Post by: eugenek on April 11, 2005, 08:02:00 AM
This kind problem seems to be popular but I could not find a good solution or even a solid answer to what this is yet.
here is my post
http://forums.xbox-s...howtopic=382980
Post by: DuckOfDeath on April 13, 2005, 07:17:00 AM
If your tsop's bios is corrupted, you can install an LPC modchip and you'll be able to boot your box. You will not, however, be able to boot with the modchip disabled, nor will you be able to fix your tsop's bios with an LPC modchip. For that, you need a 29 wire chip.
Once again, if you can get the xbox to boot with a modchip, you can do anything you want with the xbox, including unlocking the hard drive. From there, what you do with the hard drive is up to you. You can keep it in that box, and relock it, you can take it out and put it in another box and lock it to that one... You can take the thing out and put it in a computer and reformat it to work on your pc. You can use it for target practice. Whatever.
If you cannot get the xbox to boot, you're pretty much screwed on the whole hard drive thing. You can physically remove the eeprom and put it in a new box, along with the hard drive. It your eeprom isn't damaged, you should be able to boot up that drive. It that xbox is modded, you can unlock the hard drive there. Otherwise, you've got yourself a paperweight.
-Duck!
Post by: DuckOfDeath on April 14, 2005, 11:28:00 AM
QUOTE(Bishop74 @ Apr 14 2005, 12:57 AM)
Thanks for the info Duck.
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Title: General Dead Xbox Recovery Questions...
Post by: DuckOfDeath on April 14, 2005, 10:17:00 PM
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I went and looked at the xenium bio's manual, and there is nothing in there about backing up or restoring a tsop. It does mention backing up and restoring eeprom data. It also talks about setting up the chip to boot to the tsop, and disabling the xenium ice.
-Duck!
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Title: General Dead Xbox Recovery Questions...
Post by: TrigunXBox on April 15, 2005, 12:11:00 AM
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I had that same thing happen to a 1.4. I think someone tried to softmod it and failed.
I put a chip on it with the latest X2 bios. Bingo, it works fine now and I have had no issued with the original HDD. I keep the HDD unlocked in all my XBoxes all the time since I don't use live.
At this point, the TSOP is toast. Forget it and use the mod chip. If you want back on Live, then you will need to buy an original XBox 1.4 bios and flash it to one bank on the chip, then get a new HDD and use Slayers to restore it back to retail. Not that I have a clue what I am saying since I don't use Live (Or play many games for that matter).
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Title: General Dead Xbox Recovery Questions...
Post by: DuckOfDeath on April 15, 2005, 03:39:00 PM
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Post by: DuckOfDeath on April 14, 2005, 10:17:00 PM
-Duck!
Post by: TrigunXBox on April 15, 2005, 12:11:00 AM
I put a chip on it with the latest X2 bios. Bingo, it works fine now and I have had no issued with the original HDD. I keep the HDD unlocked in all my XBoxes all the time since I don't use live.
At this point, the TSOP is toast. Forget it and use the mod chip. If you want back on Live, then you will need to buy an original XBox 1.4 bios and flash it to one bank on the chip, then get a new HDD and use Slayers to restore it back to retail. Not that I have a clue what I am saying since I don't use Live (Or play many games for that matter).
Post by: DuckOfDeath on April 15, 2005, 03:39:00 PM
QUOTE(Bishop74 @ Apr 15 2005, 02:26 AM)
...if it turns out the TSOP is fried, my friend can cough up for a mod chip, it looks rather complex to try and recover/flash a dead/corrupted TSOP.
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Title: General Dead Xbox Recovery Questions...
Post by: DuckOfDeath on April 16, 2005, 01:44:00 PM
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Post by: DuckOfDeath on April 16, 2005, 01:44:00 PM
QUOTE(shawnre @ Apr 16 2005, 11:16 AM)
Well, seems I have the same problems, lots of info, lots of it contradicts each other. Finally took advice of lots of people and added a mod chip, but, guess what, still FRAG. Apparently not a bios thing like alot of people jump to conclusions about. You can follow my quest if you wish, here is the link, good look to ya.
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Title: General Dead Xbox Recovery Questions...
Post by: DuckOfDeath on April 17, 2005, 10:52:00 AM
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Good luck on your quest. Sorry, but you've wandered out of my realm of 'expertise,' so I can't help you.
-Duck!
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Title: General Dead Xbox Recovery Questions...
Post by: Bishop74 on April 17, 2005, 10:21:00 PM
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My Ice chip arrived today, Divineo China deserves a small plug, 5 days from the date I ordered it, not bad for Australia Post on our side of it...
The solderless adapter is embarrassingly easy to use, although I'll do the pin headers on the 1.0, but anyway, problem solved, the 1.4 now boots up fine, everything is safe and drive is ok.
Thanks again for the help Duck.
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Title: General Dead Xbox Recovery Questions...
Post by: DuckOfDeath on April 18, 2005, 03:50:00 PM
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Post by: DuckOfDeath on April 17, 2005, 10:52:00 AM
-Duck!
Post by: Bishop74 on April 17, 2005, 10:21:00 PM
My Ice chip arrived today, Divineo China deserves a small plug, 5 days from the date I ordered it, not bad for Australia Post on our side of it...
The solderless adapter is embarrassingly easy to use, although I'll do the pin headers on the 1.0, but anyway, problem solved, the 1.4 now boots up fine, everything is safe and drive is ok.
Thanks again for the help Duck.
Post by: DuckOfDeath on April 18, 2005, 03:50:00 PM
QUOTE(Bishop74 @ Apr 17 2005, 09:27 PM)
My Ice chip arrived today, Divineo China deserves a small plug, 5 days from the date I ordered it, not bad for Australia Post on our side of it...
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Title: General Dead Xbox Recovery Questions...
Post by: Bishop74 on April 26, 2005, 01:57:00 AM
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My friend ordered the same mod chip as me, it arrived today and I did a pin header install, took half the time as with the 1.0 now that it's my second go, all works perfectly, everything backed up ok, and I even put a OEM bios on the mod chip so he can boot up to OEM specs anyway if he wants.
About the only problem I ran into was if you mess with the DVD drive before you try and load a bios, the OEM bios won't load...
So two consoles modded in two weeks, I'm on a roll, come Thursday and it's time to put 120GB hard drives in them...
Post by: Bishop74 on April 26, 2005, 01:57:00 AM
My friend ordered the same mod chip as me, it arrived today and I did a pin header install, took half the time as with the 1.0 now that it's my second go, all works perfectly, everything backed up ok, and I even put a OEM bios on the mod chip so he can boot up to OEM specs anyway if he wants.
About the only problem I ran into was if you mess with the DVD drive before you try and load a bios, the OEM bios won't load...
So two consoles modded in two weeks, I'm on a roll, come Thursday and it's time to put 120GB hard drives in them...