How To Hotswap An X2 Modchip

Flash A Dead Mod-Chip (Hot Swap) (v0.1)

Tutorial written by : Scott B.

Last edited: November 17, 2003

Ok here's a tutorial for anyone that was brave enough to try and flash there mod-chip and it all went tits up.

Following this guide will save your Mod Chip (Don't Bin it)

What you will need:

* Two "Torx" screw drivers sizes 10 & 20

* A spare mod-chip (the same as the one you own Xecuter2-Pro /Lite / Matrix) either buy one or borrow a friends one (there cheap to purchase paying someone for shipping and fitting it in the XBOX was the expensive part)

* A copy of Evolution X (Slayers is best, you probably have it if you got in this mess in the first place)

* Common Sense

Ok lets get started; presumably you've never seen the inside of the XBOX as everything was fitted for you etc

Safety 1st lets unclip the mod-chip switch from the side of your XBOX simply by easing the white clip (with the cables) from the pcb, this will save strain on the cables etc when we lift the lid.

Turn your XBOX upside down, you will see 4 rubber feet peel them back, don't worry they stick back on. Under each foot you will find a screw.

Now rub a pencil in the top left corner of the white sticker that says Microsoft Corporation you will see a dent appear there, that's right there's another screw there. Try the same process on the silver sticker that says XBOX Video Game System just above the CE logo.

Ok now undo all the screws 6 in total use your Torx 20 to unscrew these.

Now keep the 4 feet and 6 Screws safe.

Now Xbox right side up carefully lift the lid on your little black joy machine (take care you don't know what wires may pull on your chip etc)

Phew what a sight you will now see you DVD-drive (left) and HDD, remove the IDE-cable on the back on the HDD

Now locate the screw in between DVD-drive and HDD black fixing plate use your Torx10 the fixing plate also undo the 2 along the front of the DVD-drive (Torx10 again)

Halfway there

Now we need to remove the HDD first it will simply lift out, make sure the power cable / IDE-Cable isn't blocking you (Remove them if you wish)

With the HDD removed we can now repeat the same for the DVD-drive

Ok so now you should see if you follow that mod chip cable we unclipped 1st your actual mod-chip (the problem causer)

Unclip the cables from both sides top and bottom, ease them off.

Now using your spare or friends