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OPEN AN XBOX
Open a Controller
Cleaning your Xbox DVD drive
Xbox DVD repair
USB PORT INSTALLATION
USING PC DVD DRIVE
HARD DRIVE UPGRADES
FTP MASTERCLASS
Linux on your XBOX
Open an Xbox
Step 1 - Start with the necessary tools and a clear work area.
Helpful tools:
Insulated screw grabber (comes with many PC repair kits)
X-Acto Knife useful for removing stickers and feet.
Wax paper, good for keeping those stickers in shape.
Required tools:
Torx 20
Torx 10
Step 2 - peel back the stickers. If you're not too worried about looks a Torx
#20 punches right through the stickers with ease. If you want to keep it
looking tidy cut a piece of wax paper to size to help preserve the stickers.
Step 3 - The other case screws, a total of 6.
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- Page 1 Index OPEN AN XBOX Open a Controller Cleaning your Xbox DVD drive Xbox DVD repair USB PORT INSTALLATION USING PC DVD DRIVE HARD DRIVE UPGRADES FTP MASTERCLASS Linux on your XBOX Open an Xbox Step 1 - Start with the necessary tools and a clear work area.
- Page 2 I find this is done most easily by putting the Xbox in my lap. Step 4 - Drive removal, there are 3 screws total holding in both drives. First...
- Page 3 Two others are on either side of the front of the DVD drive. Once the screws are removed unplug the IDE cable to the Hard Drive and loosen the power cord from the track it sits in on the drive tray if you miss this step you wont be able to remove the drive.
- Page 4 Step 5 - With the Hard drive out of the way we get a good shot of the mounting screws for the power supply and DVD drive. Get those two screws at the front of the DVD drive after removing the IDE cable and Yellow cord from the motherboard.
- Page 5 Removing the power cord from the motherboard. Most sites tell you to use pliers to remove the power plug; it is in there pretty good. I personally pull on the wires themselves, I risk yanking a wire out of the crimp in the socket, and if I screw one up I am willing to repair it.
- Page 6 Once the power cord is removed from the motherboard and the two mounting screws are off the power supply, grasp the heat sink on the power supply or use the cord that was going to the motherboard to move it about a quarter inch forward, this releases the power supply from the plastic tabs that hold it down on the side opposite the screws.
- Page 7 motherboard lift the front to a 25-degree angle as shown in the picture it can then be pulled forward and removed. You should now have a pile of parts like this To get to the power and reset buttons you will need to remove the front faceplate.
- Page 8 without removing everything but for now complete disassembly is my best advice. (Update, check out Removing Front Face Plate for directions) Open a Controller This should not even require a tutorial. By far the easiest fix. Quit being annoyed and spend the 30 minutes it takes to clean them up. Nothing sucks more than dieing because of a missed shot, jump, weapon switch, whatever that you have to blame on the controller.
- Page 9 Find the screw holes Unscrew and remove them, flip the controller back so the screw holes are down. Lift off the top cover.
- Page 10 The buttons will be falling all over the place, don't worry about that it goes together easy.
- Page 11 You can now safely remove all the buttons and rubber cups they sit in. I gave all the buttons and D-pad a nice bath in warm soapy water. If the board has become drenched with your favourite soda or whatever use some mild soapy water on a rag to clean it up, stay away from window cleaner and other harsh cleaners.
- Page 12 COMPLETELY before attempting to use it. It turns out the drain in my sink has a little bar that goes across that is just small enough to prevent an Xbox button from going down the drain than further than a forceps can reach... Nice design.
- Page 13 Now put the rubber cups in place, these are keyed as well and only fit properly one way. All right, now we are ready to take the bottom and lower it on top of the buttons and top cover. Put the screws back where they were and we are done!
- Page 14 But I guess that is better than nothing. See disassembly procedure here for details on how to get at your Xbox DVD drive. Necessary tools: Torx #10 Philips #1...
- Page 15 Words of advice before we begin leave the small ribbon cables that connect components within the drive alone. If you feel you must disconnect and reconnect a few while you are in there, note that there is a brown wedge in each of the sockets that needs to be pulled out to allow the ribbon to be released.
- Page 16 and two in the top, mid drive.
- Page 17 Remove all four screws, the ones mid drive are a little hard to get out, screw grabber makes it easy, shaking the drive upside down works too. Remove the bottom tray first, flip the drive so the bottom is facing up. You need to pull the metal tab in the back over the IDE connector and then it will then slip off.
- Page 18 Now remove the top, you have to push in two catches near the front on either side of the drive to allow you to tip up the front of the top panel like this. Now you have access to both the lens.
- Page 19 and the mirror Blast the optics with canned air, then continue on to the blast the rest of the DVD chassis trying to blow the remainder of the dust away from the optics. Using a Q-tip, clean the mirror and the lens with a high quality lens cleaner. I like to use anti static lens cleaner but any glass cleaner should work, I have even heard of plain alcohol being used.
- Page 20 (bottom left) is the most important place to be cleaned and can easily be done with compressed air." Re-assembly is the reverse of assembly, start with the top and then attach the bottom. If you do not have a handy screw grabber or magnetized screwdriver, have fun getting the top two back in place.
- Page 21 Xbox and hope you made things better rather than worse. Xbox DVD repair Since this is one of the most commonly asked questions in my mailbox that is already overflowing lets see if I can make things a bit more clear.
- Page 22 When choosing a port, be wary of the effect of missing ports if you intend to continue to use the Xbox for multi-player games. In my case the Xbox will never play an Xbox game so I don't care, and have removed ports 3 and 4. Remove the two screws and cables, and carefully remove the plastic bridge to which the ports are attached using pliers.
- Page 23 Remove the power cable from the Xbox drive and attach a power cable splitter (can get from most pc stores) and plug both drives in. Sit your PC drive on top of the Xbox drive. Then remove the IDE cable from the Xbox drive and insert it into the PC drive.
- Page 24 NOTE ON CABLES - PATCH CABLE OR CROSSOVER CABLE WTF ? There are 2 types of network cable and both have RJ45 connectors at both ends. (See the socket on the back of your Xbox to understand what a RJ45 looks like)
- Page 25 You can check what you have by looking at the ends of the cable, hold the two ends up and compare them are they identical - if so its patch cable and you will not be able to plug you PC directly to your Xbox (you will need 2 cabled and a hub)- if some of the cables are moved its Crossover and you can.
- Page 26 (192.168.0.2) and the username xbox and password xbox and there you go. you can see the drives on the Xbox - now you have to figure out what you want to do and not mess your xbox up. Award yourself a MCSE in networking and smoke a fat one.
- Page 27 This will take around 15 minutes. Once this is done you should get another dialogue box asking for the IP address. What you enter here depends on how/if you have your xbox connected to a network. It will also ask for Subnet mask and gateway.