<b>What happened to my xbox?!</b>

[pugzly07]

What happened to my xbox?!

alright so heres the story... my modded xbox worked fine for about 2 months... my little sister was playin on it and some how messed something up b/c my cd drive was being read under xbox media center as 'open'. so then i pushed the eject button and it was read as 'busy' and nothing other than that. so i couldnt get that to work right so i decided to open up the xbox and check the connections, cdrom, etc... nothing was wrong... however i knocked the white wire (x3 wire install) loose. quick solder right and it should work right? nope... now it decides not to give me a video... the backup bios screen comes up perfectly... it works fine when the chip is off... so i pulled off all the wires in order to start from scratch... cleaned up all the connections so there was no solder anywhere... and resoldered the wires to the board... same thing is happening... i have no idea what is gonig on... theres no spilled solder anywhere... its clean... good solder... no idea... any suggestions?? oh yeah... and before i even did this all... the splash screen in the beginning was choppy like it was having trouble reading the hard drive... but after that all the programs and everything worked fine... just no cd drive

 

[Scudworm]

solution: get rid of your sister

try popping the xbox Dvd rom in your computer to see if its broken

 

[pugzly07]

haha i know right... i'm so pissed

i tried the dvd rom in another xbox and it works fine... i dont know whats going on... i'm at the point where i might just toss that one against the wall so i can actually say its broken then use my brothers since he left it here haha

 

[Ikarasu]

Maybe your IDE wire got messed/died... Try changing IDE wires between the Xbox's, and see if that fixes it. Try using the second Xbox's DVD... in your broken one, see if it still has the error. This will let you know if it's the Motherboard... or the DVD... or what

 

[BLUEku]

sounds like a memory leak took place and some how messed up the bios, try reflashing your bios, or open the cd-rom drive and then unpower your box and push it shut, then power it back up

 

[pugzly07]

if the ide wire died tho the harddrive wouldnt work right?

also, i tried reflashing the bios and when i went to the backup i enabled network flashing... tried to flash with the x3_1959.bin same one as before and it said 'unable to flash, halting'

 

[Xecuter]

and it said 'unable to flash, halting'

forgive me for thinking you should be a genius for doing this....

have you looked at the flashbios instructions and had a look at what 'unable to flash, halting' actually means and what the fix is

you must have done tho as no one would ask a question like that without reading instructions first - that would be asking a bit too much

 

[pugzly07]

hahah yeah i did read the instructions... just forgot needed a refresher... however, i just reflashed the bios and its still not working... i'm at a loss on my end...