2.6CE That Refuse to Flash

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AnimeCommander

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I have a X2.6CE that just FRAGs and won't reprogram:

I orginally had some "X2 Lite" that was given to me. When I tried to flash it with x2_5035_vOld_512k, it FRAGed. The person that gave it to me said that they could reflash it with that and it woudl be fine. Well now that person is no longer a friend so I'm not getting the chip again. So I went ahead and bought two X2.6CEs (one for me and another for another friend that want's his 'Box modded). So I popped one in my 'Box only to have it FRAG too. So I tried the other one, it booted up FlashBIOS 3.03. I flashed it via LAN, but accendently choose the 1.6 BIOS. I didn't know my mistake untill later. It FRAGed. So I tried the EVOD6 (or something), that was on the orginal chip (from the now exfriend). It booted but would not load my dash (xboxdash.xbe). So I tried the 5035 again, this time choosing the right one. It booted up nicely. So I used X2MB to create a 1MB BIOS, one 5035 and two FlashBIOS v3.03s. I transfered my new BIOS to my 'Box and hotswaped to flash the other chip. I accedently hit button to flash while setting down the controler to remove the working chip. So now that one FRAGs. So I bought a programmer. The chip was reconized by X2BM but would not flash (just trying to put the FlashBIOS on it). It kept giving errors about a possible bad parelle cable when it's plugged directly into the port. So I tried it in iXia, which detected and seemingly flashed the chip fine. But it still FRAGs. So I tried the other chip. Now niether chip will be reconized by either X2BM or iXia. X2BM gives error 0x0900 in v2.3 and error 0x1010 in v 2.1. I want both chips to have 5035 on the first bank and the FlashBIOS on the second. And they are intended for a 1.5 and a 1.0 Xbox. Please help.
 
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Fantmx

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That was one of the most difficult posts to read ever. There is no reason to make a 1 meg file since both 3.03 and 3.01 will work on both of those versions. Have you tried changing your parallel port settings?
 
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AnimeCommander

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I have noticed that the blue light on the programer will come on at first. Then when I open a flashing program, it will start blinking really quickly. Then when I exit the program it will be off. The red and green lights just stay constently on.
 
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AnimeCommander

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I was able to borrow a friend's 2.6 CE that I had installed a while back. It has on it 5035 and FlashBIOS 3.03 on it. Either bank loads up fine. So I load up the FlashBIOS and attempt to swap flash my chips. On bother chips it doesn't matter which BIOS I choose (5035, FlashBIOS 3.03, a 1 mb version of FlashBIOS 3.03, or 1 mb with 5035 and FlashBIOS 3.03), I get "Flash not reconized. Halting." I have tried flash via HDD and via network. So I loaded up on the 5035 bank and accessed EvolutionX to try flashing that way. One chip gives me "ff" and "Flash not writable", the other "dd" "Unknown Flash". Again, this is for any BIOS.

Does this help anyone help me? And thanks for any and all help.
 
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AnimeCommander

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This is crap.

I now have three, yes three, nonworking X2.6CE chips.

Since the chip I had borrowed worked so nicely on my Xbox, I tried it on another Xbox that is sopposed to have the other of the oginal two non working chips. It would FRAG with the chip enabled, but not with it disabled. I thought it was a bad install. So I put the chip back in my Xbox and it booted fine. I then pulled the other motherboard, checked my soldering, and made sure everything was as it should. I put the motherboard back in and try to boot of the working chip, and it still won't boot. So I put it back in my Xbox only to find that it won't boot there. So I put it on my programer to see if it's reconized there, and it's not.

So now I have three chips that appear to be in the same state and no answers as to why and how to fix them.:mad:
 
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Fantmx

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Are you swapping the switches as well?
 
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AnimeCommander

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I have three chips with the switch pannels on them. I would boot off the one, then remove the whole thing and put another one in it's place.

But that matters not, as now all three are dead. It sucks to have to be putting so much money into a usually great product and have nothing to show for it.
 
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Fantmx

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You don't have three dead chips. As I said before there is absolutely no reason to flash with a 1 meg bios. Try FlashX.
 
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AnimeCommander

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Fantmx said:
You don't have three dead chips. As I said before there is absolutely no reason to flash with a 1 meg bios. Try FlashX.
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Are you even reading my posts? The chips are not reconized on the programmer and won't boot to anything. Only one of the chips did I try to flash a 1 mb BIOS on it, and that was the one that wouldn't boot upon delivery. The other two had just 5035 at 512 kb on bank one and bank two was the FlashBIOS. None of these chips will boot and will not be reconized on either programmer, thus they are dead chips untill I can get them to boot.
 
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AnimeCommander said:
Are you even reading my posts? The chips are not reconized on the programmer and won't boot to anything. Only one of the chips did I try to flash a 1 mb BIOS on it, and that was the one that wouldn't boot upon delivery. The other two had just 5035 at 512 kb on bank one and bank two was the FlashBIOS. None of these chips will boot and will not be reconized on either programmer, thus they are dead chips untill I can get them to boot.
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Yes, I am but not any longer. You said you were able to flash the chip once. A chip doesn't magically go bad. Sounds like user error to me.
 
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AnimeCommander

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It does sound like user error. Only problem is that I cannot pin down what/where the error is and how to fix it. These are three out of about 30 Xecuter chips that I've installed. All the other have gone in extremely smoothly.

The chip that I had borrowed (that I installed too) that just up and died concerns me. I think there may be somthing either I'm doing or something with the enviorment at my new place. As all the other installs were done at another location. My methods don't appear to have changed. And an enviromental issue concerns me as I do alot of PC/electral work.

It looks like I'm going to attempt to get new chips and install them elsewhere. Or I may just get one new chip and try TSOP flashes, which I have never done. I just don't like the idea of sinking more money into this and am hopeing to find a way to recover the chips I have or at least recover some of the cash spent to get the chips. (And I'm not about to just charge my clients extra to compensate, as that's just wrong in my opinion).
 
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AnimeCommander

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That I am. I do all my work on glass, though I do have to move the 'Boxes to test them but that's done with it all closed up (minus the screws).
 
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AnimeCommander

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Just to conclude: I never did figure out what it wrong with the chips. I caved and bought a X3 for my Xbox and TSOP flashed the other two. Now to see if I can recoup some of the money lost...
 
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