Let's Upgrade an Original Xbox! - 80 Wire IDE Cable & 1TB SATA Hard Drive Install - Part 2
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- Опубликовано: 19 янв 2018
- Here we are with part 2, the final part, of the original Xbox upgrade! In part 1 I had taken a softmodded original Xbox console and opened it, cleaned it all up, removed the clock capacitor, soldered the TSOP points together, flashed it with a custom BIOS, and began work on upgrading the hard drive. Unfortunately I ran into a snag in which I had to upgrade the original IDE cable so we could use a SATA drive, but the replacement IDE cables I got would not stay plugged in properly. I did some more research, ordered the proper IDE cables, and here we are!
Part 1 of the Upgrade:
• Let's Upgrade an Origi...
A thank you goes out to Jacob Power for his advice on what to get for the future SATA hard drive upgrade:
• OG XBOX MODS: Sata HDD...
Another thank you to Mod-Heure for making an easy to follow guide on how to fold a new IDE cable for an Xbox:
• original xbox how to f...
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The 80 wire cable doesn’t supply any power, the reason why you need the cable with more wires is so that the data lines don’t experience any crosstalk, even then you still have only 40 wires that are used for data, the other 40 are just conductors. These conductors where put in the cables to increase the potential speed of the ATA bus, as the 40 wire cables couldnt go higher than 33MBps becuase of the aformentioned crosstalk issues.
The GeForce thanks. I was basically going to say the same thing. The extra 40 wires are acting as a shield ground to eliminate crosstalk
I installed a 1TB drive using the 40 wire cable and I'm not having any issues.
the only issue you will have is the decreased bus bandwidth from 66MBps to 33MBps. which may increase loading times by a bit.
read & write times will be slower though as 40 way cable will only support 33mbps
I understand what you're saying and I expected that as well as I have seen other videos where the Xbox appears to take forever to boot. Mine boots immediately just like it did before I upgraded the HD and games load just as quickly as they did before.
I wish someone could manufacture modern IDE cables specifically for the OG Xbox so we wouldn't have to squish them like this.
This Video along with part 1 was what I needed to watch. Bought a system with a dead hard drive (07 code) and now I can save it and play ALL my old games again. Thank you sir.
Glad it helped!
Awesome video dood! I just got the PATA cable and sata adapter so cant wait to get started on this! Also LOL at the Koralik cameo.
"Figure it out!"
Might have to do this to my old original. Thanks for making and also cringing at the HDD adapter so close to the metal top plate of that drive.
This was great. Enjoy your way of teaching. Have a great weekend
Yes youngin' (we're probably the same age) you needed one of those 80-wire cables to run in UDMA mode on your computer. It was like magic once system drivers were installed on my AMD K62 350Mhz computer.... :P
I always wanted that K6_3 mobile for my old rig. Oh well, then I "upgraded" to SPARC :/
Electric Shock!!! haha Nice job, i have been wanting to do this! I think i have that exact IDE/SATA adapter
Very awesome tutorial man, keep it up!
Although I have a strange issue and I'm betting it's the HDD adapter, let me explain:
I successfully TSOP my 1.0 Xbox and flashed the same evox bios like you did, works like a charm.
But here's the thing, when I installed a WD Green 1tb that I had lying around with the adapter, no signal came through on the screen, so I switched back to my previous hard drive and it worked with no issues whatsoever. So I tried to connect the adapter without the hard drive and still no signal, so here's what I did in a sort of crazy way: I disconnected ONLY the data cable from the adapter and turn the Xbox on, signal came through with the splash screen and everything, turned it off and turned it back on and while the bios splash screen was still running I connected the data cable and weirdly enough the bios just froze and the sound just started stuttering, when I disconnected the cable again the bios continued it's splash screen and sound as well, then it just gave me the no hard drive error screen. So yeah, probably the adapter was faulty. 🤔
the only thing i think you should have done that i didnt see was insulate the molex pins on the back through of that sata adapter they looked awefully close to the metal of the HDD. Great vid though im gonna do this to my xbox meow thanks for uploading
Just ordered a few of the ide cables cheers.
Awesome video and very informative.
Thanks for this video!
Cheers From Costa Rica!
BTW...totally BUYING the walabot thing. About to move and we need a stud-finder and this is AWESOME!
