My Xbox Misadventures
I long ago realized that the money I come across modding Xbox's is a mere pittance with respect to the time and effort I put into the job. I well ought to be a gruff son of a bitch and do the bare minimum required and leave the software shit to enduser. If you're wondering what brought on this rant, it would have to be the 3hrs I spent whicking solder away from a 50 mil smd ram chip. What's that you say, a chip with tiny bloody pins that's what. This happend after I tried to mod a friends xbox as a favor after a night of debauchery. Note the absence of the modifier drunken as it would be woefully inadequate given the events of the night. I was quite together while doing the job in the morning, but as a result of the shitty tip on my Weller iron, blundered onward. I regretably left my Ratshack iron that has served me beautifully thus far at home, along with all my advanced soldering tools. The job resembled an Ophthmalic surgeon reattaching a patient's retina with a needle meant for stitching leather. Not elegant at all. I, for the most part, made do. However as I was finishing up, I had the finest point (d0) soldered perfectly, I dropped a blob of solder on the damn ram. After that I packed my shit and went home. Took me a day to work up the patience to fix the mess, which I finally did, and managed to get it fixed this evening. Things to do next time:
Check iron for proper tip heating, always.
Replace tip on weller iron.
Organize tools.
Create Xbox toolkit.
Make my own howto guide.
Check iron for proper tip heating, always.
Replace tip on weller iron.
Organize tools.
Create Xbox toolkit.
Make my own howto guide.