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[LuridSpectre]

I've got a 1.6 xbox here that I just installed a DuoX2 Cromwell/Flashbios edition in.  I checked all my soldering work with a magnifying glass and it's all perfect.

When I boot up with the eject button, it goes to the Microsoft dashboard like it should.  No problems here.

When I boot up with the power button, it goes to (and I have bank 0 selected right now) the Cromwell bios, as it should.

When I boot up with the power button with bank 1 selected, it shows a black screen, which, from what I hear, is not uncommon since FlashBIOS seems to have this weird temperment with 1.6s.  (I tried the power button 35 times in a row.  I counted.  No luck.)

I can't get any CD's or DVD's to boot from the Cromwell bios because my drive is a Samsung SDG-605F, and I haven't put new firmware on it.  (And I would really like if there was a way to do this without going that route.)

What I'm wondering is, how can I flash the chip with the Evox M8 bios given the restrictions I've noted above?  Is it even possible?  

I suppose I'll keep trying bank 1 to see if I can get it to come up in order to do a network flash, as this seems to be my only option, but any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks!

After some more searching, I've discovered that you need to use a Eurasia Flash Disc to flash the bios in Cromwell as a standard bios disc won't work.

I'll try this and report the results.

[LuridSpectre]

Well, it appears that I'm going to need a CD-RW (if even that will work).

I'm done with it for tonight.  Tomorrow I'll burn one and see what I can do.

[appleguru]

DVD-R is your best bet, though cd-rw should work as well.

And yes, to flash with cromwell you'll need two discs; A eurasia flash disc and a bios disc.

[LuridSpectre]

Well, I managed to find 2 CD-RWs.

It took a few tries, but the bios flashed fine and everything is working just dandy.

Now I just have to use Slayers' CD and ftp into it so I can upload my copy of the MS dash and fix the one that's on there.  (It was a failed softmod by my cousin, he ended up corrupting his dash and fragging it.)

Thanks for the help.

[deilzfcjk]

I've been trying to flash my duox2 cromwell/flash bios edition for last few days. I also have a v1.6. Did you solder the 4th pin to the mother board? I know the tutorial says that you should remove it but I didn't do that.  I thought that since its a version 1.6 then it didn't need to be removed. I thought only reason for being removed was because previous versions of xbox didn't have a physical hole for the 4th pin. I didn't see any traces running from that point(on xbox side and on female side to the chip). I know you have to remove 3,4,5 pins on the female side, which I did.

I'm wondering if maybe I actually needed to remove pin 4 from the male side.

 so how did you get bank 0 to show cromwell splash screen?  I can't do anything with bank 0 or 1. All I get when I turn on the xbox with power button is a no picture and flashing of the power button ring red/green. I also can get regular MS dashboard with powering on with eject. But that's just disabling the modchip.

 I know you got your chip working.  did you flash bank 0 with Eurasia flash disc first or directly flashed bank 1 with the boot disc using M8 executer bios?

[StrictPuppet]

Its ok to leave that extra pin.... but you likely failed to fully rebuild the lpc connections.  You can check your lpc voltages from the chart here---> http://www.xbox-scen...es/lpc-diag.php , or check by resistance from the images at Chancers site...(link in his sig)

[Chancer]

Its all automatic. tells you on screen what to do even opens the dvd tray for ya