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Posted: **Mon Jun 28, 2004 7:21 am**

thank u i read the tutorial in xbox-linux.org

Posted: **Fri Aug 06, 2004 4:08 pm**

just curious, is it possible to upgrade to 256? 512?

Posted: **Sat Aug 07, 2004 6:18 pm**

no only 128 mb.
With 128mb the xbox works with linux faster as with 64mb.
For games and the most things it makes no difference.

best regards
Craxx;)

Posted: **Sat Aug 07, 2004 7:43 pm**

jaroc wrote:just curious, is it possible to upgrade to 256? 512?

No! the ram chips are 16mb each, you can't get bigger ones for the xbox

PS. If your not experienced and very good at soldering i DO NOT recomend you try this upgrade, i was able to make sparkled come out of my chips, and now the mobo just frags XD

Posted: **Sun Aug 08, 2004 12:55 am**

i've just finished upgrading one of my spair boards to 128mb not tested with linux yet but it does help my modded vicecity

I can install the chips if any one wants but the chips are pricy unfortunatly

i remove mine with a paint stripper from a dead board, not a good idea

but i dont have the cash for a rework station just yet

jaroc wrote:just curious, is it possible to upgrade to 256? 512?

i read on x-s about piggy backing the ram, because the 1.6 doesnt have the extra spaces. You would solder the extra ram ontop of an exsisting chip.

very complicated and probably not possible but who noes

Posted: **Fri Sep 03, 2004 6:51 pm**

but it's true that the original xbox bios crashes after done the ram-mod???

Posted: **Sun Sep 12, 2004 2:53 am**

nope the xbox works fine with the retail bios. the only way is if it was a bad install of the ram.

Posted: **Sun Oct 10, 2004 9:14 pm**

128 meg ram makes no difference to retail boxes.

if you upgrade correctly, a retail bios will boot as if it wasnt there, the POST in the xbox seems to check ALL memory present, not just the first 64 meg

if you mess the install up, it won't boot!

Posted: **Mon Oct 11, 2004 5:16 am**

What I don't understand is why anyone would try using GentooX with the GUI (XFree) with only 64Mb. It's virtually unusable. After X loads there's virtually no physical memory left, loading Office took the best part of 2 minutes.

For using as a server of course, it's good as gold if left in terminal mode.

Posted: **Mon Oct 11, 2004 8:00 am**

Thats not really fair to say... XFCE runs at an acceptable rate, openoffice of course kills it, but stuff like xmms, gaim, xchat... etc run fine.

Posted: **Thu Nov 04, 2004 7:42 pm**

ShALLaX wrote:Thats not really fair to say... XFCE runs at an acceptable rate, openoffice of course kills it, but stuff like xmms, gaim, xchat... etc run fine.

Maybe no openoffice but i suppose Abiword coul be added to that list

Posted: **Sat Aug 06, 2005 4:24 pm**

i was thinking about upgrading my ram after i read this article but the thing is, i searched for ram chips but couldnt find any... where could i possibly find em? or can i take some off of old ram?

Posted: **Sat Aug 06, 2005 5:07 pm**

Buy a broken/ old Xbox from eBay... bingo.

Posted: **Mon Aug 08, 2005 3:12 pm**

There's a couple places to get em mentioned earlier in this thread or another. Appleguru from X-S sells em for $30 USD (shipping included) and he's great to deal with. Someone else mentioned another company that sells for $30 but shipping is extra. Or like ShALLaX said, get an old one and remove em, but that's a bunch of extra work and you have to find an old xbox for under $30 to be worth it. Keep in mind also, you have to be a fairly decent solder-er (if that's the term). It's not that easy a task if you haven't soldered much. I ended up having to use the microscope from work (a good magnifying glass probably would have worked, but the microscope is easier =) to find a tiny strand of soldering wick I got stuck behind some pins causing it to not boot.

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