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[1hotjob]

The two things that pop into my mind are media and size of the ISO.

If you are using CD-RW or DVD it should work depending on the brand.

If the new ISO is smaller than the one that works, maybe you need a dummy file on the disk. Here is a small tut.


Pulled from a tutorial written by circusmonki.

Make a "dummy" file of about 4 GB and create another ISO but this time include the dummy file in the ISO. It doesn’t matter what you name the dummy file. To make a dummy file copy and paste or type (whatever suits) this into command prompt in windows XP:

fsutil file createnew d:\temp\4gbDummyFile.txt 4194304000

[Xombe]

I'll ask the dumb question, "Is your XBE named correctly?"

http://forums.xbox-s...showtopic=89545

[ThaCrip]

well when you make the disc try doing this... make a dummy file with the dummy file creator (which you can download here, http://www.xbox-modc...s/dummyfile.zip ) then name that dummy file abc.bin (make it 600MB in size) and put it in the same folder as your evox files (basically put it in the root of the evox folder, it will be in there with the default.xbe file) and make SURE that the main evoxdash file is called "default.xbe" .... then create the ISO file with QUIX then burn it to a cd-rw disc (or dvd although i never tried dvd myself)

see what happens then ... this works for me.

also you said that you got a 1.6 xbox... this means your either using evox m8 type bios or a very new x2 bios (since older x2 bios, x2.4983 or older) dont support 1.6 xbox's) .... if it is a x2 bios i would try the "rescue.xbe" stuff i was mentioning below.

p.s. if your using a real new X2 bios like X2.5032 or newer i think you "might" have to name the default.xbe to "rescue.xbe" as it says in the readme file for this bios if nothing else will boot THIS will boot ... i think this was added in X2.5032 or newer.

[ThaCrip]

you definitely have a odd issue it would seem ;(

you could try doing this... use FlashX v1.2 to flash the X2.5035 bios to your modchip (normally it's supposed to only work on Xecuter 2.x modchip but i was just talking to some guy on these forums recently and he has same modchip as you do and he said FlashX v1.2 worked in flashing his "x2 duo GS" chip) with your old hard drive that has everything working... just run it as a application and store the X2.5035 bios file in E:\BIOS\ on your xbox hard drive and flashx v1.2 should see it. use the "x2_5035_v16plus_512k" file since you said you got a 1.6 xbox... once this is flashed then try using a bootable cd like i was saying and see what happends

NOTE: i never tested flashx v1.2 myself on any other modchip besides Xecuter 2.x modchip! ... so use caution, if you dont feel comfortable attempting flashx you can always flash the bios however you usually do it.... probably evox?

but anyways once you use that bios those boot discs have to work i would assume one way or another between the default.xbe stuff or the rescue.xbe option.

then after bios flash stick back in your new hdd and see what happends

good luck

[phillb67]

Hi ThraCrip,

Success, but not entirely sure why.

Flashed the BIOS as you described below.  XBox now would not boot off orginal boot disk or the new disk I had created!

Tested a Evox .xbe on hard drive just to confirm that .xbe was ok.  This booted into Evox dash ok.

Created another ISO using the evox.xbe off xbox hard drive and burnt to disk.

This time xbox booted from CD!  I have now installed my new hard drive and are away laughing.

What is perplexing is that I did not do anything different than I had done before flashing bios.  Also strange that the boot disk that had always worked stopped working after the new flash was installed.

Anyway it works now.

Thanks for all your help.  Much appreciated.