Topic: Matrix Problem, Fried Xbox? (Read 353 times)

SeQr · « **Reply #15 on:** August 10, 2003, 01:33:00 AM »

The first time it worked, now I've been busy for hours trying everything. Luckily I also ordered a Chameleon with my Matrix, just need a pogo pin addon and pray that will work. But I still want to know why it doesn't work anymore. It's really pissing me off.

Edit: When It hasn't been on for some time and I power it up in test mode the LED will flash green longer. Normally it will flash green then stop flashing turn red and then start flashing red.

Edit2: If I didn't knew better I'd almost say the Matrix is a MS Product.

SeQr · « **Reply #16 on:** August 10, 2003, 02:26:00 AM »

I will just keep trying to solve this, but soon I'm going to switch to the Chameleon even if I can get this thing to work, I'm sick of getting these sorts of problems

SeQr · « **Reply #17 on:** August 10, 2003, 02:34:00 AM »

Well I'll be d*mn*d I just booted the thing up and it worked. It's completely going crazy

Punker99 · « **Reply #18 on:** August 10, 2003, 11:45:00 AM »

QUOTE (SeQr @ Aug 10 2003, 11:34 AM)

Well I'll be d*mn*d I just booted the thing up and it worked. It's completely going crazy

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Well I'll be d*mn*d I just booted the thing up and it worked. It's completely going crazy

I hate you.

I tried to flash my TSOP last night (I figured what did I have to lose) and wound up completely fucking up my motherboard. Now I've got no choice but to buy a new XBox. Yay.

digitalman42 · « **Reply #19 on:** August 10, 2003, 01:25:00 PM »

well it wasn't working anyways,, how did you mess it up?

Punker99 · « **Reply #20 on:** August 10, 2003, 02:45:00 PM »

QUOTE (digitalman42 @ Aug 10 2003, 10:25 PM)

well it wasn't working anyways,, how did you mess it up?

The soldering iron must've been too hot or something, wound up desoldering one of the points that have to be bridged for a TSOP flash :-/.

digitalman42 · « **Reply #21 on:** August 10, 2003, 03:44:00 PM »

Florky · « **Reply #22 on:** August 11, 2003, 10:47:00 AM »

I 've soldered my D0 to the alternate D0 ... and still the same thing.
red/green blinking.
I begin to be fed up with that.

so After reflashing matrix, after resoldered one transistor, after soldered the cable between the 2 D0
what's next ?

Florky · « **Reply #23 on:** August 12, 2003, 04:23:00 AM »

KevC · « **Reply #24 on:** September 16, 2003, 12:59:00 AM »

funny thing how things finally roll
look the same thing has happened to me it started to dance like a friggin xmas tree with all the leds and the 3time turning off turning on but you know i was a newbie back then so i kept trying to get it aligned and it finally worked but always got stuck on the animation scene which positively indicates that the problem originates from the tsop I also have noticed that for some reason the team xodus didnt have a word in this conversation which makes me wondering why after all you have developed this friggin chip couldnt you at least warn the public before putting it on market i dont have any complains its just cannot you at least formulate something to solve this i mean this is has gone too far .....detonating xboxes this is morally sadistic youre the experts so think of something I dont know if there are equal odds that the same thing would happen with the x2 but still
so lets summarize it this problem can be induced by several reasons
1:)bad tsop
2:)impaired d0
3:)corrupt LPC

whatever it is it better be solved soon otherwise i suggest everyone to take off their matrixs off their xboxes for the safety of your box

selectinsul · « **Reply #25 on:** September 16, 2003, 06:18:00 AM »

KevC · « **Reply #26 on:** September 16, 2003, 11:41:00 AM »

come on xodus dont you have anything to say about it i know it leaves you speechless
when you are hopeless and cant find any resort

TEAM XODUS · « **Reply #27 on:** September 16, 2003, 01:28:00 PM »

QUOTE

BH: The overall design is pretty uninteresting. It's just a PC. Compared to other PCs, it is not very good. The integration level is pretty low. The first-generation box had some pretty ugly wartsi.e. the USB daughtercardand, overall, the design has been fairly flaky. There have been overheating issues with the Xbox design.

BH = Bunnie ( for those of you who don`t know, Andrew Huang)

When you cruising down the high way and your newly painted car has a flat tire, do you blame the paint ?

If M$ ever published the actaul figures of returned ( unmodded ) units then maybe we could compare and be able to reason, but untill then .. please don`t go by screaming blue murder when you do not have any facts to stand by ...

Okay now to some logical and mature talk ..

