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[RenegadeUK]

Intenso White Top
Intenso Silver Top
Traxdata Black Top
Data safe media (Absoultely love these)

[zIOn.ita]

Any good news about that?

[MOE]

[BenJeremy]

[BenJeremy]

QUOTE (zIOn.ita @ Jan 12 2003, 12:22 PM)

Moe you're great mut sorry I canàt measure the ohmage between 1a and 3a (too little spots) so please as my last request can you post the ohmage between the centers of the two spots? it's easier to measure for me and is a reliable source of information. I know how annoying to open your xbox again just to satisfy a lamer like me..but If I canàt get out of this I need to buy a replacement dvd thanks a lot man

Erm, you HAVE to measure the ohmage between the points he diagrammed. Any other measure would be invalid.

[zIOn.ita]

I'll try with the needles, but I yhink that ohmage between pot is still a valid measurement.

Thanks

[BenJeremy]

QUOTE (zIOn.ita @ Jan 12 2003, 01:58 PM)

I'll try with the needles, but I yhink that ohmage between pot is still a valid measurement. Thanks

No it is NOT a valid measurement.

One pot adjusts the strength of the CD laser pickup, the other handles the DVD pickup. Measuring between the two pots is not a valid measurement at all. Measuring from the TOP of the pot (the screw) to another point is not a valid measurement.

[psazerodivide]

[MOE]

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MOE's tutorial mentioned 'almost doing a quarter turn' which is the bad thing

Look,  

If you read carefully my tutorial, you'll notice that I say turn the pot little by little and test each time, then I said "in my case I almost did a quarter turn"

I did not said that you have to do a quarter turn, the pot are not all adjust at the same position on each Xbox, if they were,  they would have put fixed resistor instead of a pot.  

Now I gave the right ohmage for my laser adjustment, but it could happen that your Xbox have more success with, let say 325 ohm, it depend on many factor: Laser specification, media used, etc...

I'm not sure that someone who can't use a multimeter, or who think that he can have a valid measure between the two pot should attempt on doing this tweak.

Anyway, I hope that most of the user have succeed, and to those who critics, well, what have you done for the scene lately.

[jsm]

this is very helpful, thanks!

[methadone_pretty]

just adjusted mine now, a tiny fraction of a turn and its reading some cheapy no-name disc at the mo - all seems well. I used a cdr pen to mark the origonal settting

[psazerodivide]

QUOTE (MOE @ Jan 13 2003, 06:32 PM)

If you read carefully my tutorial, you'll notice that I say turn the pot little by little and test each time, then I said "in my case I almost did a quarter turn"

Okay, I misinterpreted that as a limit.    That's good information.   I'll keep trying.  Thanks!  

[BenJeremy]

QUOTE (MindgamE @ Jan 13 2003, 04:05 PM)

I tried tweaking my tompson drive and now the drive just ejects and doesnt even try to read the disc, any information on what could be wrong? thx

I could be mistaken, but perhaps you didn't hook back all the cables correctly?

[BenJeremy]

QUOTE (MindgamE @ Jan 14 2003, 10:55 PM)

Im pretty sure i did, i triple checked everything.... i guess it is unfixable

PRobably not unfixable.

Double check the ohmages and try and set them back to the "original" specs described here.

I think my Thomson did something similar when I adjusted the pot too far.

[DarkLegion]

Got my phillips working perfectly with all cdrs,thanks for the tutorial.
And anyone who gets problems don't give up on it,its more than likely not stuffed as i got most of the problems here...sometimes its better to turn it a bit further than back as i found a lot of spots b/n the original alignment and the spot i found(a bit less than 1/8 of a turn) fucked up badly or the laser had a lot of trouble reading.