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[Bomb Bloke]

I'm a little confused - "vcc3.3"? The guide doesn't mention anything about that.  

[Movax]

From my knowledge, flashbios WILL NOT flash a tsop. So your only hope it to use the three-wire-trick to boot something OTHER than flashbios. If you can't, you need a modchip.

[whatchawan81]

it has been a wile, but I'll give it another go, I'll connect the ground point (yellow thing) to a18 & a19 to the switch, and try to boot.

I already have a put an ad for a used xbox so it is a bummer for this one. maybe bye bye to my old xbox, it has been fun for like 7 years i think. ow well out with the old in with the new!!



hope that my old xbox will work and have 2 xboxes 1 for my bed room and one in the living room LOL!!!


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God bless you all for helping me and any other help that might solve this problem will be usefull

PS : i have an ST tsop chip

This post has been edited by whatchawan81: Feb 5 2008, 05:48 PM

[whatchawan81]

hello there, i just got another xbox yesterday (06-02) for like €50 with 2 s-controllers and 4 original pal games and the cables with a receiver without the dvd remote.

so i say to my old xbox R.I.P (means rest Reserve in Parts) hehehe.

So i am now saving to get the X3 CE chip and make my xbox a multimedia monster or is there another chip that is better??

But any how i tried to connect the a18 and a19 to the yellow capacitator, no go.

1 more question, how do i extract my personal game save files on the new one or should i swap the hard drive and is it save to swap ?


I don't wanna mess this one up.


God bless you all and Big thanx to all of you!!!!2



Peace out

[Bomb Bloke]

If the switch didn't work (it wasn't ever a sure thing), then a modchip would still fix that old box. Since you're buying one, why not stick it in your former system, use that to bypass FlashBios, flash the TSOP with something that actually renders the console usable, then take it out?

You could then stick it in your new box and have two working, modded systems. Link them and play eight player Halo or something, maybe even sell one off and see if you can make a profit.  

Just to be certain you're clear on this, you did manage to flash your TSOP - multiple times - However, where you went wrong was flashing FlashBios on there.

Most X-Box BIOS types you'll find are illegal, see. They use parts of the MS BIOS and so break laws. Hence modchip makers can't sell chips with, for eg, the X2 5035 BIOS ready installed.

FlashBios is a legal BIOS built to help solve this problem. It's a BIOS flasher in the form of a BIOS. A modchip seller can legally pre-load it onto his chips, and when someone buys them the first thing the console will have them do is put a new (more practical) BIOS in. Whether the new BIOS is legal is not the seller's concern.

So what you've done is used flashing software to flash this flashing BIOS into your TSOP. Since it's designed to flash modchips (as opposed to TSOPs), you can't use it to remove itself, and because it's designed to only let you flash modchips you can't load your software flasher again.

If you can make your console boot with another BIOS, that problem goes away... The switch didn't work (for whatever reason; likely your TSOP just didn't have another BIOS in it), so you can use a modchip instead. A modchip essentially over rides your TSOP when you boot the console.

[Movax]

QUOTE(Bomb Bloke @ Feb 7 2008, 06:25 AM)

a modchip would still fix that old box.... stick it in your former system, use that to bypass FlashBios, flash the TSOP

That won't work. If one boots from a modchip, the TSOP is inaccessible. (Boot from a modchip, flash the modchip..boot from the TSOP, flash the TSOP.)

Only way to fix it is to install a 29 wire old school chip and though I haven't experienced this specific situation, I would say that wouldn't work either.

This post has been edited by Movax: Feb 7 2008, 06:55 PM

[Bomb Bloke]

Hmm... Now that I actually read the "flash a TSOP with a modchip" guides, I see that, indeed, LPC modchips are out.  

Ah well.

Even so, if the old box is chipped and the new one TSOP flashed or softmodded, that still provides two working, modded systems.  

[whatchawan81]

COoooooooooooooooollllllll.

i'll ask if the modder will do that for me. this would be fun, 8 players ow man , it would be fun. i got 2 halo 2 disks and 1 halo  disk heheehhe.

Must i use a cross link cable or can i use a router port???

and is xbconnect of use??

let me know


God Bless y'all


Peace



PS: i think obama is about to win. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)

[Bomb Bloke]

All you need is to start a system link game. Many retail X-Box games are built with LAN play in mind, so it's pretty easy to do.  

(XBConnect (and X-Link Kai) works by tunneling game packets outside your network (allowing you to use system link mode over the internet), but you don't need anything like that for local play. It's a substitute for Live).

You can wire up the consoles however you wish. Either directly with a cross over cable, or into a switch/router/hub with straight through cables.

Better to hook them all into the one network with your PCs. That way they can go online, share files with each other (especially useful with XBMC), and so on and so forth.

[whatchawan81]

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) ok, it will be awhile before i could enjoy the xbox maybe next week i think. it costs money you know and my ps2 is not working any more, lens problem. hmmm it was a good 7 year ps2 and xbox fun. i got them both at the same time form my brother on Christmas in 2001 i think.


But thanks for your reply, i'll keep you posted for the xbox.


God bless


Peace



PS: Obama is leveling up  (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

[Bomb Bloke]

Unlike X-Box DVD drives, PS2 lenses are actually rather easy to adjust. I did one once after it lapsed to the point of not reading anything, it's since worked fine for a couple of years now...

I couldn't find the exact guide I used, so I'll recap in brief. What you wanna do is open up the drive and look for a bigass cog like this one:

(IMG:http://www.cyber-mag.com/station/laserimage/whitecog.jpg)

Twisting this back and forth moves the laser up and down. Turn it until the laser is as low as it'll get.

Now what you wanna do is turn it upwards just a little tiny bit (one notch of the cog). Stick a disc in the drive, hold the top of the drive on (you'll have unscrewed it to get inside), and boot the console.

Keep on turning the cog and rebootig the console until you get your disc to read. With that done, try out some other sample discs from your collection. You'll notice there are different disc types - PS games are on CD while PS2 games are on DVD, and there are different colored discs as well. They all read slightly differently so you'll want to test at least one of each.

After each failed test, turn the screw just a tiny bit more and repeat until you've got it in a position where all disc types work. Then all you need to do is put all the screws back in and you're done. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

This post has been edited by Bomb Bloke: Feb 12 2008, 01:14 PM

[whatchawan81]

ok i have tried to screw the 2 screws om the bottom on the lens to get some reading, but no go. i'll try your theory mabe i still got a good ps2 years left in this one
thnx