Hi, need to explain myself before I go into my problem. I am with the US Army at a Marine camp in Fallujah Iraq (YES FALLUJAH!) As you can imagine there is absolutely nothing to do here, so I took it upon myself to order 6 premodded pre 1.6 xboxs with x3's and 200gb for me and my buddies. Now I love modding myself and have done many before but I dont have time out here to do that myself. All was fine, I received them all in working condition. Now to the problems.
I had problems with games freezing, which i read was fixed with a new bios. Before I got the chance to get online I made an error (we get 20 minