I think I was having overheating issues with my xbox, so I have got a broken xbox from a friend for the motherboard: It was only the dvd drive that broke on his, but he took out the hd to give to a friend to use in his PC. So basically I have a replacement motherboard, but nothing else.

I thought it was going to be simple to just change the motherboard as I didn't know about HD locking. I put it in and I get error code 06 on booting. Which I've learned means the hard drive is locked with the wrong code.

I've been trying to follow this guide http://www.xbox-scene.com/articles/no-modchip-hdd-swap.php but it's hard for me to follow and the only tools I could find "in the usual places" are liveinfo, xhdprepa, hddunlock and hdd_driver.

I'm finding it hard to follow that above guide because it's not quite the same as the job I'm doing (replacing a motherboard in a unmodded, but can softmod box). Does it make it any easier if I softmod it with the old motherboard?

Can anyone help me with this?

After reading another guide: http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?act...45&t=106123

I'm worried that the key I get from liveinfo with the original motherboard will not work when I try to use the HD with the new mobo. I'm getting information overload in step by step instructions that are for jobs that are different from what I'm trying to do

I'm not bad at surface mount soldering... is there a chip I can take off the old mobo and put on to the new one so I can avoid the HD lock error?

ok, scrap the surface mount soldering.... it's far too fine for me, had a go, but decided to re-apply the solder half way through cause I wasn't confident at removing it without breaking it. I'm back to needing help with unlocking and locking the HD for the new mobo.

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I've sucessfully unlocked and disabled the lokc on my hd... now I'm stuck with wondering what to do now because I need the code from the eeprom from the new mobo :/

Well, I did it eventually. I gave up on trying to lock it, because I couldn't boot on the original eeprom. I ended up putting a modchip in it from another xbox... BUT the problem that I had is still there, with the new mobo/cpu/graphics etc. The problem is it freezes on games occasionally, and on playing video it pixelates occasionally.... the problem obviously wasn't the mobo! Next thing for me to try is putting a new hd in it.... but I haven't got one atm... will putting the hard drive from my other xbox work in it? - with the chip in of course. my other xbox is now softmodded after removing the chip.

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It could be the Mcpx chip dieing, i have read that i freeze's games and gives dogdey images sometimes when it is dieing....it could be a dirty lense on your cd drive to, I wouldnt think a dieing HDD would cause pixalation or freezing unless the games are on the HDD which means that it could've been the cd drive copying info from cd drive to HDD abit scewif

If the games are on the HDD then try putting them back on there after cleaning the lense of the CD drive

If the games are not on the HDD then clean the lense of the cd drive still and see if they play any better, apart from this, the only thing it could be is the mcpx or the HDD

thanks for your suggestions... but the games skip running off DVD or HD, and I stream movies through my network using XBMC, updated to the latest tech release and it didn't make any difference. what's the mcpx? Not something on the motherboard? - it's unlikely that my replacement mobo had exactly the same problem as my original one.

I wish I tested the hd earlier.... I spent about 12 messing around with the motherboards..... checked the hard drive with seagate tools, the short test passed with no errors... the long test finished with 99 errors..... I changed the hard drive for an old 10gb PC drive I had lying around, and it works perfectly now... although it's a drive I can't lock... I might buy a big drive to put in it.