Interesting video. I bought some of these adapters a couple of years ago and always got problems after a while (few days) of using my Xbox. At first I thought that the SATA adapter was damaged and then I thought it was the HDD. After seeing this video, I'm convinced that my stock 40 wire IDE cable might be the culprit. Now I'm thinking of converting my HALO Edition green Xbox into a TSOP and add a spare 1TB laptop HDD.
BTW, when leaving the console overnight FTPing your games, I suggest you open your XBOX case and point a fan on it to ventilate it. I read somewhere that doing long FTP sessions can cause a lot of heat and there were certain parts of the machine that didn't like that. I don't remember exactly what it was but I'm sure it was something related to the onboard LAN controller overheating or something.
Thanks!Used this a reference to upgrade to a 320 HHD .Subbed!
Awesome!
Just in case anyone comes across this, You can plug the middle connector on the IDE cable into the board and route the cable a bit smoother. The longer part of the cable would go up and over the dvd drive, and the smaller portion would go under. Doing it this way you don't need to fold the cable nearly as much.
Thanks man
appreciate you boss. this cable is pretty much the opposite of the original so there's almost no way to fold it properly to fit.
Thanks Mario, doing this tonight when I get home from work.
Good luck!
I have the same SATA to IDE Adapter in my Xbox which now has a 500GB SATA Drive in it. 1 Piece of advice I would give you is to insulate the exposed pins on the back of the Adapter. I used some Insulation Tape (Electrical Tape) and wrapped it over them pins several times. As you will see the pins on the other side of the Molex Connector and IDE connector are exposed.
I have a place where I can pick up ide to sata adapter that are close by me and are readily to available. So no need to go through eBay for those.
24:25 ALRIGHT ALRIGHT I'm focusing. Thanks for bringing me back to my senses!
good stuff
🙏
Upgrade mines with a 2tb works flawlessly. Good video. 👍🏼
Good to hear!
which hdd did u go with?
You are super close to starting a fire!!! Please put some electrical tape on the back of the MOLEX connector of your IDE to SATA board!! The pins sticking out of the back are almost touching the grounded casing of your HDD, which would cause a nice amount of damage to your system!
Drew Conley I do the same thing on my adapters.
@@LumenateTV thats really cool. I wish i had access to a 3d printer :(
@@down2half7 google maker space in your area some of them have 3-d printers for use or know a guy you could ask to print for a couple bucks.
So that electrical tape will make my console and my power supply to be safe?
So would you just put the tape directly on the MOLEX pins or would you put the tape on the SATA Drive itself to prevent any issues?
You should make Lily your official co host she clearly loves hanging out with you when you work.
Hey dj Mario can you do a video about 2tb hdd upgrade on softmodded xbox because it's so much more dificult than hardmodded ones
Good vid!!
16KB clusters for up to a 250GB partition
32KB clusters for a 250GB-500GB partition
64KB clusters for a 500GB-1TB partition
I remember back in the day we split partitions.
With the correct cluster, due to risk of corruption.
Lol seeing that single F partition has me nervous.
Probably because I can't see the cluster size, my inner nerd is concerned. :P
I've thought about putting another system together with a 2tb hard drive.
Years ago I had a 1.4 motherboard in a original crystal xbox housing with a 1tb hard drive.
Replaced the stock exhaust fan with a Arctic F8-80mm, had to file down some plastic of course.
Lit up with bitfenix strips, modded one of the controls ports to usb.
Considered having them controlled by the fan, so as speed increased.
The brightness varied, only for some years later.
The motherboard died on me, ended up replacing it with I believe a 1.2 motherboard.
Tsop flashed it in the most awkward way possible, stripped down an IDE cable.
Used the wire to bridge the connections, no magnifier.
Just my eyes and a spot lamp, had to get the wires so fine to fit.
Was unbearable but worth it, always wanted to do an original slim xbox mod.
Curious to see if I could get a PATA IDE to SATA adapter.
To fit directly to the motherboard, use a long sata cable.
And resolve the power issue to the HDD.
the IDE to SATA gives me flashbacks of Druaga1
Awesome :) I have two modchipped Xbox's but still on older Dashboard how can i update like the one you showed i mean the blue one.
Awesome Upgrade!
