I'm sorry this posting is so long, but I really hope somebody can give me some advice out there. I'm posting because I haven't been able to find any other posts that exactly match my symptoms, and frankly I've run out of ideas.
I have a v1.1 box and have installed the X3 chip. It's a first release chip; I bought it about a week after they came out and had it running fine in a previous box (v1.4ish) with an early X3 rox my box bios a friend installed for me at the time; until the solder needed touching up and I ballsed it (I've come a long way since then, honest)
Now I've got this little 1.1...
I'm reasonably certain (as I personally can be, at least) that all my solder points are okay; I've checked and rechecked them with a multimeter; getting good strong ohm signals through all the pins and all three of the wires. (Particularly the dreaded D0 point.)
Both LED's on the chip are on.
I can boot up with the chip disabled okay. Red light on the switch; running fine there. Time to play Jetset Radio City...
Running to backup bios okay with two button startup; purple light on chip; getting the nice blue screen. FlashBIOS version 3.0.0 on my little fella;
and yes, the chip had a rox bios on it before when it worked, but the chip wasn't booting up when enabled anymore so I thought it was a faulty bios, and so tried to update to a more stable version.
Retreived 1959.RAR file from xbins, changed it to .bin file etc. (it's the one with a file size of 1059k)
Chip will happily flash the bios with all the switches off, or, with them set to on on off off; the setting you're recomended to use for first time flashing. (The poor chip is far from new at flashing now though I'm afraid. I can do this again and again.)
But...when I try to boot to the chip, I get the depressingly omnipresent frag, which it also did in a different box. (Though the blue light on the switch does come on in synch with the three attempts the box makes to boot.)
I've tried booting to the chip with every combination of switches; and all of them, I repeat, all, frag on startup. I've tried flashing the 1959 bios to every combination, and obviously, it won't work on the smaller banks because the file is too large; but then, it flashes with the switches off - and it flashes with them set to on on off off - and frags afterwards...
I'm assuming that the yellow light on the flash process is the chip erasing any previous bios in that bank, so surely I cannot have ruined the chip from too much flashing. Or could I?
One thing that may or may not be significant - the HD LED on the switch is working, but I haven't once seen the LAN one do anything at any time. Forgive my ignorance but I'm not sure what this light indicates (as I said, all my leads are connected up and giving current. Chip itself has two LED's on.)
If anyone can advise how to make little chippy boy chipper I'd be grateful.
Is it possible that I might be one of those 0.01 per cent people with a faulty chip?
I have a v1.1 box and have installed the X3 chip. It's a first release chip; I bought it about a week after they came out and had it running fine in a previous box (v1.4ish) with an early X3 rox my box bios a friend installed for me at the time; until the solder needed touching up and I ballsed it (I've come a long way since then, honest)
Now I've got this little 1.1...
I'm reasonably certain (as I personally can be, at least) that all my solder points are okay; I've checked and rechecked them with a multimeter; getting good strong ohm signals through all the pins and all three of the wires. (Particularly the dreaded D0 point.)
Both LED's on the chip are on.
I can boot up with the chip disabled okay. Red light on the switch; running fine there. Time to play Jetset Radio City...
Running to backup bios okay with two button startup; purple light on chip; getting the nice blue screen. FlashBIOS version 3.0.0 on my little fella;
and yes, the chip had a rox bios on it before when it worked, but the chip wasn't booting up when enabled anymore so I thought it was a faulty bios, and so tried to update to a more stable version.
Retreived 1959.RAR file from xbins, changed it to .bin file etc. (it's the one with a file size of 1059k)
Chip will happily flash the bios with all the switches off, or, with them set to on on off off; the setting you're recomended to use for first time flashing. (The poor chip is far from new at flashing now though I'm afraid. I can do this again and again.)
But...when I try to boot to the chip, I get the depressingly omnipresent frag, which it also did in a different box. (Though the blue light on the switch does come on in synch with the three attempts the box makes to boot.)
I've tried booting to the chip with every combination of switches; and all of them, I repeat, all, frag on startup. I've tried flashing the 1959 bios to every combination, and obviously, it won't work on the smaller banks because the file is too large; but then, it flashes with the switches off - and it flashes with them set to on on off off - and frags afterwards...
I'm assuming that the yellow light on the flash process is the chip erasing any previous bios in that bank, so surely I cannot have ruined the chip from too much flashing. Or could I?
One thing that may or may not be significant - the HD LED on the switch is working, but I haven't once seen the LAN one do anything at any time. Forgive my ignorance but I'm not sure what this light indicates (as I said, all my leads are connected up and giving current. Chip itself has two LED's on.)
If anyone can advise how to make little chippy boy chipper I'd be grateful.
Is it possible that I might be one of those 0.01 per cent people with a faulty chip?
