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[Colza]

Ok, ive been searching and reading stuff for hours but the info regarding bios flashing on a softmodded box is a pretty hazy. Hopefully someone here can clear things up a bit for me!

I have established that my xbox has coma'd. Green light on power on but wont boot, tray wont eject.

If i try and power on many many times, it ocassionally does manage to boot and from there it will run perfectly.

I have found a few references from people who have had this problem before and it seems a bios flash may be my fix.

If i do the 'what version is your xbox' tests then it comes out as V1.4  (focus chip and pin connected to ground). My bios chip is Winbond. The box is softmodded with SID 5 using a Mechassult disk. I have EEPROM backed up and I have a HDM disk image burned.


So, i want to make my xbox work again. Preferably just reflash with a standard bios, but if necessary i have nothing against using a hacked one. I never go on xbox live, and i dont think i ever will. HELP (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[Colza]

Well, after a somewhat stressful few hours I'm all fixed (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Used the Highway_007_mech Eurasia utility to flash with.

And have an X2.4981.06 bios installed.

Ran into some trouble as the first bios i put on was not set up correctly or something, it would boot to the flubber and then stop. Found it would autoplay MechAssault, managed to run the Highway utility again from mechassault and got an ftp working. Used XBTool to make another bin and did it all over again. Second time's a charm (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif)

Its been an interesting learning curve! Hopefully this has opened the door for lots of exciting new bios flashing adventures.

And with anyluck this post can help out some other poor coma'd softmodder (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Have fun kids!