i may be about 5 years late but hey, good practice with soldering.
i received my modchip + replacement tip for my iron (mine was getting very worn out) on 6/5.
i got the xbox later that day around 10pm, by that time i had prepared the pinheader (soldering the female slot onto the chip itself, and bridging the bt point, because i always turn it on with eject and quite frankly itd just be annoying.
anyways, i took apart the box and much to my surprise i did not have a 1.6 (which i was actually thinking id get), and i thought, hey less solder points.
i put in the pinheader, soldered that in, and soldered the male pins to the board. i tested the board to make sure i did everything good. booted to main bios, and went ahead and soldered the d0 point on the bottom of the board to the chip. plugged in, started to frag. i thought oh great, i must of fucked up the d0. by this time it was about 11ish pm.
so i redid that point, and frag. i wasted almost 2 hours trying to do this. i gave up and unplugged my iron.
you know what happned after that? i noticed it was FRAGining because i did solder the point correctly (it frags because it looks for the bios and cant find it), so i plugged in my iron again so i can redo the pinheader (which i noticed some points were a little off). the damn iron wasn't heating up anymore. so i thought it may work in the morning, and i went to bed. tried plugging it in, no heat. i took it apart (BIG mistake), electrocuted myself by touching a component (thought it would just be hot, silly me) but atleast i knew it was getting electricity. i guess the iron had a warrenty and the company i got it from shipped me a new one for free (which i got today).
after rushing down to get the mail, i came back to my 'soldering station' (my desk), and soldered some of the pinheader on the board better (only 2, wasnt bad) and added a lil solder on 2 on the chip too, resoldered the d0 point (it came off earlier today hah), but finally got it installed
unfortunately the controller my bf gave me with it does not work in flashbios or cromwell so i couldnt flash it and set up the new dash and all that, but hot damn i cant wait for tomorrow when he gives me an original m$ controller and the dvd remote so i can flash and set everything up.
im excited
i received my modchip + replacement tip for my iron (mine was getting very worn out) on 6/5.
i got the xbox later that day around 10pm, by that time i had prepared the pinheader (soldering the female slot onto the chip itself, and bridging the bt point, because i always turn it on with eject and quite frankly itd just be annoying.
anyways, i took apart the box and much to my surprise i did not have a 1.6 (which i was actually thinking id get), and i thought, hey less solder points.
i put in the pinheader, soldered that in, and soldered the male pins to the board. i tested the board to make sure i did everything good. booted to main bios, and went ahead and soldered the d0 point on the bottom of the board to the chip. plugged in, started to frag. i thought oh great, i must of fucked up the d0. by this time it was about 11ish pm.
so i redid that point, and frag. i wasted almost 2 hours trying to do this. i gave up and unplugged my iron.
you know what happned after that? i noticed it was FRAGining because i did solder the point correctly (it frags because it looks for the bios and cant find it), so i plugged in my iron again so i can redo the pinheader (which i noticed some points were a little off). the damn iron wasn't heating up anymore. so i thought it may work in the morning, and i went to bed. tried plugging it in, no heat. i took it apart (BIG mistake), electrocuted myself by touching a component (thought it would just be hot, silly me) but atleast i knew it was getting electricity. i guess the iron had a warrenty and the company i got it from shipped me a new one for free (which i got today).
after rushing down to get the mail, i came back to my 'soldering station' (my desk), and soldered some of the pinheader on the board better (only 2, wasnt bad) and added a lil solder on 2 on the chip too, resoldered the d0 point (it came off earlier today hah), but finally got it installed
unfortunately the controller my bf gave me with it does not work in flashbios or cromwell so i couldnt flash it and set up the new dash and all that, but hot damn i cant wait for tomorrow when he gives me an original m$ controller and the dvd remote so i can flash and set everything up.
im excited