My Xbox died yesterday. Every time I turned it on the harddrive made this horrible clunking sound and eventually a warning (in many languages) appeared on the screen telling me that my Xbox needs repair and that I should call customer support. I called them… $99 for repair, yeah right! They’ve already repaired it once for free because it was under warrantee, so there’s no way I’m paying $99 for a 2 year old, first generation, twice repaired Xbox. So yesterday I went out and bought a new Xbox for $179.
The possible silver lining to this dark, dark cloud is that SOMETIMES the hard drive does still work in the old Xbox. If I’m gentle with it (ie. Open up the Xbox case, unhook the drive, shake it around, and reattach it), sometimes the Xbox will start back up as normal. I was able to pull off most of my saved games (KOTOR’s saved games are too big for the memory card, which is the worst because I’m 36 hours into the game and I’ve almost beat it). So I started thinking about whether I can replace the harddrive with a copy of everything that is currently on the mostly broken harddrive.
A bit of googling revealed that you CAN do this, but you need a mod chip installed in your Xbox, and some special software installed on your Xbox harddrive. See, the mod chip makes the Xbox more receptive to software & hardware that it previously wouldn’t accept (think Xbox = woman, mod chip = alcohol). So, as long as my harddrive cooperates long enough, I plan on modding my broken xbox, replacing the harddrive and voila a second working Xbox!!! In the long run it’d probably have been cheaper to just send it to MS, but it would have been less fun! More updates on this topic as it progresses.
I can't wait for new updates. This is so exciting.
I think this sort of behavior is indicative of the person. In this case, it reveals someone willing to tinker even though so many details are unknown. This person is bold and brash -- and beautiful, so b-e-a-utiful.
Marry me, Jake.