I love to fix broken things and make them better than new, especially things that people would think of as rubbish. The DiWHY Guy RU-vid channel is about thinking outside the box and having fun, please enjoy your time here and thanks for coming by.
Clickbait title this is not f****** easy dude you're building your own goddamn ram set up here this is not a $5 quick setup most people are sweating their nuts off thinking about soldering the two goddamn wires onto the motherboard f****** clickbait piece of s***
Nice to see there are still people modding Xbox360.. My Phat XBOX360 (the OG 2005 model with j-TAG mod that I did yeaaaaaarrrsss back because it also had the OG dashboard) had RROD couple of days back, so I bought an S today and already had a couple of picos laying around, so the RGH3 was peanuts. I now need an enclosure for the Phat HDD (500GB), for now I just removed it from the Phat case and put it in the Xbox360 S with some stickytape on the HDD lol. So didn't need to do the aurora and such. Instantly working this way. So didn't need your video but just wanted to give my "support" by commenting :D :P
Cheers mate thanks so much. Sounds like you had it sorted did you have the Blades Dashboard sad to lose such a Xbox but not much you could do it amazing I went this long... Glad you got a S sorted to replace the old Phat one, hopefully a Modders remakes Blades for us one day :D
@@TheDiWhyGuy yeah it was the Blades Dashboard :( I had it because I bought it back in 2007 without DVD drive and didn't know you needed a DVD drive LoL. But I kept it and when I found out the J-tag stuff I finally could use the Xbox :D I was always buying faulty stuff even as a kid so I could repair it.
@OneTheAndOnlyOne I bet it was nice while it lasted :) you can clone your old drive to a bigger 2.5" drive if you got loads of stuff to save and add to the new S model just editing the vid atm... That's the way I did the same thing best is when you take two broken things and make one good one keep up the good work bro!
rufus is good and all, but I have a even better sugestion! ventoy is an amazing little bootloader for your usb storage you can just put in any straight up iso on the device, as many as you can fit in and they won't interfere with each other, if you want, you can just put your iso and your important files if you want! the only exception is that windows no longer plays nice with ventoy at all, so you are stuck with rufus for that
Most definitely do more videos please!!! This was an awesome tutorial, I look forward to watching more :D . I also am interested in old pc hardware gaming in 2024.
Cheers mate 100% more of these to come I got to get a few parts I want for this Xbox before the next one on this topic. Next I want to do a Linux vs Windows 10 video for my Windows XP PC as best dual boot option for retro hardware to get online should be finished in a few weeks, thanks for watching!
Yo this install has to have been complicated to figure out the first time. I’ve always wanted to do something like this but it looked like so much you’re tutorial actually made it seem really simple you’re very good at breaking it down👌
Cheers bro its defiantly not for the faint hearted, but if you got a bit of soldering experience well worth giving it ago or get some practice on a dead unit 1st and you'll be away!
Thanks mate. Yeah not going to lie I'm probably a bad reference I been soldering from 9 years old as the old man had a PC / electronics company when I was a kid but its never to late to learn. The bro Zombie only started a few years ago and now he one of the best I know. Good luck!
Cheers mate, you doing good work keep that up, was thinking about using one off a old gpu or something but just remembered I had that old circuit board laying around so went with that instead of sacrifice a gpu 😆 thanks for the pro tip 😀
Just a tip: About a year after finishing one of these builds, I discovered an overheating issue. It turns out the heatsink is poorly designed. If you flip it over, you'll notice there's only a small area of copper, which doesn't fully cover the CPU, leading to poor heat dissipation. To fix this, make sure to apply thermal compound evenly to the top of the CPU. I know this is unconventional, but it works for this console. I also used MX-6 thermal paste because it performs better at higher temperatures. Finally, increase the fan speed by 30-50% using the DashLaunch homebrew app. Hope this helps!
Don't use the falcons. The jaspers are upgraded and the Trinity and coronas don't have that issue. Plus in dash launch you can crank up the fan speed if you wish.
Great job, I'll be doing this mod tomorrow as my pico arrives tomorrow aswell. I've read that you need 28AWG-30AWG wire for the mod, what kind of wire did you use?
Nice one thats good timing. I always use cate6 solid core ethernet cable for fine soldering it worked really well on this job just rember to ad a 10k resistor on the pll wire and you will be good also stranded cable will work just make sure its really well twisted and tined so no lose wires sneak out. Good luck mate just take your time and have fun 💪
@@TheDiWhyGuy Thanks a lot! I'll check if I have some old ethernet cable lying around, as for the resistor, I have ordered a whole set of 400 resistors (different values) along with the Pico.
