I have a ridiculously annoying xenon that is giving me no end of trouble. It barely works, just enough to let me know that things are wired correctly then won't boot again for days. Here's a rundown of everything it's doing.
- The error is 1033
- I got this thing second hand, it was previously a well-behaved xenon (supposedly) that started being a bastard. the previous owner gave up on it and gave it to me.
- the board was in good shape, none of the nand/jtag points were broken (multimeter tested).
- c2t7 (iirc, the one by the ram on the bottom) was broken in half lengthwise, replaced part from a junker xenon.
- it looks like his screwdriver slipped removing the xclamps and scraped over the lines in the center of the bottom of the board directly across where the cpu-gpu talk. no other visible damage to board.
- I have tried diodes, resistors (old method), different values, every combination I can think of. He even gave me one of those E79 xenon xecuter thingies he bought but never installed, no go.
- Do not have the original nand, was given one that I was told was before XBR was installed but the SMC/CB both changed (which I pulled off the nand). Either way it certainly won't boot.
- Tried to make an "original" nand using jtag tool's xbr->clean nand function, no go.
- the j2d2 points are all 1.5Kohms.
- tried multiple parts and diodes, have redone the whole thing at least 10 times now, no real change.
- nand is clean, no bad blocks reading or writing.
Now heres where things get annoying. I made a 14699 one with multibuilder 0.7 and the xbr version I pulled off the nand and it does boot, very very very randomly. But when it does boot it's rock solid, I played it for 30 min just to test and no problems. Shut it off and immediately back on, back to the endless 1033.
- The error is 1033
- I got this thing second hand, it was previously a well-behaved xenon (supposedly) that started being a bastard. the previous owner gave up on it and gave it to me.
- the board was in good shape, none of the nand/jtag points were broken (multimeter tested).
- c2t7 (iirc, the one by the ram on the bottom) was broken in half lengthwise, replaced part from a junker xenon.
- it looks like his screwdriver slipped removing the xclamps and scraped over the lines in the center of the bottom of the board directly across where the cpu-gpu talk. no other visible damage to board.
- I have tried diodes, resistors (old method), different values, every combination I can think of. He even gave me one of those E79 xenon xecuter thingies he bought but never installed, no go.
- Do not have the original nand, was given one that I was told was before XBR was installed but the SMC/CB both changed (which I pulled off the nand). Either way it certainly won't boot.
- Tried to make an "original" nand using jtag tool's xbr->clean nand function, no go.
- the j2d2 points are all 1.5Kohms.
- tried multiple parts and diodes, have redone the whole thing at least 10 times now, no real change.
- nand is clean, no bad blocks reading or writing.
Now heres where things get annoying. I made a 14699 one with multibuilder 0.7 and the xbr version I pulled off the nand and it does boot, very very very randomly. But when it does boot it's rock solid, I played it for 30 min just to test and no problems. Shut it off and immediately back on, back to the endless 1033.
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