Topic: 3 Reboots And Flashing Green/red (Read 205 times)

c187 · « **on:** April 17, 2004, 10:20:00 AM »

have you flashed it yet?

irish12567 · « **Reply #1 on:** April 17, 2004, 11:03:00 AM »

yes, i tried flashing it multiple times with the xecuter2 bios.

irish12567 · « **Reply #2 on:** April 17, 2004, 11:39:00 AM »

Theres one more really weird thing...The xbox boots up fine every time when i hook up the DVDrom and harddrive with the cables that connect to them EXCEPT for the IDE cable...but when i hook the IDE cable in, it reboots 3 times and flashes green/red...could the IDE cable be broken?

c187 · « **Reply #3 on:** April 18, 2004, 05:38:00 PM »

ok... do you have the switch's on the right bios?

If you have it set to the wrong bank it will do that.... if you have the chip set to all off or all on you will get the xbox boot screen.... then the nothing

swarmer · « **Reply #4 on:** April 18, 2004, 07:24:00 PM »

I ahve this problem sometimes. Like after a while of playing it after it had booted up, lets say I had to shut it down to congifure something then I try to turn it back on sometimes it might work but then others I get the 3x the flashing lights what is going on. I think it might be a bad connection to the mobo. But when it does boot up it works perfect.

styrofoam · « **Reply #5 on:** April 21, 2004, 03:58:00 AM »

This may or may not be a stupid question... but the IDE cable is plugged in correctly, yes?

I was 'dry-running' my X-Bit, and had the DVD and hard drive tray sitting outside of the XBox, and I plugged the IDE cable into the socket without looking, I just went by the natural bend of the cable. Well, now that the drives weren't in the same place they usually were, I was basically putting the cable in backwards!! While it was in backwards, I'd get nothing but FRAGs. Once I plugged it back in correctly, everything worked like a champ.

The red stripe on the IDE cable goes towards the front of the case on the Xbox- at the end of the connector that has a small arrow pointing towards it (on the circuit board.)

Red stripes also go towards the power cable on the HD/DVD drive. Check those out, and if they're proper, it wouldn't hurt to put in a new IDE cable before giving up all hope!

therebelious1 · « **Reply #6 on:** April 21, 2004, 04:35:00 AM »

wibby · « **Reply #7 on:** June 30, 2004, 07:38:00 AM »

I'm getting the same problem too

1.3 xbox D0 cleaned, X2_4978 1mb flashed and verified.

I even tried it in my 1.1 xbox (modded with a matrix), Exactly the same problem.

I hope some one has a fix for this....

ChrisF · « **Reply #8 on:** June 30, 2004, 10:07:00 AM »

For XBIT the bios size (1MB in your case) must match the bank size exactly. Meaning it will only work if you have your chip formatted with a MB bank and this bios flashed onto that bank. You could also just use the 256K version of the bios and put it on a 256K bank as I have no idea why you fluffed the bios up that big.

Anyway - check this, check the switch settings, try a different bios (XBINS tutorial is a nice read) - try the 4981.06 or whatever current X2 bios is 4983.06 I believe.

If it's not any of these it's your connection to the LPC points. Frag is inability to load a bios so if all the rest checks out than the LPC it is.

ChrisF · « **Reply #9 on:** July 01, 2004, 04:51:00 AM »

wibby · « **Reply #10 on:** July 01, 2004, 05:29:00 AM »

SUPERB!

Did a version 5 format stuck ix2_4983.06_256k.bin in position 4 and it's working a treat!!

Thanks guys... make this one a sticky i think it will help a lot of people out

jackie · « **Reply #11 on:** July 13, 2004, 09:30:00 PM »

In case anyone is still reading here for advice ... I am having the exact same problem. I tried switching the IDE cable and that did not work. I have flashed five different bioses and none have worked. I aslo disconnected the IDE cable to the HDD and the DVD, but it still lit up red and green. If anyone has made any progress, please post.

jjbean · « **Reply #12 on:** July 19, 2004, 07:23:00 PM »

yet another guy facing this problem.

ive tried multiple bioses. . . and reseated the pogos tons of times. .

so yet another lost soul with an xbit.

BigMar992 · « **Reply #13 on:** July 21, 2004, 01:04:00 PM »

umm...people are complaining they are having problems with the XBit chip on versions of xbox's 1.4 and greater....well.....i think its because they only are compatible with 1.3 or earlier.....isnt this correct? its in the pinned thread.

r00t · « **Reply #14 on:** July 28, 2004, 11:23:00 AM »

Ok, so now I too am having this problem. My xbox was working fine until this morning when I decided it was time to update the bios. I reformatted the chip (I really wish I hadn't done that now) and flashed some various different bios's onto the different banks. When I went to turn the xbox on however I was greeted with two restarts and the on the third start it just sat there and flashed. It did this no matter what bank I selected. Since then I have tried every bios I can get my hands on, including the one that used to be on there and I get the same thing each time. If I flip up the 4th dip switch the xbox boots but then I get an error 5, I'm assuming this is normal for modded boxes with unlocked harddrives. Anyone have any suggestions?

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