Danm Flash BIOS

[pikappfrat522]

Ok, so my buddy and I install his Xecuter 3 CE today on his V1.0 xbox. First it starts constantly rebooting itself when we try to power it on, so we take it apart and resolder everything. Put it back together and it boots up correctly giving us the "FlashBIOS" screen. We "unlock" the hard drive, then enable network flashing. Set the dipsticks properly (on on off off off), and upload the most recent Xecuter bios, acquired from xbins via http. The process completes correctly and powers itself down (as supposed to). We boot it back up and the box just turns right off. No video output at all. If we swap the dipsticks to a different bios, it boots us back into flashbios with no problem.

Any ideas/ help is greatly appreciated.

 

[commodorex000]

did you use the right bios?

 

[CoHPhasor]

the right bios is "X3 3108.bin" and NOT the "X3 3108v16plus.bin" Bios since you don't have an Xbox 1.6 or 1.6b

 

[TadaenSylvermane]

minor note, make sure you rename the 3108 to bios.bin... without that it wont register the bios correctly

 

[Catalyst]

Set the dipsticks...

heh... dipsticks!

Me thinkie commodorex000's right...

 

[CoHPhasor]

*sigh*

The above post by Sylvermane is incorrect. If you are using the DISC FLASH option, THEN you need to rename the bios.

If you are using the HTTP flash you need ONLY to flash the correct version.
IF (at a date after you can FTP onto your HD) you choose the HDD flash option it will give you a list of the bioses currently in the "C:BIOS/" folder.
(At that point all your different Bioses being named "BIOS.BIN" would be retarted.

 

[pikappfrat522]

hey thanks for all the replys. i actually am using xbox v 1.1 if that makes much of a difference, we're going to go over the solder points again and yes we used the x3_3108 bios file. i dont really know what else it could be. we're also going to try a disk install of the bios instead of http. thanks again

 

[Kuma15]

if you find a solution to your problem could you please reply, because i am in the same boat and cant figure out whats going on. thanks!

 

[pikappfrat522]

well it good to know im not the only one. i found out that bios version 1959 will stop my xbox from shuting down and starting its self again, but i get no video or audio. why im happy for a black screen i would like it to work. i'm still using http but i'm going to try to boot from cd next i'll let you know if this works. i also re-soldered the bored.

 

[Kuma15]

you will probably find that bios 2914 works, you will get aud and vid, but you will not be able to save settings...

 

[pikappfrat522]

HOLY SH*&T it works....now i want to know what the problem is and how to fix it. thanks for reply!! we've been working on this for two days.

 

[pikappfrat522]

ok well like you said we cant save. anyone know a fix for this??

 

[Kuma15]

HOLY SH*&T it works....now i want to know what the problem is and how to fix it. thanks for reply!! we've been working on this for two days.

yep, iv been working on it for about 2 weeks and no answers yet

all i get is answers saying i soldered badly or im doing something completely wrong...even tho--im not... and iv resoldered about 5 times now...

 

[pikappfrat522]

yea same here. i know my soldering is fine sine i can get this up. if you find anything please post it here.

 

[Kuma15]

you find any solution to this problem?

 

[pikappfrat522]

Yes i did. i bought the $24.00 soderless extension for it and since i had an old xbox i used that mb instead and now it works. seems to be a soldering issue no matter how i looked at it