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Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2017 11:09 pm
by Slex989
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Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2017 11:11 pm
by Slex989
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Re: XEN8GC install issues
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2017 1:25 am
by emu_kidid
What does the drive do, does it keep resetting? The lights generally blink when it resets the drive and attempts to upload the patch code.
I'd check the soldering against the wired version solder points (have a search on the forum here for that installation picture).
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Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2017 2:19 am
by Slex989
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Re: XEN8GC install issues
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2017 3:35 am
by emu_kidid
Slex989 wrote:emu_kidid wrote:What does the drive do, does it keep resetting? The lights generally blink when it resets the drive and attempts to upload the patch code.
I'd check the soldering against the wired version solder points (have a search on the forum here for that installation picture).
The drive works as if the modchip isnt there. The chip just blinks very fast continously. It is the clone so both leds are red and blinking.
Yeah, sounds like a connectivity issue.
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Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2017 2:25 pm
by Slex989
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Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2017 3:55 pm
by Slex989
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Re: XEN8GC install issues
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2017 7:52 pm
by novenary
Try desoldering it and installing it again but with wires. Some people have had success with that.
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Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2017 8:42 pm
by Slex989
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Re: XEN8GC install issues
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2017 8:57 pm
by novenary
You can try but I wouldn't recommend it. You should just buy some solder wick and flux, that stuff is always useful.
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Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2017 8:42 pm
by Slex989
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Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2017 9:53 pm
by Slex989
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Re: XEN8GC install issues
Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2017 6:54 pm
by boredomca
I don't know why but I have some drives that just will not accept the XENO clone chips from China. Have taken them out and they work on other drives so I'm at a loss on this. I plan on testing on the alternative install points on the other side of the drive as I recommend you should try if cleaning the lense with 99 percent alcohol on a Q-Tip and adjusting the potentiometer to 183 doesn't work.
Re: XEN8GC install issues
Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2017 7:13 am
by emu_kidid
boredomca wrote:I don't know why but I have some drives that just will not accept the XENO clone chips from China. Have taken them out and they work on other drives so I'm at a loss on this. I plan on testing on the alternative install points on the other side of the drive as I recommend you should try if cleaning the lense with 99 percent alcohol on a Q-Tip and adjusting the potentiometer to 183 doesn't work.
It's possible there are clones which were made by just sniffing the protocol on a particular drive model so they'll only ever work on the same drive model. World be cool to confirm that though. You're better off making a clone.
Re: XEN8GC install issues
Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2017 6:28 pm
by novenary
The atmega doesn't know nor care about the drive version, the payload itself handles everything.
Re: XEN8GC install issues
Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2017 6:31 pm
by boredomca
I'm thinking it's a resistance issue with a lead somewhere on the board to the soldering points for the chip as I have 10 model 1's now and the chip doesn't work for 2 of them. I'm thinking of trying a different 3v or even a 5v to check for slight power loss somewhere else but I've heard of the alternative install points on the other side of the board that has amazing success.
We can not rule out bad chip though unless you have another drive to test on because I've had 1 bad chip so far
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Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2018 1:41 am
by Slex989
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Re: XEN8GC install issues
Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2018 8:13 am
by emu_kidid
Slex989 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 02, 2018 1:41 am
So it turns out the china clone i had wasnt flashed. After using the xenoflasher.dol with the chip grounded then ungrounding while power was on fixed the issue and now the xen8 chip functions fone on latest fw! No more blinking! While i was at it i transplanted my entire DOL-001 into the DOL-101 case i had and now it looks pretty damn good ^-^ ill secure the solder points with hot glue at some point if they come undone but for now it works fine :3
Here is the finished ulticube ^-^
http://imgur.com/a/fJ51s2v
And i have also attached the flasher i used to make it work :p
Nice work, that's pretty sad that they hadn't flashed it, or it was running an older (perhaps non final code) version that didn't support your drive.
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Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2018 2:55 pm
by Slex989
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