it off. It did not appear to me that the smell of smoke continued when I powered it up the second time. (But once you get that acrid odor in your nostrils it's hard to tell.)
Then I read here where a guy had a v1.4 like me and had connected the red power leads to the v1.6 connector on the chip. I then checked mine and had done the same thing.
I connected the red leads (item 4 in the install tutorial) correctly. Afterward, the unit powered on only after I pushed the power button. From that, I decided that whatever smoke I had smelled earlier was not such that any damage had occured to the box.
Now, fast forward to bios install. For hours I tried to install from a dvd the bios with no success. I went out and bought the wireless network gaming device and hooked the xbox up to my home network and loaded the bios from the http.
After bios successful install, I kept unit running for about 15 minutes as I got familiar with the xecuter 'dashboard'(?) and as I would try to move around on it the screen would go blue and the xbox stopped responding. I turned the xbox off and then back on and everything seemed normal.
After turning it back on and having it on for a few minutes, I noticed that you can read CPU temperature on the xecuter dashboard and it was screaming up. At 150F, I turned the unit off. Before I turned it off, I noticed the led around the eject button was flashing orange. (learned that means overheating, I think)
Took the unit apart and found no signs of overheating either on the mobo or the power supply.
Put the unit back together, turned it on and found the utility in the xecuter dashboard where you can adjust the fan speed on the xbox. I jacked it up (it was at 20% of rated speed) to 50% and temperature started lowering. I currently have the fan at 40% and the cpu runs at about 104F (which I thought would be acceptable).
Anyway, now that I think I have control of the temperature issue, the only issue that's unresolved is the eject function. It doesn't work. I know this because it will not eject a dvd from the tray and also as I tried to change the bios to load the xbox from by simultaneously pushing the eject and power buttons at the same time. When I did this, the unit turned off if it was already on and on if it was already off.... telling me that the xbox is not sensning that the eject button was pressed.
So, a summary of my questions:
1. Does anyone have a similar experience that could shed some light on what I'm seeing and offer some fault isolation techniques?
2. Is it possible that having the red leads connected to the v1.6 connector damaged my eject button?
3. Does it sound reasonable that the led around the eject button works but the switch doesn't?
4. I checked the switch itself with a mutlimeter. It appears to me that the switch is working normally as it shows open until I depress the eject button and then it shows short. Doesn't this indicate that the switch is good?
thanks in advance.
When I installed my x3 chip, soldering went great and the only problem I had was that I connected the red leads to the chip at the 5v v1.6 only connector. Yes, I looked at it twice afterward and it WILL fit without forcing it to fit into the 1.6 connector. (I learned of this mistake by reading another guy's post here).
so, anyway, I plug the xbox into the wall and it immediately turns on. After a couple of minutes I start to smell burning insulation. I unplug the box and go through the install tutorial again. Convinced I'm ok, I plug it in and again it turns on. A few minutes later I turn it off. It did not appear to me that the smell of smoke continued when I powered it up the second time. (But once you get that acrid odor in your nostrils it's hard to tell.)
Then I read here where a guy had a v1.4 like me and had connected the red power leads to the v1.6 connector on the chip. I then checked mine and had done the same thing.
I connected the red leads (item 4 in the install tutorial) correctly. Afterward, the unit powered on only after I pushed the power button. From that, I decided that whatever smoke I had smelled earlier was not such that any damage had occured to the box.
Now, fast forward to bios install. For hours I tried to install from a dvd the bios with no success. I went out and bought the wireless network gaming device and hooked the xbox up to my home network and loaded the bios from the http.
After bios successful install, I kept unit running for about 15 minutes as I got familiar with the xecuter 'dashboard'(?) and as I would try to move around on it the screen would go blue and the xbox stopped responding. I turned the xbox off and then back on and everything seemed normal.
After turning it back on and having it on for a few minutes, I noticed that you can read CPU temperature on the xecuter dashboard and it was screaming up. At 150F, I turned the unit off. Before I turned it off, I noticed the led around the eject button was flashing orange. (learned that means overheating, I think)
Took the unit apart and found no signs of overheating either on the mobo or the power supply.
Put the unit back together, turned it on and found the utility in the xecuter dashboard where you can adjust the fan speed on the xbox. I jacked it up (it was at 20% of rated speed) to 50% and temperature started lowering. I currently have the fan at 40% and the cpu runs at about 104F (which I thought would be acceptable).
Anyway, now that I think I have control of the temperature issue, the only issue that's unresolved is the eject function. It doesn't work. I know this because it will not eject a dvd from the tray and also as I tried to change the bios to load the xbox from by simultaneously pushing the eject and power buttons at the same time. When I did this, the unit turned off if it was already on and on if it was already off.... telling me that the xbox is not sensning that the eject button was pressed.
So, a summary of my questions:
1. Does anyone have a similar experience that could shed some light on what I'm seeing and offer some fault isolation techniques?
2. Is it possible that having the red leads connected to the v1.6 connector damaged my eject button?
3. Does it sound reasonable that the led around the eject button works but the switch doesn't?
4. I checked the switch itself with a mutlimeter. It appears to me that the switch is working normally as it shows open until I depress the eject button and then it shows short. Doesn't this indicate that the switch is good?
thanks in advance.
