Project XBlueXmodX

[Mitternacht]

I'm gonna buy one (cold heat) tonight, he's not coming through, and I need to get this thing done. I also have something new in mind, adding 2 4" cold cathodes for in front; blue. It'll look amazing.

[Mitternacht]

I got home about 15minutes ago with a brand new Cold Heat. This thing ****ing sucks. Right outta the box, the tip is broke. And it's not gonna fulfill the purposes I'll need it for. So where can I get a soldering gun for super-precise stuff?

[.Maleficus.]

A hardware store. I imagine every hardware store near you will have some sort of soldering device, whether it be a gun or not. I just use a generic iron my dad got at like, "The Dollar Tree". It works good for me, and with patience is precise.

[Mitternacht]

I looked into it. For the same money, I can get a coldheat conetip solder gun and a desoldering gun for $.50 more. I'll need the desolderer to remove the solder where the jumper is supposed to go.

[Crimson Sky]

for any kind of precise soldering you need something like this. I have this (Digital) model and its probably the last one I'll ever need to own. The standard soldering irons (even the fancy gun type with LED light) you get in hardware stores are required to shut off or lower the temperature, making it useless after about twenty minutes of work--this is to prevent fires in the home. A digital soldering station can work all day long and allow you to dial in the correct temperature for the job without damaging sensitive electronic components.

[tybrenis]

Bummer. I had a cold heat, but sold it on eBay after using it for 5 minutes and realizing it's suck factor.

I wish I would have got to your post earlier, I could have told you have much they suck ass.

[Mitternacht]

I was gonna return this one and buy another cold heat, the one with a cone tip, so it shouldn't break.

[Mitternacht]

Sorry about no pics yet. I got the chip installed and soldered in. Now I need to install a BIOS and Dashboard into the Xbox. I'm not gonna be discussing the step of downloading the dashboard. Just google it and you'll end up with the correct path to obtaining them. I've gotta install Nero and burn the CD properly. I'll update the log afterwards.

[Omega]

Oh, cold heat works well with solder. Until you actually want to get something done.

[Mitternacht]

Oh man, did it take forever to get this thing running...

1st, I got the Modchip installed. After that, you gotta find a BIOS and eventually find the right tutorial to install it. You also have to create a 100MB Dummy file, just so the Xbox will make an effort to read it. After flashing the xbox with the file on a CD-RW, you then gotta find the dashboard. I can tell you where to find it, but you must not link to it, for that's illegal. After getting the right dashboard, burn it the right way (which took for-****ing-ever) and run it on the Xbox. Connect the xbox upto the router, connect to it, do file transfers through FlashFXP, it goes endless. It must've took about 20 hours from start to finish, just to get the xbox running.