This week I hooked up my brand new 1.6 with an Xecuter-3. It's working, but I wanted to recap what occurred so other n00bs might learn from me.
First: read all docs you can find. These forums are your friend 10 times over.
Hopefully system-mods will quickly replace my reset adapter so I can do that if needed.
Lessons: 1) be sure you flash a good bios, 2) you might get a FRAG with an old bios on 1.6, and it might just NOT be your soldering (cuz I know my solder skills rock!) 3) hope you reset adapter works oob.
Good luck, everyone!
First: read all docs you can find. These forums are your friend 10 times over.
- A friend did the wire install soldering for me, 30 mins or so.
- Here we learned that the reset adapter in my kit was bad. It would provide no power at all when connected. No problem, I figured, while waiting on the rma process to run its course, we'll plug the xbox reset wire straight to the mainboard.
- Then, I flashed the wrong bios. the one labeled '1.6plus' is an important distinction.
- here I entered FRAG purgatory. I had flashed the 1.0-1.5 bios to my chip. So when I tried to power on, I got a FRAG, no video.
- Now, according to every post everywhere, a FRAG means you have bad install/soldering, not wrong bios. I proceeded to do epic battle with the pcb (replacing my wire install) for 5 hours of re-checking/re-soldering with no result. note that at this point i was unaware i had flashed the WRONG bios.
- The next day I borrowed a reset adapter from a friend's kit. Booted the backup bios (since I couldn't do that as my adapter doesn't work) and then flashed the CORRECT bios, realizing that I had flashed the old before.
Hopefully system-mods will quickly replace my reset adapter so I can do that if needed.
Lessons: 1) be sure you flash a good bios, 2) you might get a FRAG with an old bios on 1.6, and it might just NOT be your soldering (cuz I know my solder skills rock!) 3) hope you reset adapter works oob.
Good luck, everyone!