i'm looking at the soldierless option the ..cuter 2.3b lite

but there is a soldier version 3.

anyone know what the benefits the 3 have over the 2.3

 

Version 3 has a nice sticky to the front of yer xbox thing ( technical version ) that disables the modchip ..

eemr ... err ... ( new to this ! )

 

The solderless 2.3b lite also has the switch on the front of the Xbox. Been running one on mine for several months with no problems... however this is now a discontinued version and pretty hard to get hold off..

You could always run the 2.6 with one of these fitted to make it solderless, although never tried this so not sure how reliable it would be....!!

Or you could try something like this

 

The v3 pro switches are a tad nicer than the old v2 ones

 

Hello

Is there any reason to "upgrade"? I had my 2.3 chip fitted a year or so ago.

Steve.

 

Depends really on what you want from the chip, but for most its not worth upgrading IMO . . . . if it ain't broke

There are a huge amount of new features and options, but much of this can be done with other bios/software on existing chips.

Check out the feature list !

Bank Modes:
256k/256k/256k/256k/256k/256k/256k/256k/ 512k/512k/512k/512k/
1024k/1024k
2048k

X3 Config LIVE! All X3 Config Live! features are displayed on screen

- All works direct from new X3 on any new install - settings stored to the mod not Hard Drive.
- Select which bios bank to boot via software
- Switch to either retail bios mode or FULL debug bios mode
- Option to reset Xbox with X3 disabled
- Display / Edit bios names from each bank
- X3 Auto names bios banks from filename of bios
- Full DHCP & Static IP Support
- Built-in FTP Server with Boost Mode (Over 11,000kb/sec !!)
- Built-in Webserver
- Flash BIOS via HTTP
- Flash BIOS via FTP
- New FTP Based Bios Storage System
- Control all BIOS / Mod functions and settings from HTTP & PC App
- Enhanced BIOS flash speed (Between 22 and 25 seconds - Erase/Flash/Verify)
- Built-in Onscreen Keyboard
- Built in incremental screen shot capability (White + Back - E:X3screenshots dir)
- Boot to X3 Config Live from any dashboard without resetting
- Quick Reboot feature on the gamepad (Black + back)
- Customize all features of the bios on-the-fly
- LBA48 Live Control (Select Standard Xbox Drive, Nghtshds Saved Partitions, F Gets All, F gets 137GB G Gets the rest)
- Supports Nghtshd's New Saved Partition Tools
- IGR Live Control (Enable or Disable)
- Quick Launch Feature (Select Xbe to boot on startup by holding a trigger)
- Customize startup animation colors on-the-fly (New Active Color Picker System)
- 6 Xbox Logo color presets
- Customize startup flubber colors on-the-fly (New Active Color Picker System)
- 7 Flubber Color Presets
- New 3D X3 Logo embedded into startup animation on bootup to sho easy recognition of X3 Booting
- Cool new animated "3" graphic that zooms in onto the X Logo on startup (Colors can be customized)
- Change Camera Angles of the startup animation (select between 15 options or choose random)
- Enable / Disable Wireframe flubber
- Enable / Disable TM Symbol on Xbox Boot Logo
- Change background colors of the startup screen
- Custom startup logo (x3logo.bmp on E drive - 256 colors 180x50)
- Reset Xbox with gamepad (black + back)
- Password your XBOX for extra security
- Change your power LED color on the fly
- Set your Internal Fan Speed on-the-fly
- Enable or Disable Reset on eject hack
- Boot to original MS Dash
- Boot to original MS Bios
- Load Bios from HDD C, D, E, F and Flash (both 2mb Flash Rom & 256k Backup Flash Rom)
- Load Bios from DVD-ROM and Flash (both 2mb Flash Rom & 256k Backup Flash Rom)
- Format & Partition HDD
- Install & Partition Brand new HDD (ready to FTP in less than 5 seconds!)
- Lock / Unlock HDD
- Create a data file (x3data.txt) on E drive with all your Xbox's settings and information. Also includes all your flubber / logo color information for sharing.
- Set / Display Video Mode
- Progressive Scan Control (480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i)
- Set widescreen / letterbox
- Set / Display Game Region
- Set / Display DVD Region
- Display HDD Password
- Display All Xbox Live Configuration
- Display All Network Configuration
- Display all Eeprom public and encrypted data
- Display Xbox Version
- Display Video Encoder Version
- Display all temperature readings (v1.0 - v1.5)
- Save XBOX EEPROM to X3
- Save XBOX EEprom to Hard Drive via FTP
- Restore XBOX EEPROM from X3
- Restore XBOX EEprom from Hard Drive via FTP
- Option to Format the X3 Eeprom and revert to defaults)
- Auto Save EEPROM to X3 on first install
- Save Settings to EEPROM
- Set default dashboard
- Setup custom dashboard selection (5 Different Dashboards - You choose)
- Set drive to boot dash from (C E or F)
- Auto Fix of corrupt date / time
- Jump straight to X3 Config Live from any xbe (Use IGR then press white button)
- Many Warning dialogue boxes to make it difficult to do something wrong.
- X3 Software Integration to other dashboards
- Brand new X3 Bios Manager for the PC - MANY new features including full BIOS configuration via built in webserver

