elo i have a xbox witch i have case modded and was going to soft mod but i had the red light come up and now it wont turn on at all i got a new psu as i thought that may have blowen but no luck so im pretty sure i fryed the motherboard i looked on ebay and the a mobo and matching hard drive is a bout £30 and £15 p&p i dont relly want to spend that much as i want to keep my hard drive (as it has my xbox live account details on it and i cant rember wot details i used) so all i want is the motherboard and be able to use my hard drive so i can save my self some money and get a motherbord on is own so how would i go about installing my hard drive in the new motherboard because i its not just plug it in and start playing thanx eny help would be great
Unless you have a backup of your eeprom or hd key on your computer you will not be able to use your hard drive. The hd key is stored on the motherboard, so there is no way of unlocking your drive and installing it in another xbox without this. If you do have a backup of your eeprom you can use xbox hd maker to unlock the drive on your pc. If you get it unlocked you will have to flash the new motherboard with your old eeprom so that it can be locked and unlocked.
No It still won't let you use your old drive cause it is locked and without the key you cannot unlock it. Just last week my drive got corrupted and I could not get into it either so I know how you feel. Lost all saves, games,..... I had to get a new drive, but I don't play xbox live so I left this one unlocked so it wouldn't get locked where I couldn't get back into it, and have another paper weight like I do now.
lol yer just a paper weight ok do u no where i could get a cheap mobo and hard drive very cheap (uk preferbly)
You might be able to get a set on ebay for cheap, but you don't know exactly what you're getting if you get it used. So I would be careful going that way and look at the seller's feed back scores.
You can build or buy an eeprom reader and read your code off the dead MB. Then you can write that eeprom back to the new motherboard and continue using your original HD like nothing ever happened!
You can find out how to do it here... http://llamma.com/xbox/Repairs/Reading_Xbox_Hdd_key.htm Or you can buy a ready made reader off eBay and the likes!
