hey there thanks for the reply. Yeah, I know the XBIT is not the most reliable chip, however, I do not trust my soldering skills and the chip is easy enough to instal without the soldering. I have actually modded four bxes with the chip and this is the first one that has not worked out.
I have unmodded the xbox to see if the box will run without the chip. It does not. It only frags, it doesnt even appear as if the hard drive begins to spin. I cant friggin figure it out and it is seriously causing major heartburn. He has an early version xbox, and I know there were power problems with those. I am thinkg there is a power problem here, maybe the power source is corrupt. It isn;t acting like this is the problem, but it is seriously the only thing I can think of.
Please if anyone has sugestions as to what the problem may be I would love to ohear the solutions. And yes I did flash the chip first and confirmed the flash via the XBIT softwafe/usb.