Fixing Dead Xbox's With ModChips

[devilotX]

I became a bit of a dumping ground for "Dead" xboxes, failed sofmods that give the Error 16 error on boot, about 4 or 5.

They've been collecting dust for a while,

but I recently purchased a pre-modded Xbox for the purpose of restoring the failed softmods.

Unfortunatly I know nothing of the modchip in my New (to me) Xbox, the only thing I know is there is a series of lights and switches on it, 1 that has chip on and off, one that switches banks and 1 that appears to switch the LED's (It appears to be an Xenium 2.6, but I don't know for certain)

I've tried the following:

Glossary:

CB - Chipped Xbox

SB - Softmodded Xbox

I used a Molex Y cable to connect the power from the CB to both hard drives

Powered the CB with it's hard drive in, booting to Slayers 2.6, moved IDE ribbon from the CB drive to the SB drive, use unlock on slayers to unlock and then restore RETAIL xbox software, relock drive. Drive does not boot in SB xbox. (gives error 16 or 21)

I've tried unlocking the SB drive in the CB with Slayers, then switching IDE ribbons to the PC and using the Xbox Linux HD restore CD, but it doesn't seem to work (I will keep trying this)

I've also tried cursing quite loudly, but that doesn't appear to be working either...

So what I need to know is this:

is this possible? I don't think I Can move the Chip from box to box (I bought a pre-modded because I cannot solder and suck at things of that nature.

Any assistance/guidance/guides you can offer would be greatly appreciated.

thank you,

[Andrew Lyle Global Moderator]

either way.. it is illegal, so we can not offer assistance...

[devilotX]

I'm not looking to do anything bootleg, I'm just looking to fix 4 or 5 Xbox's that are dead.

[Noveed]

rip the chip off the xboxes .... simple they will work ... thats only if they were flashed with wrong bios. thats what happened to mine i ripped the chip of and banged a new one and it worked