X3 panel & leds light up, no video, eject button misbeha

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Siliconaut

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Nov 13, 2004
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Xbox: 1.0
Install method: Pin-header, manually de-soldered LPC points

When powering up my freshly installed x3, I get a short red flash, then the blue X-sign on the X3 panel, fans, hdd and dvd start spinning. HDD LED does what it should do. No video at all, though.

Pressing the eject button doesn't eject - it resets the xbox (power down, 1 sec pause, power up). I cannot boot into backup BIOS either (although the purple LED lights up), and when trying to boot into MS bios, the console FRAGs.

Removing the chip, dis- and reconnecting the necessary cables and trying to boot into normal bios, the Xbox FRAGs.

Why me? ;) No, seriously, what's going wrong here? I don't think I wrecked my board trying to de-solder the LPC points (well, I did it by the book). d0 looks fine & solid to me, some of the LPC joints I shall re-solder, since I have read a lot about mis-soldered points here, but does anyone recognize the exact symptoms I experience and is able to help me?

Thanks a lot from someone who's wasting a perfectly sunny saturday afternoon soldering, while he could be out drinking and whoring... ;)
 
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Rana

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Re: X3 panel & leds light up, no video, eject button mis

Hi,

since you can boot into backup bios...


When you did your try out without the x3 installed ..
did you remove the "Power/Eject Adapter" also ?

If not let me know ...
 
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Nov 13, 2004
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Re: X3 panel & leds light up, no video, eject button mis

Urgh! I should have said "choosing to boot into backup bios works", not "booting into backup bios works" - actually, I cannot boot at all! Sorry for the misunderstanding - I'll edit my post accordingly!

And yes: I unplugged all X3 hardware - FRAG. Xbox worked before, though...
 
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NSivley

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Nov 13, 2004
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Re: X3 panel & leds light up, no video, eject button mis

I am having the same problem with my V1.0 X-Box X3 mod....I have chaecked all the solderpoints and pins, I have modded 3 other X-boxes using the Xecuter 2.6 chip but this X3 chip just dosn't seem to work with the V1.0 .....any luck??
 
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Nov 13, 2004
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Re: X3 panel & leds light up, no video, eject button mis

No luck yet. Will resolder everything now - which is what everybody seems to do when voodoo seems in order. I'll keep you posted - in the mean time, it would be nice to hear of other people with the same symptoms.

EDIT: Resoldered LPC, d0, LAN, HD-led. no change, and this time I definitely vouch for the integrity of my soldering.

What now?
 
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Nov 13, 2004
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Re: X3 panel & leds light up, no video, eject button mis

Seems I simply blew my 1.0 mobo. Got a replacement 1.6 (along with a fitting power supply) and tried my luck again (pin header install + wire lpc rebuild).

Worked the first time I tried - my soldering seems to have improved.

Desoldering a 1.0 for the pin header install is a bad idea for a noob! I managed to lift one or two traces around the lpc. In the end (after a number of futile attempts), the lpc port was barely recognisable.

Of course, the 8 gig hdd was still locked, so I replaced it with a bigger one and got the ms dash files from slayers ISO. Works beautifully! :)

Thanks for all the help - and to Team Xecuter: Your forum sincerely rocks.
 
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