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I think I'm retarded.
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Xbox 1.6
Just thought I would throw this out here has nothing to do with the bios problem.Just got an Xbox 1.6 myself and was curiouse on how dificult it was to place in the solderless adapter.I have a 1.4 also which was easy with only having to mess with the one D0 wire.. I see this one has multiple wires and an alt 5v clip is that right?
Just thought I would throw this out here has nothing to do with the bios problem.Just got an Xbox 1.6 myself and was curiouse on how dificult it was to place in the solderless adapter.I have a 1.4 also which was easy with only having to mess with the one D0 wire.. I see this one has multiple wires and an alt 5v clip is that right?
metalgear
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Hey man I gotta ask
are you REnaming the bios??
the bios you download is X3 3294_v16_plus ou have to rename it so that it is called bios
Have you done that?
re post#20
I have a 1.6
my brothers is a 1.4
his chip got ll messed up(I duuno how)
I flashed his chip with 3294 on banks1234 and then on 5678 I put V16_plus
point is with the flip of a switch I can change it from V1.4 to V1.6
you should be able to use your friends box in the same way bu put flashbios 3.0.3 on 1234 and put 3294 on 5678
then put it back in your console if all goes well when you switch to 1234 you'll get flashbios and when you switch to 5678 you get the X3 config live
if it works my advice would be TURN ON flash protect and leave the thing alone
are you REnaming the bios??
the bios you download is X3 3294_v16_plus ou have to rename it so that it is called bios
Have you done that?
re post#20
I have a 1.6
my brothers is a 1.4
his chip got ll messed up(I duuno how)
I flashed his chip with 3294 on banks1234 and then on 5678 I put V16_plus
point is with the flip of a switch I can change it from V1.4 to V1.6
you should be able to use your friends box in the same way bu put flashbios 3.0.3 on 1234 and put 3294 on 5678
then put it back in your console if all goes well when you switch to 1234 you'll get flashbios and when you switch to 5678 you get the X3 config live
if it works my advice would be TURN ON flash protect and leave the thing alone
blairjustinb,
Yes, I think that will work. Like metalgear says you can flash your chip in your mates xbox with the 3294 v1.6plus.
You can also hot swap the chip, by booting your mates machine into flashbios if he still has it on one of his banks or boot the backup with power and eject. Then once you have flashbios on screen you can remove his chip and fit your own, set the switches for a 1mb bank and flash it with 3294 v1.6plus. After it has finished flashing and shut itself down remove your chip and replace his and reset the switches back to his setting for him. Then put your chip back in yours and boot from the bank you flashed.
The other thing you can try is if your mate has an alternative dashboard that has a filemanager on it he can copy the bios.bin file off a cdrw onto the c: drive of his xbox. Fit your chip in his box and boot to the backup bios or flashbios, set the switches for a 1mb bank ( on.on.off.off.off ) and use flash from harddrive. This eliminates the disk reading process. If you do this then I think that you don't have to rename the bios file, just unrar and copy the correct bios version across.
Yes, I think that will work. Like metalgear says you can flash your chip in your mates xbox with the 3294 v1.6plus.
You can also hot swap the chip, by booting your mates machine into flashbios if he still has it on one of his banks or boot the backup with power and eject. Then once you have flashbios on screen you can remove his chip and fit your own, set the switches for a 1mb bank and flash it with 3294 v1.6plus. After it has finished flashing and shut itself down remove your chip and replace his and reset the switches back to his setting for him. Then put your chip back in yours and boot from the bank you flashed.
The other thing you can try is if your mate has an alternative dashboard that has a filemanager on it he can copy the bios.bin file off a cdrw onto the c: drive of his xbox. Fit your chip in his box and boot to the backup bios or flashbios, set the switches for a 1mb bank ( on.on.off.off.off ) and use flash from harddrive. This eliminates the disk reading process. If you do this then I think that you don't have to rename the bios file, just unrar and copy the correct bios version across.
i have renamed it to bios.bin and dummy.bin (dummy file did not need to be renamed) and used a cd-rw. it detects the disc, displays the disc label, detects the bios and displays its label, give sme the flashing xecuter screen and the warning, then it just stays there on that screen, the led on the front flashes amber/green. left it alone for a while, thought it might be a time thing, nothing. when i went to turn it off, after i hit the button but before the screen went black, it said "erase failed" at the bottom of the screen. i know my protects are set right, and have set the bank switches every way mentioned earlier in the thread.
thanks rockclimber, i thought it would be different than doing a pc mobo hotswap, guess not... (i build gamer pcs in my spare time) but he does have avalaunch, so the c: thing should work. gotta wait till he comes back from his trip, it will be either late tonight or int he morning when i can try that. will post again then.
I bet it's a thompson dvd drive, these are very picky about which disks they read. I usually network in and flash the bios through the admin folder, I got fed up of killing disks or having to write one to a different brand of disk just to make it work on a particular drive.
You might find that if you try your mates dvd drive it will work with the disk you've already made.
You might find that if you try your mates dvd drive it will work with the disk you've already made.
well, it's a phillips dvd drive, and seems to read both cd-rw and cd-r fine. i tried the http flashing too though, same results.