#Aladdin xbox install

My feeling was that the fact the console booted OK when I cut the wire meant the D0 connection was doing what it was meant too and that it had been good until I snipped it.

I actually soldered that to an alternative ground point: the nearest screw plate as per earlier recommendations but are you saying I should connect it instead to the chip's D0 pad instead? Use the D0 on the underside as it is easier to solder to. Try soldering D0 to the chip before you add the other pins but add pin 6 if you want the led to turn on. Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing. Swapping the LED is doable if your soldering skills are reasonable The D0 can be soldered directly to a ground point (one of the screw holes is good) The D0 has 2 locations 1 on the bottom of the PCB and that is a bigger solder point and the via point on the top of the PCB that's a shipload smaller. The wire from R1 is going to the 3.3 volt supply and not ground. Seems D0able.Д«TW how easy is it to get the LED off and replace it with for instance a blue one? The only other thing to do then is the wire from D0 pad on the chip to the appropriate point on the MB. So cutting that R1 trace and connecting R1 to ground will do the same thing as the 5v wired connection shown in the v1.6 YT video. Whilst the soldering of that looks 'average' from the wire connection side of the chip looked at from the other side, which will actually be on top when the chip is fitted, it looks pretty good. Is the info in the v1.6 YT tutorial about using 5v from the right transistor leg to make the LED only switch on when the Xbox is powered up applicable to the v1.0?ДЄs said I've already done the BT to Pin 2. It also appears that to use the pin header I'm going to have to remove the existing solder from the LPC holes too. Nothing at all about using the pin header, if there are any differences, and the pins that need removing or even what needs to be connected to what. The v1.6 LPC hassle made me tend towards using the v1.0 instead but the guides I've found for that are limited and seem unclear in comparison.

Some guides remove just one pin others like this very clear YT guide recommends removing four pins. There is also contradictory information about the pin-header set up too. The question is what to do now: there are plenty of guides for the the v1.6 but that involves rebuilding the LPC which with my soldering skills I'm not 100% confident about. A bit fiddly and I overcooked the solder on one end but it looks clean enough. I've started by bridging the BT to adjacent GND point so when fitted the chip will be always be on.

#Aladdin xbox install

Thing is I have two options: install on a v1.0 or a v1.6.

Not done a chip install before but decided to take the plunge and have just received an Aladdin XT PLUS2 including pin-header.