OG Xbox 128 Ram Mod Guide
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- Опубликовано: 26 апр 2022
- Xbox Ram Upgrade Kit (Restocking soon)
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XBlastOS (Flash crcwell.bin to tsop or to an aladdin or similar modchip)
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This is importantant if you want to be able to test 1 ram chip at a time.
Xblast will boot if you install one ram at a time as long as they're soldered properly and not bridging.
Other bios' require all four ram chips to be installed perfectly or the console will frag.
It's not manditory but I'd highly recommend it to save yourself a headache.
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I have a couple of these to do. I also will be attempting the CPU upgrade. I picked up some of the ram chips, PCBs and a CPU already. Thanks for all the vids, fun and informative. Helped me out on the OLEDs for sure.
You can upgrade the cpu in these? Well, I suppose its basically an all soldered pc so..
You make it look easy. First time I tried to solder an Xbox mobo was in 2003 and I gave up early. Up until somewhat recently, most of my soldering jobs were absurdly easy stuff up until 2020 when I needed to mod an GPU. This involved moving and replacing a couple of very tiny resistors. It was challenging, but after that I feel much more comfortable and capable of taking on something like this RAM upgrade job. Thanks for the video!
Of course man, these things just take practice and the right tools for the job. My skills have come a long way in the past couple years as well just from constantly doing this stuff.
I'll have a video up in a few days on how to do these with hot air. It makes the job significantly easier
Amazing, fantastic job. 👏 I would love to get this done to my system. I will to make some time for it. Thank you so much for this video. Keep rocking 😎✨️👌
this video is perfect timing. I just ordered the chips to try this for the first time.
Bro this is Bob Ross level of soldering. Nice to watch. Great info.
Excellent video, and very timely. I am just about to embark on this "adventure".
Gotta thank you for breaking down how to drag-solder those RAM chips. Completed the mod yesterday on a 1.1. Aside for one chip where I couldn't fix my slight mistake (misaligned exactly one side of the chip, had to gently bend the RAM legs and solder each hand by hand. Pain.), every other chip went smooth enough and it works great.
And thanks to your tips on drag soldering thru the video, I can now tackle more advanced stuff.
Ram Upgrade kits have been restocked on my webstore!
$19.99 for a full set of 4.
modzvilleusa.myshopify.com/collections/chips-n-tools/products/xbox-128-ram-upgrade-kit-for-1-0-1-5-ogxbox-4x-sticks-of-ram
I also added some 1MB upgraded xblast aladdins. Very solid modchip and super handy to have around for a ram upgrade
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Very informative, great video. Ahhh yes, Firelink Shrine, lovely.
Awesome! I love slide soldering. Very satisfying to do and watch. I really enjoy the j hook tips for that after some luck with it lately. Amtech all the way also but if I have to use liquid I prefer Kester 951 or 959T. I will have to order to do this upgrade. Stupid heat sinks getting in the way I dont enjoy messing about taking those off and on, not hard just annoying
Do you mean drag soldering? Never heard it called slide.
@@bryancampbell4604 yeah drag soldering. I just say slide soldering and interchanged in my brain for years lol. I have odd names for other techniques too. My Brain is fun
Maaaan i love ure doom backround music:-) greetingz from germany.. and nice job.
I miss my Xbox, wonderful console to play retro back in the days !!
Love this videos thanks man
That is some very satisfying soldeer technique.
@modzvilleusa I found a way to stack the ram on the OG 1.6b. I'm gonna be soldering it up when I get the parts I ordered from you and I'll send you some pictures. It nice to see you still on RUclips as well.
I know this is an old video but your modding skills are beast i would never trust my shaky hands too do something like that id like it done at one point but man this is awesome
You are the best in clasic console bro.
Definitely have to save this for later. Once I finish moving I want fix my OG Xbox. Would be nice to install a mod chip as well.
It takes great skill without burning the chip or pcb board, but I use a heat gun after freshening the pads up with some solder and flux to install resistors, some MOSFETS, some capacitors, diodes, some ram modules and a few other modules. This method is faster when working with a quota at an RMA center.
i used to do this years ago :) also the 1.4ghz cpu upgrade
Very cool subbed
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Thank you so much! I'm new to soldering, so this is going to be really difficult. I soldered pins onto the LPC of my 1.3 Xbox and replaced capacitors and it worked, then I installed the mod chip and destroyed D0 with my iron. I guess it was too hot. I will try again with the alt D0 and hopefully get 128mb of RAM and HDMI. We'll see what happens.
