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bebeep89

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Put Xenium Chip In And Hit Recovery By Mistake
« on: May 14, 2006, 06:24:00 AM »
you need to have the OS reflashed onto the chip. You need a different modded box to do it. You can't update the OS on a Xenium in a 1.6 box. (Not really sure why). If you know someone that lives near you with a modded box that isn't a 1.6 put it in their box and do the OS update.
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Rabid1

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Put Xenium Chip In And Hit Recovery By Mistake
« Reply #1 on: May 14, 2006, 10:00:00 PM »
QUOTE(bebeep89 @ May 14 2006, 01:31 PM) View Post

You need a different modded box to do it. You can't update the OS on a Xenium in a 1.6 box. (


Not true, if the box is a 1.6 you can run recovery just fine. If it is a 1.6b and you have the Ice chip you can't run recovery. If you have the Xenium Gold recovery should work fine as well.


sbdsniper,

Download the HDD vesion of the recovery.bin from teamxodus.com and burn your own recovery disc. Use the switch on the chip and power on with the disc in the xbox dvd drive. There are several tuts on TX for creating a recovery disc as well.
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JonBOY

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Put Xenium Chip In And Hit Recovery By Mistake
« Reply #2 on: May 14, 2006, 10:04:00 PM »
my understanding was that you can run a XOS recovery with a 1.6 but that you just dont get a Xenium splash screen to confirm that the process is working.

Burn yourself a recovery disc (you may need to experiment with different disc types, ie dvd-r, rd-r, cd-rw), pull your box apart and flick the chip into recovery mode using the switch (recovery mode on the gold is when the tab is toward te top of the GOLD chip). Put the box back together and power it on, load the disc  and wait and see what happens. A sucessful recovery can take up to a couple of minutes. Leave it for at least 5 minutes to see if it's going to power down by itself. If it does, take the chip out of recovery mode and boot as normal, hopefully the recovery has worked.

That said, simply activating reovery mode by mistake shouldn't have corrupted your XOS. At present, when you boot into XOS what happens if you just leave the xbox? If the box ejects the DVD-ROM tray close it with nothing in it, it should realise that theres nothing to recover from, bringing itself out of recovery mode and powering down by iteslf. If it won't power down by itself proceed with the recovery disc.

Also, did you have a recovery.bin file stored in the root of your E drive? If so, this file might be the issue. The XOS looks to the HDD first and if it cant find a recovery.bin file it goes for the DVD-ROM. If things aren't working, unplug the IDE cable from the HDD but leave the DVD-ROM connected to force it to find the DVD, might be hanging on a corrupted XOS recovery file on the HDD.
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