Original Xbox

Original Xbox Trace Corrosion Repair

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A detailed walk-through of an Original Xbox trace corrosion repair. This is a rev 1.4 Xbox as determined from he graphics chip and serial number. The Xbox is torn down, motherboard cleaned and analyzed, clock capacitor removed, and traces jumped with Kynar wire. This is an original Xbox that a long lost friend gifted me. …

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Easy Original XBox Softmod – NO Exploit Games, NO Special Cables, NO USB Sticks, NO Xboxhdm

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An easy softmod process is performed on an original XBox. The box is softmodded using a hotswap technique but without having to create a bootable disk using the xboxhdm. Because the original XBox is an IDE drive, an IDE DVD ROM drive would normally be required to boot to, in order to be able to …

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