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I actually ended up heating up the leg of the Capacitor on the underside of the motherboard and pushed the Capacitor towards the front of the motherboard so that it naturally sits at the required angle.
#ALADDIN XT PLUS 2 INSTALL UPDATE#
UPDATE – just watch the Joe Bleeps video at the end of this post.įor this particular model motherboard there is a Capacitor that is slightly in the way, when you fit the XBlast Aladdin I had to allow it to push the Capacitor towards the front of the motherboard. Then remove the solder, shortly after remove the soldering iron. Hold the soldering iron tip on both the pin header and the metal of the hole for a second or two heating them both up, then apply enough solder so that it floods around the pin and fills the hole. There’s plenty of good tutorials for soldering, at it’s most basic – apply some flux liquid to the area you are working on, it helps the solder adhere to the metals by cleaning the surface I believe. I tend to solder just one pin, and then turn it over to check that it is still in the correct place before proceeding with more. Once you’ve inserted the pin header into the LPC holes, you need to flip the motherboard over to solder it into place, you could either try and rest the pin header on something to stop it falling out, or tape it onto place – remember the pins will get hot so could melt your tape, you could use Kapton tape which withstands high temperatures. You can’t fit the pin header into the LPC holes just yet because there is one pin too many, some people push the pin out with a screwdriver, I found it easier to pull it out with my side cutters… Here’s my bits and bobs, ready to start installing,…
#ALADDIN XT PLUS 2 INSTALL PDF#
Only use that PDF guide to see where to solder, because the chip being installed here operates differently thanks to the XBlast OS that is pre-flashed onto it. UPDATE – this guide for the REGULAR Aladdin XT chip contains details about LPC rebuilding and D0 points etc. If I remember correctly, not all Xbox motherboards have the LPC holes empty, some have them with solder in, which is a pain in the bum if you want to fit the supplied pin header! I’m installing it in a 1.3 Original Xbox, if installing on other versions you may have to add some extra wires to the LPC port (or source a PCB to rebuild it) and potentially a different solder point for D0 – which you’ll be adding a link wire to – I’ll find some info on this and add it when I can. It took me a while, but I finally got around to fitting it, and thought I’d make some notes along the way.
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#ALADDIN XT PLUS 2 INSTALL MOD#
It’s been a long long time since I mod chipped an OG Xbox, in fact – it wasn’t called OG or Original, it was just called Xbox! A little while back I received a box of goodies from Retro Gamer Stuff, including their Aladdin chip flashed with XBlast OS 0.56 – dubbed the XBlast Aladdin.