The drive on my xbox 360 broke and I really do not want to buy another drive and flash it for it to work. I saw on a site that they are selling the drive I need with a mod chip (the infectus 2 chip) already pre-installed into it. If I buy this do I still need to do anything or can I just plug it in to where my existing drive used to be and start playing?
You'll still need to flash the key from your old drive to the new one for it to work on your xbox, so you may as well forget about the chip and just get a drive and flash it with the latest ixtreme.
Originally posted by infectus team: The Infectus 2 mod chip is not really for the faint hearted, apart from its basic drive mod feature for the 360 it has some very interesting and geeky features that boarder line on development and also service related. These chips can be used as a nand flasher that will allow you to backdate your 360?s main motherboard bios which is stored on a protected Nand flash ram chip. This we are sure will become and ever bigger feature then the drive mod once development of homebrew software & custom dashboards start using the 4532 or 4548 360 biose?s to run. These bios are known to have back doors that could lead to homebrew software such as media centres being able to be booted on the 360. With a little luck we could all be soon running media centres on the 360 in the fashion we were able to on the Xbox. This is all still being worked on, but with Infectus 2 it is now possible to backdate the nand bios on the motherboards.
The Infectus 2 also comes with a special programmer designed to allow you to update the firmware running on the chips. This is how it is possible to turn it from a 360 chip into a PS2 chip, simply upload the firmware for the console you wish to install into and away you go. This programmer is also important when firmware updates are released for the console you have installed into, you simply plug the infectus 2 into it?s programmer and update to the latest version of their firmware for your console. We wont go on to much more about it, as this page is long enough already, but you can see from the features and uses above for the chips are by no means a single purpose unit, they range from being just a simple drive mod, to being an invaluable service tool for people that repair consoles for a living, to even a developer tool. We feel safe to say that you really can?t go wrong if using this chip.
So basically at the moment it's just for playing back up games as homebrew will only work on jtagged consoles.
So if you had a dvd drive with that chip you could uncripple your hard drive? I'm just wondering if there is some way I can uncripple my hard drive without soldering cause I have no idea how to solder and dont want to mess up my 360.
