Topic: Chameleon (Read 1335 times)

explicitlyrics100 · « **Reply #120 on:** June 17, 2003, 04:18:00 AM »

need more info. one) could your tsop have been messed up? a bad flash or somebody messing around with a flash of an old chip or the 007 trick etc. two) do you get any error screen? three)does the tv display anything at all? four)have u soldered the e/p/a15 points?
five)i havnt really thought about this but the diode could have died on the chameleon and thus it is not able to switch to tsop - it disables chip but doesnt disconnect d0 (i mean transistor btw)

dink · « **Reply #121 on:** June 17, 2003, 02:11:00 PM »

You don't need A15. Only if you plan to flash the TSOP.

sprkthead2 · « **Reply #122 on:** June 17, 2003, 02:18:00 PM »

Installed my Chameleon successfully pin header install, with all options

applied, soldered d0 from the top with 30 awg wire. Get flashing blue light, boot to cromwell, Flash xecuter successfully on bank 0, then set to mode 4. Boots into xecuter fine when pressin the on button, Boots into M$ fine when pressing the eject button for 3 secs, enteresting thou is if you quickley press it, it boots to xecuter, so essentially you can just use the eject button to boot into both roms depending on how long you press it. Used Slayers's to install evox and lock my maxtor 160 8meg hard drive. Everything working fine so far. Most problems people are having seems to be due to bad soldering or not checking for continutity after soldering with a multimeter before powering on. If you take your time and double check your work with the correct equipment everything should go ok:)

Xeero · « **Reply #123 on:** June 17, 2003, 08:40:00 PM »

QUOTE (explicitlyrics100 @ May 30 2003, 10:20 AM)

no for tsop flash.
the bottom of the board for p/e is quite hard as the actual connection is to a chip not to a connection ring for a component but it might be worth taking a look any1 who has their console open.
d0 is the ground and doesnt need anything other than that.
Chris

A "connection ring" is actually called a via.

d0 is not ground...it is +5V or something...when you manually ground it (enable the mod), then the Xbox knows to use the LPC points as a location for the BIOS.

dink · « **Reply #124 on:** June 23, 2003, 08:11:00 AM »

Some of you have destroy or loss the Power/Eject "103" resistor. I came across an old computer board, that has about 30 of these surface mount "103" resistors on it.
If you would like one, send me a PM, so I can give reply to you, with my mailing address.
Then you can send me a SASE (self address stamp envolope) and I will tape a resistor on a piece of paper and mail it back to you.

Total cost for one resistor, (2) postage stamps and (2) envelopes! What a deal!

sharer · « **Reply #125 on:** May 04, 2011, 01:12:00 AM »

Hello, I also met some very serious problem, the Chip is now out, the power button doesn't work. It also turns off after about 45 seconds. I wonder if anyone knows where I can get a replacement diode (or the values for such a diode), or if this is repairable another way?

Thanks in Advance

explicitlyrics100 · « **Reply #126 on:** June 25, 2003, 12:28:00 PM »

what part of a computer was that from?
ps im only back for a couple of days before i go off trecking for another 4or so days

dink · « **Reply #127 on:** June 26, 2003, 07:22:00 AM »

QUOTE

what part of a computer was that from?

It came from a phone system. Why do you ask?

gerzand · « **Reply #128 on:** June 29, 2003, 12:39:00 PM »

A15 lets you flash a bios onto the xbox so that after its flashed you dont need a modchip anymore. Its not for everyone though because you cant disable it with a switch.

capt_peo · « **Reply #129 on:** June 29, 2003, 03:02:00 PM »

My xb wont eject now. The eject light blinks when i press the button, and in evox it says that its openning but nothing hapens. Ive used the chameleon for a few days with no probs. Its installed with the quick solder method. I also used 10 diff bios with no luck.

dzv · « **Reply #130 on:** July 01, 2003, 10:59:00 AM »

QUOTE (Terrorbyte @ Jul 1 2003, 07:48 PM)

Has anyone soldered the "alternate" D0 point (on the back of the XBOX motherboard) to their Chameleon yet? I'm just wondering if it works 100% correctly, I know that the blue light on the Chameleon does not flash when that point is connected, but the XBOX will boot from the modchip perfectly fine.

Why would the blue light not work? The alternate D0 is on exactly the same track as the top D0, just a different location.

Terrorbyte · « **Reply #131 on:** July 01, 2003, 11:09:00 AM »

dzv:

QUOTE

Why would the blue light not work? The alternate D0 is on exactly the same track as the top D0, just a different location.

Have NO idea, obviously things were installed/soldered properly as I would get the Cromwell 1.8 BIOS screen after powering up the XBOX. I'm not an amateur at soldering, I'd at least consider myself intermediate to advanced, and I know when I have a good/bad solder joint, it's fairly obvious.

However, no matter what I did or how I burned the 256k BIOS file (evoX, executer, etc - renamed to "linuxbio.bin" as per the Cham manual), Cromwell would not boot from the CD-RW disc and would not flash the Chameleon BIOS (it would error out and say "linuxboot.cfg not found...halting"). I even waited for the "insert CD" prompt as instructed, still no luck. I burned many different CD-RW discs using different software, even burned a couple BIOSes using Mac OS X and Toast, no difference in how Cromwell would prompt "linuxboot.cfg not found...halting". I could've saved myself the extra trouble by flashing the Chameleon with an evoX or executer BIOS, but wanted to use Cromwell instead in order to follow Xodus's manual more precisely. I ordered both the Chameleon and Matrix as a package, so I do have the programmer, and decided to flash the Chameleon prior to installing it just to make sure everything was ok. I had no problems flashing from my friend's PC, but flashing from my own PC did not work, the Matrix programmer is picky with parallel ports I guess.

I did get the blue light to flash while connected to the other D0 point on the top of the board, but since the wire liked to pop out at random, I was never able to successfully solder a wire up there, and had to resort to the alternate D0 point. I do agree with you though, it doesn't make sense why the blue light doesn't flash since I'm using the same D0 point, I'm just jumping it from a different point.

explicitlyrics100 · « **Reply #132 on:** July 02, 2003, 10:39:00 AM »

QUOTE (dink @ Jun 26 2003, 04:22 PM)

It came from a phone system. Why do you ask?

because it seems insane to have that many resistors of the same value.

if you have problems with your chip it is probably from a loose connection. this could be between the xbox or perhaps even between the programmer and thus it was unable to be flashed when it was shipped and it appears blank. thats what im pretty sure it could be at least. Chris

explicitlyrics100 · « **Reply #133 on:** July 02, 2003, 10:42:00 AM »

soz about all the edits. lol i seem to have forgotten how to do my quotes... lol there seem to be less chameleon problems atm... i wonder if thats coz less people are buying them or if our guides have actually started to work.

Cherry · « **Reply #134 on:** July 02, 2003, 02:43:00 PM »

Well, I'm using your EvoX INI straight out of the other thread, so you helped me out with that at least

Some great info in this thread. I'm sure it's helped a LOT of people.

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