720p settings not remembered on shutdown and start

Piratude · Post by **Piratude** » Sat Sep 22, 2012 5:05 am

I have a 40" LCD tv and Xbox connected with a composite cable. I have loaded up the old Xbox dash using msdash and go into video setting and select wide screen and enable 720p. Then I reboot the Xbox with the controller and let xbmc load. I go into setting system to make sure the video setting there are correct and it says wide screen and a dot at 720p. Then I go back to setting appearance. I change the setting there to 720p. I notice the tv says component 720p connection as it changes. I check the system info and it says 720p for video. When I reboot it with the controller the tv says 720p. But when I shut it down for a minute the tv says component 480i. I go into system and check video and it says 4:3 not 720p. I have to go through msdash again to set it to 720p then reboot with the controller and the tv then says 720p component. It doesn't seem to save the 720p on shut down and startup. I would like to not have to go into msdash to set it in there every time I shut off my Xbox. Any help would be appreciated.

AZImmortal · Post by **AZImmortal** » Sat Sep 22, 2012 6:59 am

Let me guess, you're softmodded? If you are, then your softmod probably has a virtual EEPROM feature to protect the real EEPROM. Changing video modes is an EEPROM setting, so what you were experiencing is that your changes were being made to the virtual EEPROM, not to your real EEPROM, and your virtual EEPROM gets reset upon each bootup to match your real EEPROM. In order to make these changes stick, you need to disable the virtual EEPROM feature temporarily, change the video settings, and then re-enable the virtual EEPROM. You can do this with Heimdall's Xbox Engineering Disc (Hexen).

Piratude · Post by **Piratude** » Sat Sep 22, 2012 12:18 pm

I have downloaded a copy of hexen and booted the Xbox off of it. But I am not able to find the setting were to disable the virtual eprom. I was wondering if you could please put the steps. I am not the guy that setup the Xbmc on it. This is all new to me.

whufclee · Post by **whufclee** » Sat Sep 22, 2012 12:40 pm

I think you can just do it by enabling NTSC mode in HeXEn which should be the first option. Give that a go, it's not going to harm anything - the very worse case scenario is that you can't see the HeXEn menu when you try to cold boot which is why Heimdall chose it as the first option so you can navigate back to it blindly and change it back again.

Piratude · Post by **Piratude** » Sat Sep 22, 2012 1:44 pm

NTSC is already selected.

whufclee · Post by **whufclee** » Sat Sep 22, 2012 4:46 pm

Sorry I misread your initial post, that's an odd one - not something I've ever come across myself and I've used HeXEn to softmod about 20 xboxes in the past couple of years. If nobody else can come up with a suggestion it might be worth you contacting Heimdall directly via PM.

What AZImmortal says seems to make perfect sense but like I say I've never had a problem and I use shadow C. Sorry I can't help you there, best of luck!

AZImmortal · Post by **AZImmortal** » Sat Sep 22, 2012 8:07 pm

I've never used Hexen myself (I always hardmod and Hexen is primarily for softmods), but try menu option 6 (Enable HD video modes). I think that it will walk you through everything.

bigkidoz · Post by **bigkidoz** » Sun Sep 23, 2012 12:17 am

Dont you need component and not composite to run any of the Progressive scan HD settings ? - (not sure about NTSC consoles ).? The splash screen will only ever display 480i at bootup and then once XBMC loads it switches to you selected output.

Spongy · Post by **Spongy** » Sun Sep 23, 2012 1:49 am

If the softmod was installed using Krayzies installer, you can use Krayzies extras to do this.
Launch Krayzies extras > professional mode.
MS dash > change the settings you want.
Krayzies extras > update virtual eeprom.
reboot.

AZImmortal · Post by **AZImmortal** » Sun Sep 23, 2012 10:29 pm

bigkidoz wrote:Dont you need component and not composite to run any of the Progressive scan HD settings ? - (not sure about NTSC consoles ).? The splash screen will only ever display 480i at bootup and then once XBMC loads it switches to you selected output.

