Comments on: Boot original Xbox directly into XBMC

By: David

David — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:03:50 +0000

@Jason

The fan replacement has been assigned a pretty low priority so far, meaning that I have unfortunately not yet taken action.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:54:55 +0000

Any update on the fan replacement. I’m wondering which exact fan you used and how easy was the replacement. Thanks!

By: David

David — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:58:57 +0000

Fan replacement progress will probably be reported here in due time! :-) I soldered a USB cable and tried a whole bunch of memory sticks until I found one that worked.

By: Carl Ådahl

Carl Ådahl — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:52:51 +0000

What did you end up using as a memory device btw?

I bought a memory card and soldered a USB male lead onto it, the end result is pretty neat. One end plugs into the gamepad for transfer to the HDD, the other end plugs into my PC with the Action Replay software… though not at the same time of course.

By: Carl Ådahl

Carl Ådahl — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:44:32 +0000

I plan to replace the case fan as well, so please report on any progress you make. :)

As far as the HDD goes, the Xbox requires a standard password locking feature in the ATA protocol (iirc), and since not even all HDDs support it I don’t know how likely it is with CF cards.

By: David

David — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:28:40 +0000

No, I have not yet made anything to make it more quiet, but definitely plan to do so. I have bought a new case fan but I have not installed it yet. IIRC there are three sources of noise in the Xbox:

Case fan — I hope that this is the biggest source of noise, and I mean to replace it with the fan I bought
CPU (or is it GPU?) fan — I hope to avoid messing with this one
Hard disk — It might be possible to use Compact Flash instead but I don’t think I’ll ever get time to mess with that, with the hard disk obfuscation and stuff

By: Carl Ådahl

Carl Ådahl — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:43:39 +0000

XBMC is awesome indeed.

Have you silenced your Xbox btw? That’s the main reason I’m not using mine at the moment. As a media machine it’s a bit loud.