Print

[penguin318]

i am gonna take a shot in the dark

HDD = hard disk drive

[GIR6K]

yeah i am also gonna guess.

we are in the harware forums buddy!

is it a stock Hd?

[wirercx]

check if your IDE cable is connected to your motherboard and to your Harddrive. also make sure that ur power cable is connected to ur HDD.

[Rylinkus]

You don't need the cover to run your Xbox. Do you have power to the HD? Is the IDE cable connected to the HD? And the board?

[maniac1]

anyone, what else could I do?

[Rylinkus]

If you turn the chip off what happenes?

[Rylinkus]

Are there any ways to verify that the chip is installed correctly?

[Rylinkus]

Here's my D0 tips
1. Use VERY fine wire. I think 30 gauge is what I used. It should be small enough that the stripped tip will slide into the D0 hole
2. Tin the wire. Meaning put a very small amount of solder on the wire before soldering. (Make sure it has flux resin core) Again I stress SMALL amount
3. Place the tip of the wire on the D0 hole. (Slightly in if it will go.) Heat the wire a bit up from the board. A few mms. Just enough to keep the tip of the soldering iron off the board itself. The solder on the wire will melt and flow into the hole making a nice solder connection. You may even be able to slide the wire a mm or 2 into the hole at this point. Remove soldering iron. Tape it up. Done.

If I'm not being clear enough feel free to IM me @ rylinkus13

[dmk11]

since both your errors involved the hard drive, check those connection again.
Did you do antyhing to the HD?  maybe you change some jumpers or something?  just put it back as before.
Put another HD and boot from a slyer's CD (so it doesn't try to boot from the HD).. see if that helps.  

If it were your modchip, you would get a FRAG instead of that error.

And if you slightly yank the D0 wire and it's still attached, then don't redo it, it's probably fine.

[Rylinkus]

Search Slayers and youll turn up places to get it.

[001438]

One step at a time.  Have you got the Xbox to boot up properly?

[maniac1]

No.
When I turn it on the light is orange. If I press the eject button, it will alternate between orange/red. Never green.

I then get error codes 07 & error 08. Both of these are Hdd errors. I have tried the jumper on cslect & master, same issue as above. It is the original HDD.

Any idea what I should try next? Could it be a soldering issue?

[001438]

7 - kernel - HDD timeout
8 - kernel - No HDD found

On my original Wester Digital Hdd, the jumper is at the far right, Cable Select Settings.

Something is obviously wrong with your Hdd.  Did you have it apart?  When you power up the Xbox, can you hear the Hdd spinning?  Are you sure you didn't damage the IDE cable?  They are cheap and are the easiest thing to replace if you think you might have done something to it.

[maniac1]

No, I did not touch or mess with any of it.

Would the lights being orange/red with no green at all be a chip issue. If I f**ked something up on the motherboard, would this cause these error messages?

[001438]

Ofcourse, screwing something up on the Mother Board could cause this.  Go over all of the directions of installing the chip and check your MB to make sure that there isn't solder somewhere it shouldn't be.  Get you a tooth brush and clean around the area that you have soldered, and anywhere else you might have splashed.