Topic: Help Me Recover A Broke Box (Read 51 times)

aaronspybrook · « **on:** October 02, 2005, 12:34:00 PM »

One of my friends gave me a broke Xbox. Dont know much about it except that it was softmodded. When I turn it on it goes past the flubber then freezes. I tried to ftp it to my comp so I could redo or at least get the EEPROM but no luck. So any ideas on the problem (seems obviously HDD) and how to fix it.

misterhoangdai · « **Reply #1 on:** October 02, 2005, 12:43:00 PM »

does it freeze or does it give you an error screen?

aaronspybrook · « **Reply #2 on:** October 02, 2005, 12:45:00 PM »

Freezes.

aaronspybrook · « **Reply #3 on:** October 02, 2005, 01:05:00 PM »

No Error Code I know the screen you mean but not that.

Its a black screen (with a little fuzz at the top that sort of looks like and old frozen nintendo game)

aaronspybrook · « **Reply #4 on:** October 02, 2005, 03:06:00 PM »

Is it screwed?

Neilor · « **Reply #5 on:** October 03, 2005, 02:04:00 AM »

Does it play original games?

aaronspybrook · « **Reply #6 on:** October 03, 2005, 06:52:00 PM »

No, it freezes after flubber with an original game in it also.

Neilor · « **Reply #7 on:** October 04, 2005, 02:40:00 AM »

Pretty screwed then, try and get a loan of a solderless modchip if you can and try it, but to be honest with you it sounds like something seriously wrong in the hardware.

aaronspybrook · « **Reply #8 on:** October 06, 2005, 08:43:00 PM »

No more questions or comments?

Otherwise Im just gonna give up I guess.

dumdasme · « **Reply #9 on:** October 06, 2005, 09:58:00 PM »

@arronspy - It freezes after the xbox logo w/ the m$ symbol underneath right? If so, you could try hotswapping and rebuilding the hdd stock and see if that helps.

@maincolt - you need to resign the xbe after you do anything to it. If this is the stock xboxdash.xbe, then if you make any changes in it you can't resign it since we don't have the m$ key. I would load the gamesave and replace the bad file and see if it works after that.

aaronspybrook · « **Reply #10 on:** October 07, 2005, 10:38:00 AM »

Yes the MS appears underneath it.

But it doesnt freeze there it goes to a black screen that has yellow fuzz sort of and freezes there.

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