Red/Green light :(

[AwesomeNurd]

Hi, I have a hard modded Xbox (X2.3b Lite) and I don't know why I tried to flash it with another bios, and after that it fragged when the chip is disabled the xbox works fine on MS Dash, so my question is:
Is the modchip dead or is there a way to fix this mess??

Thanks

[xman]

Being a lite I'd say one bios only?. That bios should be 512k and you tied flashing with a different size bios and alas, now fragging?. You will need to reflash the chip. You can either boot the machine with another modchip and hotswap it with the faulty one and reflash or get hold of another modchipped machine and use it to hotswap and reflash. Do you have another modchip or another modded Xbox?.

[AwesomeNurd]

I see, I actually have this console, so I think I'm gonna softmod it I heard it's possible to do it without SplinterCell game... is that right?? If there is any tips, just let me know please.

[xman]

Softmod it them connect the modchip and reflash it.

[AZImmortal]

The X2.3b Lite should have two 512kb banks, so assuming there's one good bank, then you can switch to that bank to boot the Xbox and then switch to the bad bank and flash it.

Softmod it them connect the modchip and reflash it.

Unless I'm misinterpreting what you're saying, he won't be able to do this because if you boot up the Xbox from the TSOP then you can't flash an LPC modchip.

[Xphazer]

Correct me if i'm wrong... But from evo-x you can only flash a 1MB bios to this chip, premade with X2 bios manager including the 2 bios's you want...
Hotswap the chip whit another or get a X2 programmer, there is no other way out to save the chip if it got a bad flash.

To softmod without an exploitable game you can use the hdd hotswap method..
I have nothing to do with softmod.. so maybe someone will give you better directions or google it.

[xman]

Like you Xphaser, I have nothing to do with softmods but I'm assuming if the machine is softmodded it will boot Slayer's or whatever off the DVDrive?. I which case I would say boot the disc and connect the modchip's D0 wire enabling it presuming it is still connected. Now from the Slayer's disc, if that is the disc of your choice and reflash the modchip using the EvoXDash Utilities. You can also boot the EvoxDash app from your HDD and reflash. EvoXDash flashing is autosizing so it will suit any chip size providing the modchips code is in it's data which DuoX lite is. Being a DuoX lite means it only has one bios unless the selector switch has been fitted after purchase. It is all that is missing. You solder in a switch and it becomes a normal DuoX with 2 bios settings.

[AwesomeNurd]

Well I guess I'm going to try the hotswap method again because I already tried it a few hours ago, and I was stuck at some point, I don't know if creating a bootable DVD instead of CD-R is the cause, in XBOXHDM it says that it can't find the Linux CD (what I extracted with Ndure to the linux folder, and creating the iso after that) or sth similar

[AwesomeNurd]

[quote="AZImmortal"]The X2.3b Lite should have two 512kb banks, so assuming there's one good bank, then you can switch to that bank to boot the Xbox and then switch to the bad bank and flash it.

It has a bank selector (Bank 1 and Bank 2) and it frags with both banks

[xman]

If it doesn't boot on either bank when you change the switch are you absolutely positive you didn't disturb the modchip's wiring?.
It could simply be that the 2nd bios was never used or also has a bad flash as well but worth checking. How did you try to reflash the chip originally?.

[AwesomeNurd]

It's a solderless modchip, I installed a 500gb hdd and XBPartioner required a compatible bios to format the HDD, I thought the bios that I have with Slayer's CD was ok, but obviously it killed my chip , for now I'm trying to find an old PC with 2 IDE ports to do the XBOXHDM hotswap softmod, this is what I understood as I have a PC with one IDE port and a SATA DVD drive...

[MrMajst3r]

If you have only 1 IDE port you can use XboxHDM USB Version
http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=690646

[AwesomeNurd]

If you have only 1 IDE port you can use XboxHDM USB Version
http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=690646

Thanks dude, I will have to see how to do it with Ndure now

[AZImmortal]

I which case I would say boot the disc and connect the modchip's D0 wire enabling it presuming it is still connected.

Unfortunately, it's not this easy. Once an Xbox is booted from the TSOP, then you can't flash an LPC modchip. The same goes for booting from an LPC modchip and not being able to flash the TSOP. Whichever one you boot from is the only one you can access. This is why you can't fix a bad TSOP by installing an LPC modchip and then disabling the modchip after you boot it up. Instead, you need a 29 wire modchip, which acts as a replacement TSOP. In this case, it unfortunately looks like an external programmer or chip hotswapping is needed to save the modchip.

[AwesomeNurd]

Hi, I have another issue now, been struggling to create a bootable USB flash disk, I finally did it, prepared it with XBOXHDM 2.2 USB Edition and Ndure 3.1, I got to the Linux menu til the command "xbrowser" I can see my xbox HDD (I guess the hotswap is correctly done then), and I see the content of my flashdisk, I go to the ndure script and when I launch it, I always got the message "Linux CD can't be found", just the same thing like with the bootable CD, I actually have one IDE port, so that's why I tried the USB method, I got an old pc but missing the ram, so maybe I should get an old used sdram and try to do it with the bootable CD, if anyone could help me with the USB method and tell me what I'm missing or doing wrong, it will be really apprerciated.

Thanks

[AwesomeNurd]

The issue is solved, my Xbox is softmodded now with a 500gb HDD, thanks to MrMajst3r who helped me out as I never did a softmod without the game and action replay.