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Title: Flashed With The Wrong Bios
Post by: Dark Eclipse on December 22, 2003, 08:40:00 PM

My suggestion: ask a friend with a modded(tsop flash) xbox to reflash your chip.  Use ozx flash

Title: Flashed With The Wrong Bios
Post by: Gonzo_PhD on December 22, 2003, 08:44:00 PM

Just flash it from evoX.

Title: Flashed With The Wrong Bios
Post by: Gonzo_PhD on December 22, 2003, 08:56:00 PM

I'm confused.    If you have a working bios on your chip, why not just install evox using the old bios and then flash it with the new one?

Title: Flashed With The Wrong Bios
Post by: akillamuthafucca on December 22, 2003, 11:45:00 PM

Ok change jumper settings to boot from bank four and use the cd metyhod to reflash,Unless
you flashed a 1mb bios but I don't think so just take the chameleon out and set to boot from bank four and then boot you should get the chromwell screen then make a bios cd then reflash also use the standard av cables

Title: Flashed With The Wrong Bios
Post by: JonDante on December 23, 2003, 01:15:00 PM

QUOTE

I tried loading it on every bank, and still, nothing. I only put the bios is the first bank, though.

What does that mean?  Cromwell should be on the other banks.

JD

Title: Flashed With The Wrong Bios
Post by: akillamuthafucca on December 23, 2003, 03:15:00 PM

Well weird if he flashed a bios that would take all 4 banks it must a mb bios but the chameleon does not take a 1 mb bios flash who knows just get a programmer and flash through your pc

Title: Flashed With The Wrong Bios
Post by: pontfirebird73 on December 23, 2003, 07:18:00 PM

i dont think its a problem with the bios i think the problem lies with the lpc points. you xbox should boot up fine if you flashed it with x2 4977 (thats one that i use).

Title: Flashed With The Wrong Bios
Post by: icepik_69 on December 23, 2003, 07:31:00 PM

im in the same boat man, i just got my chip and just tried to flash it with my pc, i started to flash it twice then i got errors half way through, i tried on both bank 1 and 2 and now i cant read or reflash the chip through my computer and i dont know what to do, im wondering if cromwell will still be on banks 3 and 4 as i didnt ever switch those modes on or try to write to them


i could try that IF i knew where to plugin that curved little wire coming off the chip, i dont know which little hole to stick it in on the motherboard


another thing though, when i was searching through these forums someone mentioned something about hot swapping the modchip in someone else's system while it's on and then flashing the corrupt chip through evox on that xbox, but now i cant find that thread again, anyone know anything about this method??


thanks for your time

Title: Flashed With The Wrong Bios
Post by: pontfirebird73 on December 23, 2003, 07:42:00 PM

i never done it but once evox is loaded just take out the good chameleon and put in the bad one and then flash. since they should have the same chip on them there shouldn't be any problems.

Title: Flashed With The Wrong Bios
Post by: pontfirebird73 on December 23, 2003, 07:45:00 PM

you can flash it using slayers autoinstaller or pretty much any boot disk you just have to make sure that the boot disk contains the bios you wish to flash the chameleon with.

Title: Flashed With The Wrong Bios
Post by: icepik_69 on December 23, 2003, 07:49:00 PM

ive got an xbox with the matrix chip, can i turn the matrix chipped xbox on, remove the modchip while it's on, then put the chameleon in and flash from within evox, or would that be a problem since the chips are different?

Title: Flashed With The Wrong Bios
Post by: pontfirebird73 on December 23, 2003, 07:50:00 PM

i used that to hot swap a bad hdd and format it through slayers auto installer. and i KNOW it has the option to flash the mod chip or tsop. i would also make sure that the the boot disk has the right flash lines in the ini file amd..... something. in the evox.ini  thread it has the exeact codes you need.

using matrix to do it won't work because the chips are different.

here is the flash codes for the chameleon



Flash = 0x015b,"AMD - Am29LV800B",0x100000
Flash = 0x01da,"AMD - Am29LV800B",0x100000

Title: Flashed With The Wrong Bios
Post by: tdetillier on December 23, 2003, 08:03:00 PM

that curved wire should be the one going to the adapter pin, and yes it goes on the D0 point


pontfirebird, i dont have slayer's anywhere on my HD but i do have digital chimp's. are the lines i have to add to evox.ini the same?

