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[MemphisReins]

Xbox V1.1
Xecuter 2 Lite + Pogo Pin adapter
Xecutor 4976.02 BIOS
Upgraded 40Gb Seagate Hard Disk LOCKED



Okay, so I go and turn on my Xbox this morning just like normal. It was actually to check if I had left a disk in the drive. So I hit the eject button. The Xbox proceeded to attempt to boot 3 times before fragging. Shitting myself I turned it off but then I tried again, it did this twice more before finally booting. I turned the chip off to make sure I could load with the chip off and sure enough it booted to the MS dash.

Now for the weirdest part. I turned the chip back on and loaded EvoX. It's reading 120.045.568 Gb free on drive F. Now this is weird for two reasons. One, I don't have anywhere near a 120Gb drive in there and two, I can still access everything I had on drive F before this happened.

Can anyone come up with anything as to why this happened in the first place, why it's doing what it's doing now and how can I make sure this doesn't happen again.

Thanks for reading.

[boxorox]

Please tell me that you have updated something recently.
New dash
New bios
new hd
new app
new game
any of the above?

[boxorox]

New skin?

[chevrix]

QUOTE (MemphisReins @ Sep 9 2003, 02:37 PM)

Xbox V1.1 Xecuter 2 Lite + Pogo Pin adapter Xecutor 4976.02 BIOS Upgraded 40Gb Seagate Hard Disk LOCKED Okay, so I go and turn on my Xbox this morning just like normal. It was actually to check if I had left a disk in the drive. So I hit the eject button. The Xbox proceeded to attempt to boot 3 times before fragging. Shitting myself I turned it off but then I tried again, it did this twice more before finally booting. I turned the chip off to make sure I could load with the chip off and sure enough it booted to the MS dash. Now for the weirdest part. I turned the chip back on and loaded EvoX. It's reading 120.045.568 Gb free on drive F. Now this is weird for two reasons. One, I don't have anywhere near a 120Gb drive in there and two, I can still access everything I had on drive F before this happened. Can anyone come up with anything as to why this happened in the first place, why it's doing what it's doing now and how can I make sure this doesn't happen again. Thanks for reading.

Most likely your "Pogo Pin adapter".

It's not as good as soldering.
Can be that there is a bad contact (dust or so).

That's the only explanation I can think of
and probably the one you had.

That about the "extra" disk space is probably
your FATX table being corrupted, likely by the bad contact
of your mod chip you had.
You will have to reformat the partitions to make this back correct.

[MemphisReins]

Thanks for the quick replies guys.

boxorox - Nothing new. I watched a DVD on it last night, turned it off, turned it on this morning and thats when it started doing this.

chevrix - I had a feeling you would say it was the pogopins but I can't understand why this would happen if I had never moved the Xbox.

I have just actually come back from town and the box isn't booting again. I'm going to open 'er up and check all the connections, replace the chip etc.

Anymore ideas?

[chevrix]

Just make the connections clean,
and screw the mod chip realy tight  :lol:

You can always solder it if you want,
it's a bit tricky but my first time soldering
worked like a charm    

[MemphisReins]

Well m8, you were right.

One of the pogo's had actually broken away from the adapter, thusly only making a VERY loose connection. The pogo is now secure, more so than ever, and the box is booting fine.

Now my main problem really. The hard disk. Am I really going to have to back EVERYTHING up and reformat? I don't exactly have enough space on my PC. Even if I do manage to get what I need off the drive, do I need to reformat the whole drive or just F? I mean, everything IS still working. I know I would probably run into problems if I tried to add anything to the F drive in it's current state, but I could live with it for now.

Thanks again for your help.    

[chevrix]

Hard disk problem can actually be anything.
Most likely just a bad value in the FATX table.

I don't know for sure if it's going to give problems
if u put stuff on the Hard Disk.
I would say just try it.
And if the incorrect size doesn't bother you there's
no reason to reformat it.

I heard that the Avalaunch team is going to put a checkdisk
and defragmenter into there dahboard.
If it comes out (some day) you can fix it without
reformatting the drive...

[MemphisReins]

Well, I've just found something even stranger.

PX HDD Loader is reporting the correct space.  

I think I'll make a backup of everything I can, minus what games I have on there and if anything starts going wrong I'll start from scratch.

Thanks again.

[boxorox]

chevrix: nice diagnosis