Xbox 360 xperts, houston area repair
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Xbox 360 xperts, houston area repair
i need a xbox 360 cd drive removed and new one installed. i was curious if there was a place around houston that could do this. ive seen tutorials but would still need to order the torx and some other tool i saw on llama. if i could buy the drive and have it replaced here in town that would be awesome. thanks
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i need a xbox 360 cd drive removed and new one installed. i was curious if there was a place around houston that could do this. ive seen tutorials but would still need to order the torx and some other tool i saw on llama. if i could buy the drive and have it replaced here in town that would be awesome. thanks
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Tech thanks for the link. And tripps where you at in houston? Did you live in college station a few years back?
I thought I mightve met you at a car meet back in the day
I thought I mightve met you at a car meet back in the day
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It's really easy. Like posted earlier, just make sure you get matching DVD drive/motherboard matching serial numbers.
While you are in there, might as well google a Red Ring of Death Fix Kit and get that motherboard off the case. It's basically just spacers, and takes 10 minutes. Might as well do it while you are there. for 15 bucks worth of hardware, you get peace of mind that your tower will not overheat. Ever. Let me know if you need some more help than that, that's one way me and my brother make some side cash
While you are in there, might as well google a Red Ring of Death Fix Kit and get that motherboard off the case. It's basically just spacers, and takes 10 minutes. Might as well do it while you are there. for 15 bucks worth of hardware, you get peace of mind that your tower will not overheat. Ever. Let me know if you need some more help than that, that's one way me and my brother make some side cash
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Yeah I'm pretty sure I've met you before also. I'm at TC Jester and 10. For the swap you need screwdrivers (phillips and torx), a soldering iron, and the new dvd drive. I bought mine for ~50 bucks online.
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You only need a soldering iron if its one of the newer drives from late 09 to present a Liteon 8xx or 9xxx series drive. You have to first get the key off your old drive and flash it to your new one, if you dont copy over the key, it wont play games and will only play DVD's.
torx screwdrivers aren't necessary, but makes it easier to open the xbox, I just used a small phillips.
There are different methods of getting the key depending on what kind of drive it is, Liteon, Samsung, BenQ or Hitachi. mostly it involves taking the drive out of the xbox and mounting it to your PC and running a program like Jungleflasher. Its not hard, but you have to do your research. If you jack up your old drive and don't have your key, Your xbox will only play DVD's
once you have your key, you mount your it to your PC and use a program like Jungleflasher to copy the key into a new firmware and flash it to your new drive
The key is stored on a chip on the Board inside the old drive, so you could just open up the drive and cut the old board out and solder it into your new drive. in that case i guess you would need a soldering iron.
torx screwdrivers aren't necessary, but makes it easier to open the xbox, I just used a small phillips.
There are different methods of getting the key depending on what kind of drive it is, Liteon, Samsung, BenQ or Hitachi. mostly it involves taking the drive out of the xbox and mounting it to your PC and running a program like Jungleflasher. Its not hard, but you have to do your research. If you jack up your old drive and don't have your key, Your xbox will only play DVD's
once you have your key, you mount your it to your PC and use a program like Jungleflasher to copy the key into a new firmware and flash it to your new drive
The key is stored on a chip on the Board inside the old drive, so you could just open up the drive and cut the old board out and solder it into your new drive. in that case i guess you would need a soldering iron.
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got an x-box for sale; if anyone is interested
https://ls1tech.com/forums/texas-cla...60-4-sale.html
https://ls1tech.com/forums/texas-cla...60-4-sale.html