And a mock put together.
And a mock put together.
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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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Got the motherboard, fans, case feet and cathodes installed and the wires hidden to my liking. Only thing not hidden is the sata cable because it's not long enough. Oh well! Only things left to so is get the sheet metal for the back plate, and make cuts for the LED switches. Have to wait about 5 days for this paint to cure for the clear coat, and then I'm done!
Assembling took me about 3.5 hours yesterday because of non stop issues. I got it all put together and there was a short somewhere. Every time I touched the chassis it would turn on and sometimes the DVD tray would open. So I took it out and put it back in. Tested and everything worked. After a bit of playing around I noticed now the SYNC switch was not working properly. So I started moving wires around and the wire broke about 1/4 inch from the solder point. So I had to take the motherboard out again and resolder the sync button wires to the board. Put it back in and it was still shorting out. But then I pulled all the wires out of hiding and re did them. Then I realized that I mounted the hard drive to the motherboard cage...but didn't plug it in .....
So I took the mobo/cage out one last time, plugged it in, got everything together and looking pretty, and it's good to go now. So happy that I am nearing the completion of this project. So happy.
Here are 2 cell phone pics of what it looks like.
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http://i452.photobucket.com/albums/q...g?t=1330691974
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And done!
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