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[juan]

So I flashed a friends v1 xbox tsop with evox d6 (via audio hack) and put in a 40 gig hard drive (put configmagic on there) . 2 weeks later he left it with his 4 year old kid.  when he checked on him the xbox was dead.  what happens now is when you turn it on, it turns on and off  3 times then flashes green and red.  Does anyone know what his 4 year old could of done to do this?? or is it possible that maybe something else is causing it.  

  any help is appreciated

[Sykotek]

The kid could have gotten into the flash bios menu and did an incomplete flash or flashed a bad bios if there were bios's loaded on the HDD.  If this is the case you will have to install a homebrew to fix it.

[juan]

yep thats possible i'll install a matrix when I get home to see if I can boot from it.

anyone with any other explanation??
and bye the way it just sits there with a black screen (no error message)  

[lordvader129]

might have flashed a 256k bios to the 1MB chip...but i think evox multiplies the size...try grounding a19 and a18 anyway and see if it boots

[PsiDOC]

Being a father of 2 (1 is 10, the other 14), I can tell you with a 4 year old ANYTHING can happen. If you can get the child to own up, remind him he's not in trouble, else he'll clam up! Then maybe it can be fixed. Without out a clue it's needle in a haystack time!!
Regards,
Psi

[juan]

So I found out that the screen apparently said erasing on it according to the kid.  so I am pretty sure he flashed his bios with a 256k not a 1 meg version.  Oh and by the way,  can a four year old read the word erasing  
anyway now I will try and save his tsop out of the kindness of my heart my question is whats the best way to do this.

I have a matrix chip and a chameleon.  

I will go the matrix tsop fix route unless someone has a better idea.

[Pizza Pizz]

try the matrix method....

if that don't work then the next 2 options are:

homebrew - if you like soldering lots of wires

or

get a lpc modchip but forget header pins and "wire" the mod onto the lpc and use alt D0-ground underneath mobo

please note:

these methods may work ok on the xbox but think the kid has had it - so no point trying to fix the kid - never worked on my 2 either no matter what bios I tried - just think they are un-moddable

In future - REMOVE ANY FLASH OPTION FROM MENU - you can flash it still from another evox cd or auf hack save etc....

best of luck

[lordvader129]

even better just desolder the write enable points when your done, IF for soem reason it needs a repair in the future they take all of 30 seconds to solder

[Sykotek]

If he just flashed with a 256kb bios, the fix is easier than installing a mod chip.  Just use the tutorial found on this site to split up the bios's with a pair of switches into 4 256kb bioses, or just permanantly enable only the first 256kb bank (wire it up as if the switches were set to bank 1).  The latter is proably a better idea because adding the switches will only inspire your four year olds curiousity even further (which is good for learning but bad for daddy's free time..)   haha.  

And then as lord said unsolder those write enable points, or install an internal or hidden switch to enable them when you need them so this does not happen again.

Good luck, let us know how you make out with it.

This post has been edited by Sykotek: Sep 26 2003, 11:30 PM

[PsiDOC]

This post of mine here details how to recover from a 256K flash cock-up however if the EVO-X Dashboard is newer that 1.8.3285 it automatically makes the bios up to 1 MEG anyway, so be careful, this may not be the answer.
If the little tyke switched off the box during Erasing or programming then the TSOP may be toast!
Regards,
Psi

[lordvader129]

yeah, the funny thing is doesnt evox multiply a 256k bios to fill the full 1MB? maybe the 4yo panicked and turned the box off when it said erasing which would be very bad news  

[juan]

I'm assuming that the kid probably flashed the chip with a 256k bios. So, when I get home I will try PsiDOC's method although the a18 and a19 look fairly small from the picture (cant be any worse than the d0    ). If this doesnt work then off to the matrix method.  Thanx for al lthe help guys  I'll keep ya posted

[wtsexton]

This is one reason not to use Evox as your dash and not to have an software to flash your bios on your xbox until you need to use it.  If the option is remotely there it'll most likely happen.  Expect the worst.

[Pizza Pizz]

Evox is fine as a dash - the only thing like I said was to remove the flash option from the menu

or probably rem it out or the part that contained the actual tsop - probably hynix or ST

it's easy to say this n that afterwards

yeah the tsop points could have been switched or even unsoldered or if a mod was used same thing could of happened in a bad flash way....

hmmmm..... maybe take out boxexplorer just in case he wants to start editing/deleting the evox.ini and such like

"Dad, we loads of room on the hard drive now - i deleted the lot for you"

[juan]

So I attempted to ground a19 and a 18 but no boot.  So then I opted to try the matrix fix but to no avail.  When I flash the matrix with evox_tsop_matrix and ground the appropriat wires the xbox eject button flashes red green orange with the matrix (in mode 3) flashing red then green (I am sure that its aligned corectly).  Now with any normal version of an evox bios on there it boots fine but with the tsop_evox I get the weird behavior with just a black screen.  So is the tsop permanatly screwed (and I should just install a mod) or is there any other options available to me that I do not know about???