Xbox Mod Chip

**Livy** · 05-17-2005, 04:34 PM

im thinking of getting my xbox chipped with the "xecuter 3 ce" chip.
my box is either a 1.5 or 1.6 as its a special edition crystal.

my main uses for chipping are to be using it as a media centre, xbmc,
palying backup games of the hdd, and using it as storage for downloaded movies and tv series. and maybe a small linux install for surfing the net?

since im using it for that ill be needing a bigger hard drive.
the one im thinking of getting is this one, is the 16mb cache going to be noticeable, or will 8mb do.

also how do i update the bios on the modchip, can that be done from the xbox, or do i need a bios flasher.

should this be pretty easy to do?

**Duffman** · 05-17-2005, 07:24 PM

The hard drive is fine. Flashing the chip the first time is a one shot deal I fucked up and had to buy the flasher, but It was my fault. And after that you just hit a button on the dashboard, select the bios, hit flash and restart, very easy.

**Livy** · 05-17-2005, 09:08 PM

cool. so all of my above requirements should be met with no problem, surfing net etc.
also how do you get files onto the box, just ftp?

**99shassan** · 05-17-2005, 09:25 PM

ftp, or you could burn to cd and copy the files over. If your box is a 1.6 or 1.6b. check out the "Extend life expectancy of 1.6 board" on the xbox-scene forum. You will want to know about this.
X3 chip is good, but most features aren't really needed but are cool.

**Livy** · 05-17-2005, 11:07 PM

had a look, hope ive got a 1.5 box,
is this whta the lpc rebuilder is for the 1.6 box? or is it seperate.

**Duffman** · 05-17-2005, 11:40 PM

FTPing is easy, saves media, just get yourself a good ftp program, like FlashFXP, set your xbox ip to be 192.168.0.x and the password and user name are xbox/xbox. All easy. Only thing you have to look out for is that if you have xblive now, and you upgrade the harddrive they see the hd size change and ban your eeprom.