Modifying anything inherently involves an element of risk .. In my opinion and that of many, many very happy customers, the Matrix design reduced those risks conciderably. There are many people out there that have never used a soldering iron before .. the next best chip before the Matrix was released was the x1 .. take a look at the problems that design had and then logicaly compare percentages .. you will quickly realise that the matrix delivered exactly what it promised, a quick and easy way to chip your box, with a saftey and success rate much better than any other chip to date .

Please in future know what you saying before you say it .. The matrix alone can not harm your xbox.

kakaman · « **Reply #28 on:** September 17, 2003, 02:06:00 PM »

Same thing happened to me too.
Well, my video output was playing up over the last few days. took a look and noticed the chip was flashing red and then green. I knew the chip must have been misaligned.
So I decided today to realign it properly.
So i did this:
Attempted to realign the chip,couldn't get the green light to go in test mode.
At this point the XBOX logo would not appear even with the chip removed. Just a blank screen and a flashing green red led (the eject button)- this was on the third time.
Then, after mucking about (for 7 hours) and screwing the chip in slowly I noticed that I COULD GET THE STANDARD XBOX SCREEN WITH THE CHIP IN BUT ONLY WHEN IT WAS OFF (both dip switches set to off). I know nothing of TSOP but do know that I mucked about flashing the TSOP through Evox at some point, but it didn't work because the Matrix was always set in mode 1.
So, I reprogrammed the Matrix using WinLPC and EvolutionX_V2.5_256k_for_MatriX.
I then put the chip in again and still no joy.
So, since I already have a spare XBOX as I screwed up the Thomson laser tweak, I thought I would just swap DVD drives over since the Matrix worked previously in that machine.
I did it and am able to use the Matrix, i redid the old 10gig hard drive with slayers and now it's going.

Now, I have one major problem, can anybody please help

I have a 120gig hard drive from the old XBOX with loads of stuff on it. The software on there has cost me LOADS. Problem is this....the drive is LOCKED so I can't just put it in the other box.

And, the non-working XBOX is version 1.1 (SAMSUNG DVD). The old XBOX is version 1.0.

I have done a hotswap with my other XBOX and can get the serial number, using configmagic, but I HAVE A LAPTOP and therefore am stuck trying to unlock it as all the forums I have read over the past 4 hours involve using a normal PC. I also have an IDE Caddy which houses an old XBOX (reformatted of course) as a backup drive and this works fine. What I want to do is UNLOCK my 120gig drive so I can use it in my working XBOX. I don't have friends nearby with PC's that would let me borrow theirs to do the unlock.

And, secondly, if there is a way to get the 120gig (Western Digital) hard drive unlocked, it will boot up just like it did in the fried XBOX, right?

And thanks to the Chameleon Matrix team for posting a response/defence. I'm sure we are all agreeing to taking the risk, but this problem seems to be affecting quite a number of people. Surely since the motherboard is not fried, and given your extensive expertise, you might know of a way to get the thing going (at least so I can unlock my HD and use the old one!).
Because, if I could get the original one working then I wouldn't have to do this.

Please, can anybody help?

And, always MAXIMUM RESPECT AND THANKS to all at the XBOX scene and those posting in the forums for sharing the information to allow us to do this in the first place.

TEAM XODUS · « **Reply #29 on:** September 17, 2003, 04:46:00 PM »

) you get the dreaded FRAG .. then that is a good indication of DIRTY LPC points .. do not try to align .. First start by removing your matrix .. cleanning the LPC points, all pogos, and D0, in this case concentrate on the LPC ( I recomend acetone, but alcohol will do ) .. you can try carefully scraping the points with a sharp object .. replace and now re- align your matrix .. and boot up

If straight after u flash your matrix your xbox FRAGS .. for GOD`s sake don`t try re-align your matrix ( many many people have reported doing this .. believe it or not ! ) .. remove it and program a known good bios using your PC and the programmer... ... Then clean the points as described above and replace your matrix ..

If you are continuosly trying to align your matrix , and suddenly realise that now your xbox does not boot .. ther is a good chance it is the D0 problem described above ..

If you are happily playing and start to realise that your graphics are glitchy .. or slow motion play .. and the next time you try power up even without that matrix you get the dreaded FRAG .. write to BILL ..( usualy )

Error 13 or 7 or 6 .. remove matrix .. clean everything .. concentrate on D0 point for cleaning this time ..

Over and above all that .. FRAG can be caused by bad memory, damaged or overheated MCPX,CPU,GPU .. bad biso file in Flash ROM , bad Flash ROM .. the list goes on ..

Well I hope this helps explain a few things

Bid u all a good a day.

Xodus

P.s. notice this

QUOTE

Well, my video output was playing up over the last few days.

depedns at what stage your video was palying up .. if in the middle of a game or in dash .. there is a good chace your machine was overheating .. if in the intro anim .. good chance dirty LPC ..

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