Xbox Mod Chip...
Matt G
linux at bizniche.com
Mon Aug 4 14:07:19 CDT 2003
Hey Guys...just thought I'd bring this up.
I've never been interested in putting a mod chip in my Xbox, until I saw
some of the new solderless chips. I bought one and installed it, and a
linux based bios in about 30 minutes. It even comes with a external switch
so you can disable the chip, load from bios bank1, or bios bank2, or
unprotect it for future re-flashing. When I disable the chip, it boots like
a normal xbox.
Now, I didn't install Linux, but it's getting easier and easier. You can
even add a few regular usb ports on there pretty easily.
After a bit of tweaking, I was able to install a 120gb Hard drive, and as
able to ftp and telnet into the xbox. Pretty cool.
You could totally use one of these for a little linux box. And the prices
are dropping. You could guy an xbox for $170 and a chip for $50 and get
linux going pretty quick.
I don't know who's coming up with this stuff...but it's pretty amazing if
you ask me.
Matt
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