Now these upgrades is what i like 😄 not those homebrew crap
Mm I always use flux. As you probably know, just helps the solder flow, might help those pads turn out nicer when you desolder them; noticed they may have gotten pretty hot. Also, you can use low melt solder. The factory solder joints, often times, have a pretty high melting point. By adding low melt solder, it helps that factory solder melt a lot faster, less overall heat exposure.
I keep a stash of ChipQuick that works beautifully for that. It's a big help when trying to desolder something from a large ground plane too.
One thing I see different in this tutorial compared to others is the point at which the memory test is performed. Normally I see folks will fire up that XblastOS memory test after each individual chip is installed. That makes the troubleshooting a lot easier. Link for reference: ruclips.net/video/00x9KdryqRQ/видео.html
In my experience thus far, If the console boots after installing a ram chip it's likely good to go. If it frags, there's a cold joint or a bridge.
Tried this upgrade a few months ago on a system and what a disaster. Tried doing the upgrade without removing the existing solder. WOW. How frustrating that was... Removed it and gave up and used system as 64mb. May eventually try this but down to one working system. (Other system isn't reading ANYTHING from IDE).
Anyways, GREAT video and very informative.
EDIT: Also, the flux I have is old and freaking sucks. It's solid as can be and I have to melt it to use it. I know I need to buy some liquid but I keep pushing it off.
having the melt the flux is normal and fine.
I highly recommend amtech 559-asm, It makes everything much easier
If it is rosin you could liquify it with a bit of IPA. Rosin doesn’t really get unusable. Modern fluxes have a shelf life time after which they do degrade.
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Perfectly done! But I think it would be great to boot a game and show how much loading time decreased.
conker is one of the few games that will take advantage of this
@@amdintelxsniperx my thoughts as well
Most games are designed within the original specs and wouldn’t even benefit from more ram.
Not just loading time but better fps
Wrong Brooklyn forced 720p games actually require this outside of a few
It's not a MVU video without that special quote.
_Ladies and gentlemen if you made it this far, _*_pat yourself on the back._*
Such a great vid, keep those coming man.
Thanks dude!
More enjoyable then an adult movie
awesome I can run xblast without a mod chip I hard modded mine the old school way
i usualy tin the pads for cleaning puproses to remove oxide then go over with gootwick, you can see some of the pads have a slight oxide to them , have you tried a 45deg knife edg solder tip ?
Good call! I'll try that on the next one. I tried the knife tip on my first one, will give it another go next time around to see how I like it compared to the chisel tip.
I felt like I was listening to Tom Petty (RIP) upgrading his ram. 😂
Buy yourself a nice solder station with an adjustable heat gun and this entire process would've went way smoother. Very tedious with with a standard iron. Good work nonetheless! 👊
I have one but I like doing these by hand.
hit em with that doom track
What version board are you doing this to? I have 3 consoles here I would love to mess around with
The only thing that interests me about this mod is you can play virtua cop 3 but I don't think it's worth the effort. Looks pretty difficult.
now I expect every one of those connections and make sure none of them become bridged and when you put the new chip down don't forget to use a lot of flux cuz a fluxy chip it's a happy chip this way no connections or get bridged and you won't short anything out and while you're doing this are you using a microscope to look at all the connections because when I do it I always use a microscope as a matter fact I have one that I connect to my laptop
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I'm not sure if you are still monitoring this video, but if you are able to answer this question I would be grateful. Is there a way to test for bad RAM chips by using a multimeter? If so it would be nice to know before I desolder the old ram chips and put new ones in.
what is the advantage of increasing the ram of the console?
It improves the performance of some emulators, and front ends such as XBMC4Gamers. It doesn't help Xbox games, as they don't see the extra RAM.
Like 3 Chihiro arcade games can be run with the ram upgrade.... Ghost Squad, Virtua Cop 3, & I think Crazy Taxi 3 are playable on upgraded X-Boxes. FinalBurn has some games that will only run with the extra ram. Possibly some MAME stuff. I've heard that Nintendo 64 emulation is much better with the ram upgrade. Not sure what else.
What was the piano music that you played?
Hello, I have a motherboard. I would like to convert it to 128GB. It contains Samsung RAM. Can I add RAM from another company, such as Hynix? Are they compatible with each other, or should they be the same quality?