😁🤳🤓📸😎🤘👉🎮
Maybe next time upgrade to a 1 TB Solid State Drive instead.😉👌✌
ide cable does not provide power to devices, just data
40 vs 80 wire cables is just for speed, there is still only 40 wires conncected on the 80 pin cable, but every other wire is grounded, to avoid "crosstalk" between adjacent data wires
Also his IDE cable wouldn't have been designed 'for a floppy drive', as floppy drives don't use IDE cables. Might have meant designed for CD/DVD though.
Today where I can buy the IDE cable that you mention in the video since in Amazon they no longer have in stock, thank you very much.
Great video
I still use my DVD drive for game and old 8gb HDD, after 10 year, still works fine.
You still use it to play games from the discs and have no problems reading games? cool
Lucky ass
how do you play games over 4GB? I've looked into multiple options and upgrading HD seems easiest, but I do have a DVDL disc drive on my pc.
@@squidwardtentacles2736 you buy them.
Can you please do a video with an SSD upgrade for the original Xbox?
Great video! I recently did the same and upgraded my softmoded Xbox to a WD 1TB HD SATA drive using what looks to be the same adapter that you are using. I just wanted to point out that I also purchased the 80 wire cable and got so fed up with trying to get it to fold in the Xbox that I gave up and reinstalled the original cable. I wasn't sure what the result would be, but it booted up no problem! As a matter of fact, I feel like it boots even more quickly than it did before. That's just my two cents. :)
I dont have a chipped xbox will i be able to run the recovery disk?
failing that will making an image of my old harddrive and burning it to my replacement harddrive then fixing the partition sizes with partition wizard work?
I would love to try all of this unfortunately my Xbox is plagued with the Thomson DVD drive. Its near impossible to find the Samsung or the Phillips drives anymore. Could you do a video that shows how to take any IDE DVD rom drive and make it Original Xbox compatible.
So we need that Hexen Disc? What is that and where can we get that? That is not listed in the list of things needed for this whole process?
I have an older tsop'ed MB and a 160gb hdd with Avalaunch installed. Can I use Hexan 2017 to install EvoX and XBMC? Also how can I transfer the installed games on the 160hdd to a 500gb hdd? I would do a fresh install on the 500gb hdd.
Did almost this exact process to two systems about a month ago and it works great. the only annoying thing is the in game reset on the 8+ bios. It tries to read the disc drive resets the system tries again and THEN loads from the HDD, anybody know a fix or workaround?
I have 2 questions to ask:
1.Is worthing to put in the original Xbox a ssd?
2.I can copy movies from dvd into my xbox using a application or something like that?
I soft moded my Xbox but didn't flash it or anything. Could I still upgrade my hard drive without doing so?
I just have a softmod on mine, and i put a 160 GB IDE hdd
Don't know if I misunderstood, but it seems Hexen formats the hdd twice, once when it detects new HDD and afterwards on Hexen submenus are loaded for NTSC/PAL selection?! Also does it install twice XBOX dashboard?
I had no idea people could upgrade original Xbox’s, this is very interesting to me.
VintageStealth Seriously? Xbox modding was popular even when the Xbox was current. It's a beast of a console and worth upgrading.
redslate32 I’ve just never seen anyone go this gung-ho on modding one, and I find it very interesting.
hi, possibly dumb question, but if I have a softmodded console that I already was able to upgrade the HDD, would doing a TSOP flash mess with that at all? Wouldn't want to have to back up all the stuff I already put on it and re-transfer. thanks!
Do you guys have any idea about the speed difference 40 vs 80 conductor cables? Couldn't find any reviews on yt. about this article. :)
I have a question is that i do not know what type of hard drive is compatible with the xbox
Do you need install a mod chip to upgrade the hdd? I am new to this, just finish soft modding my Xbox but hard drive pretty small, i don't have any experience soldering. Can you install a bigger hdd without doing any chip mod? Thank you.
is there any way to increase the e drive size or change the default directory for games?
hello mr.mario just a quick question i have a 1.6 is soft modded and i keep getting error 07 trying to update the HDD is brand new and IDE is 80 wire and works with old hdd. i havent intall chip like aladin or others tho do i need to? thanks for all your help...
Hey, can you make a video of all your xbox library as part 3 on this xbox ? It will be cool to see wich games you have.
Nah, I'm always getting new games and don't have all of what I own with me.
I suppose the games are installed on the highest partition? FTP or directly with SATA adapter on the hard drive?
