Post by: bigchief69 on January 26, 2004, 03:47:00 PM
also how can you tell what version xbox you have??
Post by: hades0323 on February 10, 2004, 06:06:00 AM
| QUOTE |
| Oh, and this thread is completeley worthless on a 1.5, cause you have to solder some wires |
I was told that the X-Bit is a full solderless solution to Xbox version 1.5... Am I incorrect or do I need to solder a wire or two.. also... if so doesn anyone have any diagrams?
Post by: LargePig on February 22, 2004, 10:23:00 PM
Removing the chip should put everything back the way it was, f it doesn't then you have a prob with your box somehow
this is assuming you havn't made any changes to the hdd file system yet.
Post by: LargePig on February 22, 2004, 10:30:00 PM
Once your sure you have not got a botched xbox try again.
It sounds like either a bad flash or bad alignment.
Post by: Xerium on February 26, 2004, 08:15:00 AM
Post by: IceBerg1 on February 28, 2004, 05:11:00 PM
the rectangular piece is the write protect piece like the plastic square that moveis on floppies (hehe, floppies...)
Post by: killer from hell on February 28, 2004, 05:26:00 PM
Post by: xBaNaNaEv0LuTiOnx on February 28, 2004, 06:42:00 PM
| QUOTE (killer from hell @ Feb 29 2004, 03:26 AM) |
| what about my led problem? |
are you saying that the LED does not light when you plug it in? the LED should not light when flashing, formatting, or verifying.
Post by: killer from hell on March 01, 2004, 02:31:00 PM
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Post by: killer from hell on March 02, 2004, 12:14:00 PM
Post by: _mikec_ on March 09, 2004, 04:08:00 PM
i thought the ground was the screw?
what i should i do? someone already installed XBIT on a v1.5?
tell me about cuz am about to send the chip back to divineo because i dont know if its working or not, i flashed all banks!! except the first one, but still no bios is loaded....i even have the bleue bios to see if it works.
Post by: LargePig on March 12, 2004, 07:15:00 AM
The screw is the earth.
Post by: Xerium on March 12, 2004, 08:17:00 AM
| QUOTE (_mikec_ @ Mar 10 2004, 02:08 AM) |
| hey sup i have V1.5 do i have to solder the XBIT ??????????????????????????? i thought the ground was the screw? what i should i do? someone already installed XBIT on a v1.5? tell me about cuz am about to send the chip back to divineo because i dont know if its working or not, i flashed all banks!! except the first one, but still no bios is loaded....i even have the bleue bios to see if it works. |
Just yesterday I did a solderless install on my friends 1.5 has no problems, took about 7 min to get it flashed and installed...took me an hour and a half to install on my 1.0...but hey, that was my first solderless install.
Did you put your dip switches in the correct position?
Post by: lordshodan on March 22, 2004, 01:05:00 PM
Spent 3-4 days already without any success. The dip switches are good.
I know it's a problem with the alignments of the D0 pin because I keep getting the normal XBOX dashboard screen when the chip is ON.
Just wish I could find someone in Ottawa be able to install it for me.
Post by: kovar on April 07, 2004, 07:11:00 PM
Kovar
Post by: LargePig on December 20, 2004, 07:22:00 AM
I'm sure the information regarding cleaning the pins and flashing is still useful.
Post by: LargePig on November 10, 2003, 07:35:00 AM
1) Get your xbit, some lighter fluid, some cotton buds, download the flashing software from DMS3, UNPLUG and crack open your xbox and remove the drives and ide cable there are tutorials here for this, find yourself a 256k M7 bios.
2) Crank up your pc, if you have windows xp and an NEC/Packard bell usb chipset, you could be in trouble..... Find another pc.
3) Snap off the xbit seal, hook up the black and yellow wires to both the main chip and the external board with the jumpers and usb port on it.
4) Hook up the usb cable to a usb port DIRECTLY ON YOUR PC, do not use a usb hub. Hook the cable to the port on the xbit. The green light should come on!
