Topic: Hotswapping A Spiderchip? (Read 444 times)

edwinmcdunlap · « **on:** October 19, 2005, 08:43:00 PM »

Hi,

My friend has a SpiderChip (in a 1.6 Xbox) that works just fine, but it had a bad flash and now doesn't do anything.

I have an X3 in my box (also a 1.6), I installed it by soldering in the pinheader and doing a wire rebuild.

Is it at all possible to hotswap his SpiderChip into my box and flash it?

Chancer · « **Reply #1 on:** October 20, 2005, 06:25:00 AM »

Yes it is. ground your D0 point. Power up with your chip enabled. Once the hacked bios has booted. Plug the Spider without the switchbank onto the pinheader. The socket on the Spider is for connection to the LPC and makes it easy to hotflash it.

edwinmcdunlap · « **Reply #2 on:** October 27, 2005, 04:52:00 PM »

So I plug the female port on the SpiderChip onto the male pinheader sticking out of my mobo?

Can anyone help me with this?

edwinmcdunlap · « **Reply #3 on:** November 06, 2005, 12:29:00 PM »

Will someone help me?

HackDaBox · « **Reply #4 on:** November 06, 2005, 03:04:00 PM »

QUOTE(edwinmcdunlap @ Oct 28 2005, 08:52 AM)

So I plug the female port on the SpiderChip onto the male pinheader sticking out of my mobo?

Can anyone help me with this?

Yes ... thats right !

HackDaBox's Hotswap To Flash Tutorial !

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edwinmcdunlap · « **Reply #5 on:** November 07, 2005, 03:39:00 PM »

QUOTE(HackDaBox @ Nov 6 2005, 04:04 PM)

Yes ... thats right !

HackDaBox's Hotswap To Flash Tutorial !

HackDaBox !

The only thing confusing me is that there's more pins on my pinheader than there are on my SpiderChip.

Where and which direction do I plug it in?

HackDaBox · « **Reply #6 on:** November 07, 2005, 04:56:00 PM »

The above pic shows a small headerpin installed. Yours will be longer but just plug the chip on the same end of your headerpin and the extra pins you have will be left uncovered.

Plug the spiderchip onto the headerpin and it should be going from the headerpin towards the left side of the xbox. The spiderchip should not be going from the headerpin towards the middle of the xbox !

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edwinmcdunlap · « **Reply #7 on:** November 07, 2005, 06:02:00 PM »

QUOTE(HackDaBox @ Nov 7 2005, 06:03 PM)

(IMG:http://www.hackdabox.com/pinheader3.jpg)

The above pic shows a small headerpin installed. Yours will be longer but just plug the chip on the same end of your headerpin and the extra pins you have will be left uncovered.

Plug the spiderchip onto the headerpin and it should be going from the headerpin towards the left side of the xbox. The spiderchip should not be going from the headerpin towards the middle of the xbox !

HackDaBox !

Okay, when I follow those instructions (your hotswap tutorial), I get this message after I select "Yes" to flash the BIOS:

QUOTE

Flash BIOS
Manufacturers ID 09 Device ID 00
!! Flash not writeable !!

What's wrong now?

This post has been edited by edwinmcdunlap: Nov 8 2005, 02:06 AM

HackDaBox · « **Reply #8 on:** November 07, 2005, 06:18:00 PM »

Did you ground your LFRAME (d0) ?

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edwinmcdunlap · « **Reply #9 on:** November 07, 2005, 10:34:00 PM »

QUOTE(HackDaBox @ Nov 7 2005, 07:18 PM)

Did you ground your LFRAME (d0) ?

HackDaBox !

Yes, I taped my d0 wire to the metal shielding.

I'll go try it again.

HackDaBox · « **Reply #10 on:** November 07, 2005, 10:42:00 PM »

Don't connect the switch to the spidy while you hotswap and flash !

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edwinmcdunlap · « **Reply #11 on:** November 08, 2005, 07:21:00 AM »

QUOTE(HackDaBox @ Nov 7 2005, 11:42 PM)

Don't connect the switch to the spidy while you hotswap and flash !

HackDaBox !

Do any of the tiny wires on the spiderchip need to be put into their holes in the mobo?

HackDaBox · « **Reply #12 on:** November 08, 2005, 08:05:00 AM »

No. None. Just plug it on the header and flash. Last time it could not see your chip at all ( thats why you got that error message )

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HackDaBox · « **Reply #13 on:** November 08, 2005, 09:22:00 AM »

Are you using the HackDaBox Reflash Cd ? as it has the correct flash lines in it to flash a spider but normal evox doesn't.

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edwinmcdunlap · « **Reply #14 on:** November 08, 2005, 03:17:00 PM »

QUOTE(HackDaBox @ Nov 8 2005, 10:22 AM)

Are you using the HackDaBox Reflash Cd ? as it has the correct flash lines in it to flash a spider but normal evox doesn't.

HackDaBox !

I'm using a spiderchip reflash CD I got from the usual places.
"SpiderchipReflashCd.rar" is what I downloaded.

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