@@TheDiWhyGuy Yeah, I did get everything sorted out before doing it. Had to make sure it all goes well as it is my first ever mod and the first time I would solder on a mobo so I was a bit nervous. Thanks to your tutorial everything went well, I have just finished setting up Aurora and I'm looking forward to test some games later. I'm still shocked I got it working first try , thanks a ton for the help and keep up the good work!
Me to but what I want more is people like dis to quit wit da click bait most ppl ain't tech engineers this is as far from easy as u get might as well build your own dam console from scratch lol
@@TheDiWhyGuy yeah went through 4 trinity boards before I finally got it right also tried a corona board but hated it and salvaged a halo reach case the grey 1 in the process
Holy sh1t bro 😳 thats guttering can you make a jumper wire to fix the motherboard you can send my photos of the damaged boards might be able to save them my email is thediwhyguy@gmail.com or could be used as practice boards for upcoming modders thanks for sharing hope I can help!
@@TheDiWhyGuy I threw 2 away I only kept 1 trinity board where I've took the chime off plus 1 corona which it is glitched but crashes I think I damaged underneath the gpu/cpu plus on trinity I've pulled 3 tracks up doesn't boot at all
@@anthonyhowson7165 it happens some times when you destroy a trace you can solder a wire as a jumper from the closest connection points but not always possible just got to track the circuit what can be a bit of a mission on modern PCB's...
A little bit, I'm trying to learn atm so I put my Windows in French and forgot to put back English before recording this video lol hopefully it wont mess anyone up...
@@TheDiWhyGuy no stress man, i was just wondering cause the accent lol. keep going at in bro, youll be fluent alot sooner than you think if you focus on it Je croise les doigts
Awesome video, I just did this last week! Awesome mod. I will say, RU-vid videos make this mod look much easier. If you have not soldered before I would NOT recommend being the project you learn in. Get some practice boards and practice a bunch first
I do have to say it's pretty ballsy to disassemble, and solder outside. But man youre video was extremely informative and straight forward. Easy to follow even for a beginner.
I had to reread that I better understand what your saying lol. Yeah bro I do everything outside for the lighting seems like no matter how many lights you use its never as good as the sun and lucky the deck has a deck above as well so even if it starts to rain its pretty safe out there I would love a fancy lab to work in but we only got a one bed room flat haha thanks for watching
Yeah bro it will work but if you have a different motherboard you will need a guide for that type of motherboard to get the right pins to solder the wires to. What is the model number of you Xbox and the input current? I can tell you if it will work.
Oh yeah your right the lasts ones released that are more square shaped can't be modded so don't get one of those ones. The Xbox 360 Slim all can be and red ring die less than the first models so defiantly look out for cheap slim model. Good luck mate!
@@Totallynotmwa oh haha well This laptop is from 2007 and so is Windows Vista so by your logic it makes perfect sense 😆 why you defending Trust fund baby Bill Gates he literally stole MS-DOS from Gary Kildall. Gary Kildall had created an OS called CP/M. IBM was shopping for an OS for its PC, and struck a deal with Microsoft. Microsoft didn't actually had an OS when they made the deal, so Bill Gates paid Tim Patterson a CP/M engineer $75,000 to clone CP/M OS and renamed it MS-DOS dudes stole every good idea he ever had and sues small business that give anyone a free key... Go watch his TED talk form 2010 if you want to know what he is doing these days it much worse than you could imagine...
Idk, that thumbnail is kind of messed up 😂 Also, since you already going to put in some work why not debloat win 10 / 11 with Microsoft config file instead? Now you can enjoy all your games at minimum ram usage
Well that's me best video views to date so yeah 😂 Are you going to buy me a SSD more RAM and a Windows key? because even a debloated Windows 11 light needs more than 2 GB of RAM and a HDD would never work as well as Linux and I have run out of Windows 7 keys so yeah no thanks Linux wins for this old girl, thanks for watching buddy!
@@TheDiWhyGuy idk if you need to buy keys, aren't these old computers already bundled with win 7 / 10? I agree, 4GB of ram is probably minimum after debloat.
