I am having the same problem,
I am getting sick of the fact that people who designed this thing give absolute useless @#$ manuals and then ignore alot of questions. As if everyone has a friend with an xbox who can bail them out. I just want to play the thing.
Its pretty sad. At least here on xbox-scene people generally are sharing and helping eachother, even if they accidentally give wrong info. So many people write good programs and help others. That's what it's about.
So here's what I think. Let's create a non-asshole chip. People in IT, EE, etc have full access to very fancy TTL, CMOS logic analyzers. Professional oscilloscopes, and things like ROM readers. Some have access to transmission and scanning electron microscopes (...he..hee.hee).
So let's put together a good list of unsupportive chip designers. Let's take the "whole" 2 IC chips off their boards, and then track down and map out every @#$#@ trace on their PCBs. We will probably need many chips to do this. But then lets post it all!!! Free chips for everyone, tell a friend.
I fully support hacking, sharing, and contributing. Look at the titles of some real nice projects from the milk page
"Cheap LPC mod"
"Cheap JTAG programmer"
"Cheap LPC flasher" ---if you have lots of Schottcky diodes around
Where is the "expensive mod chip/no support" project. On the programming side, look at how informative, ethical , and helpful the Xbox Linux project people are and the quality of the non-profit free services they provide.
Look for a features list of the non-asshole mod soon. Contributions welcome
PS. I don't even know what forum this post was in....it is a rant and is in NO WAY directed towards or targeted at the OzXodus or Xenium people in ANY WAY!!!!!!