5) Load up the flashing software, click connect
6) Click format, it asks you if you're sure, you are.
7) Format the chip with configuration 4, it gives you one 1mb bios, one 512k bios and two 256k.
8) When done, pick bios 4, and click 'write', it will ask you for a file, find your M7 bios, it will be a .bin file.
9) Wait for a while, the green light on the xbit will turn OFF when you are flashing, the numbers on the software will tell you how far it's got. Do not put the window to the backgound. It does not crash the software, but you can't get focus back till it's done, and it takes a while!!
10) When done flashing, pick 'verify', again it will ask you to find the bios, find the same M7 bios file.
11) It will take a while again, but should tell you the flash matched the file. If no, the flash went bad, try again.
12) Unplug the xbit from the pc, and remove all the cables from the external board, leave the yellow and black attached to the xbit.
13) Get your lighter fluid and put some on the end of a cotton bud, enough to soak it but not so it's dripping off.
14) Clean all the pogo pins with the soaked cotton bud, including the spiked ones for d0 on the bottom of the xbit. Make sure you don't get any cotton stuck to the bottom of the spiked pins.
15) Get a new cotton bud and soak that one with lighter fluid.
16) Clean all the contact points on the xbox (not the whole board, just where the xbit goes!!!!) including d0. The lighter fluid will evaporate fast, so keep topping up the cotton but if it goes dry, also if the bud gets too dirty, use a clean one.
17) Get a very small flat head screwdriver, insert the corner of it INTO d0, and GENTLY rotate it 360 degrees. Then clean d0 again with a little lighter fluid and cotton bud. BE CAREFUL WITH THIS STEP, you could screw up you mobo, be gentle, you're warned!!!
18) Wait a while for the fluid to evaporate from the board, it needs to be completeley dry for the next step.
19) Pretty much follow the fitting tutorial here
But use these tips for correct alignment.
a1) Poke the yellow and black cables through the vents in the xbox BEFORE you align the chip.
a) Put spacer in place, put the chip roughly in place and put the screw in and screw it in just a little, just so you know it is going in right, and isn't cross threading, IT MUST GO IN STRAIGHT, this also holds the chip in place a bit for allignment.
Align d0 first, use a torch to make sure your spiked pin is contacting, it should sit IN d0 and you should be able to wiggle the chip a little while holding it down and the pin stay in d0. Screw down the chip farily tight, but not quite all the way.c) the edge of the chip should now be pretty much parallel to the egde of the xbox mainboard, if it isn't gently move the chip slightly, if you can't do this without the spiked pin coming out of d0, you most likeley have the pin in a hole other than d0. When happy with the position, screw it in the rest of the way, make sure the chip does not move easily, try gently to wiggle it, it shouldn't move.
20) You should now be fitted fine. Attach the yellow and black cables to the external board.
21) Set the jumpers like so: 1 on, 2 on, 3 off, 4 on
22) Turn on your xbox, it should boot as normal, (although you don't have your hd or dvd in so it will complain with an error 7 soon enough, the light on the xbit should be off, the chip is in stealth mode. Turn the xbox off.
23) Set the jumpers like so: 1 on, 2 on, 3 on, 4 off
24) Turn on your xbox, the xbit light should be green, it should go a little scatty at this point, you have an empty bios selected, it should re-boot twice, then stay on with a flashing green and red led.... good!! Turn it off.
25) Set the jumpers like so: 1 on, 2 on, 3 off, 4 off
26) Turn on the xbox, xbit light should be on and the box should boot seemingly as normal, appart from the error 7, your xbox needs a service crap. Turn off the xbox. You just booted your xbox using the M7 bios.
27) You're done, nearly, your xbit is aligned and working.
All you need to do now is unplug the wires from the external board, put all the drives back in, run the wires through the grate on the xbox case as you refit the case, then plug the external board back in with the yellow and black wires. Phew!
I hope this helps some people, it worked for me and i was having a bad time with it before. Good luck!!!!
