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"The xbox is like a pc right?"

So if i procure a motherboard, PSU, HDD and dvd rom drive from previous xboxes it should work, right?

can't you put new hard drives into an XBOX without all the locking stuff?

Bonus wrote:
> No, wrong, you will not have the xbox kernel and all that jazz,
> unless you can get a fully guaranteed working XBOX motherboard and
> bios chip, but I seriously doubt you could build your own working
> XBOX for cheaper than you could buy one whole, if at all.

A fully working motherboard isnt hard to come by, but as you say, sourcing all the bits cheaper than just buying a working one second hand may be a challenge.

My mates have got like 120Gb hdd in there.

cookie monster wrote:
> Bonus wrote:
> I don't really see what you are getting at here.
>
> More info on what you want to do is needed.
>
> People sell bits and bobs from xboxes on ebay, if i buy the right
> bits and bobs i can have a working xbox.

No, wrong, you will not have the xbox kernel and all that jazz, unless you can get a fully guaranteed working XBOX motherboard and bios chip, but I seriously doubt you could build your own working XBOX for cheaper than you could buy one whole, if at all.

Are you chipping this creation of yours?

I might not be correct on this, but as far as I know, there is a 'lock detection' feature on the Hdd/mobo. If the Hdd cable is removed from either end, the HDD becomes unlocked and will not work unless you have it chipped and can run a HDD locking program.

You might want to get a second opinion on that though, but just bear it in mind before you go and buy all the parts thinking it will all clip together like Lego.

Because your watch sucks?

My digital watch has a processor, a memory, a GUI, circuits and chips, yet it won't play my Xbox games when I wrap the strap around the CD. I wonder why?

To confuse things, the version one Xboxes were AT spec I think, newer ones ATX. There are differences between mobos and power supplies anyway between the old and new.

Bonus wrote:
> I don't really see what you are getting at here.
>
> More info on what you want to do is needed.

People sell bits and bobs from xboxes on ebay, if i buy the right bits and bobs i can have a working xbox.

you need a motherboard, cpu, hdd, dvd-rom, RAM, graphics card, sound card, a microsoft chip (so you can play xbox games), a case, a controller port thingy, and all the other things that a xbox has and maybe just maybe it will work...

in other words not worth the hassle. probaly wouldn't work even after that cause of all the speacil chips.