Modding my new XBox

Or not… as the case may be. I’ve got a modchip, while installing it I took many photos with the intention of documenting it for the interested and curious. Unfortunately, for reasons I can’t work out, the damn thing doesn’t work. All it does is flashes the CD light red and green and fails to boot. If I pull the modchip out, the XBox boots as normal.

I’ve just spent several hours fiddling, resoldering connections, burning my fingers and melting plastic in an attempt to fix it. I’ve also learned quite a bit about what the modchip does. It’s quite interesting… but not as interesting as a working modded XBox with XBMC, which is my intention.

Tomorrow I will try putting the modchip in my working XBox to see whether it’s the machine or the chip. I suspect the modchip is faulty, or the BIOS in it is corrupt. There’s a way to reflash the BIOS, so I’ll give that a go.

Tags: blog365, Hardware, Modification, xbmc, XBox