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[gnutellafan]

My friends box is either 1.0 or 1.1. The LPC holes are filed. Hmm, anything else I missed above?

Ok, the chameleon is v1.

Just read that the LED needs to be blue but I cant find any reference to a green LED. Was this changed since v1?

[JonDante]

The chip is a v1?  Hmmm.  So the box frags with the adapter installed and the chip on the adapter?  Or was it by itself?

The chameleon does not have a green LED, it has a blue LED.

Do you have a second adapter?  Or just the one.

Also are you using the stock A/V cables?

JD

[gnutellafan]

I got this chameleon for the very first batch (the pre-orders from the only reseller at the time, the evil eb2k). And the only led is showing green. -this might be one for team xodus.

The chip and the adaptor are both in. Wish I could get a scew driver to the screw to lossen it up and wiggle it like the xodus.

Just the one adaptor.

I am using the A/V cables that came with the xbox.

[JonDante]

I would go ahead and take the box apart, and give it a look.  Loosen it and then reseat the adapter.

JD

[gnutellafan]

QUOTE (JonDante @ Dec 15 2003, 11:09 PM)

I would go ahead and take the box apart, and give it a look.  Loosen it and then reseat the adapter. JD

Ive tried that around 10x now. I used a brush and alcohol on the connection points. I read the other post on the half filled LPC 2. This box has that. I tried cutting one of the rivets in half and putting in in the hole and worked pretty well but Im still getting the frag. AHHHHHHHHHH, damn this is the worst time Ive ever had with a mod.

[gnutellafan]

Is there a way to know if the adaptor is seated correctly?? (other then the chip working)

Or did Xodus just send out bad chips?

And what about the green LED ?

[gnutellafan]

Ok, it does EXACTLY the same thing every time:

Power on
Fan starts, LED lights up green and the eject button goes green x1, then orange x3 (I think), and the GREEN LED on the chameleon goes off

Repeats x2

On the 3rd time instead of repeating again the eject light start going red and green and the LED on the chip is off.

Hitting the power button causes the LED on the CHIP to light up green once more then goes off as the box goes off.

[JonDante]

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Or did Xodus just send out bad chips? And what about the green LED ?

As you have read, Xodus did not make ANY of the chips... EB2K did.  Neither have they ever "sent out" chips.

I have no clue about the green LED.

My question is...how long have you had this?  Did it work before?  Have you used something else in between? I mean the 1.3 Cham has been available since well before summer.

There are a dozen things that can be wrong.  I know the 1.0 Cham will NOT work with a 1.3 Xbox.  

The chip is likely bad, given all the problems you have had with it.  If you have had it while, did you ever even check it when it came in to see if it was ok?

JD

[gnutellafan]

No, never used it. My box is modded. I had bought it for one friend that never ended up getting a box. Im modding someone elses now. With the matrix programmer I am able to read the chip, so it seems that it may be ok?? I didnt know eb2k made them, I thought they were the reseller. Regardless, its still a xodus chip, they put their name on it.

The xbox is version 1.0 (maybe 1.1)


One more thing, I cant flash with the matrix programmer. It give me the error msg:

"Unknown Flash"


Another thing, will I cont to get the frag regarless if the xbox is apart (hd, and dvd out, ect)? Ive tried it both ways but its such a pain to put it all back together each time to check and see if its working

[chameleonindabox]

Hey

The only thing I can suggest is to use desoldering braid and remove the solder form the lpc holes.  Than use the rivets.  I have a 1.0 box and thats what i did although I didn't know that I didn't have to do this.  Regardless, my box works fine modded just like JD's manual says so those are my two cents.  Good Luck!

Happy Chameleon owner

P.S. When using the desoldering briad, don't bother with lpc #2 because I couldn't get that one out for some reason.  You can try but if you cant clear that hole, just fill that one with a really tiny bit of solder so the pin touches it.  And when your using the briad, watch out that you don't leave it on the motherboard too long (about 10 sec at a shot is good) because when you pull it off, you might rip something out of the board.

[JonDante]

Unfortunately for a fact...if you are getting Unknown Flash from the programmer, it USUALLY means you have bad memory on the chip.  Sorry about that.  This means the chip is no good.

You might fool around with your printer port settings, but I ran into that with all the rejects that various users sent me from EB2K.  Everyone of them was unflashable.

JD

[gnutellafan]

I think it may be a bad chip :-(
I was trying to flash again (still getting unkown flash error --- anyone, help, please)

And the LED finally became a nice very bright blue instead of the dim green that it has been. Tried to stick in back in the box but nothing.

I even pulled the chip out of my box and stuck it in. In my box the xbox led around the eject stays green but the led on the chameleon doesnt lite up at all (and the xbox doesnt work - with large HD in it)

[gnutellafan]

Ok, so I borrowed my friends v1 chameleon (we ordered at the same time and neither of us ever used them). I was able to flash his (so mine is bad). I put it in the box with the adaptor and all I get is solid green on the xbox (the led is not liting up on the chip). The box does not boot :-(

Any ideas??

This is my xbox now, version 1.0

about to try it in my friends v1.1 xbox

[gnutellafan]

yet another update, just tried the 2nd cham chip (v1.0) in my friends v1.1 xbox and it has the exact same problem.

Are both the chips bad?

[gnutellafan]

not when it reads unknow flash, but if you try to flash and get the error msg:

"unknow flash"

So instead of flashing you get an error.