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kyleday

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« Reply #90 on: June 04, 2003, 04:31:00 PM »
Your chameleon chip is supposed to flash when you boot the cromwell bios.  So nothing is wrong with your chip
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« Reply #91 on: June 04, 2003, 04:32:00 PM »
QUOTE (tracy2420 @ Jun 4 2003, 05:02 PM)
Here are some install pics that I have done, its a rush job so please dont flame on how messy my insides are...LOL.
xzone

Nice, Tracy.  SO it looks like the alternate E and P points indeed work.  Do the buttons funciton correctly for you?
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kyleday

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« Reply #92 on: June 04, 2003, 05:54:00 PM »
Ok here's a rough description of where point P leads to on the pinheaders.  Look at the top of your mobo, with the video cable adaptor facing away from you, and the controller ports facing you.  (i know you have your mobo in hand w/o the case, but visualize this for me).  Look at where the yellow bundle of cables from the FRONT POWER AND EJECT BUTTONS (there are like 10 wires) connect to your mobo.  It's similar to how your controller ports connect to your xbox, but this is a large yellow bundle of wires.  the point P corresponds to the lower left hand corner pin.  test that point, it should be point P.  Just solder a jumper to this

If this doesn't quite answer your question, i'll try to phrase it a different way

Kyle
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kyleday

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« Reply #93 on: June 04, 2003, 05:56:00 PM »
yes make sure to jumper and solder to the right side of the reisistor
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« Reply #94 on: June 04, 2003, 07:32:00 PM »
QUOTE (kyleday @ Jun 4 2003, 07:31 PM)
Your chameleon chip is supposed to flash when you boot the cromwell bios.  So nothing is wrong with your chip

you dont seem to understand the problem though

the chip led was flashing but cromwell still booted.
and it read the cdrw aswell. wink.gif

which brings me to problem #4  (or 5, whos counting)

i burnt kungfu chaos onto the same cdrw (Maxell 4x 650mb CDRW [Red Lable])
and it fit, but it says that it might be a dirty disc or whatever..

i admit, it is dirty.. but why did it work for flashing  huh.gif


EDIT:!!!

FORGOT TO BURN AS AN IMAGE, i just burned the iso file right to disc. tongue.gif
its prob cause i dont use NERO to do this usually, i always used cdrwin till they stopped supporting my burner.




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« Reply #95 on: June 04, 2003, 07:44:00 PM »
kyle, i've soldered a jumper from the right side of the point P resistor to the underside of the lower left hand corner pin of the power/eject connector (looking at the mobo facing upright from with the video connnector at the top and the game controller connectors at the bottom).  Is this accurate with your instructions?

I'm still getting the power up failure.  Did I connect it to the wrong pin?
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« Reply #96 on: June 04, 2003, 07:44:00 PM »
you seem to be missing a step there, first RTFM, you'll see you have to burn a cd with LINUXBIO.BIN (you hacked bios) put that in the drive, that will flash the chip. again read the manual, that should answer all your questions
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kyleday

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« Reply #97 on: June 04, 2003, 09:59:00 PM »
QUOTE (_300zx_TT @ Jun 5 2003, 04:32 AM)
QUOTE (kyleday @ Jun 4 2003, 07:31 PM)
Your chameleon chip is supposed to flash when you boot the cromwell bios.  So nothing is wrong with your chip

you dont seem to understand the problem though

the chip led was flashing but cromwell still booted.
and it read the cdrw aswell. wink.gif

which brings me to problem #4  (or 5, whos counting)

i burnt kungfu chaos onto the same cdrw (Maxell 4x 650mb CDRW [Red Lable])
and it fit, but it says that it might be a dirty disc or whatever..

i admit, it is dirty.. but why did it work for flashing  huh.gif


EDIT:!!!

