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This is something from my last few posts on LiveJournal. I'm putting these here for reference.
I walk about 20 minutes nearly every morning. Occasionally, on Garbage Day - I get to look over and see if there's interesting junk I can snag. I've pulled a few XBoxes from the trash in the past but never really got to do much with them and they got discarded. Both had busted DVD drives.
This time I found an XBox 360 lying in the snow. Complete with connecting cables and a 120gig hard drive. The front plate was completely smashed up and it was filthy and wet... but hey, why not take a look. No power cord but the power supply brick was there.
I shuffled the thing into the basement to dry out for a few days.
After that I gave the thing a good wipe down with Clorox wipes. It stank of cigarette smoke. I let it dry another day, then plugged it in, expecting it to be completely dead.
It booted up. It logged in as one of the users and then booted the game disk that was still in the drive.
I could not get the disk drive to open so I guess that explains the smashed front.
Google time.
So what I've got is an XBox 360 from 2009 - Jasper motherboard, Lite On DVD drive. Connecting a USB keyboard gave me functionality to the console but not the games. There were 11 users on it! Yep... they tossed it an didn't wipe the drive.
No, I'm not going to use the accounts on the box. That's not nice.
I did plug it into the Internet and it said there were updates to it! Go for it Bill Gates! It installed a new kernel and updated at least on of the profiles so I decided to keep it off line for the time being.
I decided that a 20 dollar investment in a controller and 10 dollars into Torx screwdrivers was justified. This could be interesting.
The power brick was making grinding noises so that was the first thing that needed fixing. Peeling off the rubber plugs on the brick I stabbed myself (FIRST BLOOD) but I got them off and revealed the 4 screws holding the brick together.
They were not Phillips like the Internet said. They were Torx. Well, I got the wrenches...
... and I immediately stripped all 4 of them. I put in some WD40 and let them sit while I did some more Googling.
to be continued
-m
I walk about 20 minutes nearly every morning. Occasionally, on Garbage Day - I get to look over and see if there's interesting junk I can snag. I've pulled a few XBoxes from the trash in the past but never really got to do much with them and they got discarded. Both had busted DVD drives.
This time I found an XBox 360 lying in the snow. Complete with connecting cables and a 120gig hard drive. The front plate was completely smashed up and it was filthy and wet... but hey, why not take a look. No power cord but the power supply brick was there.
I shuffled the thing into the basement to dry out for a few days.
After that I gave the thing a good wipe down with Clorox wipes. It stank of cigarette smoke. I let it dry another day, then plugged it in, expecting it to be completely dead.
It booted up. It logged in as one of the users and then booted the game disk that was still in the drive.
I could not get the disk drive to open so I guess that explains the smashed front.
Google time.
So what I've got is an XBox 360 from 2009 - Jasper motherboard, Lite On DVD drive. Connecting a USB keyboard gave me functionality to the console but not the games. There were 11 users on it! Yep... they tossed it an didn't wipe the drive.
No, I'm not going to use the accounts on the box. That's not nice.
I did plug it into the Internet and it said there were updates to it! Go for it Bill Gates! It installed a new kernel and updated at least on of the profiles so I decided to keep it off line for the time being.
I decided that a 20 dollar investment in a controller and 10 dollars into Torx screwdrivers was justified. This could be interesting.
The power brick was making grinding noises so that was the first thing that needed fixing. Peeling off the rubber plugs on the brick I stabbed myself (FIRST BLOOD) but I got them off and revealed the 4 screws holding the brick together.
They were not Phillips like the Internet said. They were Torx. Well, I got the wrenches...
... and I immediately stripped all 4 of them. I put in some WD40 and let them sit while I did some more Googling.
to be continued
-m
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