I am not new to the modding scene but i have been away for a while. one of myXboxes crapped out and im trying to get it going again. it was working fine and as i was copying over some files. then it just stopped. when i booted, my G drive was gone. and now, it just wont boot at all.. i just got an 80 wire - 40 pin cable and still using the same adapter i always had. even tried others. after changing the cable to an 80 wire, it booted but stuck on error 16.. - _-
I had problems on my xbox one .
first of all my harddrive spoled and i buy new one but i dont no how change it and put games on it....
I have a problem. Can you help. I put a 2tb hard drive in the og xbox. When i put a disc in the console to copy to the hard drive it wont read it. However if i leave the disc in and turn it off then back on the xbox will play the disc automatically without going to the dashboard. I put the stock hdd and ide cable back in and the dvd drive works perfect. Any ideas. Im guessing its eithdr the 80 pin ide cable or the 2tb hdd or sata adapter,
But, can I use a 2TB SATA HDD from my PC with a bad mobo?
Mr Mario i hae a question for you. Is it possible on a original Xbox DVD drive to be connected to USB? I was just curious. I know not the best thing to do. But still wonder if it is possible?
This worked great for my xbox. When I tried on a friends it seems like the NIC adapter is broken in the xbox. Is there any way for me to copy my xbox drive and put in his? Maybe change my hdd key with rocky tools. change his hard drive key to the same with rocky tools. then clone my drive and leave the cloned drive unlocked. Then Act like I will clone his drive through chimp, but instead put my cloned unlocked drive into his xbox, then use his xbox to lock the drive.... would this work? this is assuming I can even get chimp on his xbox with no ftp access.
So MrMario2011 I Moded my Xbox with Rocky(like you did in the other video) then up grade the hard drive like you did here but im getting a error "Your Xbox Requires Service" No code in the corner like on yours and its frag.( Original Hard drive doing it too) Any Ideas what it could be?
Just wondering why didnt u clean your cpu fan and what type of screws did u uses
Nice you should try coin ops! Really nice for the xbox
Sir! Have you run any speed tests? 40pin vs 80pin?
Wait. can you just plug the master header into the Mobo and the Mobo header into the HDD?
I have an OLD TSOP mod done years ago on my Xbox 1.0 and I just put a 250GB SSD in my machine. So far with the new drive the UnleashX works great but I am curious if there is any benefit.
Few questions:
- Do I need to reflash the TSOP again?
- Would there be any benefit to reflashing the TSOP?
- I have a 1MB ST that is controlled by a switch to choose between EvoX and stock. How do I know which BIOS I am flashing?
Thanks!
I am not a pro, but not a noob, either. So take my answers with a grain of salt:
- If your xbox shows all HDD space with your current BIOS and you have no intention to use the stock BIOS in the future, no need to flash again.
- I guess most ppl will not notice a difference.
- You flash the BIOS you are currently booting with. So if you need to boot with your modchip BIOS to run the HeXen disc, you would flash the BIOS on your chip, which is not recommended, AFAIK.
I'm having problems running certain games like Gunvalkyrie in Unleash X. It works fine on the original disc but doesn't really work when copied over ftp.
try to copy it via the disk maybe the files are corrupted.
Can i put hecan on a DVD+R?? i have those but bot DVD-R
This is my story. Bear with me as this story is long. I bought my OG Xbox v1.4 around 2002 from Best Buy. I had fun with it until I discovered it had a 10 Seagate hard drive (which I don't own anymore) and it can also be modded. I waited & researched continuously until I discovered it can also be softmodded. So around 2005-2006, I softmodded my Xbox using SID through the Agent Under Fire mod. I even upgraded the hard drive to a Seagate 40 GB hard drive. It had UnleashX as a dashboard & I had a bunch of games, emulators, apps, videos, music & other stuff. It was never TSOP flashed. As life moved along, I've put the Xbox away. Now, when I tried to use my Xbox, come to find out the clock capacitor was leaking, Trace A was corroded & 3 capacitors was bulging. So I replaced the 3 capacitors, removed the clock capacitor & fixed the trace. I also bridged the points for TSOP, so it can be flashed. I started up my Xbox & it gave me a 07 error code (HDD timeout). I checked the 40 wire IDE cable & the 40 GB hard drive & the hard drive was clicking, telling me that it was dead (lost everything in it🤬). So I took out the hard drive & boot the Xbox up & still have a 07 error code (without the hard drive). I downloaded the Hexen 2017 & Bios Checker images & burned them to each their own DVD-R using Imgburn on the slowest speed. I put the Bios Checker CD in first, & still the Xbox gives me the 07 error, so I took the CD out & put in Hexen CD, & still get a 07 error. What am I doing wrong? Did I screw up somewhere? Does the Bios Checker need a hard drive? All I want to do is upgrade my Xbox with a 1 TB SATA hard drive, following along with your part 2 of this upgrade video. Please, can you help me out with this headache of a dilemma? I really don't want to buy another Xbox unless I really necessarily have to (I don't know if I'll even get another v1.4 Xbox). Thank you for taking the time to read this long story & for trying to help me with this difficult quest.
