It would make sense for them to lose their time if either the cap dropped below the min v needed as designed, or if the cap never holds enough charge because it's failed or failing. XBMC (or something it relies on) might not handle having an un-set clock, I'm not sure why it'd cause boot issues. It ...

I've just cracked it. Just in case this helps anyone else: I'd done everything I could think of, right down to flashing BIOSes and repartitioning it's hard disk and starting again-multiple times Nothing made much difference at all. Everything would run perfectly except for XBMC which wouldn't boot, ...

Hi Folks, I've got an old crystal green XBox that I've previously soft modded (using 007 game save). It was happily running EvolutionX_M8plus_Bios and XBMC4XBOX-3.1-STABLE, until I left it unplugged in a box for the last few years. I went to fire it back up last night and it wouldn't boot into XBMC,...