Title: Flashed With The Wrong Bios
Post by: icepik_69 on December 23, 2003, 08:06:00 PM

which point is the d0 point?

is it the one point that's practically all alone in the middle of all those longer traces(lines) on the motherboard?

so basically one u put the adapter on the mobo and screw it down, the wire goes almost exactly where it is without bending of turning the wire? u leave the wire straight the way it is, and plug it in?

or am i completly wrong?

Title: Flashed With The Wrong Bios
Post by: pontfirebird73 on December 23, 2003, 08:10:00 PM

it should. i would also add the chameleon flash commands

Section "Chameleon 1",ID_Chameleon_Mode_1
{
Line "4x256"
Item "Switch To TSOP",ID_Chameleon_Release_D0,ID_Full_Reboot

Item "Switch To Bank 0",ID_Chameleon_Bank_0,ID_Full_Reboot
Item "Switch To Bank 1",ID_Chameleon_Bank_1,ID_Full_Reboot
Item "Switch To Bank 2",ID_Chameleon_Bank_2,ID_Full_Reboot
Item "Switch To Bank 3",ID_Chameleon_Bank_3,ID_Full_Reboot
Line "-=* *=-"
Item "Flash Bank 0",ID_Chameleon_Bank_0,ID_Flash_Bios
Item "Flash Bank 1",ID_Chameleon_Bank_1,ID_Flash_Bios
Item "Flash Bank 2",ID_Chameleon_Bank_2,ID_Flash_Bios
Item "Flash Bank 3",ID_Chameleon_Bank_3,ID_Flash_Bios
}

and so forth.

Title: Flashed With The Wrong Bios
Post by: tdetillier on December 23, 2003, 08:13:00 PM

thanks again pont, ill let you know shortly

Title: Flashed With The Wrong Bios
Post by: pontfirebird73 on December 23, 2003, 08:16:00 PM

if you need any more help you can contact me via msn messenger    [email protected]

Title: Flashed With The Wrong Bios
Post by: tdetillier on December 23, 2003, 09:22:00 PM

QUOTE

Section "Chameleon 1",ID_Chameleon_Mode_1 { Line "4x256" Item "Switch To TSOP",ID_Chameleon_Release_D0,ID_Full_Reboot Item "Switch To Bank 0",ID_Chameleon_Bank_0,ID_Full_Reboot Item "Switch To Bank 1",ID_Chameleon_Bank_1,ID_Full_Reboot Item "Switch To Bank 2",ID_Chameleon_Bank_2,ID_Full_Reboot Item "Switch To Bank 3",ID_Chameleon_Bank_3,ID_Full_Reboot Line "-=* *=-" Item "Flash Bank 0",ID_Chameleon_Bank_0,ID_Flash_Bios Item "Flash Bank 1",ID_Chameleon_Bank_1,ID_Flash_Bios Item "Flash Bank 2",ID_Chameleon_Bank_2,ID_Flash_Bios Item "Flash Bank 3",ID_Chameleon_Bank_3,ID_Flash_Bios }

the quoted section goes under utils and flash bios
i used the evox m7 bios, the code(s) to go in the bios section are

QUOTE

ROM = "EvoX M7",0x93db270779f5b964f50be075a5d5d2d2 ROM = "EvoX M7 ef",0xf0980189407abca8d1f8d823621beaf0

the second one is for the bios with the eject fix

also you need to put

QUOTE

Flash = 0x015b,"AMD - Am29LV800B",0x100000 Flash = 0x01da,"AMD - Am29LV800B",0x100000

under the the flash section

works wonderfully, again thanks!

Title: Flashed With The Wrong Bios
Post by: akillamuthafucca on December 23, 2003, 11:10:00 PM

Wel dude if you have chameleon already flashed boot up the other chip and when evox loads take that chip out and put the new chip in and flash that one