If it were me, and it was, find the Slayers Evox ISO. Go online and update your xbox live. Boot to the Slayers Evox disc, i used a CDRW and it worked just fine. Now you can do one or two things. You can format your cd with slayers and start fresh or you can update your Evox and XBMP only. I did both. I also flashed my EEPROM while i was at it. After this i was able to go from Evox to my MSDash with no problem using this:
Item "To MS Dashboard",@3
Hope this isn't too far off base.
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