Topic: Chameleon (Read 1281 times)

Deadpool · « **Reply #180 on:** October 05, 2003, 11:15:00 AM »

Guys working on a ver 1.3 box.... has anyone had any luck getting the chameleon to work on this type of box.....

explicitlyrics100 · « **Reply #181 on:** October 06, 2003, 11:38:00 AM »

yeh the 1.3 chameleon works on 1.3 xboxes, it seems to be fine, but u have to have the newer version of the chip

MatroxMan69 · « **Reply #182 on:** October 08, 2003, 10:24:00 AM »

QUOTE (Deadpool @ Oct 5 2003, 08:15 PM)

Guys working on a ver 1.3 box.... has anyone had any luck getting the chameleon to work on this type of box.....

Did a brand spanking new from the store v1.3 last night...

- Header Pin install
- Soldered the top D0 w/30awg wire. Easier than most think. The 30awg fits IN the D0 pad!
- Used Matrix programmer to flash BIOS (evoxM7 in bank0)
- Wire from D0 goes to SPST switch mounted at rear of case, then to ground pad beside screw. You DO NOT need to solder it to the Chameleon. All you need to do is ground the D0 line to cause the machine to use the LPC port

- New 120GB HDD
- Slayers's 2.1 install (Not my box and it's quick

)

DONE and have a DUAL "boot" box.

Datadog13 · « **Reply #183 on:** October 18, 2003, 01:57:00 PM »

I'm having trouble getting any response from the chameleon at all, I have the solderless adapter and have a version 1.0 xbox. The LPC holes were filled with solder, which I removed and placed the through hole pins in. After finishing installation and powering up it boots just like normal straight to the built in BIOS/Dashboard. Also the LED on the Chameleon doesn't light up at all at any point, neither blue, red nor green. Is my chip bad?

SBug · « **Reply #184 on:** December 04, 2003, 12:07:00 PM »

Lets just recap for a second here. So the Solderless adapter is'nt truly solderless on a 1.4/5 xbox? ive been trying to get mine to work for almost a week now, bought it from easyscum found out 2 1/2 weeks after i ordered that they had hijacked the chip and there were all sorts of problems. anyway one tut or another seemed to indicate that if the xbox FRAGed the solderless adapter was installed correctly, problem is when i plug my chip in thats all it does, on every bank. so all i have to do is get a programmer to fix this? so much for a christmas xbox

ibri · « **Reply #185 on:** December 07, 2003, 12:55:00 AM »

Yeh, I just bought my XBox brand new, ordered my chameleon with solderless adapter from easybuy and have been working/reading for a good 5 or 6 hours now. The XBox frags on every bank no matter what I do. No blue light, just on off on off on red/green. Is there something wrong with these adapters? I don't have a soldering iron or multimeter right now so I can't really check that out. Maybe I'll just tighten the crap out of the screw and see what happens.

SBug · « **Reply #186 on:** December 07, 2003, 08:48:00 AM »

heheheh theres an idea. Glad to see someones still fighting with this, ive givin up playin with it till i hear of a quick fix of some sort, or someone finnaly posts an update directed at the 1.5 .so everyone still swears its the bios?

ibri · « **Reply #187 on:** December 07, 2003, 09:45:00 AM »

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Install is the same on a 1.4 or 1.5 (I have not seen REAL verification that the install is different) boxes as it is on all others. If you did get your chip from EB2K though, your gonna need a programmer to flash the BIOS.

Now on EB2K's site it says that it comes preflashed with Linux Cromwell BIOS. But it seems, unless I'm mistaken, that is not the case. False advertising anyone?

accuman · « **Reply #188 on:** December 08, 2003, 10:56:00 AM »

I have bought 4 Chameleon chips from EB2K. All 4 of the chips have worked great. I used the pinheader method of install on each one. However; the chips were not shipped with any bios installed. I had to purchase a programmer for $15 and flash before install. EB2K did state that they did have the modified Crom Bios. They did not have it. Flash your chip before install and they should be fine. Mine work. 2 version 1.0 and 2 version 1.3 are the chips I received.

Toddolophogus · « **Reply #189 on:** December 09, 2003, 07:56:00 AM »

I just ordered 3 Chameleons from EB2K. I have the chameleon programing software and the Matrix programmer from my old Matrix chip. In the software user guide, it shows, after scanning the Chameleon "Chameleon, Mode1/2/etc" at the top. It also shows the banks in the window. When I scan mine, it shows "Matrix" at the top, and only gives me one bank. Every bios I try to write to it, it either tells me "Unknown Flash!" or "No Bank To Write". I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. Anyone have any ideas?

ivc · « **Reply #190 on:** December 09, 2003, 02:12:00 PM »

i get the same problem when i try to use the programmer i ordered with a chameleon 1.0 chip from easybuy2000.
it writes just fine to chameleon v1.0 chips, but i get "unknow flash" when i try to flash chameleon 1.3 chips.

i tried the v0.13 version of the program and a brand new 9v battery, nothing.

edit: i have tried the programmer on two different computers in all the possible paralell port modes (spp,epp,ecp,ecp+epp,normal). xodus programmer v0.13 detects the chip and shows the different modes/banks and can read them just fine, but when i try to write i still get "unknow flash".

seems like a lot of people report that the matrix programmer is not compatible with chameleon 1.3+

msm35 · « **Reply #191 on:** December 12, 2003, 08:28:00 PM »

I have a Chameleon and a v1.0 Xbox. Am I suppose to take the solder out of the LPC holes and then put the rivets in? Also, I bought it from Easybuy2000, does it come flashed like it says? I've never modded before and it was suppose to be easy and its given me nothing but problems. ANy suggestions?

ivc · « **Reply #192 on:** December 13, 2003, 06:58:00 PM »

CODE

If you have an older mother board you will have to remove the solder from the LPC points,
this can be done relatively easily using either solder wick (braid) or a simple solder sucker,
ensure that your soldering iron is set to a moderately high temperature.

sloerie · « **Reply #193 on:** December 17, 2003, 05:33:00 AM »

QUOTE (SBug @ Dec 4 2003, 10:07 PM)

Lets just recap for a second here. So the Solderless adapter is'nt truly solderless on a 1.4/5 xbox? ive been trying to get mine to work for almost a week now, bought it from easyscum found out 2 1/2 weeks after i ordered that they had hijacked the chip and there were all sorts of problems. anyway one tut or another seemed to indicate that if the xbox FRAGed the solderless adapter was installed correctly, problem is when i plug my chip in thats all it does, on every bank. so all i have to do is get a programmer to fix this? so much for a christmas xbox

I am a little further than you. I have a v1.4, also with a Chameleon solderless adapter. Did a quick install the other night, having had the experience of installing a Matrix chip in a v1.0. Noticed that the modchip came with no bios installed. Had a matrix programmer laying around so i flashed the chip with x2 4979.67 on bank 0 (default boot up bank)

Got the xbox to frag, just like you, but nothing else. no blue lite, nothing.

sloerie · « **Reply #194 on:** December 19, 2003, 07:29:00 AM »

Again the blue light did not start to light up ONLY until i inserted Slayer's autoinstaller CD-RW (an xiso image) and booted this up!

Hope this helps...

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