 

I'm lookin at gettin my Xbox chipped too.When you order the v3 chip do you get the switches in the pics above included then or are they extra?
Where's the cheapest place for the chips?
Think I've seen em on baldbouncer for about £37??

Cheers

Nick

P.S: No solderless v3 chips out yet then?

 

The switches I pictured are not included, but the ones you do get aren't bad either.

No solderless X3 yet. Would recommend Bald Bouncer for price and support.

 

I put a xenium ice solderless in mine dead easy to do..
Seems to have pretty similar features to the Xecuter 3..

 

The most important thing to remember is that X3 has 'X3 Config LIVE!'

This means that it is totally configurable via built in software. No other chip has this.

 

Got a Xenium been very happy and works really well.

Steve

 

Dunk,
Where are those switches available from?
Just had a look on the baldbouncer website and they only list this switch at £4... (If I need the switch too it'll be nice to order everything together and ideally from the same place)




Just what exactly do the switches allow you to do though? lol
I'm new to all this Xbox modding malarky (As if you couldn't guess )

Cheers

Nick

 

i ordered the 2.6 with xapter
i also ordered the programmer

can someone tell me what the programmer is?
and how you use it

 

The v3 pro switches can only be used on the v3 xecuter, not on the v2 afaik.

The programmer allows you to connect the chip to it, then connect it to your PC to flash the bios on it via Windows software.

 

I was running one of the original beta enigma 15 billion wire solder modchips (and vowed NEVER to solder another mod chip ever again) up until recently. I then bought a 2.6 non solder mod, whopped it in within minutes and also upgraded the hard drive at the same time. So easy it was unreal and I should of done it months and months ago.



Regards,
Shaun.

 

The V3 is coming with an adapter to help with the REALLY bitchy soldering required for the D0-D2 wires... God they were a pain in the ****... but the adapter does away with this and frankly even a complete muppet like me can solder the pin header on.

I got mine from mrmodchips... really fast service!

 

i heard you need to flash the chip,
so using the programmer i flash it once y the pc, and don't need to do it again with the xbox?

btw where do i get the thingy to flash it,

 

Yes.

#xbins

 

guess what?
got the chip today, tried to fit the xapter, the last pin was lost. was looking for it,
then the rest of the pins all fell off,

brick wall. xbox, xbox brick wall i don't believe you two have met YET!!!!!!!!!!

 

WTF???
is that?

 

IRC - EFNet - #xbins. You want me to spell it out ?

 

actually its ok, found a website to dl it
no need to hassle with IRC

 

wooooooooohooooooooo i managed to chip my xbox,

drinks are on me.!! er,,,, nah take that back

ps i don't remember why i want to chip it, as i got no games for it