I'm not sure if it's been mentioned here or not, but I discovered something odd when I glitched my 512MB Jasper board. Originally I was having a fast fan with an odd rhythm and no green light blinking. The odd rhythm sounded akin to a car revving to it's rev limiter.
I had everything installed exactly per the pictures: http://team-xecuter.com/forums/showthread.php?t=74857 all the way down to wire routing and hot glue blobs.
I gave up for a while and spent the next few days reading everything I could on my favorite forums.
I tried many things, reprogramming the CoolRunner, rebuilding the ecc image and re-writing it, resoldering my connections, no luck. I could always flash to stock and disable the CoolRunner and it would boot fine.
I eventually came across (don't remember where) a thread where someone had better results when one of their wires WASN'T tacked down to the board, but left hanging freely. I experimented with this and I noticed that when the green wire (PLL_BYPASS) was held down to the board, my fans acted that way and no blinking, but if I pulled it away (by hand), my fans would calm down and the green light began blinking, and then the console booted XeLL! There was a delay of about a sec from the wire being moved and the fans spinning up/slowing down. If I moved the wire back after XeLL had booted, the console would freeze and I'd have to power off to start over.
Through some experimentation with positioning, I was able to secure the green wire to the board (not dangling), but it was higher up (towards the x-clamps).
I do have a 0.1uF cap between PLL_BYPASS and gnd, I tried that (without luck) before I tried moving the wires. It boots up in no more than three pulses now, so I didn't want to change anything. So it may or may not be helping/doing anything.
This may not help everyone, but it was definitely my problem. It may even be linked to some's freezing issues. Like I said, wire here no blink, wire there blink and boot. Thanks for reading. I hope this helps someone.
Edit: I can confirm that a repositioning of the wires cured my 256MB Jasper from it's nasty freezing problem.
I had everything installed exactly per the pictures: http://team-xecuter.com/forums/showthread.php?t=74857 all the way down to wire routing and hot glue blobs.
I gave up for a while and spent the next few days reading everything I could on my favorite forums.
I tried many things, reprogramming the CoolRunner, rebuilding the ecc image and re-writing it, resoldering my connections, no luck. I could always flash to stock and disable the CoolRunner and it would boot fine.
I eventually came across (don't remember where) a thread where someone had better results when one of their wires WASN'T tacked down to the board, but left hanging freely. I experimented with this and I noticed that when the green wire (PLL_BYPASS) was held down to the board, my fans acted that way and no blinking, but if I pulled it away (by hand), my fans would calm down and the green light began blinking, and then the console booted XeLL! There was a delay of about a sec from the wire being moved and the fans spinning up/slowing down. If I moved the wire back after XeLL had booted, the console would freeze and I'd have to power off to start over.
Through some experimentation with positioning, I was able to secure the green wire to the board (not dangling), but it was higher up (towards the x-clamps).
I do have a 0.1uF cap between PLL_BYPASS and gnd, I tried that (without luck) before I tried moving the wires. It boots up in no more than three pulses now, so I didn't want to change anything. So it may or may not be helping/doing anything.
This may not help everyone, but it was definitely my problem. It may even be linked to some's freezing issues. Like I said, wire here no blink, wire there blink and boot. Thanks for reading. I hope this helps someone.
Edit: I can confirm that a repositioning of the wires cured my 256MB Jasper from it's nasty freezing problem.
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