Topic: Restoring 1.6 Eeproms Using Cromwell? (Read 109 times)

RickCA · « **Reply #15 on:** March 28, 2005, 09:59:00 AM »

bourke:

I put on my eeprom from a xbox version 1.1 onto the 1.4 xbox, i unlocked my original hard drive form the 1.1, which had evoX on it, and put it in the 1.4 xbox because i couldn't unlock the hard drive that came with the 1.4 xbox after i changed the eeprom.

Now the problem is that I get a red flashing light if i use any bios other then cromwell.

someone above said:
red flashing - this is the standard error when the eeprom hash fails. This means the data now on the eeprom is either corrupt, or the wrong version. Compatible versions are 1.0, 1.1-1.5, 1.6.

It is the right version because 1.1 can work with 1.4 and i'm assuming the eeprom is not corrupt because i'm using the same one on my other xbox.

Any ideas on what could be wrong???

Thanks for all the help.

RickCA · « **Reply #16 on:** March 29, 2005, 06:36:00 AM »

bourke: I found someone else with an xbox version 1.4 and i backed up his eeprom, and tried his eeprom on the my friend xbox. Now theres no more red flashing light. I unlocked my original xbox hard drive and put it in the xbox and it booted up fine no errors at all. So the cromwell method you posted worked fine, I just had the wrong eeprom. I've learn my lesson always backp-up.

So the now the question is can i unlock the 200gig maxtor hard drive without the password or key???

I'm going to post that question in a new post in the forum.

Just like to thank everyone that help me out... Thanks

MrOnline · « **Reply #17 on:** March 29, 2005, 02:45:00 PM »

As somebody has said before, use ATAPWD.exe..

Make a dos bootdisk copy atapwd to it
remove ALL drives from your PC and hook up your 200GB xbox drive to it...
start it up booting from floppy.. ull gett a error msg saying no drive detected... when in A: start ATAPWD.exe

the 200gb drive should be there, if not rescan... then hit enter and choose UNLOCK with master password ... and this is if ur lucky it's TEAMASSEBLY

if u now look at same line, it should be a - sign under the L in right colum..

Now hit enter once more and choose Disable with Master password.. again press TEAMASSEMBLY when this is done there should be 1 more - on the E....

Now hook it up to your xbox and it should boot...
Just did it myself and it worked like heck...
TEAMASSEMBLY = master password from evox and configmagic not sure what slayer use, but if it's evox you use it's 99.9% chance it's TEAMASSEMBLY

RickCA · « **Reply #18 on:** March 29, 2005, 03:07:00 PM »

I tried "TEAMASSEBLY" with ATAPWD.exe
as master password and it did not work.

If you know what password works with Slayer 2.6 boot disk please let me know.

Thanks

MrOnline · « **Reply #19 on:** March 29, 2005, 04:23:00 PM »

Didnt work, so you got an error msg when u entered it ?
or did it say command OK ?

bourke · « **Reply #20 on:** March 30, 2005, 07:25:00 AM »

RickCA: No problem - seriously when I encountered this problem for the first time the other week myself with 2 clients (and it was truly amazing that 2 of my 400 clients did this within the one week!) I was absolutely certain that someone else had written how to fix it somehere... but no, not on xbox-scene, not on xboxhacker, not in google - no where could I find the info!

I hope this helps many more people; especially those with v1.6 Xboxes!

bourke · « **Reply #21 on:** March 31, 2005, 06:22:00 PM »

Are you saying that Cromwell 2.4 will not boot?
(Cromwell 2.4 is not affected by corrupt EEPROMs)

Or are you saying that after flashing the EEPROM the Evolution-X M8 plus 1.6 BIOS does not boot?
(In that case the EEPROM you flashed is probably corrupt)

bourke · « **Reply #22 on:** April 02, 2005, 01:48:00 AM »

QUOTE(Grei @ Apr 1 2005, 04:07 AM)

Cromwell 2.4 will not boot on the Eeprom updated 1.6, just a black screen, flashing green eject button and the fan going crazy for 3 secs. The bios is OK cos it works on my (v1.1 with aladdin advanced modchip) xbox. I flashed it on mine, checked it worked and then took the chip from the socket and put it in the 1.6. I have no idea what went wrong.

bourke · « **Reply #23 on:** April 02, 2005, 05:19:00 AM »

QUOTE(Grei @ Apr 2 2005, 11:01 AM)

Thanks Richard. I guess the machine has died for some other reason, just my luck it does it when I have it. I didn't touch anything else, I hadn't even got around to opening it up, I was going to change the HDD after changing the eeprom. No idea.

Grei · « **Reply #24 on:** April 02, 2005, 07:20:00 PM »

Richard, I found out what was wrong. After changing modchips with the Aladdin out of mine and it still not working I now find that with a bad eeprom and the Aladdin modchip the power button must be pressed in for about 5 secs for cromwell to boot. So it was a bad eeprom. Now I have to try to fix it. I burnt those files to a cdrw but they wouldn't load, I tried iso9660 joliet and UDF but both wouldn't work. So I have downloaded the latest xebian and I have it running. I can log on with ssh but how do I ftp the good eeprom to the xbox. Sorry, I don't know anything about linux.
Thanks, Grei

bourke · « **Reply #25 on:** April 03, 2005, 07:18:00 AM »

QUOTE(Grei @ Apr 3 2005, 02:26 AM)

Richard, I found out what was wrong. After changing modchips with the Aladdin out of mine and it still not working I now find that with a bad eeprom and the Aladdin modchip the power button must be pressed in for about 5 secs for cromwell to boot. So it was a bad eeprom. Now I have to try to fix it. I burnt those files to a cdrw but they wouldn't load, I tried iso9660 joliet and UDF but both wouldn't work. So I have downloaded the latest xebian and I have it running. I can log on with ssh but how do I ftp the good eeprom to the xbox. Sorry, I don't know anything about linux.

Grei · « **Reply #26 on:** April 03, 2005, 10:23:00 AM »

Richard, You are right Xebian doesn't have xtool. I tried to burn those files to a CDRW, DVD+RW, DVD-R and also a CDR. They all say the same thing, you can't read the first few letters cos they aren't on the screen but you can easily guess what they are.
"...ing linuxbootcfg from CD..."
"...from CD failed"
"...ck that linuxbootcfg exicts"
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks, Grei

bourke · « **Reply #27 on:** April 03, 2005, 08:04:00 PM »

Another trick when you are having trouble with a DVD-R is to try the DVD drive from another Xbox - that may then work.

Failing that you can always use any PC DVD-Rom drive with a Y power splitter.

Richard

Grei · « **Reply #28 on:** April 04, 2005, 02:30:00 AM »

Richard, I finally got it to work. No I didn't get the cd/dvd to read, I gave up on that. I FTPed all the files to another HDD on my xbox, put it in the dead eeprom xbox and then booted from there. Now I have re-flashed it with the same eeprom and it all works, after installing a clean un-banned HDD, I locked it and everything works. I wonder how long until it gets banned. Thanks for all your help.

WildOptic · « **Reply #29 on:** April 24, 2005, 02:16:00 PM »

Thanks bourke for the great guide. It helped me save my v1.6.

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