DVT 1-6 Prototype

[APE]

Found one of these in a thrift store today and I can't seem to fund anything about them on the innertubes. All I can tell for now is that it appears to sport a 1.6 mobo, Phillips DVD-ROM, Western Digital HDD and standard case with a sucker on the front with specs and a big fat prototype sticker on the bottom. Manufactured in 2003.

Whoever had it installed mini-Linux on it along with Evo-X. Retail dash is still accessible. Don't have access to a camera right now but I will in a few hours. Anyone know anything about this thing?

EDIT: Err its a "Tuscany DVT1" with the top of the front label reading "TD1-6", whatever that means.

[Pikkon]

Hmm,I would need some pics but was the console open before you got it.

[APE]

It was. There were already holes in both stickers and neither had any screws. The four pads were also moved adjacent to their appropriate positions and positioned near them. Pictures below:



Bottom of the XBox unresized for a 3.35mb download:
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...2/IMG_0893.jpg

What you see above is how I got it. Aside from one sticker internally it looks identical to retail 1.6 mobos but I can take a shot later, no signs that anything was ever attached to the LPC bus.

[Borman]

Shame it was opened, seems to be a fairly rare box. Sure, it's really just a sticker on probably a late test unit, but still :P

[APE]

There was absolutely no need to either. It was softmodded using the font exploit featuring "Bert" and "Ernie". The sticker also tells you exactly what is inside: Western Digital HDD, Phillips DVD-ROM, MCPX3 and a Delta PSU. A bit unusual configuration for a v1.6 (most I've seen sport a Samsung DVD-ROM, Seagate HDD and more often than not something other than Delta for a PSU) but still interesting.

Judging by the font exploit and the screen cap on E: it looks like this was all done back in 2008. Wonder if the source for this XBox was the same one as the Alamo controller I purchased from the same thrift store a while back.

[Pikkon]

Well another thought is someone swapped out the motherboard for a retail.

[APE]

Possible, but there is a small sticker on the left side of the mobo just below another I've seen on multiple XBoxes that has the same basic info as the sticker on the case does in a table with one row being the item in question and its status in the second row. All are listed as "NOM" which I assume means "nominal".

Still no idea why anyone opened it up beyond curiosity.

EDIT:



^Sticker in question.

[CodeAsm]