it doesn't matter what side of the board, just as long as you bridge red to blue and sky blue to yellow. just make sure to only bridge them once.

btw this is the best thread ever and most def deserves a pin

I have a simular problem. I have a version 1.2 - 1.5 xbox, messed up on the bottom and undid one of the traces so I found alternate points. but now the xbox boots but will not recognize games, gives me a dirty disk error. replaced the drive with a working one from my other xbox but still get the dirty disk error. anyone have any ideas?

I know I'm reviving an old post, but damn... I thought I'll come back and thank davicoro for helping me find this alternative points.

I fixed, retraced and soldered my friends Matix modchip on his old 1.0 MoBo... but the d0 was so damn small I was having a hard time trying to solder it, even with the flux.

It worked like a charm on the alternate points.

My kudos to you davicoro!

So wait...
Can I join yellow/sky blue right below R7R3 instead of joining R7R4 with C7R3 on a 1.1 box?

I'm confused...

you can join any point highlighted in yelllow to any point highlighted in sky blue to write enable the TSOP

I wish I knew that before I dissected a mouse cable to get a wire to connect R7R4 with C7R3.

Oh well, it was a dead mouse anyways...

This tutorial will be great for people who mess up TSOP solder jobs. I saved it all incase any of my friends start doing TSOP jobs. They are too eager and I can see them messing up at least once. Anyway nice work

Do you have to do Top and bottom of Mobo? Or can you just do top...Sorry if its allready been mention I justed skimmed thru...

just look at the pictures, you have to link the 2 sets of colors, if you choose all points on the top of the baord thats all you need, if you choose point son top and on bottom then you have to top and bottom

Thanks to the poster for taking his time and doing something that i think must have
Help a good few of us out

STICKY STICKY

if you had bothered to read the stickies yoursefl youd know this is linked in the tutorials collection, its also posted some 14,000 other places on the site in my sig, lol

Thanks for this. This helped a lot.

i have a v1.0 and lifted the pad on the bottom point, the top point is fine. Does anyone know what lines (yellow/skyblue or red/blue) to replace my bottom points?

nvm i got it thanks for the alt's

sorry for the thread revival.

Since i'm a retarded when it comes to electronics and soldering: can I just bridge the two point pairs (V1.2/1.3) with a wire and sticking some electrical tape along so that it stays, or do I REALLY have to solder?

Solder please. Or you can always purchase a conductive ink pen at radio shack $10 USD.

you mean http://www.hmcelectronics.com/cgi-bin/scri...oduct/1530-0102, right? isn't there sort of a danger for other points NOT to solder?

also, i have to ask:

1- can the liquid coming out of that pen be easily removed?
2- will that liquid affect the underlying pathways?
3- can I link the points to do a first TSOP flash or does it HAVE to be a recovery?


just so I know. I don't want to brick my "best" console ( i have two, and i want to mod the one that works better ^^; )

Why hasn't this been pinned? This topic saved my dumb butt. I suck at soldering so I ruined the points on the top side of the mobo and I searched and searched and FINALLY found something to save my butt. Thanks so much guys.

nice work, tagage

Your v1.2+ picture shows two parts on the motherboard. one on the top and one on the bottom. are these 2 diferent methods or do you have to solder on both sides of board?

they are 2 different methods, you just have to join any one red point to any one blue point, and any one yellow point to any one light blue point

depending on which points and how many are wrecked you may or may not need top+bottom

My turn to resurrect.
I have done a couple of modchip installs, but i wanted to try a TSOP to see what it was all about. I am decent with a solder pencil, but i just couldn't get the second pair of points (closest to the LPC on my 1.4) connected. Thanks to the alternate points given, it was a snap. Successful flash. Thanks to the OP!!!
PTF

is there any special thing that I have to do in order to successfully solder the alternative point ? I tried to just solder point A to point B and it is not working

if you are just trying to solder the gap without using a wire to connect them, I never had much luck with that. I just got a small piece of wire, (i used a single strand of cable from a bad HDD cable I had laying around, and made that a couple inches long and just soldered that wire to the two points. it made it alot easier for me.
-PTF