Topic: So, You Screwed Up Your X-box (Read 3232 times)

draxx · « **Reply #75 on:** March 06, 2005, 06:09:00 PM »

I've just had a bad TSOP flash on a v1.4 Halo XBOX, and now i have "X-Mas Lights"! If I buy an Xecuter3 CE and fit it, will it (a) allow my box to boot and (b) let me reflash the TSOP?

Quick answer appreciated

dtechlogic · « **Reply #76 on:** March 10, 2005, 10:50:00 PM »

well guys it this will work for me. My xbox is dead and i get the red and green light. I have never done tsop before i only have done it with chips i use to have a chameleon after a few days my xbox started to frag. Well guys let me know if this will work for me. I would like some help since this is the only xbox i have.

kimota2004 · « **Reply #77 on:** May 22, 2005, 12:40:00 PM »

I have an xbox version 1.2 and have opened it up and looked at the back of the motherboard but it looks nothing like the one in your diagram at the beginning of the thread.
Has anyone got a link to the diagram for the correct way to solder the 3 points so I can reflash my bios?

lordvader129 · « **Reply #78 on:** May 22, 2005, 10:01:00 PM »

QUOTE(kimota2004 @ May 22 2005, 02:51 PM)

I have an xbox version 1.2 and have opened it up and looked at the back of the motherboard but it looks nothing like the one in your diagram at the beginning of the thread.
Has anyone got a link to the diagram for the correct way to solder the 3 points so I can reflash my bios?

there is no three wire trick for a 1.2, if you have a bad flash you need a modchip

Lord Magnus · « **Reply #79 on:** June 05, 2005, 12:32:00 PM »

Hi all, I know this post is kinda old, but it's pretty much what the symptoms are from my friend's box.

This is what happened:

He tried to flash IND bios (256k) on his Matrix modchip, wich according to him, and after some research he did later on, can't work with this BIOS.
He flashed his matrix with it, and since it didn't work, tried to align it. In the proccess, his Matrix got fried and he saw some green smoke... wich is what you usually see when you burn a circuit board.

Took the modchip off, and efectivley, it was fried. One of the traces was actually hanging off the Modchip itself, and it looked to me also, beyond repairs.

Now, this is the interesting part.

With his modchip OFF, his xbox boots twice, and the third time, right after the boot process and the green X, then the eject button starts flashing red/green and has no output video.

Now, his Matrix, didn't had the cables that you're required to solder to certain points in your motherboard in order to do a TSOP flash, so phisically, it's almost impossible for him to try and flash his TSOP with a 256k bios, when his XBOX version 1.0 has 1mb BIOS.

So, my question is:

Is there any chance, that when he was trying to align his Matrix, and the chip got fried, that somehow it made his TSOP go corrupted?

And, if that's the case, how would you go and fix this ?

I've been reading about the 3 wire trick to boot with the first 256 k of your TSOP, but then, what good will this do, if he didn't do a TSOP flash ?

Well, if anybody can help, or suggest something that might work, it's apreciated.

PS: Also, if we manage to do the 3 wire trick, and boot evox from media, we can do a TSOP flash.

Thanks again for your help guys, and sorry about the looooooooooong post.

lordvader129 · « **Reply #80 on:** June 05, 2005, 02:56:00 PM »

you can try the three wire trick (check my sig) you can also try booting form each bank of the TSOP indivdually (split pic, also in my sig)

since his TSOP was never flashed youll need to solder the write enable points (you guessed it, in my sig) then use a gamesave exploit to load evox to reflash

Lord Magnus · « **Reply #81 on:** June 05, 2005, 11:08:00 PM »

Thanks a lot for the feedback mate.

Here's an update:

I actually fixed his modchip by retracing the screwed traces, and we got it to work. Had to solder it to the mobo since the alignment thing got screwed and we were missing certain washer that is supposed to keep it leveled.

We booted after upgrading his bios from evox 2.5, to evox m7, but the xbox still did the same thing and booted twice, and then a last one where it stayed flashing red and green, but showing no video at all.

