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[LS1Nova]

So I jtag'd my Falcon system like 6 months ago. Worked fine until like 2 or 3 months ago when I brought it to my friend's house. Basically, we played some games on it and left it on for a few hours, left, came back, turned it on and got one flashing light in the bottom right corner. Flashed it back to stock and it gave me the RROD. So I did the x-clamp fix and it worked perfectly. I even put some new XBLA games on it and it played them fine. Then it stopped turning on with the hard drive connected.

The weird thing is, I have another 360 for Live use and it boots just fine when I plug that same hard drive in.

So I borrowed a hard drive from my friend and my jtag'd 360 sometimes boots when I have the hard drive plugged in. Other times it gives me the one red light in the bottom right corner. But if I unplug the power supply for around a minute and plug it back in, it boots up just fine.

I even tried formatting the hard drive, but as soon as I reboot the system it gives me the one red light in the bottom right corner.

What the hell? Why did the system work fine for 6-ish months and now it won't do anything?

Please help!!

Thanks,
Matt

[syntaxerror329]

What is the secondary error code?

[LS1Nova]

I left it unplugged all night and just plugged it in with no hard drive or memory unit and it booted up normally. I put a memory unit in and it recognized it. Turned it off and turned it back on and it gave me the one flashing red light.  

Secondary error code was 1033.

Basically an E79 and it says to replace the hard drive. What I don't get is I have a 250gig hard drive from my laptop and it still boots normally with that one plugged in. I just don't want to format it because I have no way to backup all my stuff at the moment.

But with my official 120gig 360 hard drive, it gives me an E79.

And with my friend's 80 gig, it randomly gives me an E79. I managed to format the 80 gig on the 360, but the next time I turned it on, it gave me E79 again.

WTF?!

Matt

[arielzadi]

try adding a resistor insted of the jumper in the jtag hack
it just might work

[LS1Nova]

Ooook, and yesterday it decided to boot normally with the official hard drive inserted. I managed to play some games for around 4 hours and turned it off. Went to boot it up and it started fine with the official hard drive still in.

Fast forward to today and I turn it on and get a black screen, the lights on the daughter board didn't even light up. No RROD, no circular pattern (you know when you turn it on, the lights go on one at a time), nothing. So I turn it off and turn it back on and I get the one flashing light.

Turn it back off and back on and it boots fine, but greets me with the first start dialog (where you pick screen resolution and all that stuff).

Seems like it's not holding power somehow. I didn't unplug it, so I don't know why I would have to redo all my settings and reset the time/date.  

Matt

[signum]

I had a random 1 red light error on my Falcon jtag box and it was driving me insane.

A 330ohm didn't work on my box but a 470ohm did

Now it's solid as a rock.

[LS1Nova]

So you guys are saying to replace the red wire in this pic:



with a 330 ohm resistor?

Right now it seems to be working fine, so I'm going to leave it because I hate soldering.  

If it keeps acting up I'll try adding the resistor.

Matt