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[LESTAT]

THE GODS HAVE SMILED UPON ME!!

ok heres what i did out of TOTAL desparation

1.
inserted Knoppix linux cd into xbox and turned her on
2.
waited about 10 sec so that the cdrom was being read and then swapped the hdd
3.
I already had my pc paused at the screen where my IDE RAID card recognises the drives and hit enter. COOL the drive is seen , it it has been seen everyother time too.
4.
went into windows and before my desktop was even finished loading i ran hd driver. and WHAT DO I SEE!!! it found the xbox hard drive.
5.
i used hd driver and restored my GOOD ORIGINAL backup image.
everything seems ok and now im ready to test the xbox to make sure the msdash loads good and the entire xbox runs fine.


**update
xbox booted fine to the original xbox dashboard,,,
screw this im waiting for my chip to come,,

[Label2021]

Is there another HDD Driver program? I cant get the original to work. Problem with dll files. Im using XP pro SP1 with .NET v1.1 installed. I downloaded the dll files it said are missing, and then gave me another error on them. I cant even register either dll file because it says the DLLregister point server entry wasnt found, and that it wadsnt a dll file. Any body know?

[LESTAT]

sounds like you downloaded the wrong versions of those dll files.
i had to get
MFC42D.dll
MFCO42D.DLL
MSVCIRT.dll
MSVCRT.dll

and it worked for me
i had one copy of MSVCIRT and it was bad or wrong version so i had to download an older version to make it work.

if you want email me and ill email them to you.(the ones that work for me)..  just look in my profile for the email.

[olabri]

Thank you for a good guide.

However I am not able to get my box to work. Nothing to do with the guilde, but still.

i have tried five different versions of the fonts. evox, three versions of phoenix (pheonix?) and dayx. The only result from  evox and phoenix was a green web before my box reooted, this happened several times until i got "screen of service" with #21 in the left corner. I looked up the number and it doesnt say anything that i can comprehend.

dayx worked in another way i got a black screen sating xbeloader or something, nothing more.  

then i read about "signing" files and got a signed pheonix 1.3, and wrote over dayx files.
i enabled debug in the boot.cfg. and did everyting else the install guide said, but  back to the same green web.

i have hotswapped my HD like 20 times now, and are starting to feel my luck is running out, it cant be healthy to the HD, after all. Can anyone help me to get at least ftp up and running?

What do i look for when trying to find out what goes wrong? its a pity the hacks dont eve have an errorlog.


my xbox is release 5101

and: everytime i delete a file using hdd_driver, nothing happens or if im unlucky it appends a lot of crap chars after the filename. any ideas?

grateful for any help. hope i have provided enough information.

[LESTAT]

glad to see im not alone here,,, NOTHING i did worked
i tried every font version out there and a few diff pheonix,, and i even signed the file with the little bat file you can download..
and still nothing,,, it reboots repeatedly..,
i also was getting at one time a red green flashing light,,
the last time i did it i was getting a RED AMBER GREEN flashing light.,. so wtf....!!!???

i have a feeling its quite possible that it will only work on certain models and certain kernels. and dashboards.
my kernel is 3944
but its a referbished xbox with a MFG date of Oct 2002.

who knows,,
i had to reorder my chip cuz the first order didnt go thru and i paid for overnight shipping,, i wish i had done this on mon i would maybe have itby tommorrow..

but hey the VMA awards are on so,,, screw the xbox..

[olabri]

yay! i got it working!

fonts: ernie and bert reloaded
default.xbe from Free-XEvox with date 5/7 2003. no need for signing!

[LESTAT]

hey man thats AWESOME you got it working,, are you able to play burnt games ? like cdr/w and dvd-r games ?

also do you RENAME bert and ernie or leave the names the same??

any other tips you can give me would be GREAT!

do you have to install evox on the hard drive also ?

or just the fonts and the signed file ?

also what version of xbox you using ? 1 ..1.1 ...1.2 ?

its frustrating to me cuz i dont understand what im doing wrong.

[olabri]

hehe, im able to FTP. and that was my first goal. still i get error 13 or 21 when going from evox menu to  apps after a second or so showing green evolutionX screen, but i hope that's fixable through ftp, so i can let my HD rest from all the hazardous swapping lats two days

i didn't rename the font files. just renamed the original ones.

as for evox.

-i installed skins by renaming audio folder, but i dont think its neccesary if you use default skin. after i got ftp i renamed it back and created a new skin folder.

