here's my mess I went through... hopefully it'll help you out.
Ok, so check this out... my FTP worked fine till I flashed the 3108 bios. Then it all went to crap. Disconnects like crazy for no reason. Resetting the Xbox a few times would eventually get me 3 more seconds of glory from my FTP session... just long enough to send 1 small file to my Xbox if I was lucky. Weirdly enough, if I used the "Xbox FTP Client" program and only sent files with my Xbox, everything worked fine... till I would try to receive anything.
I tried reflashing back to every old BIOS from 3029 all the way back to 1959. No luck. Then I got this crazy idea. I thought "what if flashing works like a PC using files." I mean really, I don't see how it could erase or overwrite things it was using to run, even if it does erase the bios first... it's all still in some memory somewhere. I decided I needed to reflash from nothing. I tried using the backup flashbios I have programmed on my chip... no luck. Then I got a new idea. I made the C:\BIOS directory on my Xbox. I put every bios I have in it... to include flashbios_v303.bin. I then went to my X3 bios configuration. Fromthere I went to the bios menu and told it to flash the main bios. I reflashed banks 1-4 (one at a time) with flashbios_v303. I then restarted... yep.. modchip was looking like new again... only 1 bios screen... the flashbios one. Once in that, I flashed mine with the 1959 bios (banks 1-4). It shut down after the flash was complete. I restarted and went to the X3 Bios screen. I then connected via FTP and I'll be damned if it didn't work perfect again! I played with it for about an hour and decided it was good. Next step... test out 3108. Instead up just overwriting BIOS 1959, I again reflashed banks 1-4 with flashbios_v303, rebooted, and flashed 3108 from my hard drive (remember? C:\BIOS I said I made). I've been connected to it for over 20 minutes now and no problems. It used to have issues in 10 seconds.
Sooo... what I'm thinking is that even though it says it's erasing the BIOS, it's keeping the FTP stuff in memory, thus that isn't being flashed over. Should it do this? Heck if I know but it doesn't seem like it should.
If you're having FTP issues or version 3108 issues, please try what I did. I'd love to know if it helped. If it does fix people's problems, do I win some prize? =D
When you do what I said, make sure you overwrite banks 1-4 one at a time... if you don't, part of the old bios will stil lbe around, thus negating any work you're trying to do.
Leptoid
X3CE Soldered onto V1.0 Xbox
Ok, so check this out... my FTP worked fine till I flashed the 3108 bios. Then it all went to crap. Disconnects like crazy for no reason. Resetting the Xbox a few times would eventually get me 3 more seconds of glory from my FTP session... just long enough to send 1 small file to my Xbox if I was lucky. Weirdly enough, if I used the "Xbox FTP Client" program and only sent files with my Xbox, everything worked fine... till I would try to receive anything.
I tried reflashing back to every old BIOS from 3029 all the way back to 1959. No luck. Then I got this crazy idea. I thought "what if flashing works like a PC using files." I mean really, I don't see how it could erase or overwrite things it was using to run, even if it does erase the bios first... it's all still in some memory somewhere. I decided I needed to reflash from nothing. I tried using the backup flashbios I have programmed on my chip... no luck. Then I got a new idea. I made the C:\BIOS directory on my Xbox. I put every bios I have in it... to include flashbios_v303.bin. I then went to my X3 bios configuration. Fromthere I went to the bios menu and told it to flash the main bios. I reflashed banks 1-4 (one at a time) with flashbios_v303. I then restarted... yep.. modchip was looking like new again... only 1 bios screen... the flashbios one. Once in that, I flashed mine with the 1959 bios (banks 1-4). It shut down after the flash was complete. I restarted and went to the X3 Bios screen. I then connected via FTP and I'll be damned if it didn't work perfect again! I played with it for about an hour and decided it was good. Next step... test out 3108. Instead up just overwriting BIOS 1959, I again reflashed banks 1-4 with flashbios_v303, rebooted, and flashed 3108 from my hard drive (remember? C:\BIOS I said I made). I've been connected to it for over 20 minutes now and no problems. It used to have issues in 10 seconds.
Sooo... what I'm thinking is that even though it says it's erasing the BIOS, it's keeping the FTP stuff in memory, thus that isn't being flashed over. Should it do this? Heck if I know but it doesn't seem like it should.
If you're having FTP issues or version 3108 issues, please try what I did. I'd love to know if it helped. If it does fix people's problems, do I win some prize? =D
When you do what I said, make sure you overwrite banks 1-4 one at a time... if you don't, part of the old bios will stil lbe around, thus negating any work you're trying to do.
Leptoid
X3CE Soldered onto V1.0 Xbox