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Georgyo

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« on: May 30, 2003, 02:46:00 AM »
Well, if you don't have evoxdash.xbe then that is what will happen, get a slayers disk, or any other evox boot disk, and install/FTP what you need.
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Reality_check

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« Reply #1 on: May 30, 2003, 04:23:00 AM »
Hi check your D0 is correct, it sounds like the D0 point is not soldered properly. You can check by forcing d0 Low ( holding the wire on a ground point like the screw ) and powering up, you should enter into the Chameleon-Cromwell Screen.
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ravencry

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« Reply #2 on: May 30, 2003, 05:36:00 AM »
and also make sure you know what version of xbox u got
D0 is not the same on all boxes nowadays

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GrisGris

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« Reply #3 on: May 30, 2003, 09:04:00 AM »
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Do you mean keeping the D0 wire installed at both the chip point and D0 and holding a screw or other grounding object to the D0 point as well?

Georgyo, I thought I could assume a bad install as long as the light doesn't come on (though there's some talk that it will only come on if Cromwell is booted, so this becomes circular).  Are you saying I could theoretically have a good install and still get a normal MS bios boot?
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dzv

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« Reply #4 on: May 30, 2003, 10:45:00 AM »
Georgyo's comment isn't exacly correct.  All Chameleon's are supposed to come pre-flash with the Chameleon Cromwell BIOS, so you definitely won't see the normal MS bootup screen and dash if your mod is installed properly.  Unless of course you flashed your Chameleon with an external programmer before installing it.

As for Reality Check's advice, simply attach D0 to a ground point (such as a motherboard screw).  Don't connect it to the Chameleon, just to ground.  This will tell you if your D0 wire is soldered securely to the motherboard, and it will also tell you if you have soldered to the correct point on the motherboard.  If your D0 point is correct and secure, your Xbox will boot from the LPC (the Chameleon) when it is grounded.  Once you have verified the D0 point, you can then re-attach it to your Chameleon.
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Georgyo

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« Reply #5 on: May 30, 2003, 10:53:00 AM »
Ah you are correct, I was thinking with an x2 bios installed. Sorry.
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zqx

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« Reply #6 on: May 30, 2003, 12:06:00 PM »
as you are well aware of there is a solderless  adapter coming sometime soon from Xodus...but until then could someone try an experiment.....I have a v1.0 mobo so I would have to desolder ( don't have all the stuff yet) ..but if you have the versions that you don't ....why not put the black plastic holding the header pins under the mother board pins protruding above  and connect the chameleon by pressing it on to the pins a compression fit (like a sandwich )...the only thing is will there be a good connection...it can't hurt to try...I thought of this when one of the earlier posters said he had made a mistake and didn't see how he could solder it and realized that the black plastic should be on top of the motherboard...some feedback please
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GrisGris

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« Reply #7 on: May 30, 2003, 12:26:00 PM »
Well, I have no intention of wicking out all that solder and going back to my earlier mistake, but I can tell you that it seemed like just as tight a connection either way.  The only drawback to having the plastic part under the mobo is that the chip doesn't sit as nicely...the top end wants to go lower than the bottom end.

(edit: I just realized that the uneven seating problem could be remedied by pushing the pins up before soldering)

dzv, thanks for the followup on the D0 test, sounds like that could really help.  I am confident that I have D0 located, I'm just not sure that I'm getting a great solder point, though it seems like I am. My luck though, I'll have received one of the Chameleons that shipped without being properly flashed...
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frekkle

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« Reply #8 on: May 30, 2003, 01:36:00 PM »
I just got my Chameleons in today!

I have to tell you GrisGris I installed the pin header as the manual explained
and I wired the top d0 to the point shown and it worked straight away

Its 2 things you must know

If the box turns on in MS bios (not cromwell) then you have a Bad D0 connection
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If your xbox starts and resets 3 times then you have a bad LPc point connection and D0 is ok (yes if the xbox resets then your D0 is wired correctly)

Now there is no way the Chameleon had a bad bios on it, because you would either have nothing at all on the screen (u have MS bios) or the xbox would reset (showing that its a bad bios or no bios at all)

So check your D0 point (with a multi meter if you have one) and your soldering
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