Xecuter2

[onthatB0MBSHELL]

Hi guys, just received a Xbox I purchased on eBay, it seems to have been modded somehow, when it boots, the Xbox logo is purple in colour with the xecuter2 logo beneath, but it boots into normal Green Xbox home screen. There are no external switches on the Xbox. Inside I found this

Can anyone shed some light on what it is and how to use it? Was just hoping for a standard Xbox which I was going to soft mod, install a 250GB HDD and give to my sister.
All help appreciated.

[Heimdall]

That looks like an old 29 wire chip. Does if have anything written on it?

[onthatB0MBSHELL]

I haven't undone the tape that's wrapped around it, I'll do it now and report back.

[onthatB0MBSHELL]

No writing on it I'm afraid.

Booted up your disc and there seems to be a lot of files on it I recognize from soft modding. Really what I want is to install a larger HDD and have it booting to latest stable xbmc.

[Heimdall]

You need to run BIOSChecker v5.0 to see which BIOS is on there.

[onthatB0MBSHELL]

You need to run BIOSChecker v5.0 to see which BIOS is on there.

Can I do that from the Hexen disc?

[onthatB0MBSHELL]

Any help on how to proceed with this guys would be great, I'm used to soft mods only. Don't want to brick this console.

[Heimdall]

BIOSChecker 5.0 isn't on HeXEn, but you can get it via Google.

Boot with HeXEn, FTP BIOSChecker to the Xbox (put it in E:\Apps\BIOSChecker\), run it from the HeXEn menu (Option 8. XBox Admin, then File Manager), report back with what it says on the screen.

Checking the BIOS won't brick the Xbox....

[professor_jonny]

The chip by the look is a uv type that requires a uv source in the window to wipe it and often a special programmer.

I dont think you will be able to flash it to a newer bios if it won't support large harddisks you would probally be able to tsop flash it as is not a 1.6 revision xbox board.

but before you get serious you need to find out the bios it has to see if it will support your hard disk as hemidall says.

[onthatB0MBSHELL]

Thanks Heimdall, bedtime here now, will carry out your instructions tomorrow and get back to you, took this screen shot does this show BIOS ?
Thanks for helping out.

[onthatB0MBSHELL]

Screen shot

[Heimdall]

Your BIOS is Evox D6. That's quite old.....

It is able to support LBA48 and on-disk partition tables, but only if it was patched to do so before flashing, and I have no idea how to tell.

If it wasn't patched then as professor_jonny says you will struggle to reflash that chip without a specialist programmer.

The only way I can think of to find out is to drop in your new disk, boot with HeXEn, and try to build the new disk. If XBPartitioner complains about the lack of LBA48 support, then there's your answer.

That's not the end of the world - you can use PBL to load another BIOS at boot time, so whatever happens post back and we can talk you through the next steps.

[onthatB0MBSHELL]

Above is how my HDD stands now, I did as heimdall explained, got the message unleashx detected new hdd.followed on screen instructions and have reached this point. Do I just use hexrn now to choose which dash I want to boot, is there anything else I need to do?
Thanks for all the help so far.

[Heimdall]

That's the new hard drive, right?

If so, select option 3.5.3 or 3.5.4 (depending on your region) and follow the instructions.

When it loads XBPartitioner 1.1 it will either give you an error message about LBA48, or it won't. Either way, post back with your results.

[onthatB0MBSHELL]

Just realising the new HDD, seem to be missing half of it?

[onthatB0MBSHELL]

The new HDD is 250GB.

[Heimdall]

That's why you need to build the new disk with HeXEn......

[onthatB0MBSHELL]

Hi heimdall, missed your post there, I have a pass code message on screen now, which game pad buttons are the code?

[Heimdall]

AYBX

[onthatB0MBSHELL]

Thank you, seems to be working ok, I'll report soon when complete.