Chipping an Xbox

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Right, I've bought an original Xbox from my sister's boyfriend, for £30. And my plan is to get Xbox Media Center on there, then to use it for streaming downloaded tv and films across my network to my tv. So I need to chip it.

People who chip consoles all seem to charge £40-£50. It looks like I can just buy a chip for about £10-£20 though, then fit it myself. So what I want to know is 1) which chip should I get? There's loads of different ones and I don't really know what any of them do. And 2) how hard is it to fit a chip? has anyone done it?

― JimD, Sunday, 22 April 2007 11:50 (eighteen years ago)

just soft-mod it dude, it will cost you basically nothing and you don't need to open the box or soldier anything.
http://wiki.hellowafflezone.com/

― webber, Monday, 23 April 2007 03:25 (eighteen years ago)

i've always wanted to try this. is ir true that, once you chip it, you can't play online?.

― funny farm, Monday, 23 April 2007 05:28 (eighteen years ago)

Kind of - you need to disable your chip when you log onto live, otherwise it bans you. I'm not too worried about that though, I don't expect to use live really anyway.

This softmodding might be a good idea, yeah. Sounds a bit of a faff to get the file from your pc to an xbox memory card though. Guess what I end up doing might depend on what version my console is, but I haven't checked that yet and can't at the moment because I left it in Manchester.

― JimD, Monday, 23 April 2007 19:08 (eighteen years ago)

How dumb am I to think you were talking about damaging the plastic casing of the XBox EVEN AFTER READING THE FIRST POST?

― David R., Monday, 23 April 2007 20:24 (eighteen years ago)

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