well, I just finished the wiring on my MC cthulhu + imp mod (TE), and it looks like I’m about to hit the troubleshooting stage… When I plug it in, the power led lights up for about a half a second and then shuts off immediately- not seeing it recognized on pc or consoles. Just checked out my usb, vcc, and ground connections, and they checked out. I’m gonna check out the rest of my connections in a minute, but in case someone has some better insight into what it could be, i’d appreciate any advice in the mean time.
Just to make sure- as long as I plug all the connections to the mobo back in, I can test for power/recognition on pc without plugging all the buttons back in, right? Thanks
Thanks Bomberman. Well, I got more info, but I’m at a loss here, hopefully someone can help me out… After checking my connections, I went through toodles’ cthulhu troubleshooting guide here. The first thing I realized is that I did something really stupid and put in the IC chip backwards… Unfortunately, that didn’t fix it, and I got the same symptoms as before. Going through the rest of the troubleshooting guide, everything else passed 100% as far as I can tell. after checking the cthulhu with that guide, I did some similar checks on the imp and 360 pcb- both are getting power, voltage right around 5v, but for some reason I’m not getting any indication that it’s powered up via the power led or recognition in my pc. Is it possible I fried something on the xbox pcb?..
Here’s what I do to test it when I get that situation.
Solder a USB cable back onto the SE/TE PCB and plug that cable into the PC. If you have a spare USB cable, use that rather than desoldering the one from the Imp. Does the PCB work?
Then solder the USB cable onto the Cthulhu and see if it works.
If they both work independently, then the problem is with how you’ve connected the Cthulhu to the Imp. If either PCB does not work, check the power and ground wire that connects both PCBs.
ok, so the spare usb hooked directly to 360 pcb worked, but to the cthulhu I got the same resulsts as before with the imp board. So you’re saying that my power/ground between the cthulhu and the 360 pcb is screwed up somewhere? I’ll try resoldering them, but if that’s the case, I wonder why I was showing power to the 360 pcb when I checked w/ the multimeter…
what i did with mine when testing the other day was put a spare usb cable on the 360 pcb (all 4 wires), if that worked, tested the ps3, if that worked, then i knew there was power going into the imp, so i checked for continuity, everything was fine, but then i came across another post from one of the users, who had similar probs to me, i tried it and what do you know, it worked perfectly.
woot, got it. I guess something was messed up with my connection to the right stick switch. I checked that again when I noticed it started working on ps3. Resoldered and now I got it working on both. Thanks a lot for the help guys, I appreciate it! I would rep, but I don’t think I have enough posts to give positive rep…
How do you go about adding the ps2 cable to row 2 because in toodles instructions on instructables.com . link here http://www.instructables.com/id/SSQ01LTFRD89LUG/ . He says" For most console cables, it doesn’t matter which of the three rows you use; for Playstation, however, it DOES matter. We will be soldering the Playstation cable ONLY to row 1. " He gives the impression that you can only use row 1 for a MC Cthulhu.
sorry if it’s too early to bump this, but I’m really wondering if anyone else ended up putting the jack there. It would be pretty easy to cut that screw post off with a dremel, but if anyone else tried this and ran into complications I’m not thinking of, it would be good to know before going at it… thanks
Another option is replacing Select with the RJ-45 jack and then drilling a new hole for select right next to the old one. I believe there’d be room for that.
that’s why you’re the man with the tutorial, haha. That crossed my mind for a minute, but then I thought “what’s the difference”. It didn’t hit me until I read your post. I think that’s what I’m gonna do, thanks!
So here is Foxisquick dual system mod. I took all three PCBs and glued them together so I made one big PCB that fits inside the stick. It took a lot of time but the first time doing something like this always does, if I do more of these mods I should be able to crank them out faster. I checked everything with a multimeter and it seems fine. I need a PS3/360 to make sure it really work though, which I currently don’t own either.
