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[nonamer66]

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Meanings of Red/Orange/Green flashing leds on Xbox (v0.4) Tutorial written by : XanTium GREEN/RED Flashing: Probably a bad chip or bad image. SOLID GREEN/No EJECT/No AUDIO/No VIDEO: Probably a bad solder point. Check all your points again. It could also be a heat problem , make sure your fan is connected and don't put your xbox near heat sources. You can also try to open the top of the xbox and check if it goes better. SOLID GREEN/No AUDIO/No VIDEO: This is probably a problems with your audio settings. Try to boot your xbox with a standard a/v pack instead of a HD pack. ORANGE/GREEN Flashing: No AUDIO/VIDEO (A/V) pack. This may also be down to a solder splash on the board or a damaged track. ORANGE Flashing: This may also be down to a solder splash on the board or a damaged track. May also be due overheating. SOLID RED: System overheated , hardware failure

Try reflashing your matrix. You may have a bad bios or your programmer glitched. Also make sure your using a brand new 9volt battery. Mine did this when I did my first install but I tried reflashing and it worked instantly.

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QUOTE (nonamer66 @ Dec 12 2002, 03:25 AM)

Try reflashing your matrix. You may have a bad bios or your programmer glitched. Also make sure your using a brand new 9volt battery. Mine did this when I did my first install but I tried reflashing and it worked instantly.

Thats not the problem as the guy doesn't have the matrix installed anymore.  My guess is that he messed something up while installing the matrix.  

Be sure all cables (IDE, yellow DVD wires, etc...) are connected properly, but I really don't think that is your problem.  I'm guessing you fried something when taking the Xbox apart, or installing the Matrix.

[shanafan]

Think he pushed his Matrix down too hard and perhaps screwed it down too hard and damaged a point?

[phishstics]

read: alignment.

just because it is blinking green does not always mean it's aligned properly.  keep trying until the xbox stays on for good.

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QUOTE (phishstics @ Dec 12 2002, 06:35 AM)

read: alignment. just because it is blinking green does not always mean it's aligned properly.  keep trying until the xbox stays on for good.

The Matrix IS NOT installed.  It's an Xbox problem now, not a Matrix problem.  Something on the Xbox is fucked up, not the Matrix.

[duff]

QUOTE (tybo31316 @ Dec 12 2002, 04:44 AM)

I know someone who has the same exact problem.

                                    Elaborate please...  Was the problem fixed, or not?  Just trying to help this guy out.

[nonamer66]

well try all your options... reflash your matrix and align it again.  at least try it again...

[RedDevil]

I tried everything, reflashing it, aligning it, still the power cuts in and out.  With or without the matrix, I cant get it to work.

[erealdave]

The exact same thing happens to me regularly, not sure what it is causing it but in my frustration one day I gave the box a swift punch in the head, turned  it on, and it sprung to life . I know it's not a fix but feck it, it works! At least this means that your box is probably not fried, probably misalignment of something?

[NVShacker]

I had this problem, check your hard disk cables.

[mruell]

QUOTE (bubbag @ Dec 12 2002, 09:03 AM)

I have same problem with cheapmod. put it in on/off (green), on/off(green) on (red/orange). I tried with the chip out but the d0 jumper in place and i get red/green flashing but the on/off still happens. I tried with the hd/dvd plugged/unplugged on/off still happens. Something seems to be shorted.  Does anyone know where the overheating sensor is located?

If you take out the mod BUT leave the D0 line to ground your Xbox will not be able to find the Tsop.
No bios.

If you take the Mod chip out, remove the D0  jumper.  

mruell

[brainlight]

Yeah, the damn same thing happened to me, the difference is that i'm not a 12year old guy that installs for the first time a modchip, i'm been modifiying consoles from 5 years now, and i'm a student of electronic engineering, so I KNOW what I was doing when i've installed the matrix. I've tried to install the damn chip but XBOX wonted power up, probably for miss-alignement.

Suddendly, the matrix starts to burn, releasing a nasty gray smoke, and a track of it has blown up (see the pictures here ). Scared, I removed the matrix from the XBOX and....surprise! it didn't want to boot, even without matrix installed.... I've tried everything, but I suppose that some IC of the mainboard has blown up. Don't believe me? Watch the pictures here:




Now i'm talking with them because I want a full refund of the damages made from the chip to my xbox, I didn't see any disclaimers when i've buyed the chip, so they have to pay me!

[limbfilter]

Now that is fucked up right there.

[bubbag]

Yeah that is fucked.

I dont know how that thing burned like that unless there was something wrong with components on the matrix itself.

Just to reterate the general problem.

1.  There is power off/on (green), power off/on (green) the unit will power on with either red/orange blinking (no mod at all or correctly flashed mod) or red/green blinking (no modchip but d0 connected or bad bios) or orange/green blinking (no av cable).

2.  The DVD drive will eject once the box has reach the final power up stage and the HD spins up fine as well limiting the possiblility of a PSU issue

Please confirm if you are having these symtoms as well.

Just to note that I have read (I think anyways) in other forums and in the newsgroups that some people have had red/orange flashing with a stock xbox but I am not sure if it powered off/on 3 times.
 

[brainlight]

Exactly, it powers on/off for 3 times, then blinks red/green. DVD can be ejected and spins up, but no audio/video out. Power supply works well.

I've tried installing a new BIOS (modchip generation1) thus bypassing the onboard BIOS, but it doesn't work anyway, so we can exclude a TSOP flash IC issue.

It doesn't matter for the matrix, I know it's really gone now...I just want my XBOX working again. I will let you know what the guys up there at XODUS say.