ANSWERED Boot into xell but not dash.

[brownjl]

Hi

Please help – I am new at this but want to learn! I have installed a coolrunner on my falcon xbox following many of the guides. I can get xell to boot up, but the normal MS Dash wont boot in.

I think this means my solder is working and the coolrunner as its glitching?

I took the two dumps of my nand (which match) and used xbox 360 multi-builder to build me a dash. Using this image I can boot into xell (by pressing eject) but not the dash. I tried writing my original nand but that doesn’t work either now.

When I try to boot in to the exploited dash the coolrunner would turn green once but with the original dash it attempts turns green over and over again every few seconds – it this expect?

If I use xell to read by my flash (via the web) I get crc errors in a number of blocks – didn’t get them when I read the flash via jtag at the start. I have also tried writing via xell using raw flash v4 and that reports bad blocks with status error 210 and 250 on 4 blocks.

Any suggestions on what to try next?

Thanks

James

 

[cfull1]

Did you check your original nand dumps in 360 Flash Dump Tool?

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Did you get bad blocks in your original dumps? Were they remapped?

 

[brownjl]

I loaded my original nand into xbox flash tool like you suggested and it loaded straight in. Did not give any error - have to admit I am not sure how to use the tool or what it shows.

When I originally read the nand I read it one and got 2 read errors, read again and it was fine. I used nandhealer and it took these too nands and performed some additional reads and gave me two good nand - well it doesnt show any errors.

I tried remapping the four bad blocks, I copied each one using nandpro to the end of the flash 0x3ff - 0x3fc and then flash this image and that doesnt work either.

Any other suggestions would be appricated!

James

 

[Martin C]

What are you using to build your RGH image?

 

[brownjl]

Ive tried both 360 multi builder and jtag tool.

James

 

[Martin C]

can you upload one of your good nands please.

 

[cfull1]

If you can't flash original dump back then your wiring or original dump is messed up right martin?

Xell should remap the bad blocks so you don't have to do it manually.

 

[Martin C]

Ok - received. Do you have a copy of the first NAND dump you took before any remapping took place?

Can you also confirm that in XeLL you have 11 fff's on lines 7 & 8? (Read my LDV sticky about this).

 

[AMIT]

If you can't flash original dump back then your wiring or original dump is messed up right martin?

Xell should remap the bad blocks so you don't have to do it manually.

yes(as far i know) !

 

[DreamZ]

you should ofj ust made loads of dumps untill they matched use two that matched to make the image and it will take care of you bad blocks etc.

dont really need to use nandhealer

 

[brownjl]

The nand I put up was the nand that nandhear validated/untouched. The second nand which had the two ecc errors (on blocks 0x003 and 0x2d5) I unfortunatly do not have it, it looks like I must have told nandhealer to overwrite it in place when it was confirming/comparing them.

Yes I know I should have just kept reading images - I will next time!

Anyway, the blocks which had the ecc errors that nandhealer reread was 0x003 and 0x2d5 however rawflasher has issues flashing into 0x014, 0x35, 0x20C, 0x212 and 0x223 with erro codes 210 and 250 (I think).

I dont have the xbox here at the moment so cannot log in to xell, but will do later, I dumped everything I could from xell via the http, would lines 7 and 8 be in that dump data?

Thanks very much for all the help!

JAmes

 

[Martin C]

Yeah - it'll be in the fuses data.

 

[brownjl]

Sorry Martin, I wrote the post before I read your link. Anyway copied directly from the dump,

fuseset 07: fffffffffff00000
fuseset 08: 0000000000000000

It looks like I have 11.

James

 

[Martin C]

ok - try this.

Take your good NAND image (the one that was repaired etc). Run it through multi_builder. Create a clean retail image.

Now use your new retail image to create an RGH image.

use rawflash v4 to flash to the console.

 

[brownjl]

ok Martin you are a genius! That worked. Feel a bit stupid for not thinking of that myself.

Did you see anyting wrong with my nand or was it just one of those things?

it took about 3-4 attempts to flash the xell - kept getting errors, but once that was working, rawflash flashed it first time. Fantastic!

So now it time to learn what I can actually do with this thing :=)

thanks again!

James

 

[Martin C]

I figured that because you'd had issues reading and writing, the constructed NAND probably wasn't worth relying on.

Rule of thumb is, if you need to rely on getting 2 matching dumps and you never do (and have to rebuild with what you have), stop and don't do anything until you can actually read/write to the NAND without error.

Glad you're sorted though!

 

[brownjl]

Well it worked for the evening but has stopped.

I put it all back together and then I installed the dash update to get the kinect working and the avatars etc I used the ms update and put it in $$ytemupdate on the usb pen as guided. It booted in fine and found the kinect sensor fine. I then installed a number of my games on the harddrive and rebooted various time and spend an hour playing a couple of games to see if it worked.

This morning I switched it on via the controller and it booted in, I selected my profile and it then just shut down.

It wont boot up now, I press the power button, eject or the controller and I get no green lights on the xbox and the the psu stays orange. I can see the red light of the cool runner so that is getting power. I have pulled all the cables as well as leaving it un powered for 10 mins and I still get no green light.

I will strip it back down now.

any suggestions?

James

 

[Martin C]

At a guess I'd say your STBY_CLK is at fault. You never actually posted pics of your soldering, so possible your point has pulled the trace completely.

 

[brownjl]

Well I had a good look at my soldering and it all seemed fine, check it with the multimeter and it was all ok. So anyway heating them all up again and also routed the cables a little differently, and it seems to be working well now.

I have had it on and off all day and it seems ok.

Thanks

James