DH Article: "Heavenly" Xbox (mod) Part 1

Zardon · Jan 30, 2005, 11:53 PM

Today's article on Driverheaven isnt a "how to guide" it is more an insight as to just what functionality you can add to the plain machine you can buy for relatively little cost in many stores. This all started one afternoon when I went on one of my random google searches. Come on, dont tell me you haven't in a time of boredom or frustration just typed something into Google to see what you would end up with. If you dont know what im talking about, then ill save you the effort. There you have it, every mod you could ever think of and then some. Now I dont profess to being an XBOX modding guru, so then the thought came to me to create a modded xbox for a showpiece on Driverheaven - I enrolled the help of an expert. Giles Wendes is an xbox modder in the United Kingdom frequently selling machines on EBAY, when i contacted him about the project he jumped at the chance to make something special.

read here

Ev!L-aLphA · Jan 31, 2005, 12:04 AM

WHOA awesome! nice!!!

No_Style · Jan 31, 2005, 12:21 AM

Oooo.. Fun!

***craig5320*** · Jan 31, 2005, 12:26 AM

Ultra Coolness, looks awesome, and my god 900gb storage! meow!

redsolar · Jan 31, 2005, 12:32 AM

This thing is monstrous and has more storage than my whole network at home!

**dj_stick** · Jan 31, 2005, 01:28 AM

very nice read

mainman · Jan 31, 2005, 02:40 AM

Holly sh*t that thing is amazing!!!

Chaos · Jan 31, 2005, 04:36 AM

holy batchit batman, somehow not what M$ visions when you say XBOX

CaptinSxb · Jan 31, 2005, 04:41 AM

how hard is it to change the light in the front of the xbox?

nice article

pr0digal jenius · Jan 31, 2005, 04:45 AM

you told me you shoved about a terrabyte in there with linux.

you didn't tell me the thing replaced an entire living room's worth of goodies and was so cool looking!!!!

Danhill · Feb 1, 2005, 02:10 PM

Awesome work.

Zardon · Feb 1, 2005, 11:30 PM

This is a picture I took last night, sorry for the mess on the desk (building a pc for a friend atm) but you can see how nice this all lights up.

300 DIVX films on it, 10,000 mp3s and 150 XBOX games, and still 100s of gigs free ! pretty impressive media machine !

gileswendes · Feb 2, 2005, 11:09 AM

Thanks everyone, nice snap Zardon!

To answer an above question the jewel is cleared using something abrasive to remove the green. In this case a round cold cathode has been placed underneath to light it!

Lelisevis · Feb 2, 2005, 09:57 PM

That thing is an absolute must have for me. Im begging you to produce a few articles on X-Box modding and how to get hold of the needed components in the uk. Much respect to Giles Wendes for triggering my next project.

gileswendes · Feb 6, 2005, 08:36 PM

Lelisevis and anyone else interested in building one of these ( or having one built for you

) send me a quick e-mail. I can let you know the sources for software and hardware to get your xbox performing as it should.

gileswendes@hotmail.com

Thanks
Giles

jasonbourne · Feb 6, 2005, 08:52 PM

i was just wondering how much it cost to do that to the xbox?

Zardon · Feb 6, 2005, 08:59 PM

probably around £600 including all the mods, hard drives alone are around £450. of course you need the xbox first too.

Lelisevis · Feb 6, 2005, 09:43 PM

Ive sent my Email off. C'mon people I thought we'd have more interest than this considering what a great piece of kit it is. Im sure lots of people have an unused X-box lying around and I think it could be fun if everyone did there own mods and displayed them for all to see. I'll be off to get my mod-chip tomorrow as my xbox is already spread all over the living room rug much to the annoyance of my Fiancee.

Lelisevis · Feb 6, 2005, 09:48 PM

Oh and while im on here I can't help noticing that big tube of savlon on your desk Zardon is that the penalty you pay for having all that CUTTING edge technology. ( ok I apologise that was pathetic I'll accept a 24 hour ban

).

