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realmccloy

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« on: December 18, 2004, 08:06:00 PM »
Had a Xenium Ice installed on a 1.0 machine.  Did it yesterday.  All was great.  Ran the AI, have all my apps on, installed 21 emulators, FTP'd 12GB of roms over.  All was just fine in Xbox Land.

I was checking out the web server functions and pulled up a browswer and typed in the xbox's IP.

I selected Launch Items and there listed was Retail Kernel and X2 4983.67

I chose 4983.67 to launch the hacked bios and bam....the flubber screen froze!

Now when I turn the machine on it does the frag power cycle but the chip LED is green.  The Eject Light is solid green.  I press the eject button and boom, I have my Xenium Ice menu.

But, if I select Retail Kernel or hacked bios the flubber screen starts then freezes after a second.

I can run the recovery, upgraded to 2.1.0, same bullcrap.  Is there a back to factory 2.1.0?  Because now it won't let me run the back to factory 2.0.1

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« Reply #1 on: December 18, 2004, 08:41:00 PM »
If you have your ICE menu, in the settings there is a restore to facory default.

This should get rid of your BIOSES and such.
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« Reply #2 on: December 18, 2004, 08:49:00 PM »
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I can run the recovery, upgraded to 2.1.0, same bullcrap. Is there a back to factory 2.1.0? Because now it won't let me run the back to factory 2.0.1


I already did recovery.  I even deleted the flashes from the menu.  I even put in another chip to see what would happen and now the same thing is happening with a new chip.

Something happened to this motherboard, and I don't know what.

He has some LED mods, just controller port LED's, eject LED's, and he spliced into his IDE cable for some HD activity LED that doesn't even work.

I am wondering if something is shorting.  There's something he isn't telling me.  He used to have this chip on as a solderless install and then something happened to his mother board, that is why he asked me to solder the chip on, but I couldn't even get his origina mobo to boot.  Was power cycling and fragging.

Now this one is doing the same thing...something is up with this machine for sure
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« Reply #3 on: December 18, 2004, 09:05:00 PM »
Different motherboard but same power supply, by any chance?
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realmccloy

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« Reply #4 on: December 18, 2004, 09:26:00 PM »
This was a replacement motherboard/HD combo.  He has a 1.0 power supply too, but I have replaced mobo's loads of times and didn't change out the PS.  What info you got?  Is this something that crops up every once in awhile??  Or is there a prob with his PS that's causing this to happen?
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« Reply #5 on: December 19, 2004, 12:42:00 AM »
sounds like a lot like a problem that a friend of mine had, his ide cable was pinched in a couple of places and shorting out, maybe try switching it with one that hasen't been tampered with and see if that makes a diff.
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« Reply #6 on: December 19, 2004, 03:34:00 AM »
I was wondering if the power supply voltages are out a bit.
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« Reply #7 on: December 19, 2004, 05:11:00 AM »
My first xbox(1.0) started doing this. I had a x2.3.b chip on, and whenever i launch ANY bios,  it would freeze on the flubber, at any random point on the animation.  So i opened it up, and saw one of the transistors under the first controller had exploded (literally).

It was burned all around it and the transistor was turned into charcoal.....  no kidding

I also remember reading something about 1.0 mobo's doing this and no other vesion.

I say open it back up and check around the board.  This was one or two years ago, and i once saw a thread about this with PICS of the damage..

I tried to search for the thread before posting but no luck......

Just a thought.
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realmccloy

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« Reply #8 on: December 19, 2004, 10:13:00 AM »
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There has to be something causing a short.  I believe this mobo is screwed up now.  I have another 1.0 machine and I am going to xfer the HD and mobo to it and see what I get, but I bet it's cooked now too.

When he first chipped it on his own, he was using a solderless adapter.  But, he started getting issues right away.  Basically was fragging on him.  I think the same thing was happening as now.  

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« Reply #9 on: December 19, 2004, 11:05:00 AM »
Will try that too..thanks for the idea!
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realmccloy

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« Reply #10 on: December 19, 2004, 11:21:00 AM »
Swapped IDE cable, PS, removed any LED mods...this problem won't go away.  Very strange.

There is definitely something up with the mobo for sure.  It has to be.  Something took it out, along with his original mobo.  

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