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[cobrin]

QUOTE(run088 @ Apr 9 2008, 04:26 AM)

 here is why

yeah I'd have to agree with the points mentioned. Just only if it had the phillips dvd-rom as well.

[xess]

QUOTE(run088 @ Apr 10 2008, 12:16 AM)

It is disturbing to me you give out your info without knowing what your talking about...
...And feel its my duty to the site and what its about to try to correct people like you before someone listens and kills there xbox.

I'm sorry, but what was that about? I never attacked you, your opinions or your advice. I only asked you a couple of questions because I was curious as to why you were so adament that a bios upgrade wasn't possible, without specifying why. It was obvious to me that you knew something I didn't, and I merely wanted to know what that was. I spent a good couple of hours searching and trying to find out what bios competes could use with his ram upgrade, and could find no evidence of the xbox "fragging and becoming useless". I also supplied links to information I thought he might find interesting. Going back and re-reading my posts, any advice I offered to him, mainly open the box and look at the chip/ how to flash/ swapping the chips over to test if it boots, is in my opinion sound advice. Even you agreed it was a good idea to test with another bios before erasing the current working one.
The next time you decide to "correct people like me", please think a little bit more carefully about what advice/opinions are wrong and why.

@competes: Let us know how you get on if/when you get time to test with another chip.  

[run088]

QUOTE(cobrin @ Apr 10 2008, 02:04 PM)

yeah I'd have to agree with the points mentioned. Just only if it had the phillips dvd-rom as well.

I would have to agree some to that the dvd drive did get better as the years pasted but I think all the dvd drives are still terrible the thompson wont read shit the samsungs doors strip out and most of the phillips read pretty good but I have seen a dozen or so burn out to the point the xbox wouldn't boot up giving me some kind of error code.I have never seen any dvd drive myself other than a phillips that has forbidden the xbox to boot  because it was not working properly. I will agree you will find that problem less in the phillips than you find the problems in the other 2.But that problem sucks a little more than the other 2 as well so its a toss up in my mind.I put 616t's in all mine but thinking of just trying to find a pretty decent line of pc dvd drive I can convert to get better load times and quality.I store all my games in my xboxes so the need to read a game gets outweighed by the need to read all my media.

[run088]

QUOTE(xess @ Apr 10 2008, 05:56 PM)

I'm sorry, but what was that about? I never attacked you, your opinions or your advice. I only asked you a couple of questions because I was curious as to why you were so adament that a bios upgrade wasn't possible, without specifying why. It was obvious to me that you knew something I didn't, and I merely wanted to know what that was. I spent a good couple of hours searching and trying to find out what bios competes could use with his ram upgrade, and could find no evidence of the xbox "fragging and becoming useless". I also supplied links to information I thought he might find interesting. Going back and re-reading my posts, any advice I offered to him, mainly open the box and look at the chip/ how to flash/ swapping the chips over to test if it boots, is in my opinion sound advice. Even you agreed it was a good idea to test with another bios before erasing the current working one.
The next time you decide to "correct people like me", please think a little bit more carefully about what advice/opinions are wrong and why.

@competes: Let us know how you get on if/when you get time to test with another chip.  

Sorry if I came off wrong but I knew he didn't know enough just yet without some research to complete his task and felt you were trying to get him moving in the wrong direction to fast.He was not providing us with the nessacary info to be telling him what to flash regardless of the upgraded ram he had no understanding of the bio sizes or anything which is something you have to know BEFORE you go flashing chips or tsops.Not to mention as I understand from reading because I only have experince really with one modchip .Is  that certain chips require special bios themselves as well.And I also provided a link to support my claim of the ram upgrade and bios and can tell you I have done before what I had thought you were encourging him to do and got the exact same results as the article mentions and because I did not have a chip availble to me at the time so  I could tinker with the bios with I was forced to take the ram off to get it to boot.I just did not want him to do the same thing.I dont know what the bios are that will work or will not work with the ram upgrade.I think it would be good if someone with more knowledge about the ram upgrades bios pinned a tut on which bios would and would not work with the upgraded ram.

