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Heimdall

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« on: April 22, 2010, 01:22:00 PM »
Hmmm.

It's the dashboard that supports FTP. Delete the dash = no FTP.

If the Xbox was softmodded with an old softmod then it probably isn't modded anymore, and Slayers won't help at all. If it was a new softmod with shadow C then you might be in luck.

While it's too late now, you should always have a working boot disc before making any changes to a working modded Xbox....... and if it's softmodded that boot disc shouldn't be Slayers - it's designed for chipped and flashed Xboxes...... and you shouldn't do anything to any Xbox until you've worked out if it's softmodded, flashed or chipped.

When you say "My laptop won't recognize the .ISO file I need to burn", what do you mean? What are you burning with, what error message is your laptop giving you? Try downloading Frosty's Recue Disc and burning that to DVD-R using DVD Decrypter 3.5.4.0 at 4x or slower.

Finally, for now:

What colour was the LED before you deleted the dash?
What colour is it now?
What can you see on the screen when you boot? What is the error number?
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reptileink

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« Reply #1 on: April 23, 2010, 07:28:00 PM »
ok, so I succesfully burned Frosty's iso disc, loaded it in the xbox, and now I can't FTP??

It says the IP is 0.0.0.0

I go into settings, change the IP, scroll down to exit, and it erases the IP!  mad.gif

There is no "save and exit"

Also, I have no clue what to do with the partitions, do I lock the hard drive, do I unlock the hard drive??

HELP!
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« Reply #2 on: April 23, 2010, 08:04:00 PM »
How is xbox networked? Frosty's expects an IP address assigned by DHCP. If network doesn't work, use qwix to inject the needed files into the xiso and use dvd2xbox as a file explorer to copy files over.
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« Reply #3 on: April 23, 2010, 10:07:00 PM »
Just ftp back into your xbox and replace the EvoX dash folder, and EvoX or at least put a dashboard of your choice in the place of it. I'm not sure what this xbox was setup with as you haven't mentioned it either but certainly it's looking for a dashboard to boot but just cannot since you deleted it. If I were you I'd just grab XboxHDM and setup the harddrive from scratch and reapply the softmod * Preferred softmod of mine is Krazyie's Ndure 1.1 which you can obtain from Xbins and setup as long as you have one of the following 3 games,  Spilter Cell or Mech Assualt or Agent Under Fire 007.... But ensure the games are of the right version that can be used to run the expiolt. There are some versions that've been fixed to not allow this to occur. If you need a setup like that just let me know I actually have several copies of the Exploitable Spilter Cell game!

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Heimdall

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« Reply #4 on: April 24, 2010, 05:07:00 AM »
At this stage you don't need xboxhdm, or an exploitable game. Your Xbox is booting Frosty's Rescue disc, so it is still modded, and you still don't know it it's softmodded or flashed, although softmodded is more likely.

There are lots of possible next steps, but the easiest is to enable DHCP on your network, then use Frosty's and FTP to replace the files you deleted. You can then FTP BIOS checker across, and run it to see which BIOS your Xbox is running, which will allow you to work out if the Xbox is flashed or softmodded.
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« Reply #5 on: April 24, 2010, 07:20:00 AM »
Is XBMC's ftp working? Navigate and launch XBMC with DVD2xbox. See if network settings are sticky via XBMC if you can't get DHCP to work,  use a crossover Ethernet cable.
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GISJason

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« Reply #6 on: April 24, 2010, 07:43:00 AM »
No not really needed to know if it's softmodded or not... But handy to know so you know what to stay away from down the road but really you can make do by simply replacing the EvoX folder that was deleted and then just throwing the dashboard of your choice into that folder it should work like that as long as the .xbe is renamed to match up with what the .xbe was named in that folder before you deleted it, no need for shortcuts etc.. Just throw the dash files into that folder and get it over with. Should work as is unless you deleted the softmod itself.
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« Reply #7 on: April 24, 2010, 08:38:00 AM »
name the shortcut evox.xbe NOT default.xbe
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« Reply #8 on: April 24, 2010, 08:44:00 AM »
QUOTE(xman954 @ Apr 24 2010, 10:38 AM) View Post

name the shortcut evox.xbe NOT default.xbe



This part kind of confused me


Create a text file on your computer with the same name as your renamed Shortcut XBE, except with the extension .cfg instead of .xbe (i.e. evoxdash.cfg) and put the path to the installed XBMC\default.xbe inside it (eg. E:\Apps\XBMC\default.xbe)

In their example(eg), they don't show the .cfg file in that path?? Are they saying to replace:

E:\Apps\XBMC\default.xbe

to

E:\Apps\XBMC\default.cfg ????
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