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Title: Grandma's Guide To Installing Uix
Post by: gasclown on March 09, 2005, 03:18:00 PM
1.
Download:

01.03.05.user.interface.x.dash.rar
01.03.05.user.interface.x.dash.audio.and.fonts.rar
Replacement.UIX.XBE(MAKES.UIX.WORK.WITH.ALL.BIOSES.EVEN.1.6).rar

get all of them!



2.

Make a folder on your pc named UixInstall (or something you'll remember).

Extract "01.03.05.user.interface.x.dash.rar" to it. there will be a readme a folder called "user.interface.x.dash" and an xbe named "uix.xbe".

Extract "Replacement.UIX.XBE.rar" to the same folder overwriting the existing one with the new one and rename to "evoxdash.xbe"

Extract "01.03.05.user.interface.x.dash.audio.and.fonts.rar".  Place the extracted audio and fonts folders inside the "user.interface.x.dash" folder.

3.

 Now still inside the "user.interface.x.dash" folder browse to the "system" folder (\user.interface.x.dash\user.interface.x.dash\system) and open "uix.ini" with notepad.

here you need to set paths to your applications/emulators/games etc.  You will see near the bottom something like this:

Path=apps
Name=Applications

Path=apps is what the name of the folder on your xbox harddrive is called (could be different for you) Name=Applications is The title for it you will see in the dash.  No need to set drive paths - UIX scans all drives for your set paths ie e:\games. f:\games etc.

hers what mine looks like:

[Applications]
Path=apps
Name=Applications
[Dashboards]
Path=dashboards
Name=Dashboards
[Emulators]
Path=emus
Name=Emulators
[Games]
Path=games
Name=Games

Make your changes and save the file then Ftp all of that to the root of C drive (four files will fail to copy this is normal, and intentional) You should have just copied about 113 megs to you Cdrive.

Your Cdrive should look like this:
(IMG:http://members.optusnet.com.au/gasclown/install1.jpg)

heres what it looks like installed alongside the original msdash on C
(IMG:http://members.optusnet.com.au/gasclown/install2.jpg)

Note: for UIX make sure all yr actual apps/games/emus/dashes are in there own folders inside your set paths not in subfolders. all xbe's should be named default.xbe.

This post has been edited by gasclown: Mar 9 2005, 11:20 PM <
Title: Grandma's Guide To Installing Uix
Post by: PsylentGlo on March 09, 2005, 02:26:00 PM
Let me be the first to say "Great Job". This should clear up things for alot of noobs.
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Title: Grandma's Guide To Installing Uix
Post by: Rebel-Soul on March 09, 2005, 04:18:00 PM
so... inside the folder user.interface etc etc... why are only fonts and audio included... what about system and all the rest? <
Title: Grandma's Guide To Installing Uix
Post by: brofessional on March 09, 2005, 08:48:00 PM
QUOTE(Rebel-Soul @ Mar 10 2005, 10:13 AM)
so... inside the folder user.interface etc etc... why are only fonts and audio included... what about system and all the rest?
*



I think the reason to that is, because the fonts and audio folder will always stay the same. So while the other files and folders change, it would be better if they would cut audio and font folders out. So youre not dling 30megs, your only dling 15megs(not sure on how big the size is). You got it?
Title: Grandma's Guide To Installing Uix
Post by: skaendo on March 27, 2005, 02:58:00 AM
can you tell me what the file names are for the files that dont get copied to the xbox? <
Title: Grandma's Guide To Installing Uix
Post by: gasclown on March 27, 2005, 04:58:00 PM
um sure... here's a pic:

user posted image
Title: Grandma's Guide To Installing Uix
Post by: KeyMastur on March 27, 2005, 06:21:00 PM
that's for newbs.  you could always edit the bios and have it point to a certain location for the dash file. but that's for us smart guys <
Title: Grandma's Guide To Installing Uix
Post by: dakk on April 06, 2005, 02:05:00 PM
Thank you so much for the tut. I couldn't of figured it out w/o it, this coming from a noob.

But i have a question. I download a skin and the directions said to apply green-nocellwalls-orbs. I download the tHc file with it and it says to patch it. What does that mean, what is patching.

the skin is http://www.allxboxskins.com/vote-comment/v...ash&display=yes

Please help
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Title: Grandma's Guide To Installing Uix
Post by: dakk on April 06, 2005, 02:05:00 PM
sorry, double post


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Title: Grandma's Guide To Installing Uix
Post by: KyesaRRi on April 06, 2005, 06:37:00 PM
lol i told u b4, PIDS PURPLE DASH is a M$ Dash skin, NOT a UIX skin

It patches the .xbe, but DONT DO THAT, cos it is for the m$ dash or tHc NOT UIX

Each dash [UIX, tHc] uses a different skin config, uix uses .xbx files with presets in it, while tHc uses a patch for the .XBE

I can make it a UIX skin if u want it that bad, all u gotta do is ask...