I think that it was a typo when he put composite. I don't think that the HD video settings even show up if you don't have component cables hooked up, so the fact that he was able to access those settings means that he's using component cables, plus he said that his TV reported "component 720p".

Post by **spicemuseum** » Tue Sep 25, 2012 7:47 pm

AZImmortal wrote:I've never used Hexen myself (I always hardmod and Hexen is primarily for softmods), but try menu option 6 (Enable HD video modes). I think that it will walk you through everything.

Yes it does (I regularly* use it).

(* British English definiton = frequently, or rather, at defined intervals (correcting my own post).)

AZImmortal · Post by **AZImmortal** » Tue Sep 25, 2012 9:09 pm

spicemuseum wrote:
AZImmortal wrote:I've never used Hexen myself (I always hardmod and Hexen is primarily for softmods), but try menu option 6 (Enable HD video modes). I think that it will walk you through everything.
Yes it does (I regularly* use it).

(* British English definiton = frequently.)

We use "regularly" the same way in American English, although I suppose it implies some sort of usage at regular time intervals, whereas things that happen "frequently" can happen at irregular intervals.

Post by **spicemuseum** » Tue Sep 25, 2012 9:24 pm

AZImmortal wrote:We use "regularly" the same way in American English, although I suppose it implies some sort of usage at regular time intervals, whereas things that happen "frequently" can happen at irregular intervals.

"Regular fries". Consumed by me neither frequently nor at defined intervals, so irregular I'd say...

...BTW, your answers to others' posts are very frequently (regularly!) identical to the way I would answer them. For the past few weeks I've been thinking, "If I don't answer this, Immortal probably will". And I'm almost always right, i's a bit scary sometimes...

AZImmortal · Post by **AZImmortal** » Tue Sep 25, 2012 10:49 pm

Great minds think alike, right?

Either that, or I've managed to fool another person into believing that I have useful knowledge.

Piratude · Post by **Piratude** » Fri Sep 28, 2012 12:34 am

It is a component cable. I was auto type feature on my phone. Oops. I have tried hexen option 6 to enable HD and it didn't work. The Xbox boot screen says 480i on the tv the. When it loads up xbmc it says 480i again. I check the settings and it say 16.9 not 720p 16.9 to get it enabled again i have to go into the setting feature of xbmc enable 720p with a check besides it Then reboot with the controller the I am able to go into appearance and select 720p. If i don't reboot it freezes with a black screen. After that you can see a change on the screen after the change. I asked the guy on the weekend that setup xbmc. He said he never seen that before and it should be keeping the setting. At the time he set it up I gave him a 120gig drive and he hot swamped it with a computer to set it up. Does any of this information help?

AZImmortal · Post by **AZImmortal** » Fri Sep 28, 2012 1:13 am

Ok, try this. Create a file called EEPROM_off.bin and place it into the root of your E: drive. Then turn your Xbox off and on with the power button. The virtual EEPROM should now be disabled. After you making your video changes, delete the file and the next time you reboot, you'll be using your virtual EEPROM again (this time with the updated changes).

Piratude · Post by **Piratude** » Fri Sep 28, 2012 2:52 am

Didn't work : (

AZImmortal · Post by **AZImmortal** » Fri Sep 28, 2012 4:12 am

I'm mostly out of ideas (and confused) at this point then. I guess the only thing I have left to suggest is to back up your EEPROM (which you should've already done) and then use Hexen to redo your softmod. I'm not sure how your Xbox was originally softmodded but it sounds like something might have gone wrong and now your virtual EEPROM can't be disabled.

Spongy · Post by **Spongy** » Fri Sep 28, 2012 6:07 am

I think it's because the settings were changed in the actual eeprom, but the virtual eeprom is still the old one.
To test this theory put EEPROM_off.bin back in the E drive, reboot and see if the settings are the way you want them.
If so you need to update your virtual eeprom.

AZImmortal · Post by **AZImmortal** » Fri Sep 28, 2012 6:49 am

Oh right, I never softmod so I totally forgot that the virtual EEPROM is static and needs to be updated when the real EEPROM is changed. Unfortunately, I forgot how to update the virtual EEPROM.