I thought that somehow his TSOP got corrupted, so, by fixing his modchip, and soldering it back, my theory was that the box was obviously going to boot from the mod's bank.

So, to make long story short, after a few hours of cutting wires, fluxing and soldering. We came to the conclussion that the motherboard itself, got damadged along with the modchip. I couldn't find any visible defects in it. But something is ruined in it. It can't be the TSOP since it doesn't have the 3 wires that Matrix needs in order to flash that TSOP... so... we kinda gave up on it

Now all our efforts are going toward a HD hotswap with my modded box, and his HD... but since we cannot load M$ BIOS, we're not sure if the HD will be unlocked by the time I switch the IDE cable from my HD to his.
I'll still try this in a few days though, and here's what I had thought:

1- Make an evox CD-rw to boot with on my xbox, that also contains boxplorer, configmagic and the right network settings for FTP access.
2- Turn my box on with this boot CD with evox, and turn his box on.
3- After FTP access to my own HD is confirmed, I'll unhook his IDE cable and hook mine in.
4- FTP all his gamesaves to my PC, and when done, load his eeprom backup from evox on configmagic (also running from the CD-RW) and unlock his HD, so in case he gets a new 1.0 motherboard, he can flash his own unbanned eeprom and lock his HD to go on Live.

Hopefully, the boot process will get far enough to get to unlock his HD first, so I can gain access to it and FTP all his gamesaves to my PC and burn them for him.

Will this work ? According to some research, this would be no different than doing a hot swap with a non-modded xbox to install the fonthacks, etc.

Any Ideas, or recommendations, are again, very much apreciated.

Lord Magnus.

Lord Magnus · « **Reply #82 on:** June 07, 2005, 01:25:00 AM »

Update:

I tried the above described procedure, but unfortunately, it seems his xbox doesn't even get to unlock his HD. Since not even the boot process is completed
He finally gave up, and found a 1.1 version where his fixed Matrix works perfectly.

If anybody has this same problem and your xbox actually gets past the X logo when booting, try the HD swap like I did, it seems like a pretty reasonable method.

I'm just dissapointed I couldn't get his gamesaves.... but he's happy he has a working modchip, and a working xbox with xbox Live capabilities.

Keep up the good work, everybody.

donuthole2010 · « **Reply #83 on:** July 27, 2005, 10:05:00 PM »

ok i think i have "officially" screwed a motherboard/TSOP over. and i know it is one of the two, because i have narrowed it down by re-doing the hard drive completely and doing a hard-drive hot swap. so this isnt my xbox and i hope that some one can help. the xbox starts up and then reboots twice and then hangs with no video. and i have tried a modchip thinking oh yeah this will work. even if i could run a retail game i could fix the TSOP. So another question is if everything else doesnt work i guess i could try the 29 wire trick, so if anyone has a link to a tut for that please post. so if any one knows, please help.

oh, sorry for bumping the month-old topic i just want to know how to fix this box.

thank you,
donut

TSOPflasher · « **Reply #84 on:** August 17, 2005, 01:50:00 PM »

I pulled the flash a 256k bios to a 1MB chip bonehead move today. No big deal, I did the three wire trick and it booted right back up. My problem is it won't let me reflash with a 1MB bios now.

Box: V1.0
Bios: X2 4979
007 Raincoat Version: 007Flash Kit (Autoflasher, no telnet)

The X2 4979 is successfully loaded, I can see my modified colors and "XECUTER2" when I boot it up with the three wires connected. I dropped a 1MB bios into the 007Flash Kit save game files and recopy to the HD. Still with three wires connected, I load up 007, then disconnect the wires, then load the flash kit. Screen goes blank as it should, but the DVD eject button stays green (usually goes orange while its working) and just hangs there.

Should I try using "007 save with raincoat" and telneting in to see whats going on?

I'd be ok with leaving it as just booting permanently from the 3 wire (1st bank) but I'd rather just fix it if I could. No wires to come loose later.

