Original Xbox Modding Project

[Niode]

Its honestly a fun project, the best part was hunting for all the information. The right bios, dashboards...its just so much stuff but becoming harder to find now. Now that the 360 is becoming the big homebrew moding system alot of xbox stuff urls are starting to die...I mean there are still ALOT out there but takes a bit more to hunt them up

I agree that modding an xbox is fun. My first xbox was a v1.0 one. I replaced my case fan with a larger, quieter one. I took off the noisy cpu fan/heat sink and replaced in with a Zalman heatsink. The unit is super quiet.

I don't think hunting for the right BIOS is necessary anymore. The code has been frozen for 5-6 years now. The Duo X2 chip I use has the latest BIOS and that's all you need.

This guy wrote up a nice little tutorial on installing the chip. He also provides the location of an alternate d0 point.
http://www.dynatron.org/howto/XBOX/hackit/MoBo/Duo

I have another xbox (v1.6) that I picked up for $10 last summer. I heard installing a mod chip is more difficult on this model.

Damn, that guy does not know how to solder properly...