Topic: 1.4 29wire Tsop Recovery With Raincoat (Read 198 times)

DuckOfDeath · « **on:** May 13, 2005, 12:11:00 PM »

I have two 1.4's with winbond chips on them, both were displaying conma console symptoms (no audio, no video, no eject, solid green eject ring). I followed the tutural to repair the TSOP on the xray3's website here:
http://www.xraychips...pPics/Xray3.htm

No matter how many times I tried it, it just never worked. I was convinced that the TSOP was physically damaged, until I got my second 1.4 with the same symptoms, and the tutorial did not work again.

I finally got tired of cutting and resoldering those wires, so I wired EVERY SINGLE wire up to a switch.
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I tried flashing the tsop multiple times with just the wires in the tut disconnected, and every time it gave me a flash type not found, check the write-enable points.

I then switched off all the wires, and boom, erased and flashed with no problem!

So, If it doesn't work the first time, keep cutting wires!

-Duck!

jonrees69 · « **Reply #1 on:** May 15, 2005, 11:48:00 PM »

There's a Coma-Console fix on the Llama website which involves just 3 wires !!!

DAMN that looks fiddly !

J

lordvader129 · « **Reply #2 on:** May 15, 2005, 11:49:00 PM »

QUOTE(jonrees69 @ May 15 2005, 11:54 PM)

There's a Coma-Console fix on the Llama website which involves just 3 wires !!!

DuckOfDeath · « **Reply #3 on:** May 16, 2005, 02:27:00 AM »

Yeah, that's for 1.0's, specifically ones that have a one bank that still boots. I had a 1.4, and the ONLY bank did not boot, so... 29wire time. I've now done two with this setup and I love it; it's MUCH easier than cutting wires. I'm considering putting the whole thing, switches and all on a single PCB.

I did some fooling around, to try to see which wires needed to be disconnected. I started with the ones that were stated in the tut. That does not work. So, I started flipping off more wires, starting at 1. Raincoat could not read the tsop bios untill I flicked off the last one.

Now, I'm not saying that EVERY wire needs to be cut, but the last one sure needs to be. I'd fool around with it some more if anyone's that intrested....

-Duck!

lordvader129 · « **Reply #4 on:** May 16, 2005, 07:38:00 AM »

heh, you hould make a giant quicksolder PCB like the 1.6 rebuild boards, lol

acemilo · « **Reply #5 on:** May 16, 2005, 10:51:00 AM »

What version of raincoat are you using?

DuckOfDeath · « **Reply #6 on:** May 16, 2005, 11:43:00 AM »

QUOTE(acemilo @ May 16 2005, 09:57 AM)

What version of raincoat are you using?

DuckOfDeath · « **Reply #7 on:** May 16, 2005, 02:55:00 PM »

QUOTE(piranicon @ May 16 2005, 12:44 PM)

I tried the same 29 wire trick with a homebrew chip and I managed to get the xbox to boot, but raincoat would never recognize the winbond chip. I had my chip socketed so i could just pull it out once the box booted. Eventually I pulled the winbond chip and tried to flash it with uniflash, but all that did was give me errors when it tried to verify the flash. So I figured the chip was dead.

fratslop · « **Reply #8 on:** May 16, 2005, 10:47:00 PM »

so then all you had to do was boot with the 29 wire, load raincoat, turn all wires off, then flash?
I am experiencing a similar problem only i flashed the tsop with an outdated bios.
And its a winbond on a 1.4 as well..
i had the 29 wire recommended to me and thought i should check it out...

DuckOfDeath · « **Reply #9 on:** May 17, 2005, 12:34:00 AM »

QUOTE(fratslop @ May 16 2005, 09:53 PM)

so then all you had to do was boot with the 29 wire, load raincoat, turn all wires off, then flash?

xenonmodz · « **Reply #10 on:** May 17, 2005, 01:05:00 AM »

well done but i gotta say F that melochy

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