Topic: Updated Eeprom With Blank .bin File. Now What? (Read 163 times)

The Zep Man · « **on:** June 20, 2005, 04:26:00 AM »

QUOTE(WolfPac_Ite @ Jun 20 2005, 07:27 AM)

Hey all. I made a mistake and changed my EEPROM to PAL mode using Config Magic, and to make a long story short, I couldn't see anything, so I was blindly trying to change it back with an EEPROM backup, and accidently switched it with the included blank .BIN file and restarted. All on accident since I could only see by taking pictures with my digital camera.

Soullar · « **Reply #1 on:** June 20, 2005, 04:30:00 AM »

Buying a new motherboard wouldn't solve the problem either, as the HDD is unlocked.

Only solution is to buy a paired mobo and hdd.

(or a modchip, which probably will be cheaper, of course)

The Zep Man · « **Reply #2 on:** June 20, 2005, 05:22:00 AM »

QUOTE(Soullar @ Jun 20 2005, 12:41 PM)

Buying a new motherboard wouldn't solve the problem either, as the HDD is unlocked.

Cio · « **Reply #3 on:** June 20, 2005, 05:53:00 AM »

You would need a chip to boot the mobo and fix the eeprom. You wont need the chip forever, just to fix the eeprom.

And yeah, a new mobo and hd/eeprom would also "fix" this, but still leave you with a useless mobo.

RiceCake · « **Reply #4 on:** June 20, 2005, 12:18:00 PM »

Assuming the HD is locked and you don't got the EEPROM your fucked, you'll need a new HD. If you have the EEPROM, you can unlock it.

A possible modchipless fix (A bit dangerous!) would be to boot a good Xbox, load up an EEPROM flasher utility, swap the EEPROM chip to the bad one, then flash it. Probably your best bet for such a hack would be to "stack" EEPROM chips (which involves switching between a VCC line, allowing you to boot one chip and flash another).

You can boot a modchip with an embedded EEPROM or one with debug capability so you can reflash the EEPROM chip. You can either flash a new EEPROM and lock an unlocked HD for the Xbox, or you can use a backup EEPROM (Which in case you won't need a new HD or anything).

You can't just lock a hard drive for a blank EEPROM. A blank EEPROM would have a corrupted video output, and wouldn't play any games because the region would be incorrect.

One good reason to backup your EEPROM, use shadow features, and not fuck with tools like ConfigMagic!

RiceCake · « **Reply #5 on:** June 20, 2005, 02:11:00 PM »

The differences? Basically nothing.

http://www.modchipman.com has chip prices you can check out

By the way, you'll need to build a programmer for your cheapmod as well. You can probably just use a patched Cromwell BIOS with an EEPROM reflasher built it.

triggernum5 · « **Reply #6 on:** June 20, 2005, 05:02:00 PM »

So the hdd key is all zeroes? Can you lock a hdd to that in xboxhdm?

RiceCake · « **Reply #7 on:** June 20, 2005, 07:16:00 PM »

Checkout what I said above.

Even if his HD is locked for a blank EEPROM, the damn thing will never bootup.

EthanHunt_IMF · « **Reply #8 on:** June 21, 2005, 03:55:00 AM »

QUOTE(RiceCake @ Jun 20 2005, 02:29 PM)

You can't just lock a hard drive for a blank EEPROM. A blank EEPROM would have a corrupted video output, and wouldn't play any games because the region would be incorrect.

luther349 · « **Reply #9 on:** June 21, 2005, 02:38:00 PM »

a chip would be able to fix that. what i would do is boot with a chip then fix the eprom setting it back to ntsc. reflash the eprom you should be good even if the hd is locked the keys should match assuming its still the orignal eprom. if you dont have your orignal even thow the video is set to pal well you would need a chip and a new hd.

this is why you dont mess with your eprom. if you tryed changing eproms couse of being banned from live wel you woulda nedded a new hd anyways and a new live account.

WolfPac_Ite · « **Reply #10 on:** June 21, 2005, 07:47:00 PM »

I do have a backup of the EEPROM to use for reflashing, and I have the HDD password to lock and unlock the hard drive.

RiceCake · « **Reply #11 on:** June 23, 2005, 12:11:00 PM »

Ok, now I'm kinda confused here. By blank EEPROM I was assuming completely blank (And thus, the EEPROM chip was completely blank). You can though generate an EEPROM with a 0 video region by using eepmod (It allows hex-editing of the video mode) and a 0 for the game region with another tool (Not sure what tool) (This trick was used before in softmods to prevent the DVD from loading). I was assuming by blank, the entire EEPROM had been zero'ed.

So when your XBox boots tell me this, is the LED on the front green or is it simply blinking red? If its green well, might be able to give this hard drive 0'ed locking deal a shot. If its red, your EEPROM is fucked and your gonna need a chip for sure.

Probably your best bet is to just get a chip, but its your call.

triggernum5 · « **Reply #12 on:** June 24, 2005, 11:52:00 AM »

The eeproms that come with Config Magic aren't actually blank, they're basically anonymous with personal fields zeroed.. I'm not sure right now what the video region is set to however..
As for stacking the eeproms, it works great! I helped a guy do that once, He booted a working box/eeprom with a messed up chip attached to a switch.. Config Magic displayed the working eeprom until he flicked the switch and reloaded the eeprom.. Voila, CM displayed/corrected the messed up eeprom (which happened to be a 1.6 in a 1.4 box)..

EthanHunt_IMF · « **Reply #13 on:** June 24, 2005, 10:16:00 PM »

When it FRAGs, do you get a service screen? error number in the corner?

EthanHunt_IMF · « **Reply #14 on:** June 26, 2005, 03:10:00 AM »

QUOTE(WolfPac_Ite @ Jun 25 2005, 09:53 PM)

Yes, it gives me error number 05.

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