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[Atreyu]

please post your MFD's

i think you'll find that the October beast packs mod fine, and the sep ones don't
its gotta be a hardware thing in there fucking something up.

[jazius]

Ive successfully done 2 beast packs.

Before i start i just want to mention that i tired many times to mod a beast pak xbox with pheonix bios loader, but i just couldnt get it to work, then i saw a post from "convert" saying that he didnt use pbl he went straight to evox, so i tried it and it worked.

**Both the boxes had a manufacturing date of 23-sept-2003

Heres is what i did, ill try and give u a little more detail.

-First i soldered 2 points on the top of the motherboard

- i used hdd hot swap method with xlinux to access the hdd.
- copied on the following files,bigfonts25 into the fonts folder, renamed the original fonts to *.bak
- signed evox with fonts and renamed to default.xbe, and placed this along with evox.ini into c:


*****IMPORTANT*****
make sure your have 2 copies of evox in the xbox c:
one called default.xbe(audio signed)
and another called evoxdash.xbe

after making these changes the xbox booted straight into evox, the tsops were both winbond, i think all beast packs are winbond tsops therefore you cant use evox to flash the tsop use must use raincoat.

I got raincoat from the 007_With_Raincoat pack from the usual place, all of the raincoat files were in a savegame folder called "UDATA4541000d" i just copied all the files from the pack into a folder called rain, there is a file in there called default.xbe i signed it with fonts.

here are the files i used and the location on the xbox c:
c:/rain/DEFAULT.XBE
c:/rain/SaveMeta.xbx
c:/rain/xbsavegame.dat
c:/rain/BOOT/BOOT.CFG
c:/rain/BOOT/KERNEL
c:/rain/BOOT/RAMDISK
c:/rain/raincoat/raincoat
c:/rain/raincoat/raincoat.conf
c:/rain/raincoat/evox.ini
c:/rain/raincoat/items.txt
c:/rain/raincoat/****bios of your choice****

i used EvoxM7_ef_BFM.bin on one xbox and 4979.06_256k.bin(repack) on the other xbox, both bioses worked fine.

**note some of these files arent needed like the evox files and savegame files, i just left them there, they wont cause any harm

**Make sure you edit c:/evox.ini to include raincoat

Then i ftped into the box and uploaded the raincoat files, tried running raincoat from the evox menu but it didnt work, i dont know why, so i reverted to an earlier version of evox and also signed it with fonts and then raincoat worked.

**EDIT**
I dont the version of evox that i had to put on the second time, but i can confirm that Free-X evox(dosent need to be signed with fonts) will work, i got this from "Gouki-xbox modless archive" at the usual place.  For some reason raincoat/linux just wont boot from EVO-X 1.8.3921
**EDIT**

Once raincoat loaded up you see the linux penguin appear on the screen the light on the front will turn orange, but nothing appears on the screen this is normal.

Make sure your pc is networked to the xbox change your ipaddress and subnet to something like this:
ip address: 192.168.0.100
subnet mask: 255.255.255.0

On your pc bring up a dos prompt and type "telnet 192.168.0.64", this will connect to the xbox, hen enter in username: root and password: xbox.
these are the commands i typed to flash the tsop

-change to the raincoat folder
cd /media/C/rain/raincoat

-just run raincoat and see if it can identify your bios, if it cant then your soldering is dodgy
./raincoat

-if that works then flash the bios
./raincoat -p EvoxM7_ef_BFM.bin


Ouila!!!
One modded beast pack xbox.

[THRASHERdeluxe]

Allright.
But I don't want to solder anything. Because I don't want to fuck up
my XBOX. I already mentioned that I can boot Evox when it's signed
with font. But the scrambled PBL freezes when it tries to boot any BIOS.
MFD 9-18-03 PAL not an Aussie Beast Pack, but I think that doesn't
matter. And why should it work when it's flashed into the TSOP, when
the PBL doesn't?

PEACE

[Jesper64]

This may be a long shot. The people who can't get PBL to load, are you guys editing the bios with xbtool? Because when I edited the bios with xbtool I got a similiar problem to what you guys are describing. PBL would load all scrambled and then go to a black screen. I ended up just using the raw file downloaded from the usual places and sticking evoxdash.xbe into c:

[Atreyu]

no im not editing anything..

im using the EXACT same files on beast packs that work and the ones that don't..

it has to be hardware

[gluping]

EDIT: Can't get the font hack to work on Xbox v1.5 (EU PAL with Halo & Midtown Madness), K: 5101, D: 4920, MFD: 11. oct. 2003.

I see the grabeled PBL screen and then black. I'm useing the good old hotswap trick, and I've just tried PBL 1.3.5i (I renamed the Audio folder to Bioses) with EvoX D6 BFM, M7 BFM and X2 4979.06 BFM, and bigfonts25, but no such luck.

The files that I'm useing is the exact same as I'm useing on my Xbox v1.0, so I know they work, or at least did... I've not added eeprom keys to boot.cfg, which I didn't on the v1.0 (or v1.3) either, are they necessary?

[Atreyu]

i just did 3 beast packs today. 2 of them were 2003-10-8 and one was 2003-09-30. they worked fine.


gulping: is that 11th of jan or 1st of nov ? and was this from a beast pack?

[chickenbum]

Atreyu,  


i have two 2003-10-04 xboxes to mod, what processes and files worked for you?


cheers


Chickenbum

[eldertaco]

[THRASHERdeluxe]

MFD?

PEACE

[THRASHERdeluxe]

Is there a new EEPROM or RC4 Key for the 1.5 XBOX?

PEACE

[Atreyu]

every xbox has a different eeprom
the rc4 doesn't change

[THRASHERdeluxe]

PEACE

[Jesper64]

if your referring to the EEPROM and RC4 key for Phoenix, then no they aren't different for the v1.5

[THRASHERdeluxe]

Ok, when everything is the same why doesn't the PBL 1.3.5i on my XBOX load any BIOS?
The screen is scrambled and flickering but I can select a BIOS and then nothing hapens.
I've activated the debug mode and then I can see that it loads the Bios from P:Bioses
and after that nothing happens. But why I don't understand it. The same files work on my
another (modded) XBOX fine.

PEACE