Can you list all the benefits of doing this mod? IIRC, all commercial games ever made see only the first 64 MB and totally ignore any additional RAM. So then, the only benefit must be homebrew. What homebrew benefits from this?
You can apply a patch to commercial games that will allow them to work with 128MB. This eliminates some slowdown issues in some games, particularly multiplayer ones, Halo, etc.
That might warrent a separate video as I wanted to just keep this to the soldering techniques and practices for successfully completing this mod.
It's not all that much different from a PC. The similarities far outnumber the differences. Less RAM for the OS means that the OS has to do more work as it swaps out unused RAM to the hard drive to free up RAM. The OS doesn't get 'closed' when you run a game. It's still there in the background, along with anything else you might have running as a utility or whatnot. Modern OSes also will buffer drive reading into available free RAM. So that a subsequent read of that drive sector will not actually require a fetch from the drive unless the block has changed. It'll simply read it from RAM, which is much faster. So a game you just played will open back up more quickly, except after a reboot (which usually clears RAM). The hard drive file allocation table gets read into RAM as well, as you explore it -- no matter how much RAM you have. And it stays in RAM until reboot (but can be swapped to drive). So if you have a drive with tons of nested folders each with tons of individual files inside, and you looked inside each folder, you'll have a large part of RAM/Swap occupied by your drive layout info. So the more RAM you have, you can have faster access to larger drives with more folders/files. Though to really get full benefit from this, you'll want to minimize reboots.
I just installed the ram I purchased from ModzvilleUSA but I was unsure if It would work with a soft modded 1.4 console? I ask because I frag when beginning to boot up. I tested continuity on all the ram chips I installed and I have no bridging issues, which is leading me to believe I need a modchip. If so, will the Aladdin modchip you offer on your website work or should I get an open xenium? Any help is appreciated. Thank you
Yeah you need a hard modded console in order to take advantage of the 128mb upgrade along with a bios that supports it. I'd recommend cerbios.
I recommend the xblast aladdin as you can install the chips one at a time and if installed correctly the console will still boot to the xblast menu. Makes installing / troubleshooting this upgrade much easier.
@@ModzvilleUSA Thank you so much! I will order the Aladdin modchip from you. I appreciate you getting back to me. I'm very new to the Xbox modding scene.
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I wonder if you can overclock the cpu? I have a Pentium iii but I’ve never tried overclocking it, idk how overclockable it is
You can install a more powerful cpu but that’s on a whole other level of difficulty
I did everything perfectly I checked every connection but I installed one chip up side down I confused the circle and I heard a crackling sound(like lighting up a joint) probably the flux stated heating up and the chip was a bit hot and I uninstalled all the ram chips I installed but nothing the Xbox won’t boot what could be fried ? I’ve ordered a replacement motherboard :( so stupid I am I should t smoke before the install!!
I just bought an original Xbox and I do not know what capacitators I have to replace. I always read about ONE clock capacitator but there are several capacitators inside the original xbox and I think they could all leak so 1) which do I have to remove 2) what is the actual name of those capacitators so I can order a new one from ebay
on 1.0s - 1.5s you can simply remove the clock capacitor. On 1.6s they need to be replaced if they're faulty but those aren't known to leak like the previous revisions.
Beyond that, just check the large caps near the cpu / gpu. Those tend to buldge resulting in no power when they go bad.
If you want to just do all the caps, get a cap kit from console5
So what now? What are you going to do with extra memory?
Sorry, this wasn't clear to me.
Obviously it appears a mod chip is necessary to test the RAM, but Is a mod chip required to be left installed for the Xbox to use the extra RAM?
You’ll need to run a custom bios that supports the extra ram like X2, indbios cerbios x3 ect. You can do that from flashing the tsop but I prefer a modchip
I heard 1.6 motherboards with ram uograde will over heat. is that true?
Have a mod chip...OR save the cash, and have an easier install by TSOP flashing instead.
This is still possible with only a softmodded console with a custom bios flash, and without a mod chip right? I’m relatively new to the Xbox modding scene. I’m sorry if I sound dumb.
@@jakeplayzyt5220 if you’re flashing a custom bios it would technically be a hardmod. You need a custom bios to take advantage of the ram upgrade
@@ModzvilleUSA sorry I meant it wouldn’t require a modchip tho right? A modded unmod chip console can still take advantage if it’s running the right bios?
