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Xbox versions
Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 4:29 am
by clpalmer
Is there any advantage/disadvantage to running on older versions of xbox? i know the 1.6 has it's issues, but is there anything I should be thinking about when buying something between 1.0 and 1.5? Is there anything that won't work or has issues with some of the older/newer versions?
Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 11:16 am
by cheesyboofs
I don't think there is any benefit to Gentoox but I've always tried to obtain 1.2 -> 1.5's as these can be modded for 'free' without the need for a chip!
http://www.cheesyboofs.co.uk/site/tutorial02.html
If you purchase one off eBay say with a broken DVD drive ask the seller for the SN then you can check which version it is on this site:
http://www.xbox-linux.org/wiki/Xbox_Versions_HOWTO
Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 10:10 pm
by clpalmer
How come you say 1.2->1.5 instead of 1.0->1.5? What's the issue with 1.0 and 1.1 boxes? I have a 1.0 that's softmodded and running fine, but I didn't do the softmod on it (bought it already modded) so I don't know what the difference is.
Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 8:12 am
by cheesyboofs
Oh no reason its just you cant mod 1.0, 1.1 and 1.6's by my preferred method, plus if you open a 1.0 or 1.1 the architecture looks more AT than ATX.
But they all run Gentoox fine.
Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 12:37 am
by clpalmer
What's different with modding 1.0-1.1 instead of 1.2-1.5? Thought the wiring was a bit different with 1.0-1.1 but after that the rest of the procedure should be the same? (minus the need to create a 1MB bios instead of 256k). In any case, mine's already been softmodded, so I'm good to go =)