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[marksu]

What has this thread to contribute to the xenium forum or the hole xbox community?

This is just a wish to start a flame war there fore you seem to wish to get banned and thread closed.

[marksu]

WELL IT WONT BE OPEN FOR LONG!

[xpro]

angelfly

well said

[naps]

Ok you say its more advanced.  I'd agree with you in saying it is more advanced because it's newer, but the extra memory(1mb more?), that makes it cost 20% more than an x2?  Humor me, hardware isn't that expensive.  The on-board OS is kind of useless for an average user like myself.

[angelfly]

QUOTE (naps @ May 24 2004, 06:40 PM)

Ok you say its more advanced.  I'd agree with you in saying it is more advanced because it's newer, but the extra memory(1mb more?), that makes it cost 20% more than an x2?  Humor me, hardware isn't that expensive.  The on-board OS is kind of useless for an average user like myself.

Well simply put if the OS is useless to you and you don't like that cost then why did you buy a Xenium instead of an X2?

[tiger]

naps

why r u here?

u want to buy a mini (x2) when you can get a Ferrari (Xenium) well thats your choice.

LOL

[Master-Chief]

QUOTE (naps @ May 24 2004, 01:39 PM)

A.  More expensive than x2 B.  Hassle with updating v1.1 Bios, gotta make the CD, then make sure the xbox will read the CD/DVD.  So I ended up making 2 discs, one CD, and one DVD.  Modding different xboxes will almost require this step. C.  When you hit eject, loads the Xenium OS.  When moddin for noobie friends, they can do some damage when accessing this screen.  My main gripe is hitting the eject button loading a DVD/Xbox game, then having to hit a button to load Original bios when any other dashobard will autoload the DvD/game. Maybe I'm so used to doing X2's.  But my Xenium installation experience was a bad one.  It took way too long, too many steps.  For a guy just wanting to get a modded xbox, I would recommend an x2 over a Xenium.

I know another thing you don't like about the Xenium:

D) The spelling, I always spell it Xenim like in the topic!  

[ViRAL]

naps wtf are u on about. does x2 have an OS? NO! that's the most advanced feature of all the new modchips! when u install a new hdd iwht x2 can u boot up and format it with no cd burning required? NO! the list goes on........

[naps]

Viral,
From my experience, I could not get the HDD format to work in the XOS.  I used Slayers and all was fine, I even went old school and did Raw FTP commands and that worked fine.  This has and will be a thread based on my experiences with 5 xenium installs.  That's such a minuscule amount of installs, I agree.  But, based on my installs with an x2 compared to the xenium.  I will not be purchasing anymore Xenium chips.  Call it bad luck, call it bad modding skills.  It's my opinion, nothing less.

[brahm2]

The first time I installed a Xenium, I got it lined up, turned on the Xbox, and the LED on the modchip flashed a blinking red light.. an error, or so I thought. Turns out it was aligned perfectly, and the red light indicated that. Assuming it was an error, I perfected every solder joint for about half an hour before I actually connected it to a TV and saw the Xenium OS boot up

[EmperorPsiblade]

heh heh... worked for me first time!

my only complaint is that the uodates take too long...

marksu is right.. this WILL turn into a flamefest....  

i agree with angelfly...  

[moobar]

I'll agree on item #2. I have done about the same amount of mods and found the initial setup to be quite daunting for the noob. The cd/dvd creation is a pain. One for os update another for Bios and another for boot disc dashboard. But Id have to guess that thats about the same with any modchip currently out, but others have had numerous tutorials written. I joined the scene right about when the Xenium was released.

Though I love my Xenium and plan to stay this path.

IMO, when then Xeniums start to ship from the reseller with XOS 2.0 is when initial setup will be pain free.

[moobar]

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...do you realise you can update the OS from E:\ without needing...

True, but you still need to get it to the E:\ drive somehow, Im assuming your implying you've already done your initial setup which of course would have been done by E:\ in the first place.

Just trying to clear things up.

We'll all be in a happier place once v2.0 gets here.

[naps]

Mr. Adams,
I can certainly be a problem, sorry if this post or anything I've said offended you.  Yes, I do realize and have succesfully loaded Bios.bin through FTP.  But, by you telling me to read through manuals is kind of belittling my intelligence.  Lets not go there.  Again, I apologize if I have offended you sir.  

I kind of chuckled when you said, "reading the manuals does make things a lot easier when it comes to installations, especially something advanced like the Xenium."

[shmokes]

QUOTE (moobar @ May 25 2004, 12:31 AM)

The cd/dvd creation is a pain. One for os update another for Bios and another for boot disc dashboard. But Id have to guess that thats about the same with any modchip currently out...

Heh....think again.  I've got a SmartXX.  I set it up a week ago and have Avalaunch, DVD2Xbox, XBMC, three emulators with full sets of roms and about 30 Xbox games sitting on the hard drive.

I have never burned a single disc (even though I'm lucky enough to have a Samsung drive).  

Here's a step by step of a SmartXX install.

1- Install the chip
2- Boot up Xbox
3- Turn on DHCP or assign a static address within the SmartXX OS
4- Flash newest OS release and a bios to your chip through Internet Explorer (just plug your xbox's IP address into the address bar).
5- Flash FTP client to chip.
6- Back up your C: and E: drives to your PC with the FTP Client
7- If you put in a bigger hard drive use the utilities built into the SmartXX OS to set it up
8- You're set!  FTP a dashboard over.  FTP your games over.  You've got full control!

You can't imagine how fast and easy all this is until you've used it.

I have to agree, Xenium needs to get this stuff implemented.  They ought to spend a little less time on grandiose announcements of features that are supposedly just around the corner and get that shit done.  Another advantage of the SmartXX is the frequency with which they release updates.  And when they release it we get like a two-line announcement like (Here's the new release.  1.6 is now supported).  With Xenium, Instead, we tend to get a five-paragraph announcement going on and on about how amazing 1.6 support is going to be when it is released, which is going to be "very" soon.