I Possibly fried X-ecutor 2 Lite Chip!!HELP

[spacedog147]

I made several attempts at installing the X-ecutor 2 Lite Mod.
Every time it would do the blinking red 3x thing. I kept checking all the wires and tried one last time. This time, I soldered the D0 to the bottom of the board instead. I booted up once again and immediately smelled the odor of burning electronics. I immediately shut the system down. I removed the D0 wire at the bottom and saw that the solder on the bottom of the board may have touched the metal Xbox case. I re-soldered D0 to the top position and the system booted fine but did not recognize the mod bios nor did it indicate that something was wrong with the mod chip. I checked all the wires again and still no luck. At least the console still plays as normal but I really want to play burned games.
Assuming the X-ecutor 2 Lite mod is fried, could I purchase a easier to install mod such as the MatriX no solder modchip and hope for the best or is this just a waste of time and money.
Thanks to all replies.

[Canuck77]

The purpose of d0 is BIOS disable. If you pulled the trace up by accident or something like that, your Xbox wouldn't boot because it couldn't find a BIOS at all (eg. the Microsoft BIOS).

Since it CAN find a BIOS, you're in good shape, far as I can tell. Another modchip should work well.

Always, *ALWAYS* tape up solder points and the areas around them. (Actually, for that matter, since I'm a terrible solderer, I put tape 360 degrees around that d0 point just to help with the possibility of a solder bridge or splash). And tape on top - as you found out.

A Matrix should work, unless you've managed to really mess up the d0 solder point. One way to check is to use a multimeter and touch both the top d0 and bottom d0 and see if you have continuity. If you do, then the surfaces of both those points should be intact enough that a Matrix pogopin should work fine.

[Quall999]

Or you can use hotglue. I used to use tape, but it kept lifting off after a while.