You softmodded your Xbox but lost the hard drive. If you have a EEPROM backup, you can use that to build a new hard drive locked for it. If not, you need to pull the EEPROM from your motherboard and build a new locked hard drive for it. If it was running custom BIOS it would be less of a headache, but that's sadly not the case.
Slot1Gamer has a great video showing how to pull the EEPROM, good luck!
If it wasnt for you with these great video majority would be lost! I was in the scene back in the day when the original xbox was released. Went by Xboxit.00. Did many TSOP flashes etc. Been out of it for many years now, just had my Niece request some old xbox games and I grabbed another original also. Just curios, where can we grab the Hexen 2017 iso? Will it run on a soft modded system? Seems new to me, I do know of the slayers disk which was quite handy! love your videos MrMario!
My issues Is I want to use 2 SATA adapters but no matter what combo I use it refuses to boot. It would be so nice if I had at least 1 working OG DVD drive.
I never made backups for my x3 miss that customized xbox boot up and seeing Xecuter Rox My Box logo I gotta figure out how to add a new HDD with no current drive. :'(
Theres now a new way to dump the eeprom and use it with XboxHDM32USB using an arduino pro micro
ruclips.net/video/CmX1fNyJCws/видео.html
Have you ever used a Startech IDE/SATA adaptor? I tried it and it doesn't work for me, while a generic Chinese IDE/SATA adaptor does.
With Startech it goes like this: the startup sequence stutters, the screen goes black and nothing else happens (I've waited multiple minutes each time).
With generic Chinese it goes like this: the startup sequence plays properly, it takes a longer while for the Microsoft logo to appear and the Xbox launches correctly.
It's odd because the Startech adaptor is supposed to be better.
Mr mario please help, it doesnt work with 2 of my xboxes. Ive done everything i suppose to do but still getting error code 16.
Do you need a special length of IDE cable?
Hey Mario
I followed everything step by step, ow getting error codes, unplugged and replugged everything, switching from master to slave give me different error codes, also happens that my old drive stopped working, dang it everything was fine before, just wanted more space
i have a hard drive that wont work it will not spin up so idk what to do because every video i have watched you have to copy the program from the old hard drive then copy it to the new one when i cant do that because mine wont work plz i need a awnser
Hmm, when im in the hdd partitioner screen, there is no controller input...cant select Anything
the best xbox console ever
Wish I knew what buttons you were pressing at 13:11...
Have you tried pata to sata adapter but you are using SSD?
2:49 He didnt listen....S A V A G E!!!!
Hello Mr. Mario love your stuff I have a question I have a modded Xbox modded about 10 years ago it won’t boot up can the hard drive be bad can you give me any suggestions what to do yes
Maybe, but that's a really broad issue.
I think you're safe about the warranty... Pretty sure that 1.2 is a day or two past.
Mario I have a xbox 360 but it stopped working it can't read games how should I fix it
What Asus monitor your using on your OG Xbox? and what resolution is projecting? It looks really sharp and full screen.
on that note: will any (usb powered) RCA to HDMI adaptor work to connect the Xbox to a computer screen ?
i genuinely want to drop an 8 TB HDD ( I Know its slower than SSD its just for storage reasons) in my Xbox. i wonder if this method works with such a massive amount of storage.
@MrMario2011 ~ Do you know how to do the 29-wire TSOP recovery?
I do not.
How long is this 80 wire cable?
I bought one of these and they sent me a much shorter ribbon. I had to end up folding it up pretty strangely and mounting the drive upside down. I noticed that certain DVD drives taking too much power are the reason a regular ribbon will not work. It will detect the dvd drive first and than discard the drive altogether. Which makes sense, but I thought I'd elaborate for a better understanding.
