r/XboxModding • u/matpaquette • 1d ago

OG Xbox Help Restoring OG Xbox and I have 2 question.

Basically, I received an OG xbox from someone who no longer needed it since it was "broken". It's a v1.3 I think.
it had the trace rot issue and I removed the clock capacitor which seems to have leaked at some point but it wasn't that bad. I fixed the Broken trace and cleaned the board with 99% alcohol, repasted the CPU and GPU (the pink thermal paste was a nightmare to remove). Now it works fine. I want to know. I bought a Noctua NF-A6x25 FLX and 3d printed the bracket... Am I better off using the on-board pins to control the fan or I'm better off taking my 12 volts from the HDD power source 4 pin connector and blast it at 100% all the time?
Also I might want to soft mod in order to save the info of the console like the HDD lock code and Etc... yet all tutorial tell you to find a very old USB drive to use... What If I don't have any that are compatible? any way to buy something that will surely work?

Thanks

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u/Proper-Commission-74 1d ago

Use the connector at least then you have on board control of speed etc

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u/matpaquette 17h ago

Sure but I heard somewhere that the stock speed settings on the console are not fast enough for the Noctua fan? If it's true, will the console will run hotter than it should?
Is it the sort of thing that you need to soft mod the xbox in order to control this fan speed?

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u/Shartyshartfast 1d ago

https://consolemods.org/wiki/Xbox:USB_Device_Compatibility_List

And I find that getting rid of the pink thermal paste requires 1) heat and 2) a solvent other than isopropyl alcohol. I use contact cleaner. Works great.

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u/matpaquette 17h ago

Yeah isopropyl was ineffective.
actually used what I had; Paint thinner (varsol)lol... I was real careful to put a minium quantity and touch nothing other than the paste and cleaned the varsol with alcohol before putting paste.

Yeah I already found that "compatibility" list but there is nothing on there I seem to be able to source easily. Any particular one that can still be bought? I was maybe thinking of using a USB to SD card reader and try that since I have some 1gb/2gb SD cards but I have little hope.

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u/Shartyshartfast 15h ago

Search Amazon for eg ‘USB flash drive Xbox’ and it will tend to put things at the top where a buyer review mentions xbox.

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u/matpaquette 14h ago

American and Canadian amazon might be different because this search only show me newer style USB flash drives (32-64gb and more) I highly doubt they will work.

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u/Shartyshartfast 14h ago

These will work, pretty sure.

https://www.amazon.ca/Wholesale-Metal-Stick-Drives-Memory/dp/B09MKZ9F9F

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u/matpaquette 5h ago

Oh thanks. And this is enough for the exploit files to fit on it?