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XBRebooted Console Mod
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03-02-2010 3:24am#1Just to give this one it's own thread rather than continually derail cisk's thread, over the weekend I attempted to put XeLL and XBReboot on one of my consoles.
The plan was to solder cat 5 to the motherboard, run it to an RJ45 header purchased from Radionics. Then cut a hole in the case at the back on the side (under the hard drive) and use an RJ45->LPT port cable to read and write the nand.
I went over to witnessmenow's house because he was gonna attempt it too but we didn't have a nice time of it - I spent 2 hours trying to put Cat 5 cable onto the board while he repaired a RROD xbox. The Cat 5 cable I planned to run from the mobo to the header was too damn hard to solder to those small points - it took ages to heat to tin, and longer to heat both that and the point on the mobo. I ended up using some Kynar 30AWG from the board to the header instead. The ground on the motherboard is also notoriously difficult to heat so instead I globbed a little mound of solder onto the board and soldered the ground to that solder mound.
Between crossing wires, missing resistors and all sorts of n00b stuff I left witnessmenow's house in failure
I started from scratch when I got home that night though, perseverance is awesome.
I abandoned the RJ45 idea and went from mobo to LPT port. I used a diode with all five 100 ohm resistors to get the most stable read on the nand with no errors apart from a bad block at 0x0042.
I know this pic doesn't have the diode in it, it was taken earlier when I was getting random Error 280 Unreadable Block errors because I had no diode. Also, any dump with no error never matched a subsequent dump ..so that's why I put in the diode. All problems vanished.
Sunday evening I went back at it, soldering the JTAG part of the hack having discovered I had a vulnerable box. I also removed the R6T3 resistor (damn it is small)
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Now that all was gravy, I really wanted to revert to my original MB->RJ45 nand reader plan. So I took the soldering iron to the board again, triple checking everything as I went ..I had a "system" this time
After testing out the RJ45 cable I'd previously used it wouldn't work. After taking off the resistors though it worked again and I could read the nand using the RJ45->DB25 cable. So now all I'm using is a diode. I understand that I could use smaller resistors and I might just put them on if I get around to it. For now I'm done...
I would post a final pic including the case mod, but I'm 99% sure I left my power brick and console shell w/ faceplate at witnessmenow's house :rolleyes:
And some shots with XeLL and XeXMenu
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witnessmenow wrote: »Was wondering where that power brick came from....
I have about 4-5 out in the garage!
When I discoverd I'd left stuff at your gaff, total facepalm moment!
@EnterNow: Cheers
Also, before I forget - Thanks to witnessmenow for food, mod parts and teaching me that cool little echo thing with the multimeter, docentore and for the advice in cisk's thread and for tellin me what you can do with XBR, totally awesome 
Go forth and JTAG, you know you want to 0 -
TouchingVirus wrote: »When I discoverd I'd left stuff at your gaff, total facepalm moment!
@EnterNow: Cheers
Also, before I forget - Thanks to witnessmenow for food, mod parts and teaching me that cool little echo thing with the multimeter, docentore and for the advice in cisk's thread and for tellin me what you can do with XBR, totally awesome
Go forth and JTAG, you know you want to
Honestly dude it was a pleasure having you down, your welcome back anytime, just do your best not to run over my dog though 0 -
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So I took the plunge and cracked open my August 22nd 2009 refurb to see if I could XBR it. It had the right dashboard version but disappointingly I found out it had a patched bootloaded CD 8435 (CB 7371) and is therefore unjtaggable
So if you've got a board lying around I could JTAG then let me know
On the up side though I did managed to get my case from witnessmenow's house on Saturday and have a picture of the reassembled 360 hard drive day to show
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So does that RJ45 allow access to Nand while the console is fully assembled?
Sure does, no need to disassemble/reassemble just to get at the nand. I've an RJ45 -> LPT/DB-25 cable, just jack it in and run nandflash
For the XBR mod it could help if I ever do an official disc update by accident but I'm going to use the ones I'm putting on the banned consoles much more because after each update I'll have to take secdata.bin from the nand and work some magic so the banned console can install to hard drive again 0 -
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Cheers TV - that link however goes to a Dsub cup...
Cheers WMN - they lool like they are PCB mounted though, can I get ones that connect from the rear of the socket?
Edit - would this be right - http://radionics.rs-online.com/web/search/searchBrowseAction.html?method=getProduct&R=0485928#header
Sorry EnterNow, completely misread your post and thought you wanted the D-Sub
If you're looking for ones that go into the back and not from the bottom like mine then yes, that link you posted is what you're looking for. I also suggest some heatshrink to keep those pins isolated.
When cutting a hole in the case, cut it as close to the USB/Ethernet ports as you can, otherwise it'll be too close to your DVD drive when it goes in, which is a disaster. I had to re-cut the chassis and use a LOT of glue to fix that mistake in my first mod.
*edit* Wow, those ones you have there are expensive. How about these: http://radionics.rs-online.com/web/search/searchBrowseAction.html?method=getProduct&R=3862687#header0 -
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TouchingVirus wrote: »Pre-NXE dash? Nice! Ain't seen a blade 360 in a long time.
I've got a RROD console to fix, not a clue what it is but apparently it's JTAGable Power of the JTAG is awesome
So you have your original, your new Jasper and now a RROD to jtag? Damn you man!
If I may impose again, Radionics dont sem to do an RJ45-LPT cable...where did you get yours?0 -
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TouchingVirus wrote: »Haha, the new RROD console is for a friend, he'll buy it off me for €70 (cost of the console & parts for the RROD fix) if I can get XBR on it.
As regards the RJ45 -> LPT cable I made it myself - that's why I bought the D-Sub cups. Lop one end off a regular 1m network cable, strip back the outer shielding and solder it onto the D-Sub connector.
Ah that makes sense now...Ill do that. Purely because it allows easy access to Nand, and because its a great idea
TV to Friend - "Nah, couldn't get that Xbox working at all"
TV to Himslef - "Another jtag'd beast to add to my collection muhahaha"0 -
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TouchingVirus wrote: »What would I do with 3 XBR's, I can only play one at a time €70 = MONEYS!
70 quid is no good to you man when you start seeing flashing red lights
Pure redundancy thats all, but yeah three is overkill. When Ive two I think Ill be happy :pac:0 -
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Guys, is there a difference between a switching diode and a signal diode? The diode code from the tutorials yields this result from Maplin - http://www.maplin.co.uk/module.aspx?moduleno=19076
Apparantly its a signal diode...
Yes, but you'll see that there are 3 models of diode on offer, OA90, 1N4148 and 1N918. If you look in the description you'll see 1N4148 is a switching diode. It is the one me & witnessmenow bought for the mod 0 -
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