Zardon · Feb 6, 2005, 10:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lelisevis

Ive sent my Email off. C'mon people I thought we'd have more interest than this considering what a great piece of kit it is. Im sure lots of people have an unused X-box lying around and I think it could be fun if everyone did there own mods and displayed them for all to see. I'll be off to get my mod-chip tomorrow as my xbox is already spread all over the living room rug much to the annoyance of my Fiancee.

Very Cool man, make sure you post pictures when you mod it. Im serious a "stock" XBOX is such a waste, there is so much potential with a modded machine - its the centerpiece of my network now and not only is a media player/game machine but is a file server. I love it.

Zardon · Feb 6, 2005, 10:42 PM

http://www.ratemyxbox.com/gallery/

make sure you vote highly for the DH xbox

MNDS · Feb 7, 2005, 04:44 AM

Now that is cool. This is really something to be proud of, I cant believe how great it turned out. I wish I was that good with things like that. Enjoy!

clicker666 · Feb 9, 2005, 01:20 PM

Awesome! We just bought an XBox for our son, and I was considering buying one myself to learn about modding them. Looking at this I could have some real fun with it muwhahahaaaa!

pr0digal jenius · Feb 9, 2005, 01:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lelisevis

my xbox is already spread all over the living room rug much to the annoyance of my Fiancee.

Welcome to my world

...I remember when i had a floor

Currently I have a computer all over the floor and a car all over the garage and as soon as I decide what to do to it, perhaps a gamecube all over the floor too

Allan, I'm currently working on a mod you may be extremely interested in....it might go well in your XBox there.

I'm takin apart a router and making a custom PCI slot bracket, and mounting the chip from the router via PCI inside my machine

It requires a SMALL router, but a tiny D-Link should do the trick, or if you wanted to go high tech, a belkin Pre-N router

Lelisevis · Feb 19, 2005, 04:13 AM

Project suspended due to my total lack of ability and the fact I have run out of cut-off blades for my dremel

. Currently trawling E-bay for a cheap replacement X-BOX.
Tune in next week to find out how to destroy your tower case in 5 easy steps.

Jan 30, 2005, 11:53 PM	#1
Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 179	DH Article: "Heavenly" Xbox (mod) Part 1 Today's article on Driverheaven isnt a "how to guide" it is more an insight as to just what functionality you can add to the plain machine you can buy for relatively little cost in many stores. This all started one afternoon when I went on one of my random google searches. Come on, dont tell me you haven't in a time of boredom or frustration just typed something into Google to see what you would end up with. If you dont know what im talking about, then ill save you the effort. There you have it, every mod you could ever think of and then some. Now I dont profess to being an XBOX modding guru, so then the thought came to me to create a modded xbox for a showpiece on Driverheaven - I enrolled the help of an expert. Giles Wendes is an xbox modder in the United Kingdom frequently selling machines on EBAY, when i contacted him about the project he jumped at the chance to make something special. read here

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mainman Mr. Nobody Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: OmniPresent Nightwatcher Posts: 5,961 Rep Power: 71	Holly sh*t that thing is amazing!!! __________________

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Chaos Number Nine Join Date: May 2002 Location: Nova Scotia Posts: 5,268 Rep Power: 167 System Specs	holy batchit batman, somehow not what M$ visions when you say XBOX __________________

Jan 31, 2005, 04:41 AM	#9
CaptinSxb DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Good Ol' U.S. of A. Posts: 404 Rep Power: 0	how hard is it to change the light in the front of the xbox? nice article __________________ A64-3200; x800xl; a couple other things ; and a floppy drive

Jan 31, 2005, 04:45 AM	#10
pr0digal jenius Delete Me Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 14,648 Rep Power: 0	you told me you shoved about a terrabyte in there with linux. you didn't tell me the thing replaced an entire living room's worth of goodies and was so cool looking!!!!

