Got this baby working, did reflow work for GPU and CPU, for GPU twice actually. And after that i realised that my psu desing had a problem, seems like Xbox 360 don’t really respect pwr_on signal coming from ATX powersupply so i had to hardwire it to gnd (psu is that queit so that it won’t matter after all). And i don’t have those coolers mounted at all, they’re just lying on the chips so i think cold solders are fixed :]

The package:

Just a close up to show that coolers aren’t mounted at all.

So now i’ll have to get a material for x-clamp fix and a game pad + games to test does this work, i mean really work :)

Well got the new psu done, and it seems to work, goes on like it should and delivers needed voltages but x0 itself gives me the famous ” General Hardware Failure” RRoD. Here’s some pictures from the setup and psu.

I got one RRoD Xbox 360 as a donation for my friend and it didn’t have any power supply but i tought well it should be easy trick to do one from ATX psu. Since i’ve couple of  Antec MT300 300W matx powersupplys and X0 only uses 12V 16.5A and 5VSB 1A power lines, but i’m also trying to get ATX psus pwr_on line so i don’t have to hardwire it to stay on. Now i’ve desoldered Xbox’s oringinal main power connector and replaced it with 8pin ESP connector, next i’ll make little tool for ATX24 connector so i can reassemble it’s pinout so i can test does this work at all.

Some pictures:

Since i don’t own a 8-bit NES (Nintendo Entertaiment System) but i like playing good old nes games in general, i did a little mod that allows me to use real nes pad in nes emulators. This one was made the hard way: take 2 contollers and frankenmod em into 1. So i used a broken nes pad, MS sidewinder usb and bunch of wires. Too bad i didn’t take any “making of X” pictures or picture from sidewinders new 70% smaller hacked pcb. But anyhow i’ve some pictures from the finished product:

From the inside

And all parts together:

Works guite well, but d-pads up button is _really_ sensitive how you press, usually picks either left or right at same time unless you tap it directly from center of up button. So little tweaking still needed.

Well i’m still trying to join the HWbots geforce 4 contest and i had this 4600TI w/o any proper heatsink, well i found one which is from dead hd3870×2s stock cooler, and started wondering can i mount this someway, then i remembered that i’ve bought that zalmans thermal glue thingy couple weeks ago, well gave it a try and here’s the result:

That shit really works! And used some hot glue so it wouldn’t drop.

Mobo is just some old fujitsu with agp, ddr1 and lga775. I’ve my good old P4 670 mounted to it, tomorrow i’ve to install XP  and see if i can  run 3dmark03 :P

Ok everybody who uses WordPress or has installed one knows that WP uses just one domain you’ve named for it nothing else. So if i’d put my servers local ip as address it would cause only trouple when connecting to server from outside the nat, then it’ll try to connect to servers lan ip, sure this will work in lan. But if you put the correct domain name like here s0lid.dy.fi it’ll work normally outside the lan and nat, but in lan well nogo atleast with my modem, connecting from lan to s0lid.dy.fi domain gets me to modem’s config screens login page.  And using the servers lan ip also has it’s own problems, well index screen loads but getting to admin panel is nogo.

Well i found a little solution: Editing the hosts file, hosts file’s location is c:/windows/system32/drivers/etc/. All you have to do is to add your servers lan ip and the domain like this to end of hosts file:

192.168.1.50    s0lid.dy.fi

With Vista and Win7 you don’t even need to restart the computer this will start working right away :)