cooked BIOS - help

lee_howes

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Jan 6, 2007
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Hi all - this is a real noobie question (I suspect).

I have an xbox v1.0 - very early model - I had to unsolder the LPC header holes to fit the header!!

So far got it booting into FlashBIOS 3.0.3 - so I acquired a BIN and flashed bank 1234 (on on off off). After flashing xbox turned off - when I turned it on screen was black and eject button flashes green/red - when I started it with a long press on power button I get MS dash OK. So I remembered the bit in the instructions which says when it all goes wrong boot xbox holding power & eject buttons. I did this and X symbol went sort of lilac color but xbox booted into FlashBIOS 3.0.3 again - I thought this would have copied the image from the backup to 1234 so it was back to start. So I tried reflashing same image and guess what - now when I boot on 1234 I get black screen of death and red/green flashing eject button and I get the same if I boot holding thepower & eject button. So I have finally realised that I have flashed a bad image on the 1234 and backup. So I switched to 5678 (off on off off) and the xbox boots into FlashBIOS 3.0.3 again :)

So my question is - how do I restore this image on to bank 1234 and the backup image??

Also how do you know which images are any good and where is the best place to find them? I used emule and the image/s I tried to use came from a file called "Xbox Bios Evox m8 Bin m8 16 Bin" and when unzipped contained a file called m8.bin and another called m8_16.bin. These are the 2 images that I used to cook the X3CE.

Any help greatly appreciated!!!
 

lee_howes

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Jan 6, 2007
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I just had a thought but cant find the answer in the forum...

If I boot on bank 5678 which works - whilst the xbox is on switch to 1234 and then flash the image - which image am I flashing? Hopefully it would be 1234 so then that would restore it.

If this is correct where can I get the FlashBIOS 3.0.3 image and also how do I fix the backup image as I need to power the Xbox up holding eject & power to access it?
 

DJBOOBY

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Sep 24, 2005
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If I boot on bank 5678 which works - whilst the xbox is on switch to 1234 and then flash the image - which image am I flashing? Hopefully it would be 1234 so then that would restore it.
yes this is the way you should flash it but the only way to flash the backup (power eject at same time) is with the x3 bios so i wounld think it should still work
are you using the right x3 bios for your xbox
x3 3294 for v1.0 to v1.5 xboxs
x3 3294 v16 plus for v1.6 and v1.6b xboxs
 

lee_howes

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Jan 6, 2007
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Hi DJ

Thanks for the advice - I did actually fix it and posted an update but for some reason the update didnt post.

What I found was that after leaving it turned off for a short while the backup BIOS started to work again. I downloaded the X3 bios from #xbins and booted the Xbox on 5678 - swithed to 1234 with the unit powered up... HTTP'd the BIOS to the Xbox and it had installed it correctly on 1234.

So now all I need to work out is how to load XBMC so that from 1234 it boots into XBMC... I will look elsewhere on the forums as I am sure there must already be loads of tips on this.

Thanks again