Hello,

I have been reading for a few hours on these boards about modding my xbox. I am very inexperienced with soldering, so I was going to send my xbox to systemmods.com and have them install my xecuter 2.1 lite chip. Here is where my confusion begins, once they ship my box back to me, i have to flash the bios? That doesn't seem too confusing thanks to the sites tutorials. I currently own an NEC ND-1300A DVD-RW drive. It is capable of burning both - and + formats. Seeing that I have a dvdrw drive already, I think I would rather go this route rather then the hard drive route. So if i correctly burned an xbox game image onto a dvdr, would it just boot up and work or do i have to have one of those samsung drives? I wouldn't attempt playing on xbox live with a burned game, but with that chip will i still have the capability of playing regular xbox games and still play on xbox live without getting banned? Thanks in advance for your help and time.

Joe

all drives can read DVD-(or +)Rs, but when applying to CD-Rs, only the samsung can read CD-R, if you dont have one, you much use CD-RWs. also, most samsungs have problems reading DVD+R

and when playing on live, the modchip *MUST* be turned off(since its an xecuter 2.1, it will have an on/off switch in the front of the xbox) before even trying to logon, if they find that you are running a hacked bios, they will ban that xbox from using live(until you change your EEPROM to something that hasnt been banned), your account isnt deleted, so u can still use it, but that specific xbox is now worthless if trying to play on live

Other then that, I am pretty much on the right track? Thanks for the quick response by the way.