@@jakeplayzyt5220 yeah as long as you can run a custom bios you’re golden. Tsop flash is totally. You can even flash xblast to tsop to help with the install then flash the preferred bios once you’re done with the ram upgrade
@@ModzvilleUSA ok great, I’m afraid of installing a mod chip
Are you sure that was IPA at 5:00? It looked like a bottle of Walmart rubbing alcohol.. lol
You're thinking beer aren't you? It's Isopropyl alcohol..
Thank you SO much for posting this. I've got a few X-Boxes that I've got to do this upgrade, on. Much appreciated, Modzville.... you do some excellent work 👍.
Any chance you could visit un-modding a Playstation 2 (fat model) of a Neo 4 chip? The bios trace gets cut with that installation so I gotta repair that trace when removing the chip for Free McBoot setups. The Neo 4 chip interferes with the component video output unless it's in-game. I've got 3 of these systems that I want to restore. Thqnks again.
Oh man, I haven't heard of anyone talking about the NEO4 in a VERY VERY long time. First no-swap chip. 40 something wires no?
Dang, i've never heard tale of the Neo 4 until now. Couldn't really find any info on it when looking it up. If you're willing to part with it, I'd love it for the collection. I can take a stab at removing it for you no problem, just need to figure out what trace got cut in order to repair the trace.
Shoot me an email if you'd like and I'm down to help work this out.
Thanks guys! Yeah I got 3 of them that I modded long ago. It's a no-swap modchip for CD games & a single DVD swap for DVD games. I can't recall the # of wires, but I did all 3 systems, myself. My brother & friends parted with them & I just want the component video output to work again in the menus, which the Neo4 disables due to a cut trace that bypasses the stock Sony bios. The lasers are weak & I want to make them stock again for Free McBoot/OPL harddrive setups. The PS2s are V4s & older. I keep them around for their Firewire port, which is supported in Armored Core 2 & AC: Another Age..... 2 of my favorite PS2 games. I'll be in touch, Modzville. I'd love to see a video 👍
I have a spares and repairs and a working one, could I take the ram off one and increase ram in the working one?
Absolutely, just use hot air to remove the ram from the dead console.
@@ModzvilleUSA Cheers fella. I'm glad I watched your tutorial because I would of soldered the lot at once and then spent ages diagnosing frags lol
Is it possible to upgrade the CPU or GPU at all?
CPU... yes. GPU.... I don't believe so. Alot of X-Box games require patching to run properly with an upgraded cpu, but the ram upgrade makes for a smoother upgrade. Modchip bios just needs to support the 128MB ram, such as the IND bios or Xecuter3 chip/bios.
what advantages i get from upgrading the ram ?
A few Sega Chihiro arcade games will work on original Xbox consoles with 128MB of RAM. Those games include:
Crazy Taxi High Roller
Ghost Squad
Gundam Battle Operating Simulator
Ollie King
Outrun 2
Sega Club Golf 2006 Next Tours
Sega Network Taisen Mahjong MJ 2 and 3
The House of the Dead III
Virtua Cop 3
Ford Racing Full Blown
Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 1 and 2
Many emulators on original Xbox can take advantage of 128MB of RAM
Game debugging performance is improved (Xbox development kits had 128MB of RAM).
So an original Xbox with 128MB RAM upgrade isn't quite as useful as a hardmod or softmod for the system. It's more of a mod for those who want to try out those Sega arcade games, and run additional emulators, or get into Xbox game development.
@@Utoobyourself does this arcade games work by default or you need to install a launcher/bios ?
@@TheBlackbirdii your Xbox already needs to be hard drive set up running a dashboard for example like avalanche Evo X unleash X etc. once that is all said and done that’s when you would do the upgrade and you need to install a bios depending on your hard mod whether it’s a Alladin chip or an executor 3 chip. you would need a special BIOS to take advantage of that 128 MB of RAM
@@Utoobyourself thank you very much !
@@TheBlackbirdii 👍
My OG Xbox is a revised model and doesn't have any memory expansion spaces.
Oh well...
Yeah, v1.6/1.6b... the ones that require the clock cap to stay in. I hate those systems for modding due to the broken lpc & other quirkiness.... like no pads for the ram upgrade 👎.
yo dude i installed all 4 ram chips then tested with xblast, it says ram 1 failed, where is ram slot 1?
replaced the chip! works!
okay...how do I EXIT xblast OS???
