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Title: Xenium Interface
Post by: notkevin on January 24, 2004, 12:35:00 PM

QUOTE (Nitrideus @ Jan 24 2004, 07:08 AM)

Two Questions: I got the chip installed and when the menu screen come up the brightness keeps fading in and out.... getting lighter and darker.  Anyone elase seen this?? Second I want to flash the Xecuter bios.  So select 4x256k as my configuration, burn the bios as bios.bin to a cd with a 300 mg dummy file and try and flash.  I keep getting an error saying that the bios is not sized propery?? Any idea what I'm doing wrong? thanks,

1) nope haven't seen it

2) Sounds like a bad bios file, I would download the latest one again. I have not had any problem with X2 4980, I have flashed it at least a dozen times now. Also, i haven't needed a dummy file when burning the bios cd.

Title: Xenium Interface
Post by: dmdmb on January 24, 2004, 01:20:00 PM

2.  I recieved the incorrrect size error when I tried using a CD-R or a incorrectly burned disc

Make sure you are using a CD-RW or DVD

Title: Xenium Interface
Post by: whoopgas on January 24, 2004, 02:39:00 PM

Does it matter what the dummy file is?  Exactly what nees to be on this disc?

Title: Xenium Interface
Post by: Morglum on January 24, 2004, 02:52:00 PM

EDIT: Oh and burn it as a standard ISO, theres no need to burn is as an XISO.

Title: Xenium Interface
Post by: bigfootale on January 24, 2004, 03:15:00 PM

oh yeah- and i didn't need to put a filler file in there.  just the bin file.

Title: Xenium Interface
Post by: notkevin on January 24, 2004, 03:19:00 PM

QUOTE (whoopgas @ Jan 24 2004, 03:39 PM)

Does it matter what the dummy file is?  Exactly what nees to be on this disc?

For flashing the bios I dont think you need one, at least I didn't.

Title: Xenium Interface
Post by: Flagg3 on January 24, 2004, 06:24:00 PM

The dummy file can be anything really, just a bunch of files or one big one, doesn't matter.

The reason people use a dummy file is because sometimes certain Xbox drives have trouble reading a disc with only a single 256k file on it.  

Most people don't need the dummy file, but it really doesn't hurt to through it on the disc either.

Flagg

Title: Xenium Interface
Post by: mackinaw on January 25, 2004, 07:36:00 PM

use a dummy file (it can't hurt, i used a 100MB one).  If you are having problems getting the box to read your disc use a DVD-R or DVD+R (DVD+R only works on thomson drives, i've read) -OR-  If you're using a CD-RW, try using a virgin disc.  hope that helps.

Title: Xenium Interface
Post by: stealth on January 25, 2004, 09:08:00 PM

QUOTE (Nitrideus @ Jan 24 2004, 04:08 PM)

Two Questions: I got the chip installed and when the menu screen come up the brightness keeps fading in and out.... getting lighter and darker.  Anyone elase seen this?? Second I want to flash the Xecuter bios.  So select 4x256k as my configuration, burn the bios as bios.bin to a cd with a 300 mg dummy file and try and flash.  I keep getting an error saying that the bios is not sized propery?? Any idea what I'm doing wrong? thanks,

I think your first problem might be macrovision related?

Do you have your xbox connected to your tv through a vcr?