Post by: shambles1980 on February 16, 2012, 06:21:00 AM
just got a 128mb system that has a chip installed.
owner had said the tsop was bad flashed. its a 1.0 so i was going to 3 wire it.
When i examined the board the tsop points were not solderd so i conclude that it has a stock bios on the tsop. and wont boot with the extra ram.
Now i want to use the tsop d6 bios to flash the tsop from an lpc boot.
But. I dont want to flash a tsop d6 bios to a chip and then find out it wont boot with 128Mb installed..
So save me some time and head aches please. I can always use a diferent xbox to flash the tsop d6 off the chip if it wont boot in this one. But i really dont want to go through all this work when some 1 here knows for a fact it wont boot 128Mb.
and I REALLy dont want to desolder the extra ram, flash the tsop and then re solder the ram..
Its a horrible job
Post by: Movax on February 16, 2012, 11:01:00 AM
You could do that.. you can boot from the cheapmod and disable it (not sure on the details) and then boot linux/evox and flash the tsop. You may have to do some more research and build a switch to switch from cheapmod to TSOP. I remember something about cutting the wires then flashing.
To get the bios on the cheapmod - if you don't have the equipment - possibly an old computer eeprom chip will do the job - you can sometimes hotswap and flash on the PC like you are updating the bios (or use a network card that has a bios socket.)
If done right this should work and is a lot less work than removing ram.. dunno about d6 bios, even if it did work with 128mb ram it can be difficult to get working.
Post by: shambles1980 on February 16, 2012, 12:39:00 PM
I 3 wired it but it still frags, ive had a look at the tsop seems reasonably well solderd in place but you never can tell with those things if its solderd well.
I have to assume that it is solderd ok and that its just a bad flash, but i dont see how it was flashed on this board unless it was done using an enigma chip or something. because like i said the tsop points dont look to have been solderd up. "well they have now but had not been before i did it"
so given all that I guess that the tsop will be bad regardless so theres no point removing the ram. and i guess i will need to try the tsop d6 bios, and just hope for the best hotswapping the chip.
would be nice if i could confirm the tsop is properly installed before i start because if its not solderd properly I may as well just remove it and swap it out with a diferent one. Would be easier than re soldering it all and then having to re do the flash any way..
Guess im going to have a bit of a head ache either way lol.
Post by: StrictPuppet on February 18, 2012, 06:26:00 PM
Are you saying that the box boots fine from the LPC chip though?
I wrote a tut on this a long time ago... it may be of some help to you...
http://forums.xbox-s...howtopic=459116
If it boots fine from the chip, then $15 for a duox seems like the simplest solution.
Post by: shambles1980 on February 18, 2012, 08:02:00 PM
QUOTE(StrictPuppet @ Feb 19 2012, 03:26 AM) 
The d6 is a finicky bitch.
Are you saying that the box boots fine from the LPC chip though?
I wrote a tut on this a long time ago... it may be of some help to you...
http://forums.xbox-s...howtopic=459116
If it boots fine from the chip, then $15 for a duox seems like the simplest solution.
it boots fine from the LPC.
and i do have a duo x2.
I also read the tut. Just seemed to me "prehaps i missed something" that i could boot from any chip provided i used the tsop d6 bios.
I see how it recomands 2 banks, but i dint really understand why it needed 2.
Any way the main issue i have is that its a 128Mb box. i dont mind booting up to the tsop d6 and it only sees 64Mb "not a problem" i just dont much fancy flashing the tsop d6 to the chip then getting a frab because of the 128Mb ram.
I am reasonably sure that all bios's should boot a xbox regardless of the ram. (provided versions are ok, and not a bad bios)
but i just dont know much about this tsop d6 bios.