Post by: WiKDMoNKY on December 17, 2004, 07:02:00 PM
I used ixia and it detected the chip (as an alladin, but I dont think it matters as long as it is a single 256k bank chip), so I dragged the M8plus_16.bin into the window and told it to write the bios to the chip. It went through its deal and said it was finished, so I unhooked the chip and put it back into the xbox (1.6b).
Before I flashed the chip, when it would boot up, it would just sit with a red light on the eject button. I am absolutely sure that the chip was seated/wired right, it just didnt have the right bios or any bios on it at all.
So the chip is flashed by x2 and now when it boots up it has a green light on the eject button and the chip and the switch light up blue, but no picture or audio.
Is there supposed to be some sort of animation when it boots up with the proper bios? Or is it blank until a dashboard is loaded?
If I got a cable to connect my x2 programmer to my spiderchip, could i leave the spderchip in my xbox and flash it from there? Its such a pain to put the chip back in and any less of a hassle would be welcomed.
I have spent 2 full days trying to make this damn thing work and any information would be greatly appreciated...
This post has been edited by WiKDMoNKY: Dec 18 2004, 03:14 AM
Post by: WiKDMoNKY on December 17, 2004, 08:00:00 PM
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Post by: WiKDMoNKY on December 18, 2004, 04:23:00 PM
Post by: superdss on December 18, 2004, 04:39:00 PM
Post by: WiKDMoNKY on December 18, 2004, 05:10:00 PM
Someone else is out there!
Please keep me posted, when you find a solution...
Post by: Chancer on December 18, 2004, 05:31:00 PM
I would double check the installation.
What gave you the idea to flash the chip with the X2 programmer? If that really does flash the mod then a lot of people on here will be happy I guess cos every 2nd post in here is of someone stuffing the flash on the spider.
Post by: Dansken on December 19, 2004, 01:31:00 AM
I have posted this info a several times.
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Post by: WiKDMoNKY on December 19, 2004, 02:02:00 AM
I posted in a forum and someone told me to try Yoshihiro-m8-1.6B-Memory-Fixe-Beta4 and it solved my black screen problems.
Burned slayer's 2.6 to a cd/rw and blammo it works perfect.
All in all the spider chip is a great little modchip, the only problem is that they advertised it to work with a 1.6b and it didnt (without the proper bios).
Now that I have a programmer, I can flash these chips all day long and chip xboxes.
It defintely was a long learning experience (this was my first xbox mod) and I hit every road block there was. Now I know all of the things to be aware of.
Ive taken my damn spiderchip out so many times that I can pop it back in there in under 5 min (all 5 wires).
So spread the word!!!!
SPiderchips do work with 1.6b's as long as you use Yoshihiro-m8-1.6B-Memory-Fixe-Beta4 bios (or a tested/comparable bios) and an external programmer.
Hope this helps everyone and I will be more than happy to help anyone out with any questions.
Thank you all for the help and advice (although sometimes not as fast as I would like it to be) this is a great community!
Post by: Chancer on December 19, 2004, 04:54:00 AM
Post by: RamEy12 on December 19, 2004, 08:56:00 AM
EDIT: will i have to take it out since i had somuch trouble getting it in im scared taking it out ty
Post by: teo on December 23, 2004, 11:03:00 AM
i have cromwell 3.2 on the chip and its for a sub 1.6 box, any idea on what it could be? worse case senario ... have i fried the chip? (the box still works)
Post by: Chancer on December 23, 2004, 11:18:00 AM
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once i have connected the chip to the programmer and then connected it to the usb
I know it sounds daft but you have connected it to the parallel port as well?
Post by: WiKDMoNKY on December 23, 2004, 11:27:00 AM
I got it all figured out and am working perfect...
Thanks for the help!
Post by: teo on December 24, 2004, 04:27:00 AM
thanks
Post by: Celtic67 on December 24, 2004, 05:02:00 AM
Unscrew the 2 little bolts either side of the parallel port on the programer, it'll connect direct to the parallel port on your PC.
The USB cable only provides power, nothing else. It isn't a data interface.
Other than that, if the programmer is like mine, it'll have a switch to say where the power is coming from. Make sure you set it to USB.
Post by: Chancer on December 24, 2004, 08:10:00 AM
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ol no its not plugged into both
Thats my whole point it has to be plugged into both. thats why its not working.
Usb is for the power only the programming is done through the paralell port
Post by: teo on December 24, 2004, 09:03:00 AM
anyways, cheers for your help
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Post by: Morlok8k on February 28, 2005, 01:02:00 AM
while true with the 1.0 spiderchip, is untrue with the 1.1 spider. Both versions are compatible hardware-wise, but the 1.1 has a 1.0-1.6b compatible bios, while the 1.0 is compatible with only 1.0-1.6 xboxs.
to flash the 1.0 on a 1.6b, put it in a older box and flash it there, then put it in the 1.6b box.
hope this helps!
Post by: Chancer on February 28, 2005, 10:24:00 AM
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while true with the 1.0 spiderchip, is untrue with the 1.1 spider. Both versions are compatible hardware-wise, but the 1.1 has a 1.0-1.6b compatible bios, while the 1.0 is compatible with only 1.0-1.6 xboxs.
The amount of misinformation here is unbelieveable.
Both versions of the spiderchip contain Flashbios which works on both versions of the 1.6 (Hynix and samsung Ram). I have solder fitted a lot of these for people who thought they could install solderless but found out they could not and both spiderchip versions work on all boxes
The only quirk with this bios is sometimes you have to boot the machine a lot of times to get the flash screen to appear in the 1.6 but persistence pays off.