Feb 1, 2005, 02:10 PM	#11
Danhill DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: Sweden Posts: 4,112 Rep Power: 0	Awesome work. __________________ MOBO: [color=white]ASUS A8N-SLI Premium[/color] CPU: AMD 64 3200+ (Venice) @ 2,50 Ghz MEM: 2 x 512 DDR 466, VGA: 2 x 6600 GT in SLI, HDD1: WD Raptor HDD2: Maxtor Diamond Plus 9, Case: Antec Plus View 1080, PSU: ThermalTake PurePower 500W, MX 1000, Dell 2001 FP, Aud. 2 SZ

Feb 1, 2005, 11:30 PM	Thread Starter #12
Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 179	This is a picture I took last night, sorry for the mess on the desk (building a pc for a friend atm) but you can see how nice this all lights up. 300 DIVX films on it, 10,000 mp3s and 150 XBOX games, and still 100s of gigs free ! pretty impressive media machine !

Feb 2, 2005, 11:09 AM	#13
gileswendes DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Havant, UK Posts: 6 Rep Power: 0	Thanks everyone, nice snap Zardon! To answer an above question the jewel is cleared using something abrasive to remove the green. In this case a round cold cathode has been placed underneath to light it!

Feb 2, 2005, 09:57 PM	#14
Lelisevis Howlin at the moon Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 1,663 Rep Power: 0	That thing is an absolute must have for me. Im begging you to produce a few articles on X-Box modding and how to get hold of the needed components in the uk. Much respect to Giles Wendes for triggering my next project.

Feb 6, 2005, 08:36 PM	#15
gileswendes DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Havant, UK Posts: 6 Rep Power: 0	Lelisevis and anyone else interested in building one of these ( or having one built for you ) send me a quick e-mail. I can let you know the sources for software and hardware to get your xbox performing as it should. gileswendes@hotmail.com Thanks Giles

Feb 6, 2005, 08:52 PM	#16
jasonbourne DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: great yarmouth uk Posts: 1,082 Rep Power: 0	i was just wondering how much it cost to do that to the xbox? __________________ http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y28...asonBourne.jpg

Feb 6, 2005, 08:59 PM	Thread Starter #17
Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 179	probably around £600 including all the mods, hard drives alone are around £450. of course you need the xbox first too.

Feb 6, 2005, 09:43 PM	#18
Lelisevis Howlin at the moon Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 1,663 Rep Power: 0	Ive sent my Email off. C'mon people I thought we'd have more interest than this considering what a great piece of kit it is. Im sure lots of people have an unused X-box lying around and I think it could be fun if everyone did there own mods and displayed them for all to see. I'll be off to get my mod-chip tomorrow as my xbox is already spread all over the living room rug much to the annoyance of my Fiancee.

Feb 6, 2005, 09:48 PM	#19
Lelisevis Howlin at the moon Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 1,663 Rep Power: 0	Oh and while im on here I can't help noticing that big tube of savlon on your desk Zardon is that the penalty you pay for having all that CUTTING edge technology. ( ok I apologise that was pathetic I'll accept a 24 hour ban ).

Feb 6, 2005, 10:42 PM	Thread Starter #21
Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 179	http://www.ratemyxbox.com/gallery/ make sure you vote highly for the DH xbox

Feb 7, 2005, 04:44 AM	#22
MNDS DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: NY Posts: 7 Rep Power: 0	Now that is cool. This is really something to be proud of, I cant believe how great it turned out. I wish I was that good with things like that. Enjoy! __________________ Pentium D 830 2 x 512 Megs PC5400 Corsair XMS2 DDR2 Ram Biostar 945P Mobo eVGA PCI-Express 6800GT w/ NV5Silencer PCI SB X-Fi Xtreme Music

Feb 9, 2005, 01:20 PM	#23
clicker666 DriverHeaven Addict Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia, Canada Posts: 327 Rep Power: 0	Awesome! We just bought an XBox for our son, and I was considering buying one myself to learn about modding them. Looking at this I could have some real fun with it muwhahahaaaa! __________________

Feb 19, 2005, 04:13 AM	#25
Lelisevis Howlin at the moon Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 1,663 Rep Power: 0	Project suspended due to my total lack of ability and the fact I have run out of cut-off blades for my dremel . Currently trawling E-bay for a cheap replacement X-BOX. Tune in next week to find out how to destroy your tower case in 5 easy steps.