Please tell me if they worked good for you or if you had a problem.
I heard that peope have problems with them so if they have a problem or will break my box i might solder
please respond
thanks for your help

for an x2 lite

they suck dick. just solder like it should be done

Buck up and solder that mod soldier!!

Pogo Pin adapters do work.

But they can be difficult to line up.
I screwed my first xbox due to poor soldering skills, hence the reason iused the pogo option.

QUOTE (CrowCollege @ Feb 28 2003, 12:10 PM)

Please tell me if they worked good for you or if you had a problem. I heard that peope have problems with them so if they have a problem or will break my box i might solder please respond thanks for your help

wires are in my opinion way faster and easier to install

I have the matrix at home and it works fine for me. I have taken my xbox everywhere with me so it's been bounced around pretty good and I don't have any issues with it at all. I still think the best way to go would be to solder because it is more of a permanent solution but if you don't have the steady hands or the skills, you might end up buying a new xbox.

Red

installed x2pro w/ pogo's and it went perfect...i'm very suprised by the performance, not 1 problem whatsoever!!!

Iv'e been a techie for 11 years now, from Car dashboards to powerbooks.

If it's easier, quicker, less risk, no overheating of PCB components & reliable.

Why the FARK would you want to waste time soldering!!!.

I wanna know exactly what is faulty about the X2 Pogo Pin adapters, and how people are frying their xbox's using them. I heard because people are putting the X2 on the pogo pins backwards or something, and that if you align them wrong it can burn up traces, but no one has actually come through with any truth on that as far as I know.

well a friend of mine wanted to test his chip with my pogo pins, to make sure his chip worked after he was having problems with it....so we had a very tech savvy friend of ours install it with the pogos...

he turned the box on, and smoke came from the chip, and there was a burnt trace on his x2pro...but my pogos were fine.

i think it has to do with the fact that our friend didnt take much time to inspect the alignment, and possibly cuz my pogo's didnt have the protective paper on the bottom like they should, and maybe something was touching the board that shouldnt.

i was worried as fuck when it came to install my x2 pro with these same pogo's...but everything went fine, and its been working great for over a week now.

so i really suggest the pogo's if you don't feel comfortable soldering yourself, or if you're like me and just dont like the idea of soldering in your nice new $200 xbox.

I was going to go the pogo route untill I saw the trouble people were having with getting everything aligned properly. If you are capable of soldering definitely go this route as the connection is more secure and it will save you the cost of a $30 pogo-pin adapter. If not I would recommend that you find a professional installer that you trust (yes I went this route) and have them solder it for you. If that won't work for you then try the pogo-pins.

fuck pogopins, just solder the fookin chip

Pogo pins are promising that they can be easilly installed by a non expert,
but they are more difficult even for an expert...

Of course there is always the risk of an electrical sock,
as you have to work with your Xbox powered on.

The best solution is to use soldering, and achieve a steady fit!

For this reason X-elixis LPC connector has been made,
that can be installed very easy thanks to the Flexible circuit board,
without any wires neededfor the LPC points!

Of course No-Soldering is the challenge,
but with an easy, cheap and safe way!

For this reason we are currently testing a new solution,
to minimize soldering with the right way(!),
introducing Press&Fit connectors!
www.x-elixis.com

Press&Fit - 1 sec that you will never forget!

Don't use pogo pins if you're expecting it to last a while... It constantly gets misaligned.

I'd say the best would be header pins. You can install a header pin once, and conenct the chip to the header pins. If a new chip comes out, you just swap the chip and connect the new chip to the header pins. You only need to solder once!

Of course there is always the risk of an electrical sock,
as you have to work with your Xbox powered on.????

Since when are you supposed to install pogo's with your xbox on?

if thats what everyone's doing, no wonder they're frying their shit.

I remember one post regarding the tape underneath the pogo pins... sometimes the metal components start to cut through that tape. It could cause a short?? i'm not sure but i put extra tape on it just to be sure cuz i saw the hole happening.

But overall, i never could get the pins lined up and ended up learning how to solder instead. If it lines up then i guess the pogos aren't that bad.

during my installation of pogos i noticed you really have to play with the screw a bit to make sure the LPC and D0 pins are all touching their respective points.

after i notced this, installation was a breeze.

I LOVE MY XBOX!!!!!!!!! i dont think i can stress that enough.

Soldering the chip will get you a more reliable/stable connection...if you can't solder, save the cash from the price of the pogo pins and pay an installer to solder it for you.

My personal expereince with pogo pins has been great!! Since my xbox just sits in the living room and never really moves, there is no chance for it to get misaligned! I'm sure it could happen if you tossed the xbox across the livingroom and maybe jumped on it a few times... but then you can simply re-align. It will probably save you a lot of $$$ in the longrun if you've never soldered before.

I don't suggest you make the XBOX your first attempt at soldering.