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[quell]

I have soft modded xboxs all over my house which I use as media stream receivers from a server. After my last soft mod using the hot swap method something happened that Ive never came across before.
Using the latest version of xbmc I tried to run Halo 2, which it did, but up until a certain point, the game loads up and gets to the bit where you press start and then freezes. Killtrocity 1 and 2 does the same. Cleared out all the Halo 2 save files from E: and started again; nup, tried running the original from the drive, same thing. The game worked before the soft mod because I used it to update the dash board and unlock the hard drive. Ive tried three other titles and they work. Trust me......Its not working for a strange reason. The only thing I can think of is when you consider that Bungie squeezed out every inch of power from the xbox to run Halo 2, that maybe during the mod I fried one of my RAM chips and the when the game begins to load the mainmenu map into RAM it cant. And yes I did use an earth equalization lead.

Its not too much of a bother because like I said its just a media center but it does come in handy for a lan session once in a blue moon, anyone ever done the same or have anything to add?

[Keypel]

I had a problem with NFS2 after softmodding. All my other games ran except for that one.

I wasn't properly soft modding my xbox. Now that I properly installed the softmod, NFS2 works just fine.

just curious, what happens when you boot to your original ms dash?

[jakejm79]

Did you try clearing the E:\cache and XYZ folders?
I would say maybe you had corrupted some data on you HDD but you also mention that it wont run from DVD.

My final suggestion would be if that doesnt work would be to check all you connections and possibly try a new HDD in there, you could have damaged either the X, Y or Z partition part of the and when Halo 2 tries to write the data to that part it freezes, unlikely it is your ram because I believe when Halo 2 is loading levels its copying the data into the pagefile if you will and not directly into the memory, if it takes that long to copy 64MB of data into Ram chips then the xbox has some severe memory architecture flaws,

[quell]

Cool, I'll try those suggestions as they are something I havnt tried, but isnt the xyz partitions a virtual feature of xbmc or do they exist natively on a unmodded box?

[Keypel]

X,Y, and Z are on both virgin xboxs and modded (and soft modded) xboxs. It doesn't hurt anything by deleting (or formating) XY and Z.

You could also try deleting the game save.

I also doubt the ram is the problem.

Like I mentioned previously, I also had one game that wouldn't work on my softmodded xbox. Drove me nuts, I tried everything, turns out, it was a bad soft mod.

Can I ask, what happens when you boot the ms dash? Does it boot ok, or is there a error 21 or anything?

[quell]

The first thing I did was to delete the saves in E:, the soft mod seemed to work fine, it does everything else I want it too including boot and run any other xbe, what i find strange is it will boot halo 2's xbe too up until a certain point, the ms dash seems in good order, ive still yet to delete xyz so ill post back, oh bye the way, its not the stock hard drive I am using, I built a new one from scratch using xboxhdm.

This post has been edited by quell: Nov 13 2007, 01:08 PM

[Keypel]

I was having a problem midnight-club 2 yesterday. It was locking up when played off the hdd as well as off the Original Game Disc.

I formated XYZ, Deleted everything in E:\Cache and deleted the game save.

The game works fine now.

[quell]

Well I formatted the XYZ partitions and it fried my softmod, dont know what the go is there?, I'll re-install it and then try Halo 2 again and if it still doesnt work I'll deleate the cache, I'll get back to ya's.

[jakejm79]

Formatting the X Y Z partitions wouldnt effect your softmod, are you sure you didnt also do your C partition too? The data on the X Y Z partitions gets overwritten when playing different games, nothing is there permanently.

[quell]

Nah, I didnt delete anything else. I re-installed the softmod and deleted the cache on E: drive and that fixed the problem. It looks like the cache on the stock hard drive was corrupted to begin with, wish I had done that before deleting the files in xyz LOL. Thanks for the info people

[Keypel]

I'm glad you fixed your xbox but just to re-confirm what jakejm79 already mentioned, deleting the files in XYZ wouldn't hurt your softmod. You must have deleted something in C or E by mistake thinking you were in XY or Z

[quell]

Yeah, If your that sure that It would do no harm then I must of. Do you know if it matters what version ms dash board I use when building a hard drive from scratch, I mean, will the BIOS only recognize the dash version it was bundled with or can you use any version you like? I'm not refering to the use of ndure just if any box will run any dash kernel.

[hot]

i deleted xyz just yesterday and it fried my softmod too so the others advising to do that are WRONG!

also seems to ruin my dvd drive but probably just coincidence lol

so all with softmods dont delete anything from XYZ!

and no...I didnt even go into C let alone delete anything from it

[Bomb Bloke]

1) This thread is months old.

2) Softmods can only execute from C: (because they're modifications of the MS Dash, which has the same limitation). The dashboards they load can be stored elsewhere however.

3) The X-Box will wipe the X/Y/Z partitions whenever it feels like it. You store important files on them at your peril.