[run088]

Well here you go buddy I did your mod myself to see if it would work and yes it does beware you have to know there are issues to the bios you want  it only comes in 512 and can not be split I am not sure if it can be doubled you will have to ask.If you dont want to use the chip you dont have to. If the bios can be resized then that will be the easiest method if not no big deal either follow the tut on spliting the tsop into 2 banks of 512.use whatever flash tool you want and put on the 5035 bios then put on any bios you want to try on the other bank or split that bank into 2 and allow yourself the ability to run 3 different sets of bios thats what Ive done and it works other than I have to figure out why Im having trouble flashing those banks.Thats another post though if you want to see how thats working follow it at     http://forums.xbox-s...howtopic=647651

[competes2win]

QUOTE(00diabolic @ Sep 8 2008, 08:01 PM)

I know this is an old topic but it exactly covers the issue I have.

I have 2x 1.4 and 1x 1.5 xbox (well I believe thats what it is i've heard there really rare).

I have IND-Bios 5003 on all and I have the following hard drives. Main XBOX has 120gb drive, Second 20gb Drive, and third has a regular 10gb drive.

I was running .06 bios on all because I have drives all under 137GB. What is strange is I was getting audio distortions in XBMC with the .06 bios on the 120gb drive. So I went to the .67 bios on the 120GB and that was gone and then decided to flash all of mine with that bios because it allows for larger HD upgrades easier.

Now this is where it gets strange. I put the .67 bios on my 10gb drive xbox and nothing changed except that I have to click on everything twice to get it to launch. Now that was not the case with the .06 bios. But why would the .67 bios cause such an issue. Is it something else? Ive also noticed this issue on softmodded 1.0 xbox with the default bios. You have to click on everything twice to get it to run. It is such a weird issue and I would really like to figure out why it happens when it does.
I also have a few comments about the debate about xbox versions also.. see below.

I used to have 2x 1.6 and got rid of them. One of them ran really fast. Like it was turbo charged or something in XBMC but no chip or other upgrade just a regular softmod. I got it unmoded originally and did the softmod myself. It lasted about 2 weeks at super speed before it died and gave me a flipping image on the screen like an old projector that ran out of film. It was really interesting to try things with this 1.6 before it died but only XBMC was any faster. Anyway I'm under the belief that the 1.6's are the worst. However I dont believe the 1.0's are the best either. The point that microsoft started to make money on them is the point where the xbox were at there best. That would be around the time the Halo box's came out. Those are 1.4 xbox. Think about it they were able to sell the Halos for almost double just because of a green case. Anyway the 1.4 is the best in my book and it makes sense. M$ spent a lot on the 1.0 and still had problems with them. The 1.2 was improved but still buggy. Then came the 1.3 and finally sales of the xbox started to pick up and in 2004 microsoft finally saw profits for the first time on the xbox. Thats when the 1.4 came out & they got the best of the DVD drives available. I remember that it was a big deal. It showed that they could finally compete with Sony.  Then the short lived and canceled 1.5 came out and then Microsoft wanted more money out of the xbox and made the 1.6 with somewhat cheaper parts to boost profits. So conclusion the 1.6 is the worst to have. It being the newest is nice but cheaper parts dont last as long and its not much more then a few months newer then a 1.4 xbox's.

Really silly that I even noticed your post, I haven't checked this thread or this area of the forums for ages... but I think you should just try to uninstall and then reinstall xbmc on your troubled boxes. I dont think the double clicking issue could possibly be a bios issue. When you delete xbmc though make sure to do it from another program while your not running xbmc at the same time.

[00diabolic]

Yep sure enough. Copied over another copy of XBMC and all it working. Must be something about XBMC as it relates to cashing or something.