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SlammedNiss

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« on: April 06, 2006, 10:45:00 PM »
OK, I feel real dumb for asking this, but I can't seem to find the answer...

I've installed a few Xenium Ice's and a few DuoX Lite's, but I've never installed one of the DuoX Cromwell chips. If I am correct, these chips come preflashed with a cromwell bios, and another flashable bank?

First, what exactly is the cromwell bios good for? Second, how hard is it to flash the 2nd bank? I believe the banks are 512k each? I have evox m8+ bios, but it's just 256k.

From looking at the sticky Chancer posted above, the link provided shows how to create a flashBIOS compliant  disk. They show how to burn an X3 bios, and also a dummy.bin file. Is this dummy file to make up for the extra 256k missing for the total 512k? If so, how do you make this dummy file?

Is there any other tutorials I'm not finding that help explain all this better?

TIA
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Julius Pleaser

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« Reply #1 on: April 06, 2006, 11:08:00 PM »
Cromwell (bank 0) and Flashbios (bank 1) are legal bios'.  Really they are just bios loaders.  Team Omega gives you both because flashbios has issues with 1.6 systems and gives a black screen even when the install is perfect.  
  For 1.0-1.5 you use bank 1 because all you need is a bios disc.  If bank 1 doesn't work on the 1.6 you try it on then you use bank 0 which requires the eurasia disc as well as your bios disc.
  As for a 512k or 256k bios, you can resize the bios to whatever you want using any one of a bunch of bios config tools.  If you can verify that you have a real duox2 rather than a clone I recommend the newest X2.5035 which already comes in 512k format.
  As for the dummy files, you add a dummy file to your bios disc (I personally use a 100mb dummy file).  The reason for this is that many xbox dvd drives have issues trying to read a disc that is a total of only 512k.
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SlammedNiss

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« Reply #2 on: April 06, 2006, 11:15:00 PM »
QUOTE(Julius Pleaser @ Apr 7 2006, 12:15 AM) View Post

Cromwell (bank 0) and Flashbios (bank 1) are legal bios'.  Really they are just bios loaders.  Team Omega gives you both because flashbios has issues with 1.6 systems and gives a black screen even when the install is perfect.  
  For 1.0-1.5 you use bank 1 because all you need is a bios disc.  If bank 1 doesn't work on the 1.6 you try it on then you use bank 0 which requires the eurasia disc as well as your bios disc.
  As for a 512k or 256k bios, you can resize the bios to whatever you want using any one of a bunch of bios config tools.  If you can verify that you have a real duox2 rather than a clone I recommend the newest X2.5035 which already comes in 512k format.
  As for the dummy files, you add a dummy file to your bios disc (I personally use a 100mb dummy file).  The reason for this is that many xbox dvd drives have issues trying to read a disc that is a total of only 512k.



well, that brings me to my next question then. What is the eurasia disk?

Now, when I flash the bios, will it pretty much be straight forward? As in, insert disk, and it will flash itself?

And how do you make a dummy file?

thanks for the quick response...
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« Reply #3 on: April 06, 2006, 11:29:00 PM »
OK, I googled and found some answers.

I think I'll be OK for now.

Once again, thanks for the push in the right direction!
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« Reply #4 on: April 07, 2006, 02:21:00 PM »
If you still haven't found any info on the dummy file stuff, I would look in #xbins and find the "Dummy File Creator." Very easy to use. And to resize the BIOS I used XBTool (also from #xbins)
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