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[ncaissie]

Did you leave an OS update file on the E drive?
If you hit the eject and power buttons to quick it will go into recovery mode.
If he powers off in the middle of an update it will cause a frag.

[ltoolio]

I did the OS upgrade, which performed successfully.

I deleted the .bin file after it was complete.

Not sure what happens when he trys to boot with the Eject...I may be finding that out later.

Is it possible that if he does try to boot with the Eject button that the Xenium OS will boot correctly?

[ltoolio]

OK..update...

Got the box last night.  Fragging once I powered up.

Flipped the recovery switch - apparently I did leave the .bin on the EDrive.

It applied the bin successfully, and all worked.

The question I have is....

Why did this happen?  
Is it because:
1.  There was a .bin on E and the user booted with the eject button and then promptly shut it off
2.  The time on the XBox was messed up
3.  The OS on the chip for some reason got corrupted.

I just want to make sure I have my facts straight...

Thanks,
LT

[ncaissie]

Same thing happened to my brother.
I left the bin on the E:.

If you turn on the Xbox with one button and hit the other before the OS loads it boots to recovery. (Not a good feature if it was intended)
I would like to keep a bin on the E but don’t because of this.

The os didn’t get corrupted, it was powered off before the OS loaded 100%.

Remove ½ your windows directory and see what happens LOL. J/K

[Gumba]

QUOTE (ncaissie @ Nov 2 2004, 10:17 PM)

Same thing happened to my brother. I left the bin on the E:. If you turn on the Xbox with one button and hit the other before the OS loads it boots to recovery. (Not a good feature if it was intended) I would like to keep a bin on the E but don’t because of this. The os didn’t get corrupted, it was powered off before the OS loaded 100%. Remove ½ your windows directory and see what happens LOL. J/K

This was supposed to be fixed in 2.0.0

I don't think it was completely fixed, but it was fixed so that it hardly happens, rather than happens all the time.

Until (if?) its ever fully fixed, which I doubt, I think its actually just a side-effect of the way LPC modchips work, you will have to delete the e:\recovery.bin after doing an update.

[Lung-Dart]

Same problem here, except i dont beleive i have a recovery bin on my E: I just recently got a xenium ice, and after leaving it off for an extended period, the os frags, and i have to put it in recovery mode. The first time it works, but now its not even finishing.

Do you need a recovery.bin for recovery mode to work, because i do not recall putting one on, and recovery mode has worked for me in the past

Update:

Just fooling around i hit eject twice really quick and it caused my xbox to shut off, and when i turned it back on, it started fragging again. Is there anyway i can get into recovery mode withought opening my box and flicking the switch?

[drewpilc]

hey i have a xbox modded with a xenium ice and when i leave it unplugged for a while it does the same thing what i have found is that when the box is unplugged for a while the chip goes into a standby mode and it appears to frag.  All i have to do is start it up and hit the eject button then wait for it to eject then hit the eject button so the tray will go back in and then shut it off and then turn it back on and it will go into the xenium boot menu hope this helps.

[ltoolio]

That's a great tip...

But, in my case, it ended up being a flaky chip.  Sometimes it would work, sometimes it wouldn't.

But regardless, a great tip anyways!

[Artifex]

QUOTE (ltoolio @ Nov 23 2004, 07:40 PM)

That's a great tip... But, in my case, it ended up being a flaky chip.  Sometimes it would work, sometimes it wouldn't. But regardless, a great tip anyways!

There are no flaky chips, only flaky people....

ERM, I mean...
flaky installs.

Yah, that's what I meant to say.

(EDIT: Well, no flaky Xeniums anyways....  unless you count the clones.... but I don't.)