I was happily using my X3 modded Xbox today, powered it off and a few hours later switched it back on. Everything looks normal, box boots with the chip enabled and I get the Rox your Box logo. However this stays on screen for a long time (about 50 seconds) and then it boots into the X3 config screen. The logo in the background is rotating as normal, but very slowly, movement of the blue cursor bar is very slow, although everything can be selected.
So, I hold down the power and eject buttons, get a purple display as expected and FlashBIOS 3.0 displays. The HDD is detected, but sector 1 is not readable, cannot generate encryption key - corrupt EEPROM? is the error message.
Before I go arsing about with reflashing, is there anything anyone suggests as a quick fix, OR would you suspect a bad hard-drive. I don't want to go trying to flash the EEPROM if it's a hard drive problem!
Anyone got any advice? I've had a dig around the site for other posts along these lines, but I can't find anything directly applicable.
This post has been edited by AnotherMindbomb: Dec 27 2004, 10:54 PM
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Topic: Eeprom Problem Or Bad Drive? (Read 97 times)