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Originally posted by seaneyb2003
couldnt u softmod it?

Surely it would have changed to fix that as well.

Tyler!

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Originally posted by TylerDurden
Surely it would have changed to fix that as well.

Tyler!

Ya, I'm sure they have added new security to these new v1.6s to prevent people from "softmodding" them as we know right now. With in a few weeks I’m sure we will see new BIOSes from Team X or Team E or both supporting these new boards.

As for the solderless chips, guess your SOL for right now. I’m sure it wont be long ‘til a new design comes out for them as well.

hehe yea
i think well just wait
till they discover this thing out
by they i clearly mean xecuter
thanks to them majorly for everythin

will it ever stop?
no says one of my friends:
"the engineering department has a coke machine. And they always find a way to get free cokes out of it."
"then Coke comes and makes a new protection for it."
"then the engineers have to figure out another way"
"its back and forth."

soo true

It was made by man, it can be cracked by man.

how u get free cokes from a coke machine thata be cool lol:)

hehe o seaney
yea i suppose.. nothin is infalliable thats made by man
so yea, id suppose so

clever stuff i love to be able to do what these genius's do for a living or do u think they do it in there spare time. when i say them i mean the xecuter team and so on.

well people on team xecuter probably do it for a job
becaue they must be riiiiiich by now
other people would be a hobby i figure

- Xboxes with a manufacture date of 2004-03-22 are v1.6. 2004-03-11 are still v1.4. So far these very recently produced xboxes are only found in US stores ... but it's only a matter of time before they come everywhere (when old stock clears).
- We now saw pictures (by pROvIs - see below) of the backside of the board. There's no TSOP there either - so bios/kernel (firmware) must be on another chip. First guess is still that new "Xyclops" labeled chip above the LPC. It's unknown yet if the onboard bios/kernel will be flashable or not. Will have to be researched by HW teams.
MS might have permanently strap "d0" on the "TSOP bus" (on MCPX) to "0", and build-in an LPC boot ROM instead (oz_paulb).
- We do NOT know yet if it's still possible to force boot from (external) LPC. Neither do we know yet if the LPC bus changed (apart from the visual difference that there is a LPC point #4 now - this point was not on older xbox versions). So it's also unknown yet if the current modchip hardware will be compatible with the v1.6
- The 5530 and 5713 retail kernel (seen in xbox v1.4/v1.5) has already support for the new xcalibur chip. There's is no hacked bios/kernel yet based on these builds. Yoshihiro (GueuX'NeT Team) said these builds would require a new init table.
- The audiochip is also gone. The new videochip (labeled xcalibur) is bigger then the one used before (conexant/focus) so it's possible audio and videochip are now combined in this new xcalibur chip (the joker).
- The new 'xyclops' and 'xcalibur' have not been identified yet as any known chips. These might be custom chips made by/for MS or maybe these are just relabeled/renamed chips.
- Modchip teams are showing interest for this new v1.6 xbox and will probably start research as soon as they manage to get one of these v1.6 xboxes. I saw in the forum thread SmartXX will get 2 v1.6 xboxes soon and Team Xecuter is doing a public request for v1.6 xboxes:

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If anyone has one of these boxes we will pay $300 for it (so you can buy a moddable version and get your money back in the process). There is no Xbox that we have been unable to crack before and we see no reason that we cannot do it again.
We have several hardware engineers who work for Xecuter so we will buy at least 4 of these boxes.
To help us in purchasing one of these boxes please use this thread on our forums.
We can bust this, we just need the console on our workbench :)

I'm sure OzXodus, Xbox-Linux and other teams interested in hardware will also do research on this new board.

DMS has the same offer for also 300 bucks plus shippin

Wow, maybe I can find one.

Tyler!

hehe
yea
go searching

went on xbox scene and loads of mod companys are looking for a 1.6 is ludacris they just wanna be the first to release the 1.6 mod chip huh.

More xbox v1.6 info
>> From hamtitampti on SmartXX Forums:

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Today, I played with the I2C bus.
The I2C temperatue sensor dissapeared.
Or I have false address, who knows.
I attached a dump of a startup of the I2C codes.

BTW: Interesting new findinds in the new Bios already and it looks so, that there will be no "universal" bios now, which works on all boxes.
v1.6 will need seperate bioses.

THE PIC is here
The video encoder moved to 0x70
Temperature gone
No 10 (or 20) seconds temperature askings from PIC anymore (logically)
The Video Encoder Traffic is "bulk" and not BYTE/WORD anymore.
And from my feeling: it looks like "encrypted"
EEprom hdd key also changed, but already idendified and found.

Great this means that I have a stack of AppleX and DuoX chips that will be shortly useless...

I used to just love opening up new models in front of customers, back in the day of the PS1 (before great forums like this were so abundent) and going... "oh... this one is... umm... diferent... Unlike what I said - this is not going to take 15 minutes while you watch - please leave it with me and hopefully I will have it solved by tomorrow..."