-edited exox.ini to my fitting, ip and such. as i have bios 5101 the standard vaules for RC4 keys there doesnt fit, but i suspect the Free-x makes it able to boot anyway. Again no clue what happens


-I have a bunch of other files like xboxrom.bin, phoenix.raw and evoxdash.xbe from previous installs not sure if they are used. evoxdash.xbe is btw excactly the same size as default.xbe so my guess is they're the same.

then i renamed evoxdash.xbe to msxboxdash.xbe, and screwed up.... After YET another HDD swap, where i inserted the original ms dash, it worked again. To be honest i have no clue of what files evox accesses, and its debug and log functions doesn't seem to work...

no idea of the version of the box, but bios is 5101.

now the new task is to actually load an app!

happy for any help

[LESTAT]

well i tried it with the files you did as listed in your first post and still getting system needs serviced....

so whatever the deal is obviously this only works with certain xbox's

i gave it one last shot.. oh well ill have my chip nerxt week.

oh and after the hard drive screws up its a motherf@#$er to get it to unlock again,,,

ive tried AT LEAST 2 dozen times and it still wont unlock so i can restore the image...   oh well...

even if it wont unlock i dont care i have a 60 gig im gunna throw in it when i get the chip so slayers installer will format the new drive for me and set it up... no big deal.

[Serebrus]

OK i have a Xbox from Launch, v1.0, unupdated dash. and whenever I unplug the IDE cable from the XB HDD, it sounds like it spins back up or is trying to access something. I suppose it "locks" itself again. Am I doing something Wrong? Perhaps not performing the switch fast enough?

[LESTAT]

mine does pretty much the same thing,, i can almost tell you with certainty that when it makes that noise,, #1) its only reacting from the shock of you removing the IDE cable  #2) that possibly its locking itself again yes...   its when it does NOT make that noise that it remains unlocked.#3) i too have a "very close to launch" xbox and NONE of the font hacks are working,, and i mean NONE.

i think we need someone with a rev 1 xbox with an older dashboard who has SUCCESSFULLY done this to come here and help us out... or tell us listen it aint gunna work,, or tell us to try the audio hack,, which btw i have not done yet

[ragenb]

QUOTE (olabri @ Aug 29 2003, 05:16 PM)

when going from evox menu to  apps after a second or so showing green evolutionX screen, but i hope that's fixable through ftp, so i can let my HD rest from all the hazardous swapping lats two days

Have you signed all of the xbe files for the programs you're trying to run?  Otherwise they will keep giving you errors.  You can find the tool for signing xbe's in the downloads section.  It's called xbedump.

[Serebrus]

thankfully, I do not plan on using the font exploit but rather a certain MA exploit that will allow me to install/uninstall the ST.db exploit. I think some of you know which one I am referring to

Perhaps doing the switching faster would solve things, but the problem is that that gives me a window of less than 3 seconds to switch IDE cables. Wow.

[LESTAT]

"Have you signed all of the xbe files for the programs you're trying to run?"

yet another OOPS did we forget to tell you  that you had to do this?

just more pieces of the puzzle falling into place.

gotta remember man people who are doing this are people who cant afford a chip or ,, well dont want one,, or are adventurous,, and the tutorial needs to include the ins and outs of what will make it work,,  

things such as the evox ini file,, does it NEED to be there,,   but if it IS there  what whould and should NOT be on it.  things like the command lines for apps and games and the dvd player,,, simply put logically if the ini file points to those directories and those directories do not exsist,, well,, either its going to boot and get error,,, its going to infinite reboot trying to find those locations  or its going to flat out fail.

i do believe there is more to this than simply 2 font files and a xbe file,,,  

and the same for the swap trick,, the swap trick works at different intervals EVERY TIME! ,, there is NEVER 1 moment in time that it will always work,, walking away and leaving the xbox alone for 10-30 min means nothing,, for after about 10 sec the drive is unlocked,, as the other gentleman stated i believe the unlocking procedure is totally surrounding a window of less than 3 seconds,, for on average within 1-2 seconds of disconnecting the ide cable the drive will "clunk" and lock itself again,,, and the locking, i believe, and please correct me if im wrong,, the locking is part of the ide drive firmware, so to speak.

i have tried for the past hour to get the drive unlocked and RErecognised and its not working, i also have totally unplugged the power from the power cord for 15 min too(roughly) to possible clear any cmos problems... and still i cant get it unlocked,, maybe ill go buy an xbox mag and use the demo cd.
ill get it,, this happened yesterday and i should have left it,, but im stupid like that,, if i believe there is a chance it will work,, ill try it... and well,, it didnt work

using the bert and ernie reloaded and the default.xbe from the signed pheonix loader,, this is what happened
the xbox window came up,, the MS name showed,,, it quickly attempted to load the xbox dashboard and instantly went to the  "Your xbox needs serviced screen"  and the power button flashing red and green.
end of story.

[EvilBetty]

To get mine to finally unlock is switch it to Master instead of Cable Select on the jumpers.  It worked right after I turned the xbox on and hooked it up to my computers IDE cable.