We just unbanned a friends 360

[davewilldo]

Time to kill!

Hi All,
Chroma, very impressed by the pished work you guys put in on unbanning the 360.

I have a few weeks to kill, whilst stuck at home recovering (saying nothing). To top that MY XBOX is with MS being repaired!

Anyone in the merseyside area with faulty units they are giving away I would love to play around with my old banned Xbox to try and un-ban it cos I am so BOARD.

Can arrange for someone to collect for me.

Cheers Everyone!

Dave

[cgscott]

Hi All,
Chroma, very impressed by the pished work you guys put in on unbanning the 360.

I have a few weeks to kill, whilst stuck at home recovering (saying nothing). To top that MY XBOX is with MS being repaired!

Anyone in the merseyside area with faulty units they are giving away I would love to play around with my old banned Xbox to try and un-ban it cos I am so BOARD.

Can arrange for someone to collect for me.

Cheers Everyone!

Dave

Reading your post nearly made me fall asleep.

But feel free to come collect my BOARDS i have got here.

Just PM me your collectors details and at what time they would like to collect.

P.S You a Bailiff

Had many of them at my door just ended up batting them in the mouth!

[Stuart 0366]

Chroma, you are a hero

Just read what you did and thought...only a pissed crew could manage that.

Would you have attempted it sober? I know you have the ken to do it sober but honestly, would you have bothered? Well impressed with you and your mate

You just gotta work on the Wii now

[cgscott]

Chroma, you are a hero

Just read what you did and thought...only a pissed crew could manage that.

Would you have attempted it sober? I know you have the ken to do it sober but honestly, would you have bothered? Well impressed with you and your mate

You just gotta work on the Wii now

Wii a piece of piss..they both mean the same thing!

[Stuart 0366]

So the Wii is pretty much the same as the X-box in as much as the fixing or the coding? Is Nintendo really that close to Microsoft?

I am not being funny...I really don't know, I have not owned either or had the chance to rip old ones apart so I bow to those that do know (Gimme a PS 1 anyday ). As for the more recent games consoles I dont have a clue, I am sitting with a mundane PS 2. We have nothing more recent in our house unfortunately (crimbo will se a Wii though )

I do know that mates have done the dirty with both boxes (X-box and Wii) and come a cropper.

[chroma]

Chroma, you are a hero

Just read what you did and thought...only a pissed crew could manage that.

Would you have attempted it sober? I know you have the ken to do it sober but honestly, would you have bothered? Well impressed with you and your mate

You just gotta work on the Wii now

Not now (sober or drunk) its a stupid ammount of work (admittely rum helps) we set out initialy sober, things jut went downhill in a hurry

Weve not done much testing since (like i said its a massive ammount of work, if only down to the cpu) and things did go badly wrong as an end result.

I figure if you swap over the nand, cpu and NIC then flash the drive with the new code you should be fine, but like i said weve yet to test this.

Its the prospect of another cpu thats putting us off (trust me once youve done one you'll instantly know what we mean) resoldering 899 tiny little balls at a pitch of 1mm by hand gets tedious fast.
Especialy when you screw it up (which you will) and need to keep retrying and fix the balls around the screwup.
Coupled with the fact that you need to move FAST with lead free solder because its stupidly hot and will kill the die.

Then rechecking every single one (because if one is slightly out the entire thing will be up the river with a turd for a paddle)

Its the worst thing ive ever had the misfortune to do and ive did some really shitty jobs in the past.

So yeah if it wasnt for the stupid mindnumbing bga workup then it would be insanely easy.

Adapters_plus,BGA sockets,BGA adapters,headers,interposers looks like a godsend in this respect, they apparently do a 900 30x30 (31mm x 31mm) 1.0pitch bga adaptor however the footprint is showing as an 896 ball part...

Regardless expect to spend hours with your head screaming "oh **** oh **** oh **** FUUUUUUUUUUUUU" and pondering why the hell you started in the first place