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[wanosd]

Hey all.

I'm very new to this whole JTAGing business. I was given a JTAGed machine about 2 months ago, and it's been fine, as such. However, with newer games, particularly Assassins Creed Brotherhood, it required the new Dashboard.

What I am currently running is

FreeStyle Dash v2
Version: 2.0a REV1044

I have done a bit of research but it's quite confusing and I don't want to be left with a useless machine. I've read things about backing up your NAND, and there a program called Nand Flasher 360 on the machine, which I used to make a NAND dump to my external HD.

Where do I go from here in terms of putting on a new dash? I am not concerned about Xbox Live as I have another machine for that, so that's not an issue. All I really want is to be able to play games from my external HD as the DVD drive, I was told, is not flashed.

Thanking you in advance for all your help. If I am in the wrong place, please push me to the right path!

Regards,
Chris

[intention]

Since you already have a JTAG'd box, all the hard work has been done.  

To update your dash, you need to locate Flash360 and run it on your xbox.
It is a program that can be run on your jtag'd xbox that can read/write/dump the nand.
(I'm not familiar with Nand Flasher 360 that you speak of, but it sounds like it does the same thing as Flash360).

I'm going to assume you are running Freeboot...
(If you are on XBR the process might be different, so please disregard the following info and wait from someone experienced with XBR to help you if that's the case - I don't want to misinform you)

Once you have a dump of your current freeboot (or original nand will work too), you can just follow one of the many guides in here to update to the new dash:
http://forums.xbox-s...howtopic=723596

I used this one in particular and was successful: http://forums.xbox-s...&...t&p=4752448

[wanosd]

QUOTE(intention @ Nov 13 2010, 11:05 PM)

Since you already have a JTAG'd box, all the hard work has been done.  

To update your dash, you need to locate Flash360 and run it on your xbox.
It is a program that can be run on your jtag'd xbox that can read/write/dump the nand.
(I'm not familiar with Nand Flasher 360 that you speak of, but it sounds like it does the same thing as Flash360).

I'm going to assume you are running Freeboot...
(If you are on XBR the process might be different, so please disregard the following info and wait from someone experienced with XBR to help you if that's the case - I don't want to misinform you)

Once you have a dump of your current freeboot (or original nand will work too), you can just follow one of the many guides in here to update to the new dash:
http://forums.xbox-s...howtopic=723596

I used this one in particular and was successful: http://forums.xbox-s...&...t&p=4752448

Thanks for the reply.

You are correct in that the Nand Flasher 360 seems to do the same thing as Flash360. I was given the option to Flash, Dump or Write. I opted to do a Dump to a folder called New Folder on my external drive and I now have a file called orig_nand.bin, which I assume is the NAND file (which really means nothing to me, truthfully!).

I am using OS X, and there doesn't seem to be a program for that yet, but I can get at a Windows PC so it's a non issue.

The only queries I have in relation to the helpful guide you posted

Step 3: It says to power on with a component or composite cable to get the CPU key. I don't think I have either. Will this work with HDMI or will I need to get the above cables. Is there any other way to get this key?

Step 8: The words Donor NAND - does this refer to my NAND or a different file?

Step 9: Motherboard. How do you find out what motherboard your Xbox has?

My main worry is that if I do this, and mess it up, can I revert or do I have a brick?

[userix]

If I already updated to the new official kinect dash, am I still able to dump and reflash the nand to erase the "Failed AP25 challenge" flag on my console?  I don't have jtag, but then again I don't need dvdkey or cpukeys.  Can I just follow the tut posted here:

http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=697231

to revert my secdata to the clean state?  Thanks.