Topic: Kernel Panic And No Ms Dashboard... Help! (Read 167 times)

Chunk1 · « **on:** October 10, 2004, 11:41:00 AM »

Hi all, I'm a noob and I have a problem with my Xenium ICE. I installed it last night using the solderless install. Unfortunately it wouldn't mount well enough. I thought it was OK at first, and I did the following:

- Flashed the TSOP BIOS. It booted fine.
- Enabled the SMB server.
- Backed up my C and E drives.
- Copied the Evox dashboard to C:\ and renamed it to replace the standard dashboard.
- Started flashing another BIOS (Evox M.

The solderless adaptor must have shifted while flashing, cause it hung while flashing the BIOS (I let it sit for a good 10 minutes). I cycled power and the xbox started flaking out. It would frag when going to the Evox dashboard, of course. But it would also kernel panic and restart itself every few seconds if I let it sit in the Xenium OS.

When I noticed the LED on the Xenium flickering like it was not quite connected well, that was the final straw. Today I soldered the chip on there good and tight. Everything looks good with the chip.

I still get kernel panics after 15 seconds of powerup, however. I noticed a thread that recommened turning off the FTP/SMB server. I did that, and the timed kernel panics went away. Now I can sit and look at Xenium forever! However, whenever I go Disk Tools, or attempt to load another BIOS, I get a kernel panic (along with a flashing red->off->red->off eject button) and the xbox eventually reboots.

I tried reflashing the TSOP BIOS, to no avail.

I tried the recovery menu item, to no avail. (It says "Loading.... HALT" after a minute or so.)

I tried burning a CD-RW with the 2.01 BIOS, and I can't tell, but I don't think that did anything either. (My Xenium came loaded with a pre-release 2.0, FWIW.)

My XBox would be usable except for the custom dashboard on C:\, which prevents me from using the XBox without the Xenium.

And since I only have the retail BIOS, I can't use the custom dashboard WITH the Xenium.

And since I can't enable the SMB server without getting a kernel panic, I can't put the original dashboard back. I can't even enable the FTP server and rename the original dash back, cause as soon as I connect I get a kernel panic which appears to kill the FTP server.

Does anyone have a suggestion? I'm really stuck here.

(I have a v1.0 XBox, if it matters.)

appleguru · « **Reply #1 on:** October 10, 2004, 12:20:00 PM »

You're getting a KP because your clock isn't set. If you recover to XOS 2.0.1, it will work fine: Burn the HDD recovery.bin to the root of an ISO 9660 CD and throw some random files on the disc for padding. Put the disc in, go to recovery mode, and wait for the box to shutdown. If it says "HALT!" your xbox cant read the media or you burned it wrong...

appleguru · « **Reply #2 on:** October 10, 2004, 12:23:00 PM »

Also, if you can boot to the retail kernel kernel via the Launch Menu, do it. If your HDD is locked, you can then go and set the clock and the KPs will go away, allowing you to use FTP or SMB to get the recovery.bin on E and upgrade without needing to burn.

If you can't because it KPs, then try disconnecting d0 and letting it boot to your M$ dash; set the clock, reconnect d0, and you'll be back in business (Still update to 2.0.1 though).

GuyBrush · « **Reply #3 on:** October 10, 2004, 05:12:00 PM »

Chunk1 · « **Reply #4 on:** October 10, 2004, 05:27:00 PM »

WOOHOO! It's working now! Thanks appleguru!

I didn't have a proper CD-RW BIOS image, so recovery was halting. I reburned it like you said, and the recovery worked fine. Now I have 2.01 (wow, looks different!) and I managed to rename the files back using SMB. I then set the clock (I thought a EEPROM restore would have stored the clock settings, so I assumed my clock was OK) and now everything works great! I'm gonna toss another BIOS on it now.

Guybrush, I read a guide that told me to rename the evox dash to xboxdash.xbe... must have been an old guide? Is the BIOS you speak of that loads dashes in order the evox M8 BIOS? Is that the one I should generally be using? I just want to use evox and some apps like emulators and xbox media center, and maybe avalaunch someday.

Thanks for the help guys! You're lifesavers! My xbox would remain dead if it weren't for your posts.

appleguru · « **Reply #5 on:** October 10, 2004, 05:42:00 PM »

Dunno what guide you were reading, but all modern BIOSes boot dashes in order... Evox unmodified will boot evoxdash.xbe first, followed by your retail dash. you can edit the boot order with evtool on the PC. I recommend X2 4981 or 4983 as your BIOS however; out fo the box they support more dashes, don't need to be edited with evtool for IGR and LBA48 support, and have live blocking. So, unless you have a 1.6 (you don't), use X2.

Chunk1 · « **Reply #6 on:** October 11, 2004, 10:37:00 AM »

While I have your ear, Appleguru, a couple quick questions if you please:

1) I notice in your sig you use avalaunch. Does it coexist with evox? Can I run both simultaneously? I heard avalaunch is pretty nice, and I figure I should try it out before I bury my nose in the evox.ini.

2) Is there some way to make a certain BIOS launch a specific dashboard? You mention they load in a specific order, which makes it sound like if I have evoxdash.xbe, nothing else will ever load. Is having a BIOS that loads a specific dashboard the standard way to use multiple dashes? Is that why Xenium has a bunch of flash banks?

Thansk again for all the help. I got XBMC running last night and streamed audio over my network, and also copied Burnout 3 to my HD using dvd2xbox. I was surprised that the load times didn't decrease more (it was only slightly faster), but I'm glad I can file my DVD away now. I'm always worried about $50 scratches.

appleguru · « **Reply #7 on:** October 11, 2004, 10:47:00 AM »

Chunk1 · « **Reply #8 on:** October 11, 2004, 02:39:00 PM »

Cool, I was going to try the X2 BIOS tonight anyway, I'll just make an EvoX and a avalaunch dashboard version using xbtool and make avalaunch the default in Xenium. I'm not going to use those extra BIOS slots for anything anyway... or at least, I don't know what I WOULD use them for yet.

Can I make ANY app a dashboard with xbtool? I'm thinking specifically of XBMC or a NES emulator, since playing my old NES games (well, minus the carts now) is a big reason I modded the xbox.

So much to learn! So much to do!

Gumba · « **Reply #9 on:** October 12, 2004, 12:49:00 AM »

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