RGH falcon flashcontroller not found (after glitch)

[eyesonly]

Finally added a coolrunner to my falcon box today.
Only problem is: it won't glitch.
When putting the power connector into the box, the CR red light goes on.
When pressing the power button on the box, I see a green light every 5~10 seconds or so, but no glitch.

On the front side of the box, the middle green light keeps burning (no flickering).

Checked everything and made a new ecc file.
Wrote them to my box about 3 times with dosbox and nandpro2.0e, but without any succes.

Then I tried making an ecc file with the jtag tool.
After flashing it with the jtag tool and discovering it didn't work (again), I tried to flash it again through nandpro, but now it doesn't find my nand anymore. (could nog detect flash controller).
The box itself still powers on, but that's it.
Could the nand be corrupt?

Thanks for the replies.

 

[garageinc]

could be you have disturbed a joint to the nandx. check over your points as no flash controller found is almost always poor soldering. also sometimes the nandx can lock up giving this error so get a pin and locate the small hole in the top casing and insert the pin to hit the reset button on the nandx.

 

[eyesonly]

garageinc,

Thanks for the quick reply.
Forgot to mention I used a lpt cable for the nand programming.

 

[garageinc]

i'm not familiar with lpt dumping and programming. would imagine the connections being bad would still give the same error though. i've had poor joints read a few times then stop detecting so i'd still try testing the continuity on them or reconnecting them. normally in my case any problems have always been the yellow wire on my nandx (not sure what wire that is for you on lpt) so i tend to just wedge it under the memory card slot casing rather than soldering it to the board. its only a ground point anyway.

 

[eyesonly]

Also noticed that the box powers up when activating it through the xbox controller, so nand still understands these commands.

Can't imagine that flashing with jtag tool destroyed my nand.

 

[blastagator]

Definitely the solder job. Check all points. Also, make sure nothing is shorting.

 

[keil423]

Redo your soldering and use flux.

 

[x360ccm]

press the eject button to power on see if it boots into xell

 

[eyesonly]

The coolrunner couldn't have anything to do with it?
In other words: do I need to check the coolrunner wiring?

 

[eyesonly]

checked the wiring, but couldn't find any problems with it.

Curious thing though; when trying to dump the nand it does see the flash controller 1 out of 10 times or so.
Here a 3 results where it was found:

Attempt 1:
C:\xbox360\Nandpro20e>nandpro lpt: -r1 tst.bin
NandPro v2.0e by Tiros

Testing LPT device address:0378
Using LPT device at address:0378
Flash Config: 0x00008000
Block Size: 16KB Block Limits: 0x000000..0x00003F
File: tst.bin
Reading
Error: 46 reading block 0
Error: 46 reading block 1
Error: 46 reading block 2
Error: 46 reading block 3
Error: 46 reading block 4
Error: 46 reading block 5

Attempt 2:
C:\xbox360\Nandpro20e>nandpro lpt: -r1 tst.bin
NandPro v2.0e by Tiros

Testing LPT device address:0378
Using LPT device at address:0378
Flash Config: 0x00008000
Block Size: 16KB Block Limits: 0x000000..0x00003F
File: tst.bin
Reading
Error: 46 reading block 0
Error: 46 reading block 1
Error: 46 reading block 2
Error: 46 reading block 3
Error: 46 reading block 4
Error: 46 reading block 5

Attempt 3:
C:\xbox360\Nandpro20e>nandpro lpt: -r1 tst.bin
NandPro v2.0e by Tiros

Testing LPT device address:0378
Using LPT device at address:0378
Flash Config: 0x00800046
Block Size: 16KB Block Limits: 0x000000..0x00003F
File: tst.bin
Reading
Error:4660 reading block 0
Error:4660 reading block 1
Error:4660 reading block 2
Error:4660 reading block 3

As stated, these 3 results or 3 hits of out 30-40 attempts or so.

Is there anything different in building an ECC file with multi builder 0.3 or the jtag tool?

Any thoughts?

 

[eyesonly]

Very strange is the flash config.
One of my earlier dumps (weeks ago), gave this:

Testing LPT device address:0378
Using LPT device at address:0378
Flash Config: 0x01198010
Block Size: 16KB Block Limits: 0x000000..0x0003FF

What's with the strange flash config in the other dumps.

 

[eyesonly]

Well, I gave up.
Tried everything including resoldering the lpt cable to the mainboard.
Nand just isn't seen anymore.

Any ideas if a progskeet with a 360 clip can help me out here?
the whole set costs about 100 Euros, and not needed for anything else, so need to know if it can help or not.

Thanks.

 

[AudioProUK]

look into a cygnos chip that will definately get you back in the game

 

[eyesonly]

Thanks for the advice.
When reading correctly, the cygnos flashes the chip through other connections.
Which one should I take, the one with a nand already on it or the newer one without?

Can I just dump my previous taken dumps with my lpt dumper to put them on the cygnos?

 

[AudioProUK]

If you just want to use use it to programme the nand then just the newer one will do but if you want to dual boot it (for live use although it`s not confirmed as safe ) then the older rev `e` would be the one .

Just to expand on that if you get the one with the nand on it , you can switch between hacked and non hacked nand


Yes the dumps you have are fine

 

[eyesonly]

Update:
I've brought it to a professional modder:
Seems the other guy who installed the coolrunner soldered a wire on the wrong connection!

Nevertherless I couldn't suddenly flash the nand with my home made lpt cable which I used about 10 times since I installed it 1,5 years ago.
He took all the cables out and installed the matrix nand flasher and worked like a charm.

For future updates (like dashlaunch 2.27) do I need to flash/mod the whole nand again or does it suffice to only flash/update it partially?