Post by: LargePig on November 10, 2003, 08:55:00 AM
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Post by: LargePig on November 10, 2003, 09:19:00 AM
I know d0 can have a "Plastic covering" over it, this would give you a shoddy connection, even if you soldered i guess.
Do you get the green light on the external board when you have the chip turned on? If not, no power is getting to the chip.
Post by: xbitblues on November 10, 2003, 09:21:00 AM
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Post by: moistness on November 11, 2003, 09:18:00 AM
| QUOTE (xbitblues @ Nov 10 2003, 07:16 PM) |
| My nine year old son said slick willy did something. |
Post by: ACS on November 11, 2003, 09:28:00 AM
Post by: LargePig on November 13, 2003, 10:17:00 AM
Post by: FunkmaztafoX on November 15, 2003, 02:15:00 PM
once again
STICKY THIS!
Post by: artdude on November 15, 2003, 05:37:00 PM
Many thanks,
Post by: FunkmaztafoX on November 16, 2003, 07:49:00 PM
sticky this
Post by: 2000ache on November 17, 2003, 04:00:00 AM
I had done several matrix installs and i have just successfully done my first xbit install on a
v1.3. As always I prepared myself thoroughly and thanks to all the excellent info out there
I was up and running in 5-10 minutes, including installing a new WD 120GB HD
I have a few comments I think might be useful to some:
1) The 'seal' was hard to break for me. I didn't want to use too much force, so I just made two
tiny cuts in both places where the seal is connected to the main board. Made breaking the chip a lot
easier.
2) I would recommend using xbtool to adjust the bios so that it has a colored logo. That way there's
no way you could be mistaken from what bios the xbox boots. Especially when aligning this is a big help.
As soon as you see the colored X, you'll know you're good to go.
That's it
Post by: globin on November 17, 2003, 08:00:00 AM
Post by: FunkmaztafoX on November 17, 2003, 08:14:00 AM
Post by: globin on November 17, 2003, 10:52:00 AM
Thanks
Post by: FunkmaztafoX on November 17, 2003, 11:02:00 AM
to know if the spiked pin is in it, hold it real close at a slant to a bright light, and then place it in d0.
Post by: globin on November 17, 2003, 01:36:00 PM
So when I install the chip, i put M7 on there and imr eady to play??
p.s. do I need a hard drive bigger than the one I got with my XBOX (how much is it, 10 gig?)
Post by: FunkmaztafoX on November 17, 2003, 01:54:00 PM
Then that tells your xbox you can run unsigned discs by MS. Then you install evox (using slayers if you like), THEN you install your apps or what you will.
Some people don't opt for a bigger hd. the stick with the retail 8( or 10, somehwere around there)GB hd. Most however get between an 80 or 200. I think most people use a 120....again, it's what all you wish to store on it..
Post by: globin on November 17, 2003, 02:31:00 PM
Thanks alot bud!
Post by: globin on November 19, 2003, 11:09:00 AM
Post by: xboxmodder4life on November 19, 2003, 11:48:00 AM
With a mod chip and the right bios u can play backups without evo
Post by: globin on November 19, 2003, 12:02:00 PM
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Post by: globin on November 23, 2003, 10:07:00 AM
Post by: LargePig on November 23, 2003, 01:02:00 PM
kabammi>
(Ronsonol) Lighter fluid is mainly Naphtha, i don't smoke either, but it's cheep
artdude>
1.5 needs soldering, i know NOTHING about soldering!! Sorry Mate!
I'll try and be a little quicker off the mark when people reply in future! Sorry guys!!
Post by: LargePig on November 23, 2003, 01:21:00 PM
Have you got yours sorted yet?
What makes things a little confusing with EvolutionX (EvoX):
EvolutionX is a replacement dashboard, which you ONLY need to install if you want to install emulators or xbox media player, stuff like that, and believe me, MAMEoX rules and you will probably want to install evox so you can play wicked retro games before you know it. You can, however, run some of these apps (Including EvoX) from CD-RW/DVD-R without having to install EvoX, with your modchip installed, your xbox will launch default.xbe from any media that you put into it (so long as it can read it). So it may not be necesary for you to install evox for some apps.
