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Title: I Think My Xbox Spontaniously Died!
Post by: KonaMonkey02 on November 30, 2003, 12:31:00 PM
Ok, I modded my xbox with xecuter 2.2 lite, and i flashed it with 4977, and installed a new 80 gb HD. Everything was working correctly. I started playing project gotham 2, and turned off my xbox to go get lunch. I come back and start playing it again, and everything is still fine. THEN! it all of a sudden turned off. I turned it back on and it goes through the bios screen, and before it gets to EVOX, it restarts. IF I DONT HAVE THE EVOX DISC IN THE DVD DRIVE I GET ERROR 13 (cannont load dashboard) after it restarts itslef. If i have the disc in the drive, when it turns itself back on after it restarts it goes to the evox screen off the disc. IF the mod-chip is turned off the open disc button just flashes and i get a blank screen. PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!!!!!
Title: I Think My Xbox Spontaniously Died!
Post by: KonaMonkey02 on November 30, 2003, 12:37:00 PM
oh yea, even with the stock HD it does the same thing, and i cannot FTP into either HD.
Title: I Think My Xbox Spontaniously Died!
Post by: Orangey on November 30, 2003, 01:27:00 PM
If You Soldered it, recheck all your connections and check for Solder Splashes. If you used Pogo Pins, take some sand paper (fine grade) to the bottom of the pins, which will provide better connection with the d0 point.

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Title: I Think My Xbox Spontaniously Died!
Post by: KonaMonkey02 on November 30, 2003, 01:32:00 PM
ummmm, the soldering is fine, the xbox still says xecuter 2 at the bottom every time it boots up
Title: I Think My Xbox Spontaniously Died!
Post by: bi786 on November 30, 2003, 02:01:00 PM
I would check your IDE cable to see if it is damaged as that could be stopping it reading the HDD, also check that the jumpers are correct on both the HDD and the DVD.
Title: I Think My Xbox Spontaniously Died!
Post by: KonaMonkey02 on November 30, 2003, 02:10:00 PM
I replaced the IDE cable with a different one from a different xbox and still the same problem and the jumpers are as they should be
Title: I Think My Xbox Spontaniously Died!
Post by: KonaMonkey02 on November 30, 2003, 02:19:00 PM
ive been leafing through the older xbox posts in the newbie forum, and i have found several people with the EXACT same problem as me, but they never seemed to get replied to....maybe we should look into whats going on here.....btw thanks very much for the quick posts
Title: I Think My Xbox Spontaniously Died!
Post by: KonaMonkey02 on November 30, 2003, 02:27:00 PM
I can FTP into my xbox, but there is nothing in the partitions except the dvd drive one. I also cant add and files to the partitions
Title: I Think My Xbox Spontaniously Died!
Post by: KonaMonkey02 on November 30, 2003, 03:04:00 PM
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Title: I Think My Xbox Spontaniously Died!
Post by: KonaMonkey02 on November 30, 2003, 03:20:00 PM
ok, apparently im stupid or something, but what is hot swap?
Title: I Think My Xbox Spontaniously Died!
Post by: KonaMonkey02 on November 30, 2003, 03:27:00 PM
what is hotswap?
Title: I Think My Xbox Spontaniously Died!
Post by: KonaMonkey02 on November 30, 2003, 03:28:00 PM
sorry, didnt mean to doulbe post
Title: I Think My Xbox Spontaniously Died!
Post by: bi786 on November 30, 2003, 03:32:00 PM
Download Slayers 2.5 and reformat the drive, I reckon that should work ,if you can boot to an evox cd then slayers should work smile.gif
Title: I Think My Xbox Spontaniously Died!
Post by: KonaMonkey02 on November 30, 2003, 03:33:00 PM
ive reformatted the drive using evox, whould slayer's reformatt make a difference? also i dontthink its the HD if both the stock HD and the upgraded HD have the same error
Title: I Think My Xbox Spontaniously Died!
Post by: KonaMonkey02 on November 30, 2003, 03:45:00 PM
bump
Title: I Think My Xbox Spontaniously Died!
Post by: KonaMonkey02 on November 30, 2003, 04:40:00 PM
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Title: I Think My Xbox Spontaniously Died!
Post by: trevlenOO6 on November 30, 2003, 06:23:00 PM
QUOTE
use a CD to run ConfigMagic and Add old EEPROM in the update folder.Now update
eeprom.Pay attention the Unique HDD key should change...Now unplug the IDE cable
from HDD then power cable.Now add old HDD and go to Load eeprom and wait 10
sec.You should see ur HDD # change and the serial # change too.go to menu and
select unlock.If every thing works ur old HDD should be unlocked..Now turn off
ur xbox.Add ur 8gb hdd to ur xbox be sure to lock it first.Now run ConfigMagic
and add ur old eeprom and Update again.Unique Key should change again.Unplug ur
HDD...like before..Add old HDD and ..........# changed...Now sit in front of the
tv and copy the password that it generated.Now go to menu and lock it.Restart
Xbox and it should be working now.

