I don't understand this.
Create a boot disc and FTP evox back over onto your harddrive - just set it up again with a fresh Evox install. The only thing you need for a boot disc is to boot the modchip with a hacked bios. Live does not touch your modchip bios (hope you aren't banned) so enable the modchip and slap in a working bootdisc. I assume you got to this issue because your evoxdash.xbe was named xboxdash.xbe. That sucks. The newer bioses allow you to leave the xboxdash.xbe alone by first booting the evoxdash.xbe file (no need to replace the main xbox dash). Always have a working boot disc configured for your network/ftp process before things go wrong.
Id check the boot disc and your modchip you dont have to name the evoxdash to xboxdash your modchip should auto boot evoxdash.xbe this avoids the problem of overwriting the xboxdash unless you have an old mod chip.
But why doesn't my xbox boot original retail games?
you need to insert the evox boot disc switch off your xbox and switch it back on if you get a disc read error and you have had no problems with the boot disc before check if your modchip is working one modchip i installed fryed after the second boot but i was able to get it working by soldering the conncetions that fryed. If your ms dash is working retail games should work.
My MS dash works if I turn the chip on, but i get a 05 error when i boot without the chip on, is that what you mean? I didn't mod my xbox myself, but i bought it premodded in an online store, so i don't want to mess around with my xbox if I don't know how to, it happened to me before with a playstation. Is there any other way to check if your modchip is still working? When I boot a original retail game with the chip on, it goes directly to the MS dash. If Xbox live updated xboxdash.xbe to the original MS dash, shouldn't the xbox work without the chip, because it's trying to locate xboxdash.xbe? I never had a bootdisc and i never backed up my C and E drives, so I can't tell you if it worked before. I tried to burn several evox boot discs, but they gave disc read errors. After a couple of boot discs it just went straight to MS dash.
I just tried playing a audio cd in my xbox, and it jumped straight to the MS dash, then i went to the music player, to check if the xbox even recognises cd's or dvd's. When i tried to play the cd it said there was no cd in the drive. So my xbox recognises nothing, which makes reinstalling evox impossible
what are u using to create the xiso for the boot disc craxton is the best in my view. You must also use a cd-rw xbox wont recognise anything else I recomend a slow burn as well. If none of this works its either your dvd drive or your modchip not working.
I use Qwiz. I burned my xIso's to cd-r's, dvd-r's, dvd-rw's, dvd+r's and dvd+rw's. I don't think it's the dvd drive, cause it's only a week and a half old. Maybe he did a really crappy mod chip job. I never moved the xbox, so the wires could never have broken or something. But if my modchip doesn't work why can I boot the xbox with the chip on? Does the modchip also control disc recognisation? it just stopped recognising cd's and dvd's after a couple of evox boot discs.
Your box has a problem. If you can't play originals or audio CDs (also originals) with the chip off because the drive won't recognize anything - you have problems beyond your modchip. Talk to the store you bought it from.
