Not much to report this week, work is pretty full on as usual but I would probabley just complain I was bored otherwise.

During the week my modchip arrived, I bought a torx screwdriver, soldering iron and roll of solder…all ready to do the modding on Sunday. Taking all my previous experience into consideration this should have been a breeze however as usual with my Xbox projects things didn’t start so well. First of all my TV doesn’t have a remote, I have a set top box which auto-swtiches so I just assumed the Xbox would do the same, but as Leyton would say “Assumtion, it makes an ass out of you and me”.

So I had to go out and find a universal remote, having done that and confirmed the thing actually worked, I began the mod.
Once I opened the case I realised I was working with revision v1.0, the very first release. At first this was good news however as 4 attempts and quiet a few hours later it turned out to be difficult, the LPC port didn’t have holes like versions 1.1-1.6b so I had to opt for the wire install rather then the easier pin header install. At the end of the day I was still without a working mod, so tomorrow I am going to buy myself a solder-sucker and make my second attempt.

I’ll keep you updated on the project.

_B