Wow, great work on the front panel.
Yup! It's in there right now actually! I took an old sony DVD drive that I had lying around and I gutted it. I dremeled off the odd edges of the Xbox cd drive, and just placed it inside the dvd drive case! took the front bezel off the xbox cd drive, and glued the sony bezel to the DVD. I didn't take any pictures cause I didn't have my camera at the time, but i'll break it down later before I put everything together.
Thanks a lot dude!
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Eject button even hooked up?
Not on the dvd tray. The switch panel below is going to have the switch for eject.
You know I didn't even think of that. I might pop the button out and fill that hole. Might have to do that.
Edit : Eh, I'll prob just leave it. I'd have to pick up more primer, paint, and clear coat, and I don't think the time is worth it. Among other things I would have done differently. Live and learn.
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Are you going to have the front circle be lit up?
Be the "ring"?
That would be interesting to do.
What I was thinking of wiring:
Drill an LED in each corner. When it projects, it lights up the quarter.
So, to get:
1 2
3 4
You'd wire it (at the section):
4 3
2 1
That way, when it projects, it lights up the appropriate section.
Just throwing out ideas here.
This would be interesting, but I already have a green LED for the inside of the case that will be illuminating the turbine tunnel. That is an awesome Idea though.
But the other thing to is soldering wire to the circuit board on the xbox with the ROL is extremely difficult, and with my current luck with the xbox motherboards, I don't want to do anymore soldering. Maybe If I get some more xbox's to mess around with in the future, but 2 mobo's for 1 project is enough for me at the moment.
Thank you very much for the suggestions!
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If only you could get like a 25 pack of RF boards to mess around with....
One could dream...hahahah. I constantly use my FB status to round up RROD'd xboxs. I've gotten a few so far.
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The first xbox rrod'ed motherboard I was working with is out of my hands now. I do not have any experience re soldering chips to motherboards, so I'm not going to attempt that right now. The new motherboard I'm using for this project has not yet RROD'd, it was just an extra xbox i had lying around. It's the Jasper motherboard, which is the least likely to RROD out of all the different version of the xbox motherboards. SO to keep it that way i'm installing 3 120mm fans, and did the xclamp and thermal paste replacement.
there are simple fixes and there are in depth fixes. A simple one would be to turn on your xbox but unplugging the fan to let it over heat. Then when it reboots it does a hardware reset and your fine.
A more indepth fix is removing the heatsinks and re applying a more high performance thermal paste, along with replacing the crappy xclamps with the nut and bolt replacement. ($5 on amazon.)
Then if you really want to get into it, desolder the chip. clean it up and resolder, and do the heatsink work I listed above.
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