FORGOT TO BURN AS AN IMAGE, i just burned the iso file right to disc. tongue.gif
its prob cause i dont use NERO to do this usually, i always used cdrwin till they stopped supporting my burner.




uhh.gif  uhh.gif  uhh.gif

Ok i believe i understand your problem.  You are flashing the chip, but it still boots to cromwell.  Check your DIP switches on your chip.  They should all be in the off position if you flashed a 256kb bios file (this will auto boot bank 0)- Bank 0 will be where it was flashed to.

Try that

kyle
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« Reply #98 on: June 05, 2003, 04:08:00 PM »
QUOTE (kyleday @ Jun 5 2003, 12:59 AM)
QUOTE (_300zx_TT @ Jun 5 2003, 04:32 AM)
QUOTE (kyleday @ Jun 4 2003, 07:31 PM)
Your chameleon chip is supposed to flash when you boot the cromwell bios.  So nothing is wrong with your chip

you dont seem to understand the problem though

the chip led was flashing but cromwell still booted.
and it read the cdrw aswell. wink.gif

which brings me to problem #4  (or 5, whos counting)

i burnt kungfu chaos onto the same cdrw (Maxell 4x 650mb CDRW [Red Lable])
and it fit, but it says that it might be a dirty disc or whatever..

i admit, it is dirty.. but why did it work for flashing  huh.gif


EDIT:!!!

FORGOT TO BURN AS AN IMAGE, i just burned the iso file right to disc. tongue.gif
its prob cause i dont use NERO to do this usually, i always used cdrwin till they stopped supporting my burner.




uhh.gif  uhh.gif  uhh.gif

Ok i believe i understand your problem.  You are flashing the chip, but it still boots to cromwell.  Check your DIP switches on your chip.  They should all be in the off position if you flashed a 256kb bios file (this will auto boot bank 0)- Bank 0 will be where it was flashed to.

Try that

kyle

no no no.

The >>>>>> LED <<<<<< on the chip is flashing BLUE!!..

but cromwell still boots, and i flashed it with x2 4976 or whatever.  and i can play games..
but i dont know if down the road something will be wrong... cause it was flashing..


and yesterday i popped in cdrip of KungFu Chaos that i got just to try the thing.
and it worked.. it loaded for ages on the first screen, but it worked...

now i try to play again, the loading takes seconds, and after the opening video with the "kungfu fighting" song, it goes to a black screen.

i dunno if its IGR and how to disable that crap, cause i dont have EVoX or a hdd..
its just straight chip install to play cdrw for now.


any ideas?
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« Reply #99 on: June 05, 2003, 06:13:00 PM »
Is the light of the chameleon supposed to go on when the X2 bios is on the booting bank or not?
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« Reply #100 on: June 05, 2003, 07:11:00 PM »
QUOTE (gatrhaze @ Jun 5 2003, 09:13 PM)
Is the light of the chameleon supposed to go on when the X2 bios is on the booting bank or not?

nope.
led only works on chromwell bios
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« Reply #101 on: June 06, 2003, 01:32:00 AM »
A think this goes here. For people asking for atlernative D0 & A15 solder points.

D0=13

A15=3

user posted image

Verify it for yourself here.
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« Reply #102 on: June 06, 2003, 10:41:00 AM »
sounds like bad software or something - mine didnt do that just took me to evox where i could select the bios to flash
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« Reply #103 on: June 06, 2003, 11:17:00 AM »
ok - last exam in just over a week - once thats done im writing a huge long tutorial which i will hopefully get posted on xbox-scene and it should have a very in depth guide with hopefully many q+a's and evrything that you folks have been asking (especially that fact that you really do need to do a good job with the soldering iron!  Chris
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« Reply #104 on: June 07, 2003, 09:48:00 PM »
I am trying to flash my TSOP with the Matrix/Chameleon and when
I boot Matrix_tsop_flash the light on my xbox just blinks red, green
AND orange. does it matter whether A15 is connected or not or
should the bios boot evox dash even if A15 isnt connected

it is a v 1.0 box so the bios should work
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