I think there may be something more than a flash of the OS for this problem. I modded a box for my brother that left me working perfectly fine on OS 2.0.1. He has reported to me twice now that the 1.6 box with a Blue Xenium has had no video with the Blue (green) eject light flashing. The first time he had been watching a DVD and when he tried to eject it, it would not eject and presented the error. After trying many on/offs and such he finally opend the box, opened the DVD top and manually removed the DVD, unplugged the DVD and hard drive and walla, the xbox worked just fine. Now tonight he has called to say the box has again stalled with no video. Thinking that the hard drive was the problem he disconnected it but, nothing. Unplugged the DVD, nothing. Then opened the DVD cover again, no DVD inside, but the main spindle appeared stuck and after nudging it, the box again came to life. It seems for this case anyway that it has something to do with the DVD drive. I know others are updating the OS, but it is not working through the hard drive, only a DVD update. Question: Can the OS work and then stop working and then work again and so on. I have yet to have him try the update to OS 2.2.1, but I will have him do so and see if any problems continue. It just seems odd that the DVD has twice fixed the problem without any OS tinkering. By the way, he has a Phillips DVD drive. Any thoughts would be appreciated.