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[smokingmods]

Not sure how close a good shop is to you personally, but you definately need to

A. send it to Perplexer if you can get him to do the job
B. find somebody else if he wont do it
C. step away from the iron, unplug it, and maybe even bury it in the back yard when it cools off


The box can still be saved, but its gonna take some serious skills at this point.

[Chancer]

The Xbox is not trying to boot from the LPC
If you break the D0 connection this is not the same as grounding D0.
D0 is open circuit and the retail bios will not boot if it is nor will the LPC.
As you are not understanding correctly how this works, I don't think you can repair it. It depends if you want your Xbox back working or not as to what your next move is.

[carled]

Oh and just to add...  Having looked around a bit about this error, it appears that it's a combo of the system clock and the wrong dash for onboard bios. I have seen all the stuff about xboxhdm and recreating the drive, so it sounds like I might be able to recover this.

Now when I set the drive up for XBMC, I saved the orignal .xbe file and renamed it ms-xboxdash.xbe or something, but it is still sitting on the c: drive.  If I can get on and rename that .xbe file back to the original name then witll I have a bootable games machine? Or will I still need to rebuild the entire drive?

[carled]

Amazing the difference a bit of experience and the right tools makes...

New xBox (from eBay last night), v 1.2 m/b. 45 minutes from opening the case up and I had it fully modchipped, reconstructed and xbmc reinstalled and working...

Soldering looks good this time too! Oh, the DVD drive seems odd though. It wouldn't recognise the evox dvd.  Exactly the same model drive as in old xbox. Swapped them over and it read the disk perfectly.

Now if anyone can point me in the right direction of trying to salvage a games machine from the old box, that'd be great, cheers.