The IDE cables are shorter, it's all in how you bend them up.
@@MrMario2011 The one in the video is much longer than the one I got. Dude, this one is crazy short. I almost went with a Phillips drive which is a great model other than +/- compatibility but ended up going with an 8050L. I remember way back when- reflashing a PC drive with 8050L software and it was the best drive I ever had other than some eject detection issues.
I've done tons of these back in the day with Xecuter 2.3b lite and 2.6CEs but this was my first TSOP and what seemed ridiculous all those years ago is soo simple today. Of course it was more expensive back then and the risks were more significant without an eeprom reader!
The Unicron Ponyprog method was hard to get a decent diagram of too, and so I created my own based on guessing mostly and posted my tutorials. I don't know how this led into a life story but to have 1.5gb SATA is definitely a step up from all those old'n days.
Next step: remove ram from a dead board and upgrade to 128 since I actually have the tools. I've always wanted to do that. (Hey! "The Faculty" reference!). Keep on killing it, man! Every time I have mostly an idea how to go about things I can always reference your videos for a full breakdown of what to look out for. Good stuff, man!
Hi Mario, I just bought a OG Xbox on FB Market Place. I plan to TSOP one day, but would first like to get the softmod going and remove the clock capacitor. I wonder at what point I can install a new HDD. If I do it in this order would it be fine. Softmod with Rocky5 > Remove clock capacitor > TSOP > New HDD. I'm not sure if New HDD comes before TSOP. Which route would you go? Thanks in advance.
I've done a HDD swap using CHIMP. You don't really need a modchip for most XBOX original mod.
so I'm newer to this, and I've softmodded mine but not aware of all the different methods. in another video he used the hot swap method to upgrade the HD, but on this one he used the disc to load everything on the upgraded HD. Is that because of the options for upgrading on a softmodded xbox versus a hard modded with custom bios? I wanna make sure I understand the options and methods for each.
Yep, I was able to just load a disc here because this has a custom BIOS.
Me Gusto el Video, Tk.
So I am upgrading to a 1tb HDD from stock on a TSOPd xbox. I slapped the new HDD in and hooked it up with the 80wire cable and the Startech adapter (both tested working properly in another build), and when I pop in the my Hexen 2019 disc It doesn't say linux and throws an error code after a few seconds (9 on master, 8 on other jumper settings). Is it possible that Hexen 2019 can't be used as an installer?
EDIT: OKAY so listen to this. I tried every boot method with the startech adapter jumper settings even without the jumper and got error code 9 everytime aside from error code 7 on slave jumper. I decided to try the much cheaper generic IDE-SATA adapter and it booted up first try!!! That is insane to me considering the Startech adapter being much better quality and also faster by 20 seconds when booting to dash on a softmodded xbox vs the generic one. Which makes me think that since my HDD is 7200rpm, is it possible it wasn't getting up to speed in time for the Hexen disc to recognize it?
So for sure that this cable will work? I tried a Startech branded cable and it still ended up being too short for me no matter what I did. I've really been wanting to try out my Xbox for a while to make sure the upgrade even worked but can't because of this issue.
The one I linked will work as long as you fold it up in a decent way.
I bought a 200gb ide hard drive that was still factory sealed, is a sata drive much better as in noise or speed for the original xbox? I can hear the drive grind sometimes, but not sure if i would have the same with a sata drive.
Newer SATA drives do tend to be substantially quieter than the old IDE drives. I have an old Maxtor IDE 300GB in my PS2, and my god, it sounds like it's breaking rocks inside when it's actually working. Then I have a 1TB SATA drive in another PS2, and it's exponentially quieter.
Hello friends , I have an original xbox 1.6 softmoded and I just cloned the hard drive to a 120gb one , the thing is that with the new hard drive installed after the boot up animation the screen remains black ; even more weird is the fact that as soon as i press the dvd drive open buttom the unleashx dashboard will boot just fine .
as i said its 1.6 so its softmod
Hey man, how long is your IDE cable? I bought one thats 18 inches and once its connected to the motherboard and dvd drive it can't reach the hard drive. Also once everything was connected, it just hangs on the Xbox logo screen. What do?
The one I purchased is in the description. Could be a bad cable if it isn't erroring out, I had that once. The original cable worked and disconnecting the DVD drive with the new cable worked, I didn't get it working 100% until I tried another new cable.
How long is that cable? 18 inch?