I just purchased this system off of EBay for $80 shipped (got it on 12/15/08) without any power, games, controllers, or hard drive. It has a DVD-ROM that, according to the EBay seller, has reading issues. I however, loaded games on it 4 times and didn’t have any problems. The only problem is does have is that sometimes the DVD tray won’t open…so you have to push on it (from the top) a little bit to get it to open. No biggie.
Here is the information about it:
Was opened (was intending to swap DVD-ROM but learned that each motherboard has a single key for the drive it shipped it, other drives require flashing, etc. I was no able to get the key from the drive so I couldn’t finish swapping drives) therefore the warranty sticker is broken.
Has the Samsung DVD-ROM
Does NOT have the HDMI port. Has your basic A/V port that, if right cable is used, can be used for HDTV or regular TV.
Hard Drive NOT included
Power Brick IS included
Video Cables NOT included
1 Wired Controller included
2 Games included (Call of Duty 3 and Kenji or something like that)
I purchased this system off of Craigslist probably 8 months ago for $220. I then modded it and played it for a couple months before it developed the red rings of death problem. I fixed the problem by doing the X-Clamp fix (those of you who mod 360’s know what this is). After about two months, the video on this system died and that is the ONLY problem. The system still boots up just fine, reads games, and otherwise works. It just does not output video. Due to the modding, the warranty sticker on this box is also broken.
The firmware of the Hitachi drive was reverted back to original, so it will no longer play burned games. This was done because I was trying to put it into the system listed above, but was unable to retrieve the firmware/DVD key from that system.
Here is the information about it:
Was opened due to modding. Therefore the warranty sticker is broken.
Has the Hitachi 47 DVD-ROM
Does NOT have the HDMI port. Has your basic A/V port that, if right cable is used, can be used for HDTV or regular TV.
It requires taking apart the entire XBox down to pretty much the last screw. If you’re technical, google X-Clamps Fix. If you’re not technical…buy one of my XBox’s and have someone on craigslist finish up the work that needs to be done :).
I’ll keep that under wraps until I do a proper photographic unveiling. No one on the forum has it. It’s not a tuner or a muscle or anything else. To me, it’s sheer luxury :). The ETA is mid-spring. :).
I couldn’t boot to my USB flash drive successfully. And the CD method failed as well. NTFS4DOS wouldn’t run correctly. Very weird. I work on PC’s 5 days a week, couldn’t figure out my own damn box lol.
Samsung drives are a little bit more complicated to flash. Hitachi’s are the easiest, but they can be ‘bricked’ more.
I have the key now…so if I ever need to replace, I’m good.
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Let me know if you are interested. Thank you.