An interesting experiment and a string of bad luck...

[MrCaine01]

hey xbox crew!

I dunno how much I'm gonna be around for the next few weeks, since I've had this horrible bad luck attack but this is an xbox forum so let me post this experiment that a friend of mine conducted.

This time when modding my xbox system I decided to have my friend solder in the chip (x2.1 lite) since he used to solder processors to motherboards for a living. I baught him his chip and mine as well as the programmer in case something went foul. Well the first one he did (his of coruse) went fine, the whole nine yards intact. He flashed it using the oxchip method and all went well. When mine was done he discovered that it wouldn't read the bios disc for reasons unknown. Instead of using the programmer he re-opened my xbox and unplugged the IDE cable and plugged it into a spare cd-drive he had lying around that could read cd-rws. He left the power cord in the xbox drive and powered his drive via the computer. Anyway when linex asked for the cd the xbox drive opened.....my friend thought this quite bizarre and then realized that the "power cord" also transmitted data....Anyway he placed the cd-rw of the bios into the cd-drive...and the Xox read that...and flashed everything fine via the cd-drive.

I found that really odd and interesting to say the least but a cool bit of info in case somebody really needed to re-flash their bios on the x2.1 lite and couldn't get the oxchip method to work. As for the string of bad luck comment, it's simple. In less than a week I blew out my monitor and now my car has decidd to act up leaving me no chouice but to sell my brand new monitor to my friend for te monet to repair my car . So I hopefully will be back soon but for now I must bid all thee farewell. take care all!