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Hi there.
I've been a long time visitor of this site and have appreciated greatly the help it has given me in fixing problems with my Xbox(es). I'm having a bit of a time here trying to figure out how to go about fixing my current project box. I bought this for 5 dollars from a friend... he wanted a pizza, I wanted a broken box. We traded. Anyway:
Motherboard v1.0
Thomson DVD Drive ->replaced to Philips DVD
8GB HDD
Most Recently updated M$Dash: multiplayer map pack of Halo2
Earliest Kernel
This particular X-Box was "First off the line." My friend preordered it as soon as X-box was announced to be released, so its very first run.. I'm the only person to have touched it's insides. I just wanted to get another working box so I could party-play/use a junker to go to a buddy's/etc...
It started off as a mere dirty disc error problem. I opened the box and quickly found that it contained a Thomson DVD Drive.. Jumped to the computer, bought a Philips XBOX Replacement drive. Waited; installed that. It worked for 3 weeks. I came home from Uni, normal as any other day, turned my Xbox which already had my Halo2 disc in, and found it booted to a Dirty disc error. I tried several other games, some booted to the menu screen but then flashed an error that said my disc was dirty.
I got annoyed, so I opened the box and pulled the DVD Drive out, and realigned it's laser, but to no avail. I got to thinking, maybe its the BIOS telling the processor to read the disc incorrectly. So my main question is this:
If I install a DuoX 2 chip (cheapest I could find) on my motherboard and replace the stock HDD with an 80 GB... would it be possible to load the EvoX dash and HDCopy my games so I wouldn't need to worry about my disc error? Or is my DVD drive completely FUBAR and I definitely need to buy a new one?
If this is completely wrong, is it possible to install an EvoX dash and my games to a HDD attached to my computer that is compatible with an Xbox, thus removing the need to use my Xbox DVD Drive? Or does the resulting format that an auto-installer does to a Drive being put into an Xbox remove any possibility of doing a direct PC modification of the HDD contents?
Or am I going about this completely wrong? I've considered opening another of my boxes and modding this one and the other, installing all the stuff using my new box, and transfering the HDD from the new box to this box modded with the same chip... not quite sure if that would work though.
Hopefully someone has some advice. I'm not opposed to experiments, but I'd rather not open another X-box to find out.
Die, Die, Die my Darling
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