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Title: Grandma's Guide To Installing Uix
Post by: dakk on April 07, 2005, 10:17:00 AM
that would be wicked nice of you. Would you please. It would help so much <
Title: Grandma's Guide To Installing Uix
Post by: KyesaRRi on April 07, 2005, 10:23:00 PM
It wont be exactly the same as PID's, and i hope he doesent mind that im re-making his old skin

I'll submit it under UIX skins on allxboxskins under pid's purple lightning Kye remake

Be up in a few days

Later <
Title: Grandma's Guide To Installing Uix
Post by: dakk on April 08, 2005, 12:37:00 AM
Thanks man. Say, you would be willing to explain how you did it? just curious <
Title: Grandma's Guide To Installing Uix
Post by: KyesaRRi on April 08, 2005, 01:09:00 AM
QUOTE
Thanks man. Say, you would be willing to explain how you did it? just curious


Well, its fairly easy

You can open the hexbe patch up with hexbe, get the color offsets and write them in with notepad, then fill in the gaps with that "DIGITAL BLOOD" app

thats how i like to port skins

lol digital blood makes it so much easier to make skins for UIX, my first skin was written with notepad.

It isnt done yet, it is way too pink and blue but i'll eventually get around to it, after my hangover... <
Title: Grandma's Guide To Installing Uix
Post by: KyesaRRi on April 11, 2005, 03:21:00 AM
The skin keep on turning up like a POS

[Its either me or i didnt really try]

I think i'd better leave this to PID or Gasclown, as its PID's skin and Gasclown is the bomb when it comes to skinning
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Title: Grandma's Guide To Installing Uix
Post by: gasclown on April 11, 2005, 03:47:00 AM
this is soooo offtopic lol. you wont have much luck converting a lite or orig preset to uix unless you know exaclty what the materials do -but you could just use the purple preset from uix....
Title: Grandma's Guide To Installing Uix
Post by: KyesaRRi on April 11, 2005, 09:30:00 AM
I allready knew that gas, but thx anyway

it worked out for the most part, just some materials really pissed me off, like being blue, or red, i gave up... "Snakes, natures quitters"
Title: Grandma's Guide To Installing Uix
Post by: jjjjlong on June 29, 2005, 01:13:00 PM
Thank you! Finally Now I can do that to my box!! Gee i was a total noob  i thought i was just supposed to take em contents and overwrite the MSDash with them!!!  laugh.gif  Gee now I know I wasn't!!  Ahh looking good!! Thanks!!  beerchug.gif
Title: Grandma's Guide To Installing Uix
Post by: Jaxter on July 12, 2005, 03:06:00 AM
Ummm surely if you have an auto installer like Krayzie's u could just replace the files in the dashboard folder to make it ur default dash.
Title: Grandma's Guide To Installing Uix
Post by: MenaceOfMen on July 22, 2005, 09:14:00 PM
Man I TOTALLY wish that someone would make an auto-installer for noobs like me. I want the dash but dont want to screw it up and lose everything I have on my evox dash lol. I got a 160 gig hd in it with maybe 15 games and a ton of apps and skins and stuff. I know to back everything up on my pc but still. If I make a permanent mistake it'll suck. Also I dont feel like taking 3 days off just to learn how to install it...
Title: Grandma's Guide To Installing Uix
Post by: gasclown on July 24, 2005, 05:42:00 PM
its really not that hard - get all the files relating to the dash, drop em on c renaming uix.xbe to what yr bios boots (i garantee it'll boot "evoxdash.xbe" if youve never edited it).
Title: Grandma's Guide To Installing Uix
Post by: MartyMcFly on May 31, 2006, 08:28:00 PM
Ummm.I dont know about that.  I tried to rename the UIX.xbe to evoxdash.xbe and put it on my C drive with my other dashboards(and the rest fo the UIX files) and next time I booted the xbox I it got to the x logo and rebooted itself over and over again.  No matter what bios I was using...Good thing my slayers boot disk still loaded or I woulda been crying...
Title: Grandma's Guide To Installing Uix
Post by: gasclown on June 02, 2006, 02:41:00 PM
ummmmm, i do know about that... i know it very well. the only reason it would reboot constantly is if there are files missing.  if you followed the tute on the first page what yr saying is impossible.