I feel sick to my stomach right now.
So I finally convinced my boss to let me mod his xbox.. The only problem being that he played live a lot, so he wanted to go for the swtich + tsop split. I'd done the 007 + flash single bios to the tsop many times and figure the switch couldn't be *that* much harder..
So today I went and did my normal stuff... Soldered the write enable points, reflashed the bios, booted to slayers, installed new dash.. Then we wired up the switch, still everything happy.. Flashed a 4 part bios with 3 x2 segments with different colors + one retail. The x2 segments worked fine, but retail wouldn't boot at all. Figuring it was my extraction technique (I was trying to use the original 1mb bios I'd extracted, sliced down to 256k), I figured I'd make another multibios with a retail one from xbins and flash that.
Up until this point I had just been booting into the 007 hack and using raincoat to flash.. This seemed like an inefficient way to do things, so I figured I'd download a couple bios flash utils and just do it from inside evox this time. Downloaded Flash-X and XFlash, decompressed, read the readmes, and decided that since XFlash was newer, it must be better! Plus it included the capability of just flashing one bank at a time which interested me since I already had 3 working banks and just needed to get the retail one working. So I copy all my bioses into e:bios, copy the app over to it's spot, boot to evox, launch the util.. Poke around a bit, load the bios, tell it to flash to bank 3..... For some reason it seemed to take a really long time. I left to do some other work, came back, and it looked like it had completed successfully. I power down the box, power it back up. Nothing. No biggie, I'd run into this problem before and just had to switch to one of the other banks. Nothing. Frantically I tried the last two banks... Nothing. At this point I started panicing.
I searched and searched for a way to get it to boot with no luck. As a last resort, I decided to pull the homebrew from my xbox and solder it to my bosses.. Figuring that then at least I would be able to boot to reflash the tsop. 29 wires and a few hours later... Still won't boot.
So now here I am really really screwed. Any ideas what to do? I've triple checked my soldering on the homebrew.. The switch is disconnected.. Is it possible to completely hose the xbox somehow? Is the XFlash utility meant *only* for x2 chips and not TSOP? Could it have damaged my motherboard somehow?
Please help! Sorry for the lengthy post..
-Superlime
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Topic: Bad Tsop Flash, Homebrew Not Helping? (Read 88 times)