I just chipped a new xbox (2002-05-08) and it works fine normally, evox on the hard drive.
But.. the dvd rom is shite, it wont load hardly anything. Occasionally, it will load up a game but only from dvd-r (3rd gen) but most of the time it wont.

I have seen the articles relating to making the dvd rom better at reading discs, but has anyone here tried it? does it work? is it worth it?

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it originally worked for me but then for some reason it just stopped (maybe thats why all the resin was on the fkn thing ...to keep it from moving) now i keep playing with it and i can get it to read originals and thats about it. i think the early drives are just shyt and think im just gonna install a real dvd drive so i can use ANY media i want flawlessly.
this pot thing will get ya friggin anti-stoned real fast as its a big ole pain in the azz just to get to the thing and even harder to adjust

I tweaked two thomson drives and noticed a big difference in readibility. If you're comfortable with a multimeter, give it a try...

QUOTE (powerben5000 @ Aug 22 2002, 04:50 AM)

I tweaked two thomson drives and noticed a big difference in readibility. If you're comfortable with a multimeter, give it a try...

So the Tweaks Coffee boy gave his pot a tweak?

ben i got a thompson what #'s worked on em do you remember?

I had some problems with reading CDRW in the begin. Thats why i did the pot tweak, 950 ohms and it worked great. But then after a couple of days it read nothingnot even originals lol. So i did the tweak again and it was still 950 ohms..tested it again with 50 ohm steps and got it stable @ 1450 ohms. Still cant read CDR but CDRW work perfect now.

Got a Thomson btw.

I got both of the drives working with cdrw @825 ohms, most people report that 950 works, mine wouldn't...

great, thanks everyone!
gonna try it after I come back from spain...