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[ken D.]

hey guys, I've been at this for a couple of months now, on and off, as I'm pretty busy with work and school, I try to get to it during the weekend. I've made some posts from the boxxdr thread, and I Haven't found anybody with the same situation as I am right now. I've successfully extracted my key using the boxxdr method with jungle flasher, flashed the drive, and removed all the wires, and resoldered the traces. The problem I been having posted on my reply from the other threads, where I have commented. My drive keeps ejecting, even when I close the cd tray, and also my power light still stays blinking....

 I have had others telling me that I might have a short some where or something is grounding in my traces that I have resoldered....and have done it many many times to check every speck that may cause grounding or shorts....

In my frustrating I decided to buy a spare drive, and so I bought a brand new lite-on 7 series drive...

I have tried to put the drive in vendor mode, but still unsuccessful, but I'm still trying as I am only using the xbox to power the drive, (still in progress, Haven't had much time and patience yet!!)I pull the power connector in and out until I get a 0x72 status, once I get it done I will flash and check if my drive will still do the same thing.

but even before I try to flash and enter into vendor mode with my spare drive. I've notice something,
with just the power connection from the xbox to the drive connected, it still behaves the same way it does with the original drive, it keep ejecting!!!!!

I know my xbox is not fired, because I've connected the xbox to my tv, and I can view my dashboard home screen, and I know it's not the drive. so what else could this be, if I flash my spare drive with the key and it still behave the same way, ejecting the cd tray!!!

I hope someone in the forum can shead some light, in my doom and gloom situation here..
I appreciate  all of you for reading my post, and sharing you suggestions and opinions.. thanks very much!

This post has been edited by ken D.: Sep 21 2010, 07:46 PM

[syntaxerror329]

If both the replacement drive and the original are ejecting then you have almost certainly done something bad to the southbridge.

Using "the xbox to power the drive" can be dangerous. I have spare southbridges for Falcon version boards but nothing for Jasper.

Do you know what mb version it is?

[Dark Mod]

QUOTE(syntaxerror329 @ Sep 21 2010, 04:21 PM)

Using "the xbox to power the drive" can be dangerous

I tired tell people that using the xbox to power up drives for flashing is dangerous...but noooooooooooo.....they always felt they are smarter and understand the xbox more....*tosses hands in the air*

[Buzzcut]

Over 400 flashes using the xbox says no.

I guess you "may" be able to do something stupid but I've never had an issue.

[ken D.]

is the southbridges the chipset on the xbox motherboard? How does this fry the chipsets. if all I'm doing is getting the drive to vendor mode.... I've been doing this to my facon xbox to upgrade it's firmware and had no problems with  and I as well have done this several times...

[syntaxerror329]

QUOTE(ken D. @ Sep 22 2010, 04:01 PM)

is the southbridges the chipset on the xbox motherboard? How does this fry the chipsets. if all I'm doing is getting the drive to vendor mode.... I've been doing this to my facon xbox to upgrade it's firmware and had no problems with  and I as well have done this several times...

The southbridge controls all simple i/o fuctions of the 360. It does things like tell the system to power up. It detects when your drive tray is open and closed it even runs the usb ports.

To fry it all you have to do is have your drive connected and accidentally short something on the drive circuit board. Who knows static could have discharged from you and did it even.

Really it should be perfectly safe to use the 360 to power the drive. I mean the 360 was designed to power the drive after all. The problem is when something goes wrong like this.

I can probably fix it here but it might be expensive by the time you ship it.

[green360]

Hye Ken I now it's hard for you ..... so I can say that may be it's the XBOX power cable going from the motherboard to the drive wich is in cause(damaged pin3 or pin9, you have to check if they are in there place from the two sides: MB & drive) try to change it??(the black cable wich contain 9 wires).... tray also to check if the power conector of this cable in the MB is good?

You can also try to upgarde you XBOX 360 system kernel(do you have the 9199 version??) tray to upgarde your xbox 360 dash to the beta kinect version wich is avaible on the net( the dashboard 2.0.12416 version) using a USB key by putting the $SystemUpdate folder on the root of your USB key ?

Well I hope you a good luck...

[syntaxerror329]

QUOTE(green360 @ Sep 22 2010, 06:15 PM)

Hye Ken I now it's hard for you ..... so I can say that may be it's the XBOX power cable going from the motherboard to the drive wich is in cause(damaged pin3 or pin9, you have to check if they are in there place from the two sides: MB & drive) try to change it??(the black cable wich contain 9 wires).... tray also to check if the power conector of this cable in the MB is good?

You can also try to upgarde you XBOX 360 system kernel(do you have the 9199 version??) tray to upgarde your xbox 360 dash to the beta kinect version wich is avaible on the net( the dashboard 2.0.12416 version) using a USB key by putting the $SystemUpdate folder on the root of your USB key ?

Well I hope you a good luck...

All good suggestions but i have a feeling my diagnosis is the correct one. I have seen this before. Only way is to see if it will again is to have someone reball a new southbridge and install it.

[ken D.]

thanks green360 for your suggestion, I'll give it a try!, I'll check the power wires form the MB to the drive as well. I actually did a dashboard update before I decided to do this. this was back in january or maybe feburary, do you think it can be this?