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Title: Phoenix Loader And Messed Up Video
Post by: HUNgUS on March 11, 2004, 01:42:00 PM

I'v been doing the soft mod, specifically the font expoit for 6 months--putting it on a wide variety of boxes. Yesterday, while doing one for my mom, of all people, i ran into a problem. I was able to easily get in and change the necassary files through mechassault but when i went to run phoenix my screen started violently flickering. The phoenix loading screen and then the dash could be seen but they were severely skewed and flickering. The hack worked except that the screen is totally messed up--anything that is run after the phoenix default.xbe is loaded appears in this jagged, stuttering, format. Reboot with an official game and the machine is fine. Load through mechassault and evox looks fine.

I'm assuming it has to do with an incompatibility with a new xbox and the phoenix loader. If so, any solutions? Or should I just return the sucker?

Title: Phoenix Loader And Messed Up Video
Post by: Blank on March 11, 2004, 01:55:00 PM

It would help if you could tell us the Xbox Kernel and Dashboard Version...

Title: Phoenix Loader And Messed Up Video
Post by: HUNgUS on March 11, 2004, 02:11:00 PM

I left in a huff and forgot to note the pertinent info. I suppose i'm just wondering if anything similar has happened to anyone else.

This won't mean anything but the xbox was released as the holiday bundle with tetris and some crappy star wars game. This didn't help me so much because i've done two boxes out of this bundle and they worked fine.

Anyone else get this crazy video thing?

Title: Phoenix Loader And Messed Up Video
Post by: Kire on March 11, 2004, 02:29:00 PM

I heard that the new xbox cant be hacked unless you flash it

Title: Phoenix Loader And Messed Up Video
Post by: HUNgUS on March 11, 2004, 02:33:00 PM

If i got a refurbished box would it likely have the new precautions built into it?

Title: Phoenix Loader And Messed Up Video
Post by: DeltaTau on March 12, 2004, 06:46:00 AM

as far as i know the refurbished dashboards, do not have any new security features built in, i have done one refurbished box with no problem,s just check the kernal and dash versions, and as long as your kernal is before the 5530 then you should be ok for PBL

Title: Phoenix Loader And Messed Up Video
Post by: HUNgUS on March 12, 2004, 10:48:00 AM

I'm gonna give it a shot with a new box tonight. Thanks for the kernel info--at least i can see that beofre i run through the mod

Title: Phoenix Loader And Messed Up Video
Post by: Chicken Scratch Boy on March 12, 2004, 05:52:00 PM

pre 5530 should work as long as you have pbl 1.3.5 or more and m7 or x2 4979 or greater

Title: Phoenix Loader And Messed Up Video
Post by: HUNgUS on March 12, 2004, 10:35:00 PM

I had no idea there was a PBL 1.3.5. I've been using 1.3. I tried the exploit tonight on a 4920/5101 new system--same errant video once it tries to load phoenix. Will have to search for a new phoenix and give it a shot--before i give up entirely

Title: Phoenix Loader And Messed Up Video
Post by: Chicken Scratch Boy on March 13, 2004, 12:16:00 AM

just grab pbl1.4.1 and the the x2 4981 bfm

Title: Phoenix Loader And Messed Up Video
Post by: HUNgUS on March 13, 2004, 02:01:00 PM

OK--I've never cganged the bios while using the soft mod. Would I grab an x2 4981 or an M7 and just call it from the phoenix config file? Or, do I have to rename the bios xboxrom.bin in order for phoenix to boot it?

Title: Phoenix Loader And Messed Up Video
Post by: HUNgUS on March 13, 2004, 03:52:00 PM

OK--now I've tried pbl 1.4.1 and the 4981 bios but it simply won't boot into evox. I get to what appears to be the reading of xboxrom.bin and it is a black screen. Old phoenix and evox I get messed up video--new phoenix and evox i get no video. For all intents and purposes, this should work--but it's not. Shitty, i gotta get an older box. Perhaps my new phoenix default.xbe is corrupt or unsigned--who knows. My advice--do not get a new box--what a pain

Title: Phoenix Loader And Messed Up Video
Post by: gerzand on March 14, 2004, 01:34:00 PM

hey man, im having the same problem

I tried using pheonix on a v1.5 that i just bought and it get crazy video signals exactly like you. the 007 exploit works fine, and ftp works fine, but then when you try to run pheonix loader and boot to evox the video output is corrupt. And any other game i load from evox is also crazy video. I think it is something to do with there new 1.5's. Anyone have any ideas? this is a major issue! haha

cheers

gerzand

Title: Phoenix Loader And Messed Up Video
Post by: Chicken Scratch Boy on March 14, 2004, 05:10:00 PM

QUOTE (HUNgUS @ Mar 13 2004, 03:52 PM)

let me guess, kernal 5530?

