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Does anyone have this issue? I got the error on NCAA yesterday and it happened on a different game today. I hear that this can start happening with some of the xbox drives after a couple of years. I looked it up and I do have the cheap Thompson drive in my xbox. Any comments?
 
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Yeah, I have had that problem before. If you will "prop up" the four corners, lifting the unit up off the base you have it sitting on, it should help. Apparently if the unit gets too hot it will have that problem. After I jacked up the corners, the problem happened MUCH less than before.
 
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You could pick up a Xenium ICE chip with the no-solder kit. Takes 15 minutes to install. Run the HD wizard and it walks you through changing the HD to a bigger one.

Games will load much quicker off the drive and you wont have to worry about your DVD drive.

Very easy install. Nothing like the PS2 installs.
 
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i've had that problem alot with my ps2 as of late. not with ncaa football 06 though. mine brealy plays dvds anymore and hardly ever plays ps1 games. but then again i got my ps2 in christmas of 01'. it was one of the newer models.
 
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Originally posted by DrRosenRosen@Jul 16, 2005 10:58 PM
You could pick up a Xenium ICE chip with the no-solder kit.  Takes 15 minutes to install.  Run the HD wizard and it walks you through changing the HD to a bigger one. 

Games will load much quicker off the drive and you wont have to worry about your DVD drive.

Very easy install.  Nothing like the PS2 installs.
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Have you done this DrRR? I am interested in doing that I think.
 
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DrRR, can't I just throw in a drive with the setup I have or is there something else that I am missing?
 
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Originally posted by vol_freak@Jul 16, 2005 10:45 PM
Does anyone have this issue? I got the error on NCAA yesterday and it happened on a different game today. I hear that this can start happening with some of the xbox drives after a couple of years. I looked it up and I do have the cheap Thompson drive in my xbox. Any comments?
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:nono: That's what you get turncoat... :p
 
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Originally posted by vol_freak@Jul 17, 2005 3:12 AM
Have you done this DrRR? I am interested in doing that I think.
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Yep. Give me the chip with no-solder kit, your xbox, and a new harddrive and I can do it overnight sometime.
 
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Originally posted by vol_freak@Jul 17, 2005 3:17 AM
DrRR, can't I just throw in a drive with the setup I have or is there something else that I am missing?
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I do believe it's possible, but I've never done it personally. If you check XBOX-SCENE, you'll be able to find directions somewhere. I think you end up using some software to image the drive over by hooking both to your computer. Shouldn't be that hard, but reading all the info and figuring out how to will probably take awhile.

I suggested the mod chip simply b/c I know it's easy, I know how to do, and I've done one before with no problems.

If you end up doing a drive swap without the chip, I'd love to get your notes and how you finally end up doing it. Heck, I could do some of the research if you want next week. I have one or two people that could use a new drive.

 
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Originally posted by duckman398686@Jul 16, 2005 10:00 PM
i've had that problem alot with my ps2 as of late. not with ncaa football 06 though. mine brealy plays dvds anymore and hardly ever plays ps1 games. but then again i got my ps2 in christmas of 01'.  it was one of the newer models.
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It will do that after time, especially if you use it for watching movies alot. I had the same thing happen to me a few times. It eventually quit playing everything, and I had to get a new one.
 
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Originally posted by orangetd88@Jul 17, 2005 3:58 PM
It will do that after time, especially if you use it for watching movies alot.  I had the same thing happen to me a few times.  It eventually quit playing everything, and I had to get a new one.
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everything as in ps2 games as well? :blink:
 
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The first batch of PS2's released in the country were buggy. I had one and had to replace it after a year. Playstations are a bit more prone to freezing if you don't take care of them.
 
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Originally posted by milohimself@Jul 17, 2005 8:35 PM
The first batch of PS2's released in the country were buggy. I had one and had to replace it after a year. Playstations are a bit more prone to freezing if you don't take care of them.
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How do you take care of them?
 
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I just cleaned my xbox with compressed air not too long ago.
 
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If you want to use a larger HD without a modchip you'll have to first install a softmod, then get the HD encryption key... you can format and write an image to the drive with the key blah blah... I haven't changed HDs, but it doesn't sound too hard... DrRR is right, xbox-scene is the best place to find steps to modding an xbox.
 
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Originally posted by rwemyss@Jul 21, 2005 3:23 PM
If you want to use a larger HD without a modchip you'll have to first install a softmod, then get the HD encryption key... you can format and write an image to the drive with the key blah blah... I haven't changed HDs, but it doesn't sound too hard... DrRR is right, xbox-scene is the best place to find steps to modding an xbox.
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HD encryption key? What is that?
 
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The xbox doesn't use the same filesystem as computers... it is called FATX, as opposed to FAT32 or NTFS (for NT or XP).

Anyway, the harddrive is locked to your specific xbox with this key, so that you can't just swap in a different one... but if the xbox is softmodded (with a Linux kernel) this key can then be determined and used to set up a new HD for that specific xbox.

SOOO, if your HD died, and you thought about getting one out of a box with other problems, it'd be a no go. Either way, the easiest way to fix this is to just get a new Samsung drive and replace the Thompson, or even just replace the lens drive on your existing DVD-ROM.

The CHEAPEST however, is to softmod the box, then get a slightly larger HD, the replacement DVD-ROMs go for a pretty good price on EBay.
 
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Freak -

Search around for BlackWar's softmod on xbox-scene. In the main menus, you'll see some option to backing up some stuff and so forth. I believe he has a built in routine to get the HD key. If not, I'm sure there is another app or 2 you can FTP onto your xbox to get the key (put them in the apps directory I believe, then run it from APPS or whatever in Evox).

Quickest method would probably be copy over gamesaves, buy a new HD, format it with the correct key using some method off xbox-scene, and then FTP back the gamesaves you want.

Or, there are apps to unlock the drive. Not sure exactly how that works. Maybe you can just unlock the drive, then take it out and image over using your PC. I know there are some apps out there to unlock the drive.

Let me know if you do any of this.
 
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I used Ldot's UDE softmod on my box, which is a 1.4 (I got into the xbox game late...) It automatically has the HD key program as well as an auto C drive backup. It works on all but the latest dashboards... I think there's a mod called UXE now that works on those dashes as well???
 
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