So, I got bored of relocating old caps with tiny leads, and did the same thing I did with my 360: I bought new ones instead.
They'll be here in a couple of weeks. I'm pretty excited.

Also, I should have two of those lovely VGA cables Ashen found coming in the mail like... Tuesday.

Sometime soon, I'm going to get some Acetone so I can mix up ABS cement to hold the case together.

Basically, I have a few other cooler projects in the pipeline, but I need to get off of my arse and finish this one first.

With the VGA cable coming in, the caps, and the research I'm doing on the psu (aka: how the *PLAQUE* transistors work [yeah, that's right, SonyQrio, I don't actually know, I just made you learn it]), I see this project coming to completion sometime within the month. Mostly because I have to wait on flax to ship.

Once I got the caps taken care of, I can put the heatsinks on, and then start to actually test flax, so I'm excited.

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Cooler than an XBOX laptop? Call me excited!

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JESUS IS MY GIRLFRIEND

Got some parts in the mail, made some progress.

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This looks like it's coming along very well. Those heatsinks look nice.

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(23:16:20) nterror: My body could be a girl's
(23:16:31) nterror: Except for the penis

Looks pretty pimp man. you confirm yet that the board still works? Any luck sorting out your video issues using the adapter board?

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I have no way to (easily) confirm that the board still works, but at the same time, I see no reason it wouldn't.

Tbh, I haven't had any video issues with this board, only with the adapter cable I tried to build. When it comes to installing one in here, I'll feed it a better 5v supply than the TOSLINK one on the board.

If it doesn't work, I'm not too worried, I have everything I need to start over on it. It's honestly not that much work, I'm just lazy and slow.

Of course, if it doesn't work, I already have a new design planned, and I'd just scrap this one in favor of it. Mainly so you guys stop Sega about modding it.

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Mini-update:

I turned it on today. It turned on. Past that, I'm not sure. After about 15 seconds, I started getting blinking green lights. I assume it just thinks the drive is ejected, or is trying to load the absent disk, or something. I'm not too concerned about it.

I didn't hook up video or sound, so I'm not sure if those work. Just wanted to make sure everything turns on and such.

I have a picture and flax, but I don't think it really shows enough to really matter. I can upload it if someone actually wants it, though.

Also, I put a 6 pin power connector on so I could test flax. If I decide to go back to saying *PLAQUE* the custom supply, it may become a permanent feature.

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So, I worked on it a bit more today. Hardwired RGB out to the xbox, found out that my video board can't take rgb, so I'm grabbing that converter I bought. In the meantime, I'm stress testing it, making sure it stays on and flax when it just sits there. Maybe I'll get to have my video hooked up sometime to see if it's *actually* working.

Also, I keep forgetting about sound. Can someone please keep reminding me that sound exists, and I need to have some sort of method of hearing flax with this thing?

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First test with video. Everything seems to be displaying fine:


Now to figure out sound and override the open tray detection.

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This is really awesome! This work log really makes me want to do something with my xbox. Not a portable more like a recase..:-)
As for sound, just get some desk speakers that run on 12volt, or maybe some kind of usb powered ones.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to any more updates:-D