First, I have had a comatose Xbox sitting collecting dust for over a year. out of warranty, never been messed with internally, and it just would not turn on. did the green, off, green, off, green, off, green/red thing as described in the coma threads others were having.
I gutted this Xbox, V 1.3 of its HD, and DVD. Bought a Executer 3 last year, right when they came out. Still has the Flashbios 3.0.0 on it. I'm not touching the cromwell, as long as it works for my V1.3
I used the wire install method, saving the pinheader for a V1.6 just in case, got it all in, and worked the first time around. " I think "
Set my HTTP flash of the newest X3 up, and it seemed to have taken well.
Here is my question so far, and I am hesitant to move forward, until I read up on backing up my old XBOX HD data.
I flashed the Exec3 chip with the x3-1959 bios while there was NO Hard drive, and NO DVD in the XBOX. I turn it on, it goes through its green Microsoft X, sound and all. but, I am not seeing the ROX MY BOX or executer logo come up at all. (Thought the logo coming up was a sign one did things right?) Is this something that the bios has to put onto the HDD ? or did I get a bad flash maybe. If I check the current bios (holding eject/power), it lists Xecuter3 as the bios, so I'm leaning on the side of doing it right. Just may need the HD/DVD in to see the "rox my box or executer logo" . I know its working at least, because it will later sit and tell me error codes by superfro
And of course, I had a few with no devices in it.
Another confusing part, is.. I made sure to put the bios into the 1024k bank set. on on off off jumpers (flash off on both). the cromwell lists it as xecuter3 (2048k). Were no errors when flashing.
Good thing is, the chip at least has it working now If I try to turn it on by disabling the mod chip.., it's still comatose. strange, unless the original MS bios was corrupted.
Next is researching the HD backup, and I'm set to go.
/Siddy
I gutted this Xbox, V 1.3 of its HD, and DVD. Bought a Executer 3 last year, right when they came out. Still has the Flashbios 3.0.0 on it. I'm not touching the cromwell, as long as it works for my V1.3
I used the wire install method, saving the pinheader for a V1.6 just in case, got it all in, and worked the first time around. " I think "
Set my HTTP flash of the newest X3 up, and it seemed to have taken well.
Here is my question so far, and I am hesitant to move forward, until I read up on backing up my old XBOX HD data.
I flashed the Exec3 chip with the x3-1959 bios while there was NO Hard drive, and NO DVD in the XBOX. I turn it on, it goes through its green Microsoft X, sound and all. but, I am not seeing the ROX MY BOX or executer logo come up at all. (Thought the logo coming up was a sign one did things right?) Is this something that the bios has to put onto the HDD ? or did I get a bad flash maybe. If I check the current bios (holding eject/power), it lists Xecuter3 as the bios, so I'm leaning on the side of doing it right. Just may need the HD/DVD in to see the "rox my box or executer logo" . I know its working at least, because it will later sit and tell me error codes by superfro
And of course, I had a few with no devices in it.Another confusing part, is.. I made sure to put the bios into the 1024k bank set. on on off off jumpers (flash off on both). the cromwell lists it as xecuter3 (2048k). Were no errors when flashing.
Good thing is, the chip at least has it working now
If I try to turn it on by disabling the mod chip.., it's still comatose. strange, unless the original MS bios was corrupted.Next is researching the HD backup, and I'm set to go.
/Siddy
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