Eject Reset Adaptor What is it good for?

[iam70]

Hi,

I am a newbie trying to mod a version 1.0 with an Xecuter 2.6 CE lite (http://www.divineo.com/cgi-bin/div-us/dd-xb-x26-sl).

Tried the solderless adaptor for weeks and could not get it to work. The people from Divinio pointed to this tutorial Xecuter 3 Installation Tutorial (Rev 1.02) Pin Header : v1.0 - v1.5 at
http://teamxecuter.entryhost.com/x3...tm?CMSSESSID=b0463c5fbcace5a95c9ec6e457ef4686

So my buddy and I decided to solder after all. We soldered in the pinheader and the D0, Lan LED and HD LED. We then realized that we do not have the described Power/Eject No Solder Adapter (Item 3 on the list).

We booted the xbox up nonetheless and it seemed to work, we were greeted with the Flashbios 3.03 screen. We tried then to flash the bios and the issue is now when turning the xbox off and back on it will stall. Fan is blowing, screen is dark, squeeking noise, FRAG and the only way to turn off is to disconnect the power supply. Strange thing is when you wait a few minutes it will turn on again and get to the flashbios screen.

What should I do? Try to get the missing part? What is it really? In the list of items it is called the Eject / Reset Adaptor. In the description further down it is referred to as the "Power/Eject No Solder Adapter". In some posts I read that people disconnected this adaptor to fix problems.

I am terribly confused and frustrated. Should I try to return to the solderless solution and see if I can get that to work? If not where could I get such an adaptor plus cable? The vendor I bought the chip from is not responding.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

 

[DJBOOBY]

what bios did you use
x2 5035 v1.0 to v1.5 xboxs
x2 5035v16 plus v1.6 v1.6b xboxs
allso check for solder splash on motherboard as well as solder were its not mean to be (across two pins on pinheader)

 

[iam70]

I did not get to flash the chip yet. I thought it was best to wait until I have established that the hardware install was solid. Would it help if put a BIOS on the chip when I actually once again get it to boot ok? The pinheader solder connections look ok but I will try again in the morning.

 

[vincentn2k2]

Buddy, the Eject/Reset adapter is not required for 2.6 chip. I think that the 2.6 CE Lite you mentioned above is actually the 2.6CE itself. It should comes with a DIP switch bank selector that you can use to switch Flash Protect on/off, use Bank1 or use Bank 2. I have a feeling that the BIOS 5035 of yours is probably not the right one. How about try looking for it on xbins? Do a couple of things first:
1. Check and make sure that you can ping the xbox from your PC
2. What was the status during the flashing process? did it say it was successful?
3. I notice that you mentioned you see FlashBIOS 3.0.3 on your TV. What you need to do AFTER flashing BIOS 5035 is:
3.a Turn off your xbox
3.b Flick the little DIP switch to Bank 1 and turn the box on.

Always remeber that when you flash, the BIOS would always go to Bank1 first. Make sure that the BIOS is 512KB and not 1MB before flashing.

Good luck

 

[Catalyst]

Ok, the eject/reset adapter allows you to do a quick press to get to the chip and a long press to play disabled. Since you don't have it you are pressing and the xbox is trying to boot normally, failing and then booting to the flash bios.

This is not a problem. If you flash it will work but you'll always have that annoying "double start" to deal with.

Just flash with the files that DJBOOBY said to and press on.

After you do that it will try to start "disabled" and then boot to the chip.

 

[iam70]

Thanks for everyone's help. It still does not work by now the xbox will only frag and not turn on. I did not detect any solder splashes and do not see that any pins in the pinheader are connected. Please note the zoom in the upper right hand corner.

The solder connections seem solid. Could it be that my xecuter 2.6 CE lite does require different conncetions than the 3.0 chip that was described in the instruction I followed? Does anyone see here something that could cause the problem?

Please note that we mixed up the grey and red cable and so exchanged the plugs (not shown on the picture) to connect it to the chip. If you need to see more pictures please let me know.

 

[upinsmoke]

the solider on your pin header look like they are cold solidered meaning that the solider is only attached to the pin header not the pin header and the board.

also in the big picture the upper side of the pin header looks burn check for broken traces.

make sure that after you swapped the plugs that they are making a good connection, you should of just resolidered the wire

double check your D0 pointto make sure that 2 of them are no bridged

 

[iam70]

Should I add more solder to the pin heads to ensure that they connect to the board? Also, did I pick the correct solder points? I chose the X3 ones, are they the same for the 2.6?

 

[commandersafi]

Don't add more solder. desolder then resolder it. And the X3 has the same pinheader as X2.6

 

[iam70]

We have resoldered all connections. See picture.

Booting up is still hit or miss. I was able to flash the bios x2 5035 (found on xbins) and flashing progressed normally and seemed to be done. From time to time, machine boots up and it says "xecuter 2 live loading ..." on a black screen background. From that point nothing ever changes. When turning machine off it does not boot up again.

I am also under the impression that taking it does boot up only after taking main board out and putting all the pieces back together. For a time, we thought it was a power related issue because unplugging the power cord from the xbox and putting it back in seemed to make a difference. We could hear a small static discharge. But this does not work all the time.

Another thing that is different with this board than any other we modded is that the controller hook ups or on a seperate standing-up piece of board just like a memory chip on a PC mainboard. See picture. This vertical board is actually quite loose but all connections seem fine.

We are really at a loss here. We have soldered and resoldered all connections on the board and also the two cable connections. Any help is appreciated.

 

[Fantmx]

Looking at the insert of the LPC bus, it looks like a lot of heat was used, and the area is pretty messy. Also, you have the wrong wires going to the HDD, LAN and D0. The D0 should be grey, not red. Why is there an exposed solder joint on the D0 wire? That looks like a short just waiting to happen. What happened to the D0 point on the board? It looks like there is a huge solder blob around it.

The USB daughter boards were used in 1.0 and maybe 1.1 machines, but I'm not positive on the 1.1. They don't feel like they are plugged in real tight, but that is just how they are.