I got a messed up xbox from my bro and decided to fix it.
Got a new benq drive from my other bro to replace the bad one.
Instead of using common sense and putting my old chip in the new drive, for some reason I felt like being a moron and did the opposite!!!!!!!! (please remember this is the first time I have seen the inside of an xbox let alone work on one, I'm stupid, very very stupid, and it was hard to find good info on the benq so I went in kind of blind!)
So ok I could fix this, just undo my mistakes, woops, seems I cut the wires on the good drive with the good parts really short to give me more room to work when I originally fucked up. have fun soldering!
So eventually I reversed everything NOW....
I have had a CD play once
DVD's play flawlessly
Some games are recognized when inserted, but ZERO will play!!!! yay!
Two questions for a pro.
1) I am wondering if for some reason the laser might not be starting off in the right place or just is not catching the edge of the games I am inserting.
2) Do you think I just have a bad solder somewhere and possibly the drive is not operating properly or could this possibly be a communication error that could possibly be fixed by flashing the drive.
Many thanks to anyone willing to give their two cents!
I would say the best way forward would be to dump the firmware off the drive and write it to a new one, this saves any messing around with soldering and such.
