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Title: X3 Bios Patcher
Post by: ILTB on February 26, 2005, 07:54:00 PM

Hmm. Why not make a new bios rather than crack an Xecuter one?

Title: X3 Bios Patcher
Post by: -Gadget- on February 27, 2005, 03:29:00 PM

how stable is 2914 ?? as there up to 30xx summit now ..
what are the main bugs/improvments


Mick ..

Title: X3 Bios Patcher
Post by: dm71 on February 28, 2005, 08:38:00 AM

This app does nothing but crash for me.  Same with 1.1

Title: X3 Bios Patcher
Post by: RocafellaSqualie on February 28, 2005, 11:29:00 AM

It crashed on me too when I tried to open the 2914plus BIOS. To get it to work properly, if you have XP, change the compatibility mode to Windows 2000

(Right Click -> Properties -> Compatibility -> "Run this program in compatibility mode for Windows 2000")

Title: X3 Bios Patcher
Post by: neonhum on February 28, 2005, 07:16:00 PM

I have this program and the bios both working. I am running Windows XP Pro on my computer and I have a Xenium Ice chip that I have the bios flashed to. However as far as LBA48 support goes, no matter what setting I have it set to I cannot get it to completely read my 250 GB Maxtor. The most I can get it to recognize is right about 115 GB. Possible bug?

Title: X3 Bios Patcher
Post by: OP7iK on February 28, 2005, 07:48:00 PM

neonhum, did you basically follow the same steps that i did?

EDIT: Is there any other way to flash an x2.6ce besides x2bm?

Title: X3 Bios Patcher
Post by: neonhum on February 28, 2005, 08:36:00 PM

QUOTE(OP7iK @ Mar 1 2005, 02:54 AM)

neonhum, did you basically follow the same steps that i did?

Title: X3 Bios Patcher
Post by: OP7iK on February 28, 2005, 08:53:00 PM

Yea, i used the latest one. I have a feeling its the x2bm flashing software. This is because i tried his yoshi's original patcher, then his new v1.1, and i also tried someone elses hacked x3 bios, and non of them worked. I'm gonna try to flash it with flashbios tomorrow and see what happens.

-OPTiK

Title: X3 Bios Patcher
Post by: GrimSage on February 28, 2005, 09:26:00 PM

I tried to run this program and every time I get a memory could not be read error.  Not sure how to fix this, anyone got any idea's?  I tried setting compatibility mode.  didnt work.
Since I cant get by this I cant try it on my Xenium Ice with a 1.6 xbox.

EDIT
OK I figured out why it wouldnt open.
It was the space in the name of the 1.6 bios.
Testing now....
EDIT 2
OK I dont know how to do this.
The M8_Plus is only 256kb.
How do I use this one on the xenium Ice?
Also how do I backup the one I currently have to disk?

I am kinda new to this stuff.

Title: X3 Bios Patcher
Post by: Clownfish on March 01, 2005, 07:29:00 AM

I have the bios running fine on a 1.1 xbox with 1mb TSOP and 250gb Maxtor drive.
The 250gb is running with f: and g: drives active
The only thing in the bios I changed was to enable use f: and g: drives,I think it defaults to f: only

Title: X3 Bios Patcher
Post by: OP7iK on March 01, 2005, 11:37:00 AM

Weird, the program works perfectly fine if there's spaces in the name for me. Could be the reason why the bios never boots.

-OPTiK

Title: X3 Bios Patcher
Post by: OP7iK on March 01, 2005, 11:57:00 AM

Ok, i removed all the spaces between the bios file, patched it again ..then flashed it onto the x2 chip via x2bm and flashbios at different times. Still no dice. This is starting to anger me ..anyone have any insight?

Title: X3 Bios Patcher
Post by: IvanK on March 01, 2005, 12:53:00 PM

Title: X3 Bios Patcher
Post by: OP7iK on March 01, 2005, 02:13:00 PM

Well, I think the problem might stem from using the patcher on a win2k o/s. I tried it on win xp, and it would crash everytime i tried to open the bios (without spaces in the name). Even after i had it emulate windows 2000, i also had to download a .dll FCL71.dll or something like that to get it to even open. Hopefully i'll be able to figure out why its crashing later today. I think i just need the .dll package.

-OPTiK

Title: X3 Bios Patcher
Post by: Psilocybe on March 01, 2005, 03:27:00 PM

yoshi's worked fine for me on 3029, only it set my video mode to ntsc-j instead of ntsc-a/u

Title: X3 Bios Patcher
Post by: TurboJailer on March 02, 2005, 09:56:00 AM

QUOTE(Roadkiller @ Mar 1 2005, 06:27 PM)

Anyone know why my computer is missing MSVCR71.dll.  Can you give the link to download it.

Title: X3 Bios Patcher
Post by: Roadkiller on March 03, 2005, 02:02:00 PM

Title: X3 Bios Patcher
Post by: GrimSage on March 03, 2005, 03:20:00 PM

I am pretty sure I can patch the bios (I dont get any errors) but I still am not satisfied with testing it when I dont know how to backup my current one and how to use it with the xenium ice.

Title: X3 Bios Patcher
Post by: Psilocybe on March 03, 2005, 08:23:00 PM

i would test some out on some other chips, but why the hell bother, i have an x3, no point in helping the people that want this for their xenium or other chips.

roadkiller, maybe you aren't familiar with the forum rules, but you can't ask for any illegal apps as you are all over.  not to mention the links can not be posted here.

Title: X3 Bios Patcher
Post by: TurboJailer on March 03, 2005, 11:12:00 PM

I'm running a patched X3 BIOS on my v 1.6 with a Xenium Ice without issue. Seems to be working just fine so far. The 1.1 patcher didn't add LBA48 support but the 1.0 patcher worked fine for me. Just find the .dll file that is missing and place it in the same folder with the rest of the extracted patcher files and it works fine.

Title: X3 Bios Patcher
Post by: jack2003 on April 01, 2005, 12:21:00 PM

QUOTE

[(Psilocybe Posted Mar 1 2005, 10:33 PM)]

 yoshi's worked fine for me on 3029, only it set my video mode to ntsc-j instead of ntsc-a/u

Psilocybe, on which version of the xbox did you use it?
Is it a 1.6?