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4everCS
02-22-2006, 10:43 AM
Have any of you guys done the chip and hard drive conversion... I'm on my third one but this time I think I failed. I didnt fry anything but it seem's to not be working. This is on the first version xbox
EvilCloudStrife
02-23-2006, 05:33 PM
whats the problems. is it FRAG or what? does it not even boot up?
have you considered a soft mod? what mod-chip do you have?
4everCS
02-23-2006, 08:28 PM
It boots up three times in a row quickly. It is an executor 3 or so, It's been almost a year since Ive messed with it.
nn_step
02-24-2006, 05:49 AM
you know there are removable Chip set ups right?
4everCS
02-24-2006, 06:59 AM
Yeah but I'm not spending anymore money on this thing, this last chip cost me like 100$$$.
EvilCloudStrife
02-24-2006, 06:21 PM
does it flash red and green?
mnewxcv
02-24-2006, 06:26 PM
woops i tossed my xbox.
EvilCloudStrife
02-24-2006, 06:46 PM
woops i tossed my xbox.
you just threw it away? :nono:
mnewxcv
02-24-2006, 06:48 PM
yep.....
zinff
02-24-2006, 08:48 PM
Are you able to boot to the 256k backup BIOS? (Power + Eject at same time) If not then it's a solder problem or BIOS bank problem. If you CAN boot using the backup BIOS, flash bank 5-8 with the 3924 X3 BIOS using the FlashBIOS screen then turn it off.
Set the dip switches to off-on-off-off for it to boot into 1MB bank 5-8 you just flashed. I've got a v1.6 xbox that i've recently modded with an X3 + 250BG drive and the only banks i can boot from are backup and 5-6. Seems to be an issue with the v1.6 unit as the 1.4 i modded for a friend works just fine with any bank configuration you can throw at it.
If it does happen to be a v1.6 xbox and you used the LPC rebuild, there are issues with it's alighment over the LPC header and required solder points to join the two together to remap the LPC header itself. Solder point 3 which is closest to LPC pin 2 has two trace solder patches that are very close to each other.
It is a common problem to have too much solder flow into that area and sometimes it bridges the contacts of the two posts resulting in the problem you are describing. As soon as you press the power button it blinks on for half a sec and turns off, does this again then turns off, then finally boots and stays on but the eject LED flashes red and green for you?
I cured the problem by getting the pinout off one of the sites, maybe xbox-scene i think and soldered wires between the points to remap the LPC header instead of using that crap LPC rebuild PCB.. solved the problem of it fragging that i was having.
4everCS
02-24-2006, 10:05 PM
yes it flashes red and green and thanks zinff for the info I'll give it a try in the next couple days.
4everCS
02-25-2006, 10:59 PM
Thanks for all the help guys, I think I should be able to get it goin again!! Darn thing was giving me a headache