This PC was bundled with Vista have you ever used Vista? Its trash and this PC is not compatible with XP the greatest OS ever crated so Linux is the best option for this build. If your interested in this free PC build in a NES shell you can watch the build video here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XGUSVQNjgvI.html cheers mate!
Congrats on an awesome video, instant sub. 🥳 So... I'm an idiot and a noob, just started to learn about Linux like 2 days ago. Could you do more content on this gaming on Linux topic? And a step by step guide for dumb people like me please?🙏
Ubuntu is awesome there are a lot of options for Linux distros just got to find the right one for you, I have heard good things about Ventoy I will have to try it out next time chees mate!
So I just wanna start off by saying that you clearly know what you're doing with electrical wiring but I'm just curious why you've chosen to do everything the hard way. Perhaps something to do with the budget of the machine but really like you can pick up a rotary Dremel cheaply so you can cut more precise holes in metal, there are much easier ways to get the lights wired to the computer internally as well that don't leave it hard lined if you ever want to disassemble this PC. Beyond that you've made many cool design choices. I very much appreciate the right angle graphics card. I also work with 775 machines a lot to build retro gaming towers. Nice to see more of us out here.
Cheers mate. Yeah you got it low budget just got to work with the tools I got. I've moved to France from New Zealand for my wife and I'm not working yet and the channel is long way off be able to monetize so pretty much have to sell the old projects to fund the new one's. Its really sad to let them go after working so hard on them but its all part of it. With each new project I can get more advaced with my methods or return to the project down to line with more upgrades if I can get away without selling them off haha. Love 775 PC's still rember when they were new the performance was so much better than the Pentiums before. I had my 1st one almost 10 years before getting a upgrade. Thanks so much for watching!
That's so true man they don't make them like they use to, sounds like you sitting on a gem and one day you will be able to have a load of fun fixing it up. 😊
absolutely love messing around with linux, thanks for sharing this video of an old laptop gaming. I found similar results even on my desktop system running steams proton and some modern titles. atm I have had fun running Manjaro with a bunch of games and even doing stream tests using my Intel Arc 770 16gb card. the damn thing runs better on linux then it does on windows especially doing gaming and streams at the same time. amazing how far proton has come now as well and linux as a whole.
Thats the way I was thinking about dual booting my more modern PC to try it out since it runs so well and by the sound of that I might even get a boost as Windows 10 is so over-encumbered these days. Thanks mate!
@@TheDiWhyGuy you can always get them back windows etc as long as you have the usb stick you are laughing just have to tinker a bit with some games but the rewarding part is what makes it worth it <3
100% I would love to see how it preforms in video editing as my 8 year old CPU starting to show its age and I can not afford to upgrade these days as PC's getting way over priced and the reliability is getting out of hand. Thanks 4 you advice. 😊
Nice video, personally I am not a fan of RetroArch, never the less, so many excellent explanations of what you are actually doing in order to accomplish the end result. Well done.
This laptop is from 2007 and so is Windows Vista so by your logic it makes perfect sense 😆 why you defending Trust fund baby Bill Gates he literally stole MS-DOS from Gary Kildall. Gary Kildall had created an OS called CP/M. IBM was shopping for an OS for its PC, and struck a deal with Microsoft. Microsoft didn't actually had an OS when they made the deal, so Bill Gates paid Tim Patterson a CP/M engineer $75,000 to clone CP/M OS and renamed it MS-DOS dudes stole every good idea he ever had and sues small business that give anyone a free key... Go watch his TED talk form 2010 if you want to know what he is doing these days it much worse or just cry more up 2 you buddy.
6:40 Btw, you can just double click .exe files to run them, no need to use the terminal. (Or, if they don't open by default on your distro you'll be asked to pick a program to run them with. Select wine and select to remember the choice).
Yeah bro 100% you can and you can install from software manager. I was more trying to show how terminal works as a quick over view sometimes its the only way to do things like change paging file size etc. Its easy for us but some people have never used commands before so was hoping to show its not so hard...
All this having to type in commands to simply install stuff completely puts me off linux ... If they made it ACTUALLY user friendly and idiot proof so it was all just point and click then I would consider it .
That's fair I was more trying to show how terminal works as a quick over view but as @rufuspilula247 said you can double click .exe files to run them, and you can install wine from software manager. no need to use the terminal. But sometimes its the only way to do things like change paging file size and it better for trouble shooting. So you don't have to use it but its good to know how good luck buddy thanks for watching.
