Ok, here's the situation:
I upgraded the xbox of a friend (which first was modded with an Alladin, and now X 2.3b Lite) with a 120gb Maxtor HD 8mb cache 7200 rpm...

During the installation, weird things happened.. "Weird?" I hear you say, yes, weird!

Weird being: after I put my custom evox install disc in the drive, and formatted the damn thing (and installed evox), I restarted the box and I saw the screen of my evox install disc again *while i the disc in my hand*.... I restarted again, same thing :S... (I use this disc on my mods all the time, no prob...)

To make a long story short:
I reinstalled, everything *seemed* to work, and now my friend comes back with the message that his box freezes or quits back to the dashboard when it playes a game (during, not while starting)...

I installed a new chip (Xecuter 2.3b Lite) and the thing still happens.
I searched a little on the subject and found that I should reformat the HD.
Anybody have any suggestions for a other course of action?

(and could someone please explain the freak Evox install cd thing??)

Thanks in advance.
M

Reformatted, nothing
Installed a new HD, NOTHING

Could someone Please help me???

tend to blame ghost hardware. just like a computer ... memory/cpu/bus issues. can you put it back to stock and still have the issues?

Well I sorted it out (kinda)....

The prob:
This xbox, when turned on, reached a temp of 59o Celcius (CPU) and 51o Celcius (MB). This temp would be reached, ten minutes aftes playing with a game or after a freeze/frag. I performed the 12v mod, and now the fragging has lessened considerably.

But my q being:
How could these temps (59o/51o) affect the xbox? Would the Hd have a max operating temp?

HD:
Maxtor 120gb, 7200rpm 8mb Cache

(second HD tested, but one used is above):
Samsung 160gb, 7200rpm 8mb Cache

*bump*....

Interesting: let the xbox run with the lid off...... When it froze I laid my finger on the HD to feel how warm it was: I almost burned myself!

Xbox V1.0, HD specs above.
Could this be the first documented HD temperature prob?