As said above i fraged my mobo so I boutgh a new one same version etc now I need to know what I will have to do with my hdd and dvd drive to make it a complete system once again or will it just be plug and play.
Did you get a matching HD w/ that mobo? If not then you will need to install the mod and use your HD then. If you need help installing this one, check out this site, http://webpages.charter.net/modchipzone/
Nope, the drive should already be formatted. So yes, just install the chip and you'll be good to go. But you will never be able to play that Xbox w/ the mod disabled, because you will get a Error 6 if you try to boot the Xbox w/ the chip disabled...
wait u can run with the mod disabled (i think). unlock the hdd and then load up slayers evox auto installer and use the feature to format and install the ms dashboard. i used my old v1.0 hdd on my v1.6 mobo by doing that. u lock the drive then u disable mod and it works. this also works for upgrade hdd.
Holy crap, now that I thought over that I am wrong, Thx for getting fixing my stupid error Xstation3! I was thinking if you had a different stock HD and it was locked to a different Xbox MOBO, then it would not work w/ the chip disabled..... But then you would just unlock it.