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tncgaia

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Guess i screwed the bios, and loaded the wrong bios, but how the .... do i get it out of there, it wil not boot at all ( turns off and on for 2 times then starts flashing red / green)

Hope you guys have a answer.. or ill just have to bang my head against a wall and start crying..:D
 
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tncgaia said:
Guess i screwed the bios, and loaded the wrong bios, but how the .... do i get it out of there, it wil not boot at all ( turns off and on for 2 times then starts flashing red / green)

Hope you guys have a answer.. or ill just have to bang my head against a wall and start crying..:D
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You have a FRAG... your solder is bad.

Look at the second link in my sig... good luck!
 
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No its not allways a FRAG = bad soldering.
If the FRAG only started happening after a flash its a BIOS problem.
What BIOS did you flash and how big was it?

- Hmm well i guess that doesnt really matter, you want it fixed.
If the second bank doesnt boot either, get a programmer.
 
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bleedyourhope

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Frag after BIOS flash

Looks like I might have the same problem.

Installed a 2.6CE last night on a 1.0 box (used wire install method). All connections were good, tested via multimeter. Booted up to flashbios screen, flashed w/ x2_4983-67_BFM. I did not move the box or anything after flashing the bios so I'm almost positive that this isn't a bad solder point.

I really should have read more about flashing before actually doing it, I am generally good with this stuff and always make sure I have backdoors out of screw ups....but I think I had a brain fart and just nuked my bios.

Anyway, I was reading "copying-xbox-games.com" and their bios tutorial and it read
"Open the Xecuter2 Bios Manager program and fill all four banks with the EXACT same BIOS by selecting the appropriate bank and the choosing OPEN under "Selected Bank Options". Select all banks four banks which you have just imported the BIOS into and choose SAVE under "Selected Bank Options". Save the file as "BIOS.BIN". It is VERY important that you use the name "BIOS.BIN" when saving your new 1024k file, because this is the filename that your flashing program will look for when it?s trying to locate a bios to flash to your CDRW or DVD. "

Not thinking, I filled all 4 banks in the bios manager with the same bios...I could kick myself for this. Flashed my bios and now just fragging away on both banks. Everything works w/ chip turned off (xb dash, etc).

What are my options here, basically just get a programmer or buy a new chip? Is there any way to get a valid flash bios back on the chip w/o buying something? From searching around all afternoon it looks like I just gotta buy a programmer or new chip.

Sorry for the long post, wanted to be descriptive. Thanks for any help, pardon my stupidity on this one.
 
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freakzilla3333

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I don't know if the 2.6 has a backup bank, but on the X3, you just press both the power and eject buttons at the same time. So you could try that.
 
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bleedyourhope

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no go, thanks for the suggestion though. Now I'm wishing I went w/ the x3...didn't think it was worth the extra money but now I see that it was.
 
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Nosf3ratu

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Wow, I guess you "experts" didn't catch that, he flashed it with "x2_4983-67_BFM." That is definitely not the right bios for a chip. IE: BFM=Boot from Loader, in other words its for boot loaders/softmods. Anyways, if you could only reflash the chip it should work just fine.
 
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bleedyourhope

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Now that you mention it...I do realize that.

I ordered a programmer the other day so it should be here soon...It's amazing how much you learn from mistakes. I still feel unbelievably dumb for doing this.
 
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freakzilla3333

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You should go and download the correct bios from xbins while you're waiting for your programmer. Then you'll save time. :)
 
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Martin C

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A word of advice:

If you're going to follow a tutorial from another website, make sure you can contact them for support. Copying-Xbox-Games.com don't manufacture or support the Xecuter series of products. We do here. Our tutorials cover flashing your chip so that you have a way to try again if it fails. Common sense tells you that with 2 x 512k banks and a 512k BIOS, you don't need to fill both banks (no point in having two banks if this were true ;)).

So yes, download the correct BIOS and NOT a Boot From Media BIOS!

Martin
 
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bleedyourhope

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Martin C said:
A word of advice:

If you're going to follow a tutorial from another website, make sure you can contact them for support. Copying-Xbox-Games.com don't manufacture or support the Xecuter series of products. We do here. Our tutorials cover flashing your chip so that you have a way to try again if it fails. Common sense tells you that with 2 x 512k banks and a 512k BIOS, you don't need to fill both banks (no point in having two banks if this were true ;)).

So yes, download the correct BIOS and NOT a Boot From Media BIOS!

Martin
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I agree with you, and at the time I wasn't thinking (it was late and I was tired). I got all my info on wiring/soldering the chip from here and I'm not even sure why I followed that site for the BIOS stuff. I'll be sure to follow the tutorials here from now on. As I mentioned a few times, I really didn't think about what I was doing which was my main problem.

I guess the main thing I was looking for was verification that my only way out was to get the programmer, which I did order.

I appreciate the help.
 
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