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[smokeingit]

Deadspider.... If your new to soldering then DO NOT SOLDER W1-W2, you can by mistake take off the TSOP off its tracks and then it becomes a pain in the ass to get it back.
but to answer your question...
you will still need to short J1 regardless.
you will need to leave W2 there. once you solder...
and once it boots with this meathod you can remove the T1 wire from ground.
once your TSOP is flashed you can remove the chip and T1 out of there...
just to let you know... you will not be able to reflash your tsop from evox doing this method,  only the alternative method will let you reflash...
and yes if you fuck, it will still boot your system.

[sebene]

hi

i m so glad to hear that my xbox tsop could actually be repaired !

i just solder a mod chip few days ago !!!!!
i didn t known i could reflash that way !

remember i had flashed my tsop with a corrupted bios !
so with the matrix i was trying the trick with the flashing tsop bios but it wasn t working cause it needed at least a bank of the original xbox bios !

so from what i heard now i should be able to reuse the tsop !

u should make a nice tuto with pics and post it in the tuto section of the xbox scene !

thx a lot !
ps now i have to unsolder my chip !!!!!

[smokeingit]

QUOTE (knowledgeiv @ Feb 2 2003, 09:41 PM)

smokeingit, I see nothing different in your method that in method 1 of my tutorial, except the fact that you are saying to use a regualar Evox BIOS instead of the TSOP flash one...am I right? Also, once you flash the TSOP, you can reflash it over and over as long as you leave either the top and bottom jumpers OR the top jumper and W1-W2 connected.

by all means knowledgeiv, I followed your method to a T. The only thing is that you tell people how to flash a TSOP if the onboard bios is not fucked. i go and tell them how to fix the problem. I for one to not have W1 and W2 shorted so i cant speak for that on my behalf. i just read alot of posts people bitching that they cant reflash on EVOX dont the w1w2 style. I tell them to use the flash matrix style from the word go and go to mode 4 to test the aliment to make sure its gonna work. thus the orange/green/red flash's.

But thanks to you i made this faq, but i made it because people could not fix it there TSOP because did not understand what Mr.greatvirus wrote to fix.

[smokeingit]

That is right about the whole alignment thing. the idea of taking the chip out once you alignment down scares me.... cause sometimes it take me forever to aligne the bitch

I did read that people could not flash with W1-W2 but i did not test because i didnt like the idea of connecting shit to TSOP directly.

I tested it with 256k Flash's, blank TSOP because they turned it wrong, wrong bios (enigmah bios) and one @ 99 %
tiz all worked fine

[deadspider]

smokeingit  in other words i dont really have to soder W1-W2 and get away with it?
if yes then whats the point for sodering it.
and one question off topic what the hell does a EjectFix bios do?

[smokeingit]

If you solder the bottom part of the board then you dont need to solder W1-W2, which by far i recommend doing that method. and eject fix bios is one that will not reset the xbox when you hit the eject button.

[deadspider]

ok kool so just soldor  MCPX WR# to Flash WE#  BOTTOM SIDE and MCPX RD# to Flash OE# TOP SIDE tape the T1 flash and boom.
its like the more im reading and asking question about this TSOP the easier its looking to do it lol.
question bout the #7(1meg BIOS in the bios folder & EvoX_MatriX_TSOP_flash.bin) so the 1mb bios is the one thats going to be used in the xbox that mean if i want a color bios make the 1mb bios color since i can not change it after im done.
by the way thankx for all your help

[smokeingit]

Right. the 1mb bios goes to TSOP. and make sure its a 1mb file.. it can be any color bios. but dont use the matrix tsop bios on the xbox TSOP.

[knowledgeiv]

smokeingit, That's good news that you were able to get this method to work on a TSOP that was close to 100% screwed.

I didn't want to try to solder W1 to W2, either.  This just seemed ridiculous when the same thing can be done by connecting the jumper on the bottom of the mobo.  Also, it's much easier to use the conductive grease to connect the jumpers, instead of soldering and you can just wipe it away when you are done if you want.  A conductive pen would probably also work and be much easier.

As far as alignment goes, I didn't want to have to worry about re-aligning either...it can be a bitch somtimes.  That's why I use a normal BIOS, align the chip, and then re-flash with TSOP flash BIOS from the Evox dash or CD.

[smokeingit]

not yet

[crackz0r]

[smokeingit]

and you followed all the steps to the T? what error did you get from evox?

[crackz0r]

didn't get an error from evox.. no matter what i do, i get 3 reboots and red/green.. but with the matrix installed with a regular x2 or evox bios it works fine.. the tsop is fucked.. oh well.. heh

[smokeingit]

if it still does not boot then you are doing something wrong. its not aligned for sure. get it aligned first then do my steps. and sure its not a 1.1 xbox and make sure its a tsop matrix flash bios.

[crackz0r]

it is indeed aligned, and it's a 1.0 xbox.. and yes, i was using the tsop flash bios. i had the matrix sitting in the machine prior with the tsop flash bios in place, it was set to mode1, and it worked fine when i set it to mode3 and grounded t1.. i made a multibios with cromwell 1.8, the original xbox bios, and two instances of x2 4793 color.. flashed the tsop, and the problems started.. (quick note.. tsop was previously flashed, and i've messed it up before, but have always been able to recover due to having a partial good flash on it, which is why the matrix was always in the machine). i did realign it just to be safe, and had no luck, so i pulled the matrix out, and flashed it with a regular bios, and it's all good now.. off the matrix anyway heh..