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Title: M$ Dash Will Not Load
Post by: triad47 on October 14, 2004, 06:30:00 PM: And it hasnt wanted to load in quite some time

here is some info out of my ini

[Misc]

AutoLaunchGames   = No
AutoLaunchDVD   = No
DVDPlayer   = "f:\apps\dvd2.0\default.xbe"
AutoLaunchAudio   = No
#AudioPlayer   = "c:\xboxdash.xbe"
MSDashBoard   = "c:\xboxdash.xbe"
UseFDrive   = Yes
UseGDrive   = Yes
SkinName   = BlueGears
#SkinName   = RuDeDuDe2
UseItems   = No
ScreenSaver   = 5
Fahrenheit   = No
ShadeLevel   = 90
EnableSMART   = Yes
HDD_Temp_ID   = 194
ChameleonLed   = 15
TSR_Type   = 0
IGR      = No
GameRegion   = 0

ection "Root"
{
   Item "Launch DVD",ID_Launch_DVD
   Item "Trainers",ID_trainer
   Item "MS Dashboard",ID_MS_Dash
   Item "Reboot",ID_Quick_Reboot
#   Item "Power Cycle",ID_Full_Reboot
   Item "Power Off",ID_Power_Off
#   Item "Lock Harddisk",@210
#   Item "Unlock Harddisk",@211
   Section "System Utils"
   {
      Item "Settings",ID_Settings
      Item "Flash BIOS",ID_Flash_Bios
      Item "Backup",ID_Backup
      Item "Skins",ID_Skins
   }

and here is what my c-drive looks like

(well I cant get the image to work)

This post has been edited by triad47 on Oct 15 2004, 01:34 AM
Title: M$ Dash Will Not Load
Post by: KeyMastur on October 14, 2004, 08:19:00 PM: it's probably missing some files. a reinstallation of those files is an easy fix to your problem.
Title: M$ Dash Will Not Load
Post by: triad47 on October 14, 2004, 10:30:00 PM: I tryed reinstalling EVOX and I dont think its the problem
Title: M$ Dash Will Not Load
Post by: deacon187 on October 14, 2004, 11:16:00 PM: depending what happend, it might not be easy to fix, my msdash wont load either anymore, its actually a wierd problem, if i cold boot after system is off for like 2 hours msdash will boot, but after it boots it will never boot again unless i leave the sys off for over 2 hours, evox boots fine everytime try to switxh to msdash or boot to msdash, nothing but problems, no error either just black screen, tried rewriting the c:/ drive no luck at all, i think maybe the d0 got to hot or something and caused the problem but still makes the connection to my chameleon1.3 so i guess it doesnt matter since i use another non modded box for xblive
Title: M$ Dash Will Not Load
Post by: Rufus Patrol on October 14, 2004, 11:18:00 PM: Is your msdash even named xboxdash.xbe? Sometimes people name it msxboxdash.xbe, or something else. Have you tried replacing the file with your backup? Are you using slayers, because that could be the problem. what exactly happens when you select the msdash, or boot without you chip enabled? (assuming that you have a chip.) more detail please.
Title: M$ Dash Will Not Load
Post by: triad47 on October 15, 2004, 04:14:00 PM: I have a chip but its always on.

When I try and boot to msdash it kicks back out to the evox dashboard

I have the evox dash named "xboxdash.xbe"
and what I think is the MS Dash named "msxboxdash.xbe"
Title: M$ Dash Will Not Load
Post by: Rufus Patrol on October 15, 2004, 06:13:00 PM: Okay then, that' the problem. look at what the path is in your .ini file for the msdash:

MSDashBoard = "c:\xboxdash.xbe"

You have the path to the M$dash pointing to the file that is your evoX dash. rewrite the path in your .ini file to:

MSDashBoard = "c:\msxboxdash.xbe"

This setting however will not allow you to use Xbox live. Your M$ dash needs to be named xboxdash.xbe for that. For that, you need to use XBtool to modify your bios so that it boots evoxdash.xbe instead of xboxdash.xbe. (you would have named your evox dash the same name that you choose to have the bios boot).