RGH Coolrunner only flashing once or twice

andynov123

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Anybody else have experience with this issue? What was your solution?

My coolrunner, when the console is booted, will only come on for 1 to 3 flashes of the green light and then it will just stay red without anymore green. I don't understand why this is happening. This is not the first xbox that this has happened to. Surely somebody else has had this issue.
 

andynov123

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I never could quite figure out what a "BB" Jasper is, but it's a 16mb Jasper if that answeres your question (BB = Big Block?) This is either then second or third xbox that this has happened to me and I was unable to get either of them working. It literally just stops flashing and my soldering appears fine which is usually the first culprit I imagine. What coils are you referring to?
 

Martin C

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If it stops blinking, it's normally because it's done the job and it looks to boot the exploited code on the NAND. If nothing's happening, check what you've written to the NAND.
 

dogeatdog

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If you don't know what you are talking about please don't give advice

BB = Big Block = 256MB/512MB
Read again. andynov is replying to a question asked by sean. He is not giving advice, but asking for it and acknowledging he didn't know what it meant
 
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andynov123

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Although I was skeptical any solution would come of it, I rearranged the wires on the underside of the mobo to move away from the coils on top which is what I'm guessing you were suggesting but this has not fixed the issue. About an hour ago I started working on the chip side of things. Reflashed the chip with jasper timing, then when that didn't work I erased the chip, the reflashed it. Still does not work. I am at a standstill at this point and very frustrated. Not sure what to do as I seem to have exhaused all options. I am still open to suggestions.

When I flash the nand back to original it gives the same 049 at 3ff error message, but it does boot into normal dash as one would expect so I'm not even sure that the bad block is even all that significant. However, I would like to still get it resolved and I will freely admit that I didn't know about the NAND or anything like that prior to attempting to learn about this coolrunner and reset glitch, and I'm still trying to learn and I know I don't know everything about it. I'm trying to grasp the concept of what unmapping and remapping even is so when I hear instructions to "move it to the end" I really don't even know how to accomplish that. I take it to mean move the bad block to another location in the nand, but then I think about how that will leave a blank block so you can see how I don't really get it. I guess I am crossreferencing posts now, but just sayin...

Is it possible that one of the wires I am using from coolrunner is discontinuous? I do have a multimeter and I have been checking ponts so that seems unlikely but thats what this has come to. Thinking of very unlikely things. It's also 5am here so after spending well over the sum of 30 hours trying to get just 2 xbox to work and running into software problems, driver problems, and the like it kinda gets to me.
 
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andynov123

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Here is a video of my issue in queston. Usually I get 1 flash but sometimes it's two or even three.

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andynov123

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I've tried jtag tool, multibuilder .2 and .3, ggbuild, and python

to flash I have tried jtag tool, nandpro 3
 
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andynov123

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in jtag there is no command, but in nandpro i first go to the directory by cd "directory"


then "nandpro usb: +w16 image_00000000.ecc"

And now you can add that piggy app for creating .ecc, and ecc glitch generator for not doing anything because it's an appropriately named app.
 
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andynov123

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I have logged about 10 hours of time due to multibuilder v0.3. When I switched to v0.2 it worked for once on my brothers console. However, I have gathered the data you requested:

* found flash image, unpacking...
ECC'ed - will unecc.
Found 2BL (build 6750) at 00008000
Found 4BL (build 8453) at 00011a40
Found 5BL (build 1888) at 000171c0
* found decrypted CD
* found XeLL binary, must be linked to 1c000000
* we found the following parts:
SMC: 2.3
CB_A: 6750
CB_B: missing
CD (image): 8453
CD (decrypted): 8453
* checking for proper 1BL key... ok
* decrypting...
* checking if all files decrypted properly... ok
* checking required versions... ok
* this image will be valid *only* for: jasper/CB_6750
* patching SMC...
CRC32: 5b3aed00
patchset "Jasper, version 2.3" matches, 1 patch(es)
* zero-pairing...
* constructing new image...
* base size: 70000
* No separate recovery Xell available!
* Flash Layout:
0x00000000..0x000001ff (0x00000200 bytes) Header
0x00000200..0x00000fff (0x00000e00 bytes) Padding
0x00001000..0x00003fff (0x00003000 bytes) SMC
0x00004000..0x00007fff (0x00004000 bytes) Keyvault
0x00008000..0x00011a3f (0x00009a40 bytes) CB_A 6750
0x00011a40..0x00017a3f (0x00006000 bytes) CD 8453
0x00017a40..0x000bffff (0x000a85c0 bytes) Padding
0x000c0000..0x000fffff (0x00040000 bytes) Xell (backup)
0x00100000..0x0013ffff (0x00040000 bytes) Xell (main)
* Encoding ECC, please wait ...
------------- Written to ...\Data\image_00000000.ecc
Press any key to continue . . .



I also tried flashing with this image and same issue with blinking for 1 or 2 times.
 
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andynov123

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Here are some pics of install.













The orange wire may not look well attached from these pictures, but I used a multimeter to confirm that it is connected to where it needs to be and not to where it not needs to be. Also, the blue wire is not touching the other pad, it just may look like that from this angle.
 
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