The Un-Official Fix Your Console thread (Check the OP first)

**Desertman123** · Joined: 29 Jul 2007 Posts: 2957 Location: Central FL

What'd you ever do with my nasty Xbox 360?
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Consoles:
Original Xbox, 1.0 TSOP flashed w/ 500gb HDD
PS3, Rebug 4.82
Xbox 360, Halo edition Jasper RGH1.2

**Squirrel** · Posted: Fri May 13, 2011 9:57 pm Post subject:

**Desertman123** · Joined: 29 Jul 2007 Posts: 2957 Location: Central FL

**Squirrel** · Posted: Sun May 15, 2011 12:57 am Post subject:

**wheelchr** · Joined: 20 Aug 2007 Posts: 422 Location: Vancouver, WA

Yeah, just spent most of the day fixing the motor that spins the disc on in my Xbox today, it was a total pain but I got it working

Just curious though, is there any problem with leaving my Xbox taken apart and still running? Or should I probably close it up? I mean I normally would, just afraid it'll stop working if I do.

Btw, it's a Jasper I'm fairly sure. Any tips on how to maintain it so it doesn't break down again would also be appreciated.

**Squirrel** · Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 1:16 pm Post subject:

Awesome!

There's no disadvantage to leaving it open when you play it... in fact its a bit better being its getting completely open air.

There's no way you can really prevent the motor or dvd drive from dying. They go when they want to. The only thing you could do to save on the laser and whatnot is to install the games to the hard drive on the xbox.
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**wheelchr** · Joined: 20 Aug 2007 Posts: 422 Location: Vancouver, WA

**Sarg338** · Joined: 07 Feb 2008 Posts: 5143

Hey Squirrel, got a question. Oh the fat PS2, do you know where the Memory Card/Controller slots plug into? It kinda sorta got unplugged from the motherboard and I'm not sure where it goes. I can provide pics if it would help

It looks like there is a little flip panel (IT's brown on mine) that the ribbon would just go into, and then I would flip it down. However, it doesn't exactly fit as snug as I thought it would. Is it the right spot?

EDIT: Well, I got it pushed in there the best I could, and when I plugged the controller in, it gets power, because the red light in the middle comes on, but none of the controls work. My friend assured me that the controller used to work before hand. Any ideas?
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**Squirrel** · Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 1:53 pm Post subject:

You have to be able to lift up the cage from the plastic shell to properly seat it in. Yes you can flip it down... but it needs to be snapped back up to put pressure on all of the pins inside of there.
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**Sarg338** · Joined: 07 Feb 2008 Posts: 5143

**Squirrel** · Posted: Fri May 20, 2011 1:12 pm Post subject:

Good to hear, and you're welcome. Enjoy it!

Now you need to get SwapMagic 3.6, a USB drive with a Swapmagic.elf on it (being renamed from HDLoader 0.8b, a network adapter, and a 250GB hard drive in it. ;)
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**Sarg338** · Joined: 07 Feb 2008 Posts: 5143

**Squirrel** · Posted: Fri May 20, 2011 3:59 pm Post subject:

Eh... forget it.

Swap Magic only works with the original discs, burns won't work.

The ps2 only has usb 1, it loads games faster by the dvd drive.
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**The-B.O.D.** · Joined: 20 Dec 2008 Posts: 2413 Location: Portland, Oregon

Okay, so I have a PS2 slim (model 77001) that I opened up and put the guts inside of a replacement case (so that I could use Swap Magic), and it was working fine for a while, but now whenever I turn it on the laser disk doesn't even pop out to try and read a disk. It just sits there and doesn't move, and I don't quite know what to do about it. Do you have any idea what I could do about that?

**Desertman123** · Joined: 29 Jul 2007 Posts: 2957 Location: Central FL