RGH Excessive boot times on RGH2 Falcon

[Trimesh]

I just got given this console, and it takes a really long time to boot - often about 30 minutes.

I opened it up, and it has a Coolrunner Rev B, with all the wires going to what looks like the right places.

C15 is not installed (more precisely, it's up on one end) and there is a 10R resistor soldered to point D with a long wire (not coax cable) going to the CPU_RESET point.

Apart from this, it seems to work.

Some more (possibly not relevant) information:

Console will boot to XeLL releaded if powered up using eject, and does basically work
2BL A and B are 5772
Dash and kernel are 15574
DVD-ROM drive is Liteon DG-16D2S with unknown firmware

Basically, I am looking for advice on how to improve the boot times - after that, I was going to upgrade it, but I guess the first step has to be dealing with the slow boots.

 

[alexander_1333]

30 minutes is too long.Take a picture of cool runner, I bet is a clone.

 

[Trimesh]

30 minutes is too long.Take a picture of cool runner, I bet is a clone.

Well, here is is - it looks pretty normal to me, although I'm not that impressed wit the soldering.

 

[CptKlink]

Well Falcons never really liked RGH2 they have always been very picky and never work or take forever to boot.

 

[alexander_1333]

Definitely a clone, you can see by the CND instead of GND, square corners and white PRG/NOR switch.You will not get help in here, but you can post in request for a service and someone can fit a genuine TX cool runner in that xbox.If installed properly, boot times will bee under 1 minute.If you want something super fast, R-jtag is your option.

Edit:is the worst clone I've seen

 

[Trimesh]

I picked an easier solution:

1) Reflash drive to iXtreme LT
2) Reflash NAND with retail image
3) Rip board out and throw it away

Boots instantly now.

 

[Utmad]

I picked an easier solution:

1) Reflash drive to iXtreme LT
2) Reflash NAND with retail image
3) Rip board out and throw it away

Boots instantly now.

Now that is the best solution !!

 

[CptKlink]

Definitely a clone, you can see by the CND instead of GND, square corners and white PRG/NOR switch.You will not get help in here, but you can post in request for a service and someone can fit a genuine TX cool runner in that xbox.If installed properly, boot times will bee under 1 minute.If you want something super fast, R-jtag is your option.

Edit:is the worst clone I've seen

I have actually Seen worse clones. Like on the chip it says xilink, it has the TX logo but dosen't say anything else on the PCB diden't even say rev b or anything and didwen't even have the little running man logo just the TX logo and everything else was blank. Suprisenly it works really good for about a month then it just stopped working all together. I told my friend it woulden't work or it will only work for a short time he said i don't care i'm going to try and use it anyways.

 

[playingmax]

remove the C8 cap.and set the switch to slim

 

[Trimesh]

Well, this is fun - after restoring the console to retail state (except for the DVD drive), I turned it on with the network connected - and it connected to Live. I think this is the first RGH console I've ever seen that wasn't banned.