The Black Art of Xbox Mods- P5:This book would not exist without all the incredible amount of diligence by individuals who freely gave their hard-earned knowledge to others. This book is not a unique work by any means, and although everything described herein was performed by me, I do not take credit for figuring out anything on my own. | 106 CHAPTER 6 Installing a Soldered Mod Chip FIGURE The pin header is soldered to the LPC. FIGURE I The LPC is located near the Nvidia MCPX processor. Installing a Pin Header All Revisions 107 Removing Pin 4 You first need to remove pin 4 from the pin header. On earlier Xbox revisions point 4 on the LPC is blocked so it s obvious but on point 4 is open. You absolutely must not use pin 4 because your mod chip and or Xbox can become damaged. Pin 4 is shown in Figure . Note that pins on the LPC start at the top right pin 1 down to pin 2 up and left to pin 3 and down again to pin 4 see Figure . FIGURE The LPC has 16 points only the first 12 are used. Pin 4 is shown in the jaws of my needle-nose pliers in Figure . Take the pin in your pliers as shown in Figures and and pull it straight out. Figure shows the final result. Make sure you remove the correct pin otherwise you might end up needing a new pin header Inserting the Pin Header Next take the pin header and insert it into the LPC holes. Be very careful of the orientation Point 1 on the LPC is nearest the back of the Xbox while point 16 is nearest the front of the Xbox. The pin header is placed into the first 12 LPC holes. Because the pin header must be soldered from the bottom side of the Xbox you can use tape to hold in the pin header while you work on the other side see Figure . While the figure shows clear tape for illustrative purposes I strongly recommend you use electrical black tape instead. If you can manage it it is even advisable to use no tape at all as it is possible to pull up motherboard traces when you remove the tape. 108 CHAPTER 6 Installing a Soldered Mod Chip . s Locating pin 4 on the pin header for removal . FIGURE Grasping pin 4 with needle-nose .
