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Title: Pogo Pins Cooked My Xbox? !
Post by: Pescueso on May 17, 2003, 07:42:00 AM

I doubt it was the pogo pins. Sounds like a bad installation to me, you probably tightened that chip in too hard.

Title: Pogo Pins Cooked My Xbox? !
Post by: BenJeremy on May 17, 2003, 08:06:00 AM

QUOTE (doubled @ May 17 2003, 10:03 AM)

thats right pogo pins !!  my chip is an X2L-plus.....It would boot up fine and read my Ozxflash disc and then ask for the bios cd......This would always give errors of bad media....So,  ive been trying different types of media and now since last night all it does is boot up, beep and shutdown...it does this 2wice and then boots up and flashes red/green....I've even taken the chip out and it does the same thing.....What could have gone wrong?? thanks for any help !

If it got as far as asking for the CD, it means, at some point, the X2L-Plus was installed OK and functioning.

Sounds like an entirely different problem.

Often, when people open up their systems (and no offence to you, but pogopinners are VERY likely to do this), they sometimes "lose" things in the case (screws, metal bits, minds).

This is BAD.

Shake your Xbox and see if anything sounds loose in the case.

another possibility is that you accidentally knocked a cable loose when installing the chip (or improperly re-inserted a cable), and it finally popped out of it's socket - if that's the case, you might be in good shape.

As for your "bad media" issue, THAT sounds like you have a non-Samsung drive, and you are trying to use a CD-R as a BIOS disc, which won't work. Even many brands of CD-RW do not work with the Xbox DVD drives.

Title: Pogo Pins Cooked My Xbox? !
Post by: doubled on May 17, 2003, 08:53:00 AM

thanks for all the input...nothing seems loose...and ive tried so many brands of cd-rw AND dvd-r that i was pretty much out of options so i think somethin was wrong to begin with...this sux

Title: Pogo Pins Cooked My Xbox? !
Post by: doubled on May 19, 2003, 04:58:00 AM

bump.......any other ideas of what might be wrong??

Title: Pogo Pins Cooked My Xbox? !
Post by: Jet Pilot on May 19, 2003, 10:38:00 AM

hey man i have the same problem right now... i'm shipping my Xbox to  tester123, he's a refurbish expert and he knows how to fix it.  Give him a PM and tell he exactly what you have.
ie. the problem
what version Xbox
whaat happened just before it started
crap like that

he'll take care of you!!

Good luck
Jet Pilot

Title: Pogo Pins Cooked My Xbox? !
Post by: Modchip-Source on May 31, 2003, 07:35:00 AM

maybe some more info can help, ive seen this problem also. In the times that ive seen this problem its been either bad install, something loose or not pluged in, or a bad flash now. The bad flash could have resulted when you tried to flash but if it got stuck or stopped part way through. You could have and probably did currupt one bank or all banks. Try pulling the bios selection jumper and booting off of the other bank. The xbox not turning on would indicate that the d0 is right (or the complete install is fouled up) and its disableing the chip. But because one of the other contacts, or the flash on the chip is bad. its not doing what its suppose to.
good luck