X-Book (XBox Laptop) NOW FEATURING PICTURES!

APHawkes · Post by **APHawkes** » Thu May 15, 2008 6:28 am

You didn't even have one yet? Man, most people at least peek inside their console before deciding to hack it!

evilteddy · Post by **evilteddy** » Fri May 23, 2008 5:54 am

THe heat thing is a peltier module

evilteddy · Post by **evilteddy** » Fri May 23, 2008 3:12 pm

You still need a heatsink on top of them but they can be smaller. I don't know too much about them apart from that.

evilteddy · Post by **evilteddy** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 1:18 am

If the keyboard works with linux it will work with a modded xbox.

Neildo_64 · Post by **Neildo_64** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 5:37 pm

What dashboard you using?

Harshboy · Post by **Harshboy** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 1:15 pm

You should have installed EvoX...but meh.

Oh, and as for the files "If its not broken, don't fix it" (Don't remove 'em because only God knows if it will copulate your Xbox up or not)

Ah...Xbox modding really brings me back.

evilteddy · Post by **evilteddy** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 4:57 pm

Which softmod installer did you use?

and keep the backup files on their in case of emergency.

Plus you should have used Evox.

Neildo_64 · Post by **Neildo_64** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 3:50 pm

Just install XBMC as an app in UnleashX, that way you have both. Thats what i did anyway.

evilteddy · Post by **evilteddy** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 3:54 pm

Just keep Unleash X as your dashboard. While XBMC is awesome it isn't as easy and fast to use as Unleash X. Just keep it as an app.

evilteddy · Post by **evilteddy** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 1:34 am

At this point it will be infinitely more profitable to ask the people at xbox scene. I have never had a softmod go wrong so I don't anything about fixing one...

Just thought for a moment and realised that to mod your xbox with the ndure exploit you have to create an eeprom backup or it won't do the mod. I think in later versions it will even do this step automatically. If you copied the back up made by the softmod to an external source then it should contain a copy of the eeprom.

evilteddy · Post by **evilteddy** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 5:15 pm

No need to apologise to us your the one forking over the cash. Next time you use a softmod installer you have an option to copy the backup to your action replay or whatever you are using to softmod the xbox. An alternative is to backup both the eeprom and C drive then ftp to your xbox before you install the softmod and copy the backup folder.

Neildo_64 · Post by **Neildo_64** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 1:55 pm

If you store your xbox files on your ipod, you might get some sort of horrific explosion. I'm not sure Microsoft and Apple get along too well.

DaBeast · Post by **DaBeast** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 12:35 pm

Well, i dont think its posible to use a laptop DVD drive unless you have programing language and firmware flashing skills. You see, xbox uses a special format for the hard drive called FATX, wich is a modified version of FAT32 (i think it was, could be 16 too). The DVD's are burned in that FATX way too. FATX cant be used in windows, nor the DVD's of an xbox game can be read within a normal dvd drive. Naturaly because the firmware doesnt support the FATX format. However, it is posible to use another HD (not sure if laptop ones are supported). But be carefull, not all Hard Drives work, especialy the older, and cheaper models. You need a hard drive that can be lockable, because the normal state of a xbox harddrive is locked. It unlocks for a sec or 4 when the xbox logo apears, so you need to hotswap the original one to your computer running a special type of linux so you can copy it over.

For a laptop drive you also need a 2.5" to 3.5" converter. Ebay sells them cheap as hell.

Anyways, its too complicated to explain it all in one post, but you should be able to find tons of tutorials on xbox-scene.com

-Xbox drive compatibily

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 5:12 pm

Hackmodford wrote:Guys I need some help. I was wondering if it was possible to transfer files to my xbox via a usb thumbdrive. I know this is a question for the XboxScene Forums but I feel more comfortable here.

With a modded xbox, you can use pretty much any USB drive. You just have to make a USB to xbox adapter. Here is one guide, there are countless others on google.
I chopped a breakaway cable in half and a USB extension cable in half. Then you just wire the wires to the others of the same color (yellow is unused). Make sure you have the right connectors connected to each other. You'll end up with a way to plug the controller into the xbox, a USB cable device into the xbox, or the controller into a PC.

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 1:52 pm

Hackmodford wrote:I was hoping that someone had made a program for Xbox that would read unformatted drives (i.e. a normally formated PC Thumbdrive)

XBMC can read them up to 4GB (if you don't have XBMC, you're not using your xbox to its full potential).