Title: Phoenix Loader And Messed Up Video
Post by: HUNgUS on March 14, 2004, 11:11:00 PM

The first new box tried was a 5530 kernel--no dice----but, the second one i tried was a 5101--a version verified to have worked. The sort of effect the loader is producing looks more like a macrovision type assault on the hack than a death nail like the xbox live update--I'm willing to say that it may be hardware induced--try popping a mod chip on the new ones-the board have been changed.

Only use old machines. I grabbed an used box after returning the new ones and the sucker worked first shot--was even lucky to get one that played cd-r media--who knows how long these bad boys will stick around--get ready for a dss style consolidation of old hardware

Title: Phoenix Loader And Messed Up Video
Post by: HUNgUS on March 15, 2004, 09:12:00 AM

Like I said--I just went and got an old box. I tried 1.4 pbl but I was running through the advanced cable, so I wouldn't have known. It would kind of suck if you couldn't play through the advanced av setup. Well, I hope everyone else gets new boxes to work better than me. No need to get upset that I didn't look in the correct forum. I did, afterall, use the gamesave exploit to get into the machine and then utilized the font exploit to replace my dashboard--so, I suppose my group should've been called the gamesave/font exploit/dashboard exploit section. Sorry if I ruffled any feathers.

Title: Phoenix Loader And Messed Up Video
Post by: Grospolina on March 15, 2004, 11:01:00 AM

No one's upset. I'm just trying to say that you'd get better support in the Dashboard Exploits forum.

Also, with an advanced A/V cable, PBL will flicker, but it will clear itself up after loading a BIOS that supports Focus. Anyways, I guess it's a moot point now.

Title: Phoenix Loader And Messed Up Video
Post by: HUNgUS on March 15, 2004, 11:40:00 AM

I had thought I had all the requisite bios to use with 1.4 pbl but I kept just getting a black screen when the boot process hit pbl--which led me to believe that I had a selection of crap files--probably a bad default.xbe. I kept figuring I'd reach some sort of boot menu if xboxrom.bin couldn't boot--just black.

The old 1.3 with evox seems to be working good--any reason to upgrade bios and pbl if i'm using an old kernel and video card set up?

Title: Phoenix Loader And Messed Up Video
Post by: Grospolina on March 16, 2004, 03:36:00 PM

Only if you want to be able to use a selection menu to choose what BIOS to load.

Title: Phoenix Loader And Messed Up Video
Post by: footbase22 on March 18, 2004, 06:11:00 AM

On some bioses I use I just get a black screen, on others it starts reading (whole bunch on words pop up) then it just sits there.I havent been able to get it to boot past the bios selection screen. What could be the problem?

and could someone just please make a mechassult package for this thing. Thanks

Title: Phoenix Loader And Messed Up Video
Post by: irajames1176 on March 19, 2004, 02:37:00 PM

I haven't gotten the PBL to load with the Advanced A/V pack once yet on my xbox, it loads when i put the standard a/v cables on but when i put the advanced pack back on, it doesn't show anything but a black screen after the xbox logo, if there's a work around to this i'd really like to know, i do softmod installs and i run the exploits on my box before i install them on other box's and it'd really suck if one of the people i did an install for got an advanced a/v pack and forgot what i told them

Title: Phoenix Loader And Messed Up Video
Post by: darebel on April 01, 2004, 03:00:00 PM

bump, NEED HELP.

Title: Phoenix Loader And Messed Up Video
Post by: johnodd on April 01, 2004, 10:36:00 PM

ok listen up a ms created a anti hack xbox if you try to hack it it will give you the

blankscreen error

the flickering screen error

or the xbox death message

sorry