This post has been edited by TSOPflasher: Aug 17 2005, 08:50 PM

lordvader129 · « **Reply #85 on:** August 17, 2005, 03:00:00 PM »

try booting raincoat first then disconnecting the wires right before flashing

or try flashing with evox (again, disconnecting the wires immediate;ly before hitting "Y" to flash

TSOPflasher · « **Reply #86 on:** August 17, 2005, 04:00:00 PM »

"Hot" disconnect did it, thanks lordvader! Waited till the screen blanked and eject LED went orange, then disconnected the wires. Flashed as usual and then restarted without needing the wires anymore. You rock man, thanks again.

Now, if you really want to save my day, help me fix this one...

V1.4 box, winbond bios chip (256k, duh).

Can't get the TSOP flashed. My autoflasher just spits out the dvd tray (flash fails). I'm thinking this is indicating I haven't disabled the write protection all the way.

I've soldered, then resoldered the two jumper points on the top of the board. Also tried soldering the jumper point on the bottom of the board. Also tried with the extra "write" wire under the board. The top two solder points have been marginally damaged with all the soldering, I've run back to the next exposed point on the trace.

I'm guessing I'll have to try "old school" raincoat to really see whats up, but is there some combination of write protection jumpers that I haven't tried yet? It should just work with only the top two, from what I've read.

lordvader129 · « **Reply #87 on:** August 17, 2005, 07:21:00 PM »

QUOTE(TSOPflasher @ Aug 17 2005, 06:11 PM)

"Hot" disconnect did it, thanks lordvader! Waited till the screen blanked and eject LED went orange, then disconnected the wires. Flashed as usual and then restarted without needing the wires anymore. You rock man, thanks again.

Now, if you really want to save my day, help me fix this one...

V1.4 box, winbond bios chip (256k, duh).

Can't get the TSOP flashed. My autoflasher just spits out the dvd tray (flash fails). I'm thinking this is indicating I haven't disabled the write protection all the way.

I've soldered, then resoldered the two jumper points on the top of the board. Also tried soldering the jumper point on the bottom of the board. Also tried with the extra "write" wire under the board. The top two solder points have been marginally damaged with all the soldering, I've run back to the next exposed point on the trace.

I'm guessing I'll have to try "old school" raincoat to really see whats up, but is there some combination of write protection jumpers that I haven't tried yet? It should just work with only the top two, from what I've read.

it shudl wwork with just the top 2, ive found when i have a stubborn set of points it helps you clean all the solder off the pionts with some desodler braid, wipe down with some alcohol, then try again

This post has been edited by lordvader129: Aug 18 2005, 02:22 AM

jtown4321 · « **Reply #88 on:** August 19, 2005, 11:27:00 PM »

QUOTE(Henrideath @ Nov 30 2003, 06:35 PM)

a ) The box reboots two times and then red/green flash / No DVD Access : you've probabely flashed the console's bios with a 256k flash when it was intended for 1meg (>1.2 flash on a 1.0-1.1)

i am getting this reboot problem but i have not flashed anything?! It is a version 1.1 x-box and i am attempting a tsop flash via the 007 trick. It has a sharp tsop and so i added the needed wire.

Does anyone have any idea how i can fix this.. i have an x2.3b lite that i can throw in if there is no way to fix this but this is not my x-box so i would like to hang on to the chip. I know there was an error in soldering somewhere along the line i just dont know where. I have also tried using a conductivity pen (circuit writer)

please help, i will continue to keep searching, but ANY help is greatly appreciated.

you guys have been a lot of help so far

ducttape83 · « **Reply #89 on:** November 04, 2005, 12:18:00 AM »

I have an V1.4/5 that I failed flashing. It turns on, led remains green, but there's zilch in the way of video/audio output. 29 wire mod sounds like it's a pain in the ass. Could a newer lpc modchip let me override the tsop, and subsequently make my xbox usable again? I read one post that said a modchip would bring new life to an xbox. Just wanted to see if it applied to my situation.

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