I forget who gave this to me but this is what i did to solve my error 13 problems. hope it helps
Title: I Think My Xbox Spontaniously Died!
Post by: KonaMonkey02 on December 01, 2003, 01:38:00 AM
did you have the same problem as i did? and can someone please tell me what hot swap means? and why whould the eeprom number change? all i did was turn off my xbox and turn it on again......
Title: I Think My Xbox Spontaniously Died!
Post by: WaRnINg| on December 01, 2003, 05:26:00 AM
QUOTE (KonaMonkey02 @ Dec 1 2003, 11:38 AM)
did you have the same problem as i did? and can someone please tell me what hot swap means? and why whould the eeprom number change? all i did was turn off my xbox and turn it on again......

hot swap means linking to xboxes together and do a transfer smile.gif i think i got it right!
Title: I Think My Xbox Spontaniously Died!
Post by: KonaMonkey02 on December 01, 2003, 09:43:00 AM
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Title: I Think My Xbox Spontaniously Died!
Post by: KonaMonkey02 on December 01, 2003, 09:45:00 AM
ok, i have deduced that the harddrives arent being detected at all..... this is why i cannot ftp into either of them.... they are spinning, and the calbes seem to be plugged and and fine, but they just arent working all of a sudden. What do you guys think I should do now? Does anyone have any idea what could have happened?
Title: I Think My Xbox Spontaniously Died!
Post by: KonaMonkey02 on December 01, 2003, 12:07:00 PM
Ok, i got a copy of slayers 2.5, and i went to HD management and it when I went to configmagic, it restarts.... i also tried to boot to the msdash from evox, and it restarts..... so it cant read the hard drive im thinking..... anyone have any idea?
Title: I Think My Xbox Spontaniously Died!
Post by: KonaMonkey02 on December 01, 2003, 01:06:00 PM
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Title: I Think My Xbox Spontaniously Died!
Post by: KonaMonkey02 on December 01, 2003, 01:40:00 PM
ok... i just tried that, and it still wont let me into config magic!
Title: I Think My Xbox Spontaniously Died!
Post by: KonaMonkey02 on December 01, 2003, 02:02:00 PM
yea... i did....
Title: I Think My Xbox Spontaniously Died!
Post by: trevlenOO6 on December 01, 2003, 02:26:00 PM
well if you can lauch evox from a disc then you should be able to launch configmagic from a disc as well are you sure that you made a default.xbe and made it into an xiso?
Title: I Think My Xbox Spontaniously Died!
Post by: pdottz on December 01, 2003, 02:36:00 PM
sad.gif
Title: I Think My Xbox Spontaniously Died!
Post by: KonaMonkey02 on December 01, 2003, 02:45:00 PM
sad.gif..... what does this mean? my IDE bus is dead? Thats what i was fearing, but i didnt want to beleive it..... any way to fix that?
Title: I Think My Xbox Spontaniously Died!
Post by: KonaMonkey02 on December 01, 2003, 03:29:00 PM
what would cause the bus to die? would a cheapish HD do it (i got a OEM maxtor)? or was it something else?
Title: I Think My Xbox Spontaniously Died!
Post by: KonaMonkey02 on December 01, 2003, 04:23:00 PM
WAIT A SEC! IT COULDNT BE THE IDE BUS! IF IT WAS THE IDE BUS THEN THE DVD DRIVE WOULDNT READ CD's! Hmmmmm so the plot thickis....... any fresh ideas people? cmon, i know there are some brilliant comp. eng. people that could think up whats wrong
Title: I Think My Xbox Spontaniously Died!
Post by: KonaMonkey02 on December 01, 2003, 04:24:00 PM
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Title: I Think My Xbox Spontaniously Died!
Post by: KonaMonkey02 on December 02, 2003, 09:58:00 AM
OK, im back with fresh ideas! So i go into settings and i go under the parts where it says the HD partition information and it says "Unlock error". Since both my HD's are locked, i suppose thats why its not reading anything off either HD, right? So if I just use a new un-locked HD would it boot?