Once upon a time, I was casually exploring XBMP and I accidentally set the 'Video Region' to Pal. This is where my XBOX adventure begins:
To my disgust, this halted Xecuter 3 from loading all the way into the BIOs setting where I could attempt to reset the video back to NTSC. So, I booted to the original MSDashboard, only to be welcomed by an Error code 21. Hm.
I tried holding the white button upon reboot. Nope. Nothing. X3 Bios simply hangs at the start up screen.
I held down the left trigger + X button for NTSC. Nothing again. By this time, I was feeling a little helpless, and quite angry as well. But I was compelled to go on.
'Fine', I thought, So I confidently inserted my Video Selector disk and noticed that the DVD had lost functionality! All my disks worked before. So it's not the disks.
'Ok, f*k this, let's just get a new HD', I thought. Stupidly, I removed the drive, and took it out of the XBOX without backing up the EEprom, nor my C: drive, and neither did I write down my hard disk's lock key. I had planned to transfer the contents of the C: drive to a brand, spanking new hard disk at a PC shop, but now I didn't have the access codes to even unlock the darn thing. The shop workers assumed my disk was fragged. Later, I realized that the hard disk's file system was in FATx--which is unreadable to the PC. However, by this time, I had already tossed in a garbage bin.
Well, now I had this new, Western Digital, 120 gig hard disk and I managed to copy the contents of the C: folder from Slayer auto-installer on to a newly created C: partition drive. I formatted this partition with FAT32. (please, someone tell me whether this is wrong or right). I thought perhaps the original files would reset the system back to its original state.
Now, X3 bios still doesn't load up and I have a new error code--the irrepressible Error code 16. This means there's a dashboard reading error. The XBOX I know, needs to reset my clock, so it must open the dashboard to access the menu system. My frustration was replaced by befuddlement, because I have a xboxdash.xbe file on the C: drive and all related XBOX files from Slayer Auto-Installer.
So, dear readers, what do I do next? Do I reflash my EEProm? How do I do that? How can I set my clock when I can't get my dashboard to come up? My objective is only to get NTSC back, believe it or not.
Thanks, guys. Sorry for this long winded post. Besides being a complete doorknob for not backing up my HD, I didn't want to give the impression I didn't do a bit of research first before posting this.
To my disgust, this halted Xecuter 3 from loading all the way into the BIOs setting where I could attempt to reset the video back to NTSC. So, I booted to the original MSDashboard, only to be welcomed by an Error code 21. Hm.
I tried holding the white button upon reboot. Nope. Nothing. X3 Bios simply hangs at the start up screen.
I held down the left trigger + X button for NTSC. Nothing again. By this time, I was feeling a little helpless, and quite angry as well. But I was compelled to go on.
'Fine', I thought, So I confidently inserted my Video Selector disk and noticed that the DVD had lost functionality! All my disks worked before. So it's not the disks.
'Ok, f*k this, let's just get a new HD', I thought. Stupidly, I removed the drive, and took it out of the XBOX without backing up the EEprom, nor my C: drive, and neither did I write down my hard disk's lock key. I had planned to transfer the contents of the C: drive to a brand, spanking new hard disk at a PC shop, but now I didn't have the access codes to even unlock the darn thing. The shop workers assumed my disk was fragged. Later, I realized that the hard disk's file system was in FATx--which is unreadable to the PC. However, by this time, I had already tossed in a garbage bin.
Well, now I had this new, Western Digital, 120 gig hard disk and I managed to copy the contents of the C: folder from Slayer auto-installer on to a newly created C: partition drive. I formatted this partition with FAT32. (please, someone tell me whether this is wrong or right). I thought perhaps the original files would reset the system back to its original state.
Now, X3 bios still doesn't load up and I have a new error code--the irrepressible Error code 16. This means there's a dashboard reading error. The XBOX I know, needs to reset my clock, so it must open the dashboard to access the menu system. My frustration was replaced by befuddlement, because I have a xboxdash.xbe file on the C: drive and all related XBOX files from Slayer Auto-Installer.
So, dear readers, what do I do next? Do I reflash my EEProm? How do I do that? How can I set my clock when I can't get my dashboard to come up? My objective is only to get NTSC back, believe it or not.
Thanks, guys. Sorry for this long winded post. Besides being a complete doorknob for not backing up my HD, I didn't want to give the impression I didn't do a bit of research first before posting this.