Actually IVe seen more problems caused by changing the thermal paste than not. The mounting system for the heatsink is weird and seems to permanently lose some of its tension the first time you remove it on some systems. From that point on, your chip will run slightly hotter due to the worse contact. Its been documented on the forums before. Always posts about it running hot after thermal paste change.
Bruh I installed the mod chip idk if I really screwed it up but it's blinking green and red when turned on also I removed all points besides the pin header and its still blinking green and red did I just fry out my xbox?
Did you connect the d0 wire?
@@ModzvilleUSA I had missed it at first I hope I didn't fry the board the videos I found on RUclips differ from the instructions on Google
@@lostdeath4202 If you simply installed a modchip and didn't connect d0 you should be fine. You can even just attach d0 on the main board to ground and you should be good.
@@ModzvilleUSA even if I had the wrong pinout at first and thank you bruh
What is the benefit of doing this?
There are some Sega Chihiro arcade games that work on original Xbox consoles with 128MB of RAM. Those games include:
Crazy Taxi High Roller
Ghost Squad
Gundam Battle Operating Simulator
Ollie King
Outrun 2
Sega Club Golf 2006 Next Tours
Sega Network Taisen Mahjong MJ 2 and 3
The House of the Dead III
Virtua Cop 3
Ford Racing Full Blown
Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 1 and 2
Many emulators on original Xbox can take advantage of 128MB of RAM
Game debugging performance is improved (Xbox development kits had 128MB of RAM).
So an original Xbox 128MB RAM upgrade isn't quite as useful as a hardmod or softmod for the system. It's more of a mod for those who want to try out those Sega arcade games, run additional emulators, or get into Xbox game development.
needs a swappable cpu chip modd
That’s in a whole other level of gnarly to do.
bRUHHH invest in a box of latex gloves
2 reasons
one keeps your hands clean
two keeps the board CLEAN.
What are the real world benefits of doing this?
There are some Sega Chihiro arcade games that work on original Xbox consoles with 128MB of RAM. Those games include:
Crazy Taxi High Roller
Ghost Squad
Gundam Battle Operating Simulator
Ollie King
Outrun 2
Sega Club Golf 2006 Next Tours
Sega Network Taisen Mahjong MJ 2 and 3
The House of the Dead III
Virtua Cop 3
Ford Racing Full Blown
Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 1 and 2
Many emulators on original Xbox can take advantage of 128MB of RAM
Game debugging performance is improved (Xbox development kits had 128MB of RAM).
So an original Xbox 128MB RAM upgrade isn't quite as useful as a hardmod or softmod for the system. It's more of a mod for those who want to try out those Sega arcade games, run additional emulators, or get into Xbox game development.
Uh why are not using Flux?
Are you blind?
Mine doesn't even have solder on it so I'm lucky apparently
Hell yeah! Congrats :D
why would you want to do this , just curious
Some homebrew games need it to run well. :P
Some Sega Chihiro games + large memory games in MAME & FBA become playable with this upgrade 👍.
Because we can!
Supposedly the N64 emulation runs a lot better with this memory upgrade as well.
@@misterbeetz why not just get a fucking pc then 😂😂
But, whats the point?
Scrubs need not apply lmfao.
I never understand this "old solder" panic I often see on youtube. Solder is not getting old, it might crack if some constant force is getting applied to the joint during some period of time, but once you reflow it, its again same as new. There is only one reason to remove stock solder - when you're working with cheap chinese crap and the solder quality is questionable. Otherwise there is ABSOLUTELY no point in doing this
You completely missed the point. I was quite clear that the main reason we wick the pads is so the ram chip sits flush on the board, it makes installing the chip much easier.
Either way it's a good practice to remove old solder and start fresh. If you'd prefer to be lazy then you do you.
@@ModzvilleUSA But how can it not sit flush if that pads are tinned in factory with automatic soldering? I mean its not like someone tinned them by hand and amount of solder is different on each pad
@@eugenegrebionkin if you’re installing these by hand, it’s much easier to remove the solder as the pins are quite firm.
You want the pins flush on the pads then add your own solder.
If you use hot air then yes the pads should obviously be tinned.
@@ModzvilleUSA Got it now! So you mean it is easier to align since pads are flat without solder, right?
now I expect every one of those connections and make sure none of them become bridged and when you put the new chip down don't forget to use a lot of flux cuz a fluxy chip it's a happy chip this way no connections or get bridged and you won't short anything out and while you're doing this are you using a microscope to look at all the connections because when I do it I always use a microscope as a matter fact I have one that I connect to my laptop