seen it done heaps (dvd drive been put in a HD DVD case)..the dvd drive helps the air flow, without it your doing worse unless you add in more fans in the correct spots - theirs one on here in the modding section but quite a few on youtube...there are no 3rd party dvd power extension cables, this has to be done manualy...make sure you use thick wire (i'd suggest also doubling up) and make it as short as possible

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depending on what console it was running on (i.e an old console or a repaired unit) when you slap that HDD onto a new system you might find that everything is corrupted...no one knows why and no one can explain but you can back this up to your computer and also use other tools to get it back if you have problems

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that you own - rip them with Schrotom 4.0 (name your image and press extract) and use XDVDMULLETER 10.2 Beta to make a .dvd file only (don't check stealth, you own it lol...of course it's stealth :p) and use that .dvd file in Clone CD and burn on Verbatim DVD + R DL at 2.4x burning speed.

Oh and you will need a "Kreon drive" - eBay those words (that's the special drive you need for ripping Xbox 360 games, i'd also advise getting a Pioneer Burner 11x as in 111,112,115 etc if your current burner doesn't burn well or you are having problems)

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greetings
but what would be the point ??...you can't do anything without an exploitable kernal not unless you butcher your NAND and had a NAND dump...then this would be useful I got an idea for another mod chip for a different console lol if your interested in making it PM me no seriously hehe (i'm a modder...it would be very popular !!)

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lol
noooooo you think, nahh couldn't be...your one of like what 20 other million or more people who had something maybe only a select few should have (your like a guy who goes to a funeral with a green hat and an orange belt)...and then they say things like this when they get banned yet were warned but didn't take to it (again not just you mate )

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sorry creatox I can't measure exactly how much heat the chips are getting (unless someone really wants to see that bad and want to send me an IR thermometer, i'd be happy to do it), I can say that that's not the direct temperature on the chips but i'd say it's fairly close.  My tip that I am using now is like imagine you have a full block of metal and you cut it on a diagonal and hollowed it all out...that's what i'm using so the heat that comes out is so much more even and nice...it is the perfect size of the CPU and GPU and if I put it on paper, browns it very nice (at highest temp) and evenly unlike the hollow circle tip I was using previously...

my heatgun is a GMC Platinum 2000w (http://www.gmcompany.com.au/index.cfm?module=products&pid=91) ahh I found the tip ! Go here (http://www.gmcompany.com/download/products/HG2000K_Manual.pdf) and look at number 12 on page 6/9, looks a bit retarded from the back - I was considering using 9 but it's oversized..like using a semi truck to pull a trailer

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maybe/maybe not..it's hard to tell the extent of what was damaged and also to what extent (sometimes you can hurt it a alot and it will work fine, sometimes you hurt it a little and that's it...im not referring to Lite On's specifically just in general electronics..pc's etc) without physically measuring and checking everything but it's worth a try cause that's about the only option you have left (unless this is your first time extracting a key from a Lite On and you just have a bad RS232...you may want to consider sending it to someone)

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you might have wrecked your laser or it might just be old and dying (these things happen), i'd say get a new one and replace it (there so cheap, PM if interested) and also have a soldering iron spare to remove the anti static solder blob (some eBayer's will do it for you for like $1 but then you have no static protection...your choice but it won't really get damaged if they take care and you do also) nothing over 25w !

after you replace the laser your good...you don't need to tweak it or try any of these other stupid so called "methods" just replacing the laser will get you going

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oh yeah because I love wasting my time making posts like this one right here...see I don't like to help people, I just go on a forum to talk. Not to help, just to talk, disagree and waste time - the jig is up  I guess everyone knows why I am really here know...oh well

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^ no problems cause im not the one being banned here hey (and yes i'm speaking in general, not just to you) but if there was a disagreement with someone say Arakon who was actually involved in the testing with secdata.bin don't you think he would have shot me down by now ?? disagree however much you want because I really could give 2 $#!ts honestly 

random2k your almost right - hey, at least you did some readin'


