Post by: acemilo on October 05, 2004, 12:59:00 PM
Post by: acemilo on October 05, 2004, 04:29:00 PM
Post by: EmperorPsiblade on October 05, 2004, 04:36:00 PM
evox BIOSES suck.... no igr...
who wants to use dash igr?
Post by: appleguru on October 05, 2004, 05:22:00 PM
LBA48 support too.. But yeah, if you don't have a 1.6 xbox (I do...) then use X2 4981 or 4983. The one feature I wish m8 had was live blocking
Post by: EmperorPsiblade on October 05, 2004, 05:41:00 PM
| QUOTE |
| Well, evox BIOSes have IGR if you edit them with evtool |
i didn't know that.... but i still perfer xecuter bioses....
Post by: realmccloy on October 05, 2004, 07:45:00 PM
That way you won't have to reflash if you upgrade to larger HD.
MXM is a pretty sweet dashboard too...I never tried UnleashX, but Avalaunch is very robust!
Post by: appleguru on October 05, 2004, 08:00:00 PM
If, down the road, you install an HDD > 256GB, just reflash a 67 BIOS and format G... But to split up your space without a need to is sort of pointless IMO... BTW, if you have an HDD <137GB the it doesn't matter which BIOS (06 or 67) you choose, all your space will be on F:.
Post by: appleguru on October 05, 2004, 08:35:00 PM
But for now we're stuck with m8_1.6 ;-)
Post by: realmccloy on October 05, 2004, 08:38:00 PM
I thought I would get 7 partitions out of it.
My HD is only 120GB. I used the .67 on one of my newer machines, and the older one that also has a 120GB uses the .06. You are correct, it makes no difference.
But, I plan on upgrading the machine that has the .67 bios to a 200GB real soon. That is why I flashed with the .67, I had a 120GB laying around so I originally just used that.
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| Unless you have an HDD >256GB NOW then I highly recommend an 06 BIOS. All your space will be one one partition, F:. |
I must have learned this wrong then. I assumed that if I flashed a chip with a .06 bios and had a 200GB HD that the F partition wouldn't hold anything past 137GB, hence I would have 60+GB not available to me.
I thought that the F partition would max out around approximately 122GB.
Post by: appleguru on October 05, 2004, 08:54:00 PM
Post by: realmccloy on October 05, 2004, 08:58:00 PM
I hated having a G partition with 30 or so GB on it...thanks!
Post by: appleguru on October 05, 2004, 10:10:00 PM
| QUOTE (omg @ Oct 6 2004, 12:09 AM) |
| just a bit of question but which dash is required for the disable xbox live function of the x2 bios so i can use that so that my friends dont try to play xbox live by mistake and what does it do exactly to block access |
No dash is required; it automatically prevents games from accessing LIVE.
It does not, however, prevent the M$ dash, for example, from accessing LIVE, so if you boot your M$ dash from a hacked BIOS (Even X2 with live blocking) and go to LIVE settings in the dash you can still get banned...
Post by: Gumba on October 05, 2004, 10:45:00 PM
So,
Use .06 if you don't like a G drive! Except if your f drive is going to be bigger than 256GiB, ie on a drive > 250GB, then you have to split it into an f and g, with a .67 bios.
Make sense now?
I think the .67 bios will actually have problems with 400GB drives for the same reason the .6 bios has problems with >250GB drives... and when they become popular and this problem becomes more well known... we'll start seeing new "LARGE CLUSTER" hacks for BIOSes
Post by: Gumba on October 06, 2004, 02:04:00 AM
| QUOTE (omg @ Oct 6 2004, 08:04 AM) |
| from x2-4983.nfo what version is the dash on slayers 2.6 or where else can i get the latest dash.. this is why i asked... that and i have stupid friends |
The problem is the dash gets updated fairly regularly, and newer games come with newer dashes.
All that you can do is make sure to never let a game update your dash while running from a hacked bios. They normally do ask luckily, but the StarWars Trilogy DVD demo does not!
If you have a game which wants to update your dash, boot into retail mode and let it update it, then boot back to hacked bios and then you will have the latest dash
I don't know what dash Slayers comes with. I assume its currently the latest as slayers 2.6 is fairly recent, but as soon as another update comes out, it'll be out-of-date
Post by: Chris_NEPA on October 06, 2004, 06:13:00 PM
| QUOTE (EmperorPsiblade @ Oct 6 2004, 01:44 AM) |
| evox dash is for noobs... use Avalaunch or at least UnleashX... i didn't know that.... but i still perfer xecuter bioses.... |
Sometimes the simpler Evox is better than avalaunch or something else. Say for me, I don't play online games, I'm not connected with my xbox to the pc 24/7, so all the features everyone seems to be saying are great are pretty much useless unless you have your setup hooked to the pc/internet all the time.
And what's the diff between the xecuter x2 4983 bios and the new x3 configlive beta1859? And since I'm a n00b I'm wondering why is the xecutor bios better than the evox m8 bios?
