Freakin falcon e79 1033 !!!

[MrSoprano2001]

I am going nuts with this Falcon v3.0 board...box history is never RROD or been sent into repair center. Nand info is as follows:

CB 5770
CD 5770 Patch 0 6683
CE 1888

this info comes from 360 Flash Dump Tool.

Ok I have soldered the pinheaders into the board and have Nand-X connected...have 6 perfectly matched dumps...I have used Nandpro,JTAG tool,360 Nand Flasher...and just about every other tool...all resulting in E79 1033 error...I have tried xell,xell updated with Xellous,XBR....NOTHING I have tried will boot...all solder joints have been re soldered even though they checked out good before and they all test fine now as well...I even tried the newer SMC hack using AUD_CLAMP and DVD Tray open points to no avail....even tried a Cygnos 360 V2 Rev E which has since been removed.....all have had the same result...when the stock nand is flashed back to the nand the console boots as if it were brand new....when the Cygnos was installed the same was true for both the onboard nand and the Cygnos nand....stock boots fine but NOTHING else gives you anything but E79 1033...read about 330 ohm resistors and sometimes 470 ohm resistors taking the place of the J2D2 pin 4 to pin 7 jumper wire so I tried this as well to no avail....I have tried the methods above with and without config injected to the images and with kv injected and even tried to write the image and then write kv ...same result...as you can probably tell by this post ...this isn't my first rodeo but this is the most stubborn bull I have ever seen.....Help me some kind soul PLEASE!!!

 

[manwithoutname]

I take it that the NAND dumps were free from bad blocks?

 

[J2G]

Holy Crap thats some list you got there lol i have my own personal Jtag Falcon had a small bit of trouble with e79 had one 1 bad block remapped it used Nand X & Coolshrimp came out ok then was getting it now and again after that but made a custom FreeBoot with dash launch using BestPig ToolBox and i have not seen it sense not saying thats going to work for you but i dont think i seen Coolshrimp in the big list... or is it there lol

Edit i see it ....

 

[MrSoprano2001]

Yeah I had a bad block at 0x30A remapped it and still no luck.


Coolshrimp's app while being very handy and cool....didn't work for me either...I am telling ya I am against a brick wall on this one ....most stubborn one I have ever seen...been watching and praying Team X comes out with a kit to combat the Falcon E79 errors much like they did for the Xeon board...of course this would have to mean that someone has found the cause of the problem and from the 100 or so forums and threads I have seen on this issue since I encountered it ....I don't think it's going to happen soon.

 

[Kacosa]

imo, E79 occurs on poor Jtag wiring. But random E79 can be solved by following this tutorial http://www.team-xecuter.com/forums/showthread.php?t=55189 it solved my problem on my Falcon.

 

[M AzeeM K]

Once you make the freeBOOT image from the original NAND image which contains the bad block, the bad block will not be carried on to the freeBOOT image. Now what you have to do is to remap the exact block in the freeBOOT image which was actually present as a bad block in the original NAND image. Then write this remapped image to the console. Hopefully this will fix your problem.

 

[MrSoprano2001]

Peeps....god bless you for the fast and sincere reply...however you are missing the entire problem here ...I can not get the box to boot XBR ,Xell, Free60 or anything to get the cpu key so that I can move on to the rest of the procedure. I have had a thousand people tell me " Ahhhh ehhhh there's your problem poor soldering job...." ummm no I solder all day every day at work I know how to do it right and how to test it and the parts I am soldering ...these joints as I said all test good... so it's not the solder...it did the same thing when the cygnos was attached and the Cygnos was working perfectly besides the E79...if anyone here has ever installed one of those you'd know the soldering there is a challenge and there is no room for error....the tut that Kacosa sent me the link to is pretty much where I am at now ...difference being I took tray open to the bottom of the mobo and not the wire.....everything done the exact same way otherwise and still E79 1033

I am using a Nand X (which I love...great product) and this makes things a lot faster than LPT ...I don't have the QSB attached to JTAG point because the one that was included with my kit was missing a quick solder contact on one of the contact points....other than that the only two ideas I would offer Team X to improve on the NAND-X would be a longer USB cable and some sort of wire relief at the plug where the wires from the mobo plug into the nand x...I have found that sometimes that plug can require some effort to get in and out of the nand x...always worried about pulling a wire out ot the plug.

 

[manwithoutname]

You remapped the 30A block on xell after you modified xell's smc points for the alternate JTAG points?

 

[MrSoprano2001]

Yes sir I remapped the block in the first xell image as well as the image after the smc patch....I remapped the block in the xbr image before and after as well.....not that this matters one bit because as I said before the block is nowhere near the first 50 but I remapped it anyways...tried flashing nand with no remap and then erased nand and tried to flash remapped image E79 1033 on both. ...like I said bad block is at 0x30A so it's towards the end of the nand.


Just a thought...I read somewhere something about a second boot loader being put on boxes to stop the hack before the official ms update was completed and released....any idea how I could tell by the dump if this is the case? I mean just seems weird nothing works but stock works...no read or write errors...using proven and tested methods....also what exactly does this part of the dump info mean in 360 flash dump tool> CD 5770 Patch 0 6683 I understand the CD part but does the Patch 0 6683 mean there was some sort of patch applied to this box?

 

[manwithoutname]

I'm not sure but I would assume the 6683 relates to an older dash version the console was upgraded from!!!!

 

[MrSoprano2001]

Yeah could be....well just put another few hours on this lil project....enough for tonight...still the exact same thing....took all wires off and flashed to stock and started all over from scratch...and well you prob. guessed it....E79 1033 so I am officially out of ideas for now. ...any input or ideas you guys get feel free to drop me a line and let me know.


Well after stripping everything off my mobo and pc and starting from scratch again.....still same results....so after trying every method and software combo known to man I decided to try a LOOOOOONG shot and try using the zepher hacked SMC and guess what it worked believe it or not....I have no IDEA HOW WHY NO DO I CARE.....thing is it worked!!!!! I am up and running Freeboot 32 on 9199 and LOVING IT!!!! Thanks to all who tried to help me in any way poss. and COOLSHRIMP thanks for the app. JTAG tool.....it did the final write....so I have to give credit where credit is do.