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What chip can disable DVD Check?
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13. December 2005 @ 20:05 |
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I currently have a softmodded xbox. I am considering buying a chip because my DVD drive is broken and I want to run dual hard drives instead. Can someone please tell me what the cheapest sodderless chip out there is so I can disable DVD Check?
If anybody knows how to disable dvd check on a softmodded xbox that would be greatly appreciated. I could not find information anywhere on how to do it.
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15. December 2005 @ 16:28 |
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2 hard drives?? or upgrade to another larger one.
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/1/203286
go there if u want to upgrade your hd.
the dvd check i dont really know about if u have unleash x and go to setting's autorun u can turn auto start dvd off and some toher options as well.
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17. December 2005 @ 00:32 |
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I think there was an option in one of the xecuter2 bios's that let you write in another path for the first bootup device. Which was before...dvd by default. I don't know if this works,and I probably wouldn't advise trying it if you're not willing to mess something up.
Even if it did work,pretend something went wrong...even if you borrowed a friends GOOD and working dvd drive...you still couldn't boot to a boot disk.
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18. December 2005 @ 12:44 |
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I need to run two, I have a 320gb hd that's filled. The price of upgrading is much more than investing in a second drive.
The autoplay feature will not work because the DVD check is in the bios. As far as I know, you can not edit the bios on a softmodded box. So that's why I need a chip.
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18. December 2005 @ 12:45 |
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I need to run two, I have a 320gb hd that's filled. The price of upgrading is much more than investing in a second drive.
The autoplay feature will not work because the DVD check is in the bios. As far as I know, you can not edit the bios on a softmodded box. So that's why I need a chip.
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18. December 2005 @ 19:01 |
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You can always mod the IDE cable to accept another device and then put a switch in there so that only one hard drive has power at a time. Then you can just reboot and switch to the other hard drive. I'm sure there's a tutorial on this somewhere...I had one written out but I dunno where I put it.
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21. December 2005 @ 05:56 |
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Yeah, I've seen tutorials on how to do that. But I want to be able to fit both my hard drives in my xbox and not have to switch between the two. If there's not any way to do this, then I will buy a chip because I understand they can disable the DVD drive through the bios.
If I were to buy a chip, is it easier to get working since I have a softmod or harder? Or does that not matter? Thanks!
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21. December 2005 @ 06:27 |
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there is an aftermarket case floating around that can hold 3 hard drive internally....it adds and extra inch or so to the top and comes with the hard ware. It has three buttons/switches on the front to select what hard drive you want to boot to.....might want to google that.
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21. December 2005 @ 08:07 |
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I couldn't seem to find the case you are talking about. Again, I would perfer to not have to switch between hard drives and I would like to be able to keep my original casing.
I just had a thought though. I have found that the xbox DVD drive only needs to have the power cable in to boot up. Could I somehow convert the DVD power cable to a standard 4-pin connector? That way I could just replace the DVD drive all together with the new hard drive.
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21. December 2005 @ 09:35 |
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you would still have to switch between hard drives....both hard drives will have to be formated and have a dash to run any apps.....once this is done they will fight on boot up. Only one hard drive should be powered at a time so as to give one hard drive priority. Hence the switch on the powers. You could prolly get a chip with the xtender,but I think that is an external fix. I may be wrong.
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