The confusing thing is that EvolutionX also have a bois, the latest being M7, which i am using.
So, EvolutionX is a dashboard, and M7 by EvolutionX is a hacked bios.
Another bios is Xecuter, this would work too.
All you have to do to get backup games working is install the chip flashed with a bios and the dip switches set correctly. Oh, and don't go on xbox live. I always pull my network cable out when i'm playting live enabled games, just in case the thumb slips......
Post by: LargePig on November 24, 2003, 03:43:00 AM
Post by: globin on November 24, 2003, 04:30:00 AM
Thanks for asking. Yes everything is sorted out fine. Thanks for the helpful thread.
Like LargePig said, flashing should only take a few minutes total. Be sure the light is on when it gets connected to the PC (on the external board with the switches), because mine didnt and the M7 bios did not work even though the software said it flashed successfully.
Post by: davis25 on November 25, 2003, 05:06:00 AM
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Post by: LargePig on November 27, 2003, 01:04:00 AM
IRC is the way to go for getting slayers, but i can't tell you the chan, i'll get in trouble. But there's this great website called www.searchirc.com
Post by: n00bX on November 27, 2003, 07:55:00 AM
Post by: rancid_911 on December 02, 2003, 12:28:00 PM
1) i have v 1.0, as the holes on the board are soldered ,so do i have to remove the solder to install it in the pogo-pin way yeah?
thanx alot
mike
Post by: LargePig on December 03, 2003, 10:39:00 AM
You don't need to take out the solder, i have a 1.0 and this tutorial is base on my experience with fitting the chip, so keep the solder in, unless you come to a dead end.
Post by: LargePig on December 04, 2003, 09:15:00 AM
By the way people. I say carefully scrape d0, this is because apparently, if you're not careful, you can lift the track from the board, at that point, dead xbox. Thought it was worth mentioning!!! That's not to say don't scrape d0, cause you need to in most cases, just be careful and don't be to rough.
Having a steady hand is the key to getting this done right
Post by: nalo on December 05, 2003, 04:24:00 PM
I lifted a trace and repaired it easily with conductive paint.
Got it at schucks auto supply.
It's for repairing rear window defroster lines.
Post by: Spice Guy on December 05, 2003, 11:25:00 PM
Just thought i would let the group know, that another XBIT has been installed and works first time on a v11 XBOX.
My mate, had just got hold of an XBOX, we waited for the XBIT to arrive that he ordered from www.divineo.co.uk (with no problems i might add) and ahead we went.
I must say that i did have a bit of a problem with the d0 point, had the chip seated perfectly, and solid, even had the d0 point well and truly locked in, but i could tell it wasnt connecting as the XBIT wasnt hijacking the BIOS, but i followed the tuts and got a pin out and scraped around the rim of the d0 point to get rid of some of the plastic coating and after a couple of attempts at the scraping the new BIOS loaded.
My mate is well chuffed, he just has to wait a bit as he is skint and cant afford a new hard drive.
Yours
Spice Guy
Post by: LargePig on December 10, 2003, 05:46:00 AM
Post by: clarke1866 on December 10, 2003, 09:21:00 AM
| QUOTE |
| An extra note: I used 100% Ethanol instead of lighter fluid, worked fine. Methanol is probably good too. I chose 100% ethanol because I can access it at work, and it leaves NO RESIDE unlike more complex organic solvents, while giving excellent cleaning power. |
I used ethanol as well and did not need to scrape the D0, just gave it a good once over with a cotton ball. I suggest this route.
Post by: dook43 on December 12, 2003, 03:28:00 AM
Post by: dannymak on December 12, 2003, 07:43:00 PM
Installed my xbit using pogo , and im sure the D0 is aligned.
Flashed X24979 512K on BIOS Option 4 - Bios1
When i switch off the chip, the xbox loads properly, but after i enabled the chip, the green led from the xbit external board ON, and the xbox boots twice then red and green are flashing...
Anyone can help me?
thanks