Topic: Xbox E5 Modchip Died, Urg... (Read 72 times)

Heimdall · « **on:** July 04, 2012, 09:18:00 PM »

1. Check the chip for loose connections
2. Replace the chip
3. Install a softmod and use your eeprom backup to lock the disk.

Heimdall · « **Reply #1 on:** July 05, 2012, 04:49:00 AM »

Don't quote the immediately preceding post - it's completely pointless.

1. Open up the Xbox and inspect it visually. As your chip is a Chameleon you have loads more options here than just simple loose wires. Go to this modchip features table and download the Chameleon manual and the other installation documents. It tells you how to set the dip switches to use different BIOS banks, and how to use the power and eject buttons to boot from different BIOS banks. Try the power / eject booting options first. If that doesn't work, make a note of the starting positions of all DIP switches, then work through it logically, trying different combinations to see if any of them work.
2. You may have no choice
3. Your hard drive isn't broken - Error 5 is a system error, not a drive error

Heimdall · « **Reply #2 on:** July 05, 2012, 01:44:00 PM »

1. So what made you randomly decide the chip was a Chameleon?

I don't recognise the board at all, but it's a similar shape to this one. What type is the actual chip?

3. No. Softmods need the disk to be locked.

Yes, you can relock the disk with xboxhdm if you have the eeprom, but it won't solve your problem, because you don't have a softmod on the disk. However, xboxhdm can fix that for you as well - see the link in my signature, Build a new softmod disk with eeprom.

Heimdall · « **Reply #3 on:** July 05, 2012, 02:31:00 PM »

Evox 2.6?

If you want to flash another BIOS, go for Evox M8+ or iND-BIOS.5003.

Heimdall · « **Reply #4 on:** July 05, 2012, 05:04:00 PM »

Links aren't allowed here. Try xbins, or Google.

Heimdall · « **Reply #5 on:** July 05, 2012, 05:22:00 PM »

I wouldn't have told you to use it if it didn't work. There are two versions - one for 1.0-1.5, one for 1.6.

shambles1980 · « **Reply #6 on:** July 05, 2012, 08:00:00 PM »

you know what size bios it is right?
because you will need to know that..

I would use the IND bios personally..

And off topic.

@heimdall.

remember me telling you i could flash the 1.6 m8 bios to earlier revizion boards..
well it dosent seem to work on 1.0 xboxes..

Habofro · « **Reply #7 on:** July 05, 2012, 08:42:00 PM »

I know i will have to shrink the bios to 256 or something like that kbs and i found a tsop named evox_matrix_tsop_flash, is it a bios or?

And where can i find iND BIOS for 1.0?

Thanks alot for all your answer mate!

Heimdall · « **Reply #8 on:** July 05, 2012, 09:22:00 PM »

You don't need to shrink anything. iND-BIOS.5003 and Evox M8+ are already 256kB.

No, "evox_matrix_tsop_flash" isn't what you are looking for.....

@shambles1980

Yes, those old-timers who hand coded the BIOSes to work with the various video chips didn't do it just to make their lives difficult! Hopefully you can recover with a 3-wire trick.

shambles1980 · « **Reply #9 on:** July 06, 2012, 04:57:00 PM »

@ heimdall..

nah i was just experimenting with aladin chips.. "i use ind for tsops as a rule of thumb" cant use the wrong one then lol..

just thought id mention it because we had recently discussed it.

Alex548 · « **Reply #10 on:** July 09, 2012, 07:39:00 PM »

Matrix chips were solderless and used simple pogo pins and 1 screw to connect to the xbox motherboard.
Over time, the pins may come loose or can be knocked out of alignment with a simple bump of the console.
If the chip stops working in the future, try re-aligning it again before even considering a reflash.

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