I read this thread today and it got me thinking I would keep trying to boot my 1.4 coma console and see if I got lucky. It works fine with a modchip, I setup everything to make sure it would boot msdash, enabled the tsop writes and started booting but no luck. Then I remembered reading somewhere about someone putting their box into the freezer for 10 mins to get a coma console to boot. I thought, okay what if I just cool the tsop chip? Enter plastic bag with icecube. I held the icecube (in the plastic bag of course) directly on the winbond chip for about 20 seconds, hit the powerbutton...pow pow, onboard bios boots! loaded up splinter cell and raincoat, reflashed the tsop and now its all good
Hope this helps somebody thanks to all for the valuable information ^_^