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[Chancer]

You now need to flash the chip with a hacked bios.
You need to make up a bios disc with a 512k bios on it X2 4981 or similar is very reliable (remember to use a 512K size)
Name the hacked bios as BIOS.BIN and also add a dummy file to the disc name it aabbcc.dat and make it around 100 to 200 mb.
Burn the disc as a regular plain and simple DATA disc.
Boot from flashbios bank and when prompted insert your disc. This should falsh the bank with the new bios.
Once this is done you can then use the AID disc to put on your dash and apps

[Necrophiliac]

QUOTE(Chancer @ Jul 18 2006, 03:47 PM)

You now need to flash the chip with a hacked bios.
You need to make up a bios disc with a 512k bios on it X2 4981 or similar is very reliable (remember to use a 512K size)
Name the hacked bios as BIOS.BIN and also add a dummy file to the disc name it aabbcc.dat and make it around 100 to 200 mb.
Burn the disc as a regular plain and simple DATA disc.
Boot from flashbios bank and when prompted insert your disc. This should falsh the bank with the new bios.
Once this is done you can then use the AID disc to put on your dash and apps

Ive been looking for an X2 4981 512k bios in the usual places for quite some time I see 4981.67, 4981.76, a whole bunch of them but all are 256k.  There is one with a file called something like "make 1MB.bat".  Is there an actual 512k version or do I need to somehow increase the size of the .bin?  

Ive installed and flashed about a dozen or so X3's and I figured this would be no more difficult to flash but apparently it is.  Can I just ftp my files, dashes, apps, folders etc with one of these from my computer?  I really don't like ADE or any of those self installers for that matter.  I would rather set everything up myself.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Chancer]

QUOTE(Necrophiliac @ Jul 20 2006, 12:52 AM)

Ive been looking for an X2 4981 512k bios in the usual places for quite some time I see 4981.67, 4981.76, a whole bunch of them but all are 256k.  There is one with a file called something like "make 1MB.bat".  Is there an actual 512k version or do I need to somehow increase the size of the .bin?  

Ive installed and flashed about a dozen or so X3's and I figured this would be no more difficult to flash but apparently it is.  Can I just ftp my files, dashes, apps, folders etc with one of these from my computer?  I really don't like ADE or any of those self installers for that matter.  I would rather set everything up myself.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

The bios can be resized using XBTool.
If you wish to use FTP with a duoX 2 you still need to insert a boot disc. The DuoX 2 has no built in OS or FTP capability.

[Necrophiliac]

Thanks, Ill have to check again when I get home but isnt XBtool a .exe file (works on windows only)?  If so does anyone happen to know if there is a similar program that works with Macs?

[appleguru]

QUOTE(Necrophiliac @ Jul 20 2006, 10:23 AM)

Thanks, Ill have to check again when I get home but isnt XBtool a .exe file (works on windows only)?  If so does anyone happen to know if there is a similar program that works with Macs?

Just fire up the terminal on your mac... (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app)

Make a copy of the 256k bios file. (CMD-D, duplicate)

Type "cat " without the quotes (That's cat-space)

Drag the original bios file to the terminal window

Type  >> (Shift-period twice)

Hit space

Drag the copy of the bios to the terminal window

Hit return.

The copy of your bios will now be 512k

If you're confused, should look something like this: