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rjaj67

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Video Problem After Xbmp Setting
« on: November 27, 2004, 07:00:00 PM »
If anyone else has screwed up their xbox by messing around with XBMP to the point where their box wouldn't boot up, this may help.

I have spent many a long hour sifting through so many posts in forums from many sites and have tried the enigma video switch (without success) mainly because like you I chose to soft mod my box instead of using a mod chip.
Nothing worked.
I then came across a post stating that the only way that you could reverse the block of coloured lines at the top of my xbox was to purchase a mod chip that could flash my bios to repair it.

Almost did it, then I tried in a last ditch effort to use XBOXHDM to try to rescue my poor box. I tried atleast a dozen ways to access my hide drive through the hotswap way without success, then I finally disconnected all hard drives in my computer, booted the XBOX without the IDE cable attached to the CD Drive (very important), then booted my computer which took a helluva long time, then connected the ide to the xbox drive ( without disconnecting the power to the drive from the xbox) booted to the XBOXHDM CD in my computer chose option 1, then formatted the drive using option 1 again (each time typing yes at the appropriate times.

After the drive finished its rebuild I crossed my fingers, hooked the drive back up to the xbox and powered it up.

IT WORKED!!!!

I hope this helps all who have screwed up the systems using playing around in XBMP. :beer:  
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slrhsapple

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Video Problem After Xbmp Setting
« Reply #1 on: November 28, 2004, 12:52:00 AM »
did you changed to ntsc-j in xbmp or what did you do or what exactly happened=>only audio but no video etc...?

glad that you get it fix :)

This post has been edited by slrhsapple: Nov 28 2004, 08:52 AM
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rjaj67

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Video Problem After Xbmp Setting
« Reply #2 on: November 28, 2004, 08:59:00 AM »
I wasn't aware that I changed a thing, I just accessed XBMP then rebooted to dashboard and the box wouldn't boot anymore. Since this I have always made sure to get rid of XBMP from additional box's.

The only point I wanted to make about this was to help all who have done this as I came across hundreds of posts from people who have the same coloured bars at the top of the screen and were told that the only way to fix this was to go out and buy a modchip that they could flash the bios with.

Lots of us who softmod, did this so we wouldn't have to spend the $$ on a chip.

By the way this prob was on a 1.6 box
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Talus

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Video Problem After Xbmp Setting
« Reply #3 on: November 28, 2004, 10:39:00 AM »
What is XBMP and how do I avoid it? ;)  I am running XBMC so I HOPE it's something completely different ;)
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RiceCake

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Video Problem After Xbmp Setting
« Reply #4 on: November 28, 2004, 10:44:00 AM »
You can use XBMP/XBMC, just don't fuck with anything that changes the EEPROM (PAL, NTSC, 16:9, 4:3 settings etc...).
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ZAP

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« Reply #5 on: November 28, 2004, 12:17:00 PM »
I'm surprised they developers haven't done anything to fix this!  I'm sure it can detect whether their is a modchip installed or if it is softmodded and these features should be blocked!
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