Post by: EmperorPsiblade on October 06, 2004, 06:33:00 PM
| QUOTE (Chris_NEPA @ Oct 6 2004, 08:16 PM) |
| Sometimes the simpler Evox is better than avalaunch or something else. Say for me, I don't play online games, I'm not connected with my xbox to the pc 24/7, so all the features everyone seems to be saying are great are pretty much useless unless you have your setup hooked to the pc/internet all the time. |
psssh
my xbox isn't always internet connected...
does Evox have a built in filemanager? other more advanced features? wheather you like it or not... due to the large amount of noobs using it... i consider it a "noob dash" as do many others....
| QUOTE |
And what's the diff between the xecuter x2 4983 bios and the new x3 configlive beta1859? And since I'm a n00b I'm wondering why is the xecutor bios better than the evox m8 bios? |
the x3 bios only works on an X3
the xecuter bios is just better in my opinion... i did not like the M7 or M8 bioses....
i think i'm a Xodus heretic for using an Xecuter bios on a Xenium
Post by: Chris_NEPA on October 06, 2004, 07:06:00 PM
| QUOTE (EmperorPsiblade @ Oct 7 2004, 02:36 AM) |
| psssh my xbox isn't always internet connected... does Evox have a built in filemanager? other more advanced features? wheather you like it or not... due to the large amount of noobs using it... i consider it a "noob dash" as do many others.... the x3 bios only works on an X3 the xecuter bios is just better in my opinion... i did not like the M7 or M8 bioses.... i think i'm a Xodus heretic for using an Xecuter bios on a Xenium |
I'm not sure what other advanced features you mean. When I tried it all I saw was a bunch of online features, there really wasn't anything included except the file manager and the online stuff, unless I completely missed seeing things.
(I haven't even figured out How to connect to the internet with my xbox, I spent 8 hours the other day trying and all I managed to do was correctly configure it to ftp to, so for now online features just don't seem usefull to me.)
And about 2 years ago I had an xbox with a matrix chip, and back then I used evox with the old evox bios and boxplorer, dvd2xbox, etc, so I guess I'm just partial now to those things since it's what I started out with.
I will try the x2 bios in a few days when I re-hook the xbox to the pc though. (You should see my cable, it's 25 ft long, and the distance from the xbox in my bedroom to the pc out in another room is almost exactly 25ft, so the cable is suspended at waist height cutting the rooms in half cux t's pulled so tight between the two things. Not practical to keep connected for very long...lol.)
Post by: EmperorPsiblade on October 06, 2004, 07:20:00 PM
| QUOTE (Chris_NEPA @ Oct 6 2004, 09:09 PM) |
| (I haven't even figured out How to connect to the internet with my xbox, I spent 8 hours the other day trying and all I managed to do was correctly configure it to ftp to, so for now online features just don't seem usefull to me.) |
use linksboks web browser... and people said a xbox web browser wasn't possible...
| QUOTE |
| I will try the x2 bios in a few days when I re-hook the xbox to the pc though. (You should see my cable, it's 25 ft long, and the distance from the xbox in my bedroom to the pc out in another room is almost exactly 25ft, so the cable is suspended at waist height cutting the rooms in half cux t's pulled so tight between the two things. Not practical to keep connected for very long...lol.) |
0_0
me too... 25 foot cable from my den to the tv room with the hdtv... and the distance is 25 feet! and you can nearly buy another xbox for a wireless adapter.... sigh...
| QUOTE |
| And about 2 years ago I had an xbox with a matrix chip, and back then I used evox with the old evox bios and boxplorer, dvd2xbox, etc, so I guess I'm just partial now to those things since it's what I started out with. |
and i was going to call you a noob origanally... but you write with too much confidence to be a noob... matrix... that IS old
Post by: Chris_NEPA on October 06, 2004, 07:35:00 PM
| QUOTE (EmperorPsiblade @ Oct 6 2004, 09:23 PM) |
| and i was going to call you a noob origanally... but you write with too much confidence to be a noob... matrix... that IS old |
Thanks Oh, and one final question for the night
Which x2 bios should I try with my v1.4?
x2_4983.06_256k.bin or x2_4983.67_256k.bin
Both came in the rar from "the usual place", so I'm not sure which to try.
Post by: EmperorPsiblade on October 06, 2004, 07:58:00 PM
Post by: Chris_NEPA on October 07, 2004, 12:38:00 AM
| QUOTE (EmperorPsiblade @ Oct 6 2004, 10:01 PM) |
| .67 has F and G: for Hard Drives over 140GBs... use .06 for less than 140GBs.... |
Thanks a lot for that info. I'm hoping to get a 160gb seagate drive for Christmas, so that'll really help me out if/when I do get one.
Post by: Gumba on October 07, 2004, 01:47:00 AM
| QUOTE (EmperorPsiblade @ Oct 7 2004, 04:01 AM) |
| .67 has F and G: for Hard Drives over 140GBs... use .06 for less than 140GBs.... |
No,
.06 will put all the space on an F drive, even if the HD is over 137GB.
You should use .06 unless you have an HD over 250GB, or you're already using a large (over 137GB) HD and only have access to the first 137GB and don't want to reformat.
.67 is for two situations, 1) you formatted a large (>137GB) without LBA48 support and now want to access the space above 137GB without reformatting, or 2) you have a drive about 250GB and want to avoid the 256GiB/partition limit.
You should use .06 if you can as a G drive just causes compatibility headaches.
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The major unique feature of the modern X2 bioses is that they have Xbox Live Protection. Other features which are important and built in are IGR (and its the best), LBA48 support, Eject Trick, etc.
If you don't have a 1.6 xbox, then you should be using the X2 4983 or 4981 bios (4981 can be edited with XBTool, 4983 cannot)