Topic: Changing Led On Front Of Xbox To Red (Read 429 times)

66Nicks · « **on:** February 24, 2005, 08:46:00 PM »

Ok, there must be a tut for this somewhere.. I just cant find it..
so pls point me to it, or just xplain if its easy.
I have soft mod UXE installed using Blackwars installer (works GREAT)
and I want to play Live by coldbooting with the disc (booting with OEM disc in tray instead of booting and then inserting disc). This way I wont get banned (until they start scanning HD's)
What I want is to change the LED to RED when I am using the hacked bios so that I can verify that the coldboot has in fact loaded the M$ bios if the LED is green..
There are a lot of tutorials about using XBTOOLS to change the LED on a bios
on a modchip and flashing it back onto the chip.. but there must be an easier way with the softmod right?

Pls dont post warnings about how I'll get banned etc.. I really dont care.. I only have one month left on LIVE, and If I do get banned I'll just ge a new EEPROM.. I've posted this question in other forums and no-one answers.. they just warn me about how other ppl got banned.. *annoying*

kingroach · « **Reply #1 on:** February 24, 2005, 09:01:00 PM »

blackwras installer uses NKpatcher and that dont have any LED options.. When the coldboot os right then you will be able to go to xbox live, you wont be able to go to live when Nkpatcher is loaded since it has live blocking...

I dont see why you would get banned for asking this question..

66Nicks · « **Reply #2 on:** February 24, 2005, 09:29:00 PM »

QUOTE(kingroach @ Feb 24 2005, 10:07 PM)

dIsEaSe · « **Reply #3 on:** February 24, 2005, 11:27:00 PM »

I cant confirm, but the test might also be effective if you change the LED color on your dashboard (in the settings).

66Nicks · « **Reply #4 on:** February 25, 2005, 12:17:00 AM »

Thx, I'll try it..
some else has mentioned to me that with nkpatcher theres no way to edit the LED color but that Unleashx will let me do it.. but they said it wouldn't work for what I was trying to do.. well I guess its gonna be trial and error

xman954 · « **Reply #5 on:** February 25, 2005, 12:36:00 AM »

if your into some work this will give you orange
http://forums.xbox-s...opic=340118&hl=
red if you know correct byte value

66Nicks · « **Reply #6 on:** February 25, 2005, 01:22:00 AM »

Hey, I really appreciate that.. I knew if I was patient enough there'd be SOMEONE with an answer.. not I just have to figure out what the hell all that means..

cant be that hard.. what tool do I need to edit and recompile that ernie..asm file??

Keo-Keo · « **Reply #7 on:** February 25, 2005, 03:01:00 AM »

66Nicks · « **Reply #8 on:** February 27, 2005, 04:24:00 PM »

Maybe I'm just not looking hard enough but I cant find that program "Nasm" I site searched for it on xbins.. no go..

triggernum5 · « **Reply #9 on:** February 27, 2005, 04:26:00 PM »

Try source-forge.. Its just an everyday pc app..

dIsEaSe · « **Reply #10 on:** February 27, 2005, 05:10:00 PM »

Or search around for Daddyj, and look at his sig.

lucho · « **Reply #11 on:** February 27, 2005, 09:44:00 PM »

Just tried this with UXE Fonts 71 using Daddyj's tools with K5838. . Worked like a charm. If you cold boot, it stays green, if you boot without a game, it changes to orange.

Pretty nice. Trying to figure out on how to change it to red now.

Thx

Lucho

Edit: Forgot to Thank xman954 for the link.

lucho · « **Reply #12 on:** February 28, 2005, 06:57:00 AM »

I just followed the link xman954 posted. All I did was download the fonts from the usual places. Then I used Daddyj's Xbox Custom Font Compilier, put nasm in the same directory as the font compiler.

Opened ernie.asm in ultraedit (or any hex editor), changed the values to match what xman954 posted, then used Daddyj's tools to change the bootpath to my default.xbe and compiled. (You can always hex edit your current ernie.xtf and see what the bootpath is)

Renamed my current ernie.xtf to ernie.bak just in case, and then copied the newly compiled one.

PM me if you need help.

Lucho

66Nicks · « **Reply #13 on:** February 28, 2005, 03:22:00 PM »

Ok, just b/c I don't want to mess around with things I don't understand more than I have to.. would I be able to just copy the fonts I already have on my xbox to my pc and edit those?? I think the Blackwar installer put bert_ate_ernie.xtf on there.. (I'll double check when I get home) so if I just edited that and threw it back onto my box is that gonna work.. or do I need to get a specific font from "the usual places"?

lucho · « **Reply #14 on:** February 28, 2005, 03:39:00 PM »

You would need to edit the asm code because the changes needed will not be visible in a hex editor. It will be giberish. You can hex edit to see the boot path and make you put them in your new fonts.

To make it easier, just change the settings in unleashx to either red or orange, no need to change fonts to do this.

I just did it out of curiousity.

Lucho

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