Yes correct except secdata.bin is stored in the NAND of the Xbox 360


It won't keep it clean...if it happens to play a bad game (as in the firmware allows it) it's logged and if you have had a previous bad game from the use of old firmware that still exists in the log, however a note here is that as I said before not EVERYTHING is known about what exactly is and isn't logged in secdata.bin but also things like for example e66 are logged..."doggy stuff"


what I said before...the theory I had way long time ago was that if you cleared it (every time) you should be fine however this isn't easily done and isn't dooable for alot of people AND I don't know how M$ are using these logs (read up a bit) so that may be useless


mulleter (which i'm only suggesting cause I know "people" don't like my suggestion of abgx since it's "geared towards pirates" but IMHO abgx is the new and improved mulleter...way better in every aspect anywhoo)


as above...making sure (if your going to use abgx) that it's set up properly (Arakon i'm not trying to give the wrong impression or any suggestions towards pirating or piracy, this tool can be used legitamentally same with mulleter)


Yeaaah but as I said, it's not just that, secdata.bin



Just want to make this clear to everyone not just you

THERE is NO problem with the current firmware and the detection method/s have been the same as always (well since 4532 when secdata.bin was incorporated into the kernal hehe, sneaky sneaky)

remember...if you disagree...I don't care !

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yeah spose your right, just thinking...does anybody actually know whats in that 44 byte signed file (the media flag ??)

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haha oh yeah I forgot about the need for an infectus to program the chip lol, yeah I know it's just the XD card mod on a fancy PCB but it is quite a nice idea. Maybe (probably never) if there is a hacked bios we can start using these hehe but until then i'm not touching one...if these people wanted ot make money they should have brought this out a loooooong time ago

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XD
your cousin is an idiot !


yay finally someone did there research, because of that we will help

the reason your Xbox 360 is reading back ups is because:

you screwed your laser tweaking the pot, put it back to where it was...you usually go down in resistance not up also 

your back-ups are not stealth (check with mulleter or abgx which is what I use)

you are using $#!t media

you have a bad burn

your firmware is fine as you said you could read originals which means the dvd key is correct, what media are you using (Verbatim DVD + R DL burnt at 2.4x using CloneCD or IMGBurn is what you should be using) and have you checked your back-ups with mulleter or abgx

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look...my thoughts no facts again as I can't interperate secdata.bin for those who can't read (and I know no one asked for them...but the facts are already there, logged and banned) on the whole review retail copy thing is: provided you don't actually play them on LIVE and they contain valid "stealth" files you should be fine and that should not be logged

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yes but the 360 needs to realize it's been ejected...which it probably won't in the state it's in now

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haha yeah didn't even think of that  , do that !

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sent to a person who could read it ffs...ROBINSOD !! I keep telling you I don't know how to interperate them...where are you test results. What like I need to send them to you because you can read them ? Idiot..just take a second and read and understand that I can not interperate them, I only knew robinsod could but maybe tmbinc can also (and maybe a few others like that)...

MastaG I wouldn't have posted my FULL console info here haha (M$ do visit this site, ask Arakon) - check your PM's...we should talk over MSN

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wtf are you on about dickhead...my method...if my "method" was sending it to M$ for repair then it wouldn't be a method now would it...idot

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sorry time difference's and school but i'm finished school for the rest of the year till February (wo hoo!) when I start again

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thanks appreciated...so...Guitar Heros are only 2.5GB hey, hmm well assuming it's not still actually using some of the data *from* the dvd in the tray...the rest (I would assume) is junk data.  So it's like Wii disks (well completely different actually but you get what i'm pointing at) where you can scrub em' 

Ok so I just got an idea...lets equate for the "left over" data, (not having installed the NXE I wouldn't know and I don't think this has been answered)  is the video sector copied over (To play this...) ? I don't think it would be...because you couldn't not play it in an Xbox 360 and you can't put the HDD on someone else's console either. 

Apart from that, what the hell else could make up that much "extra" data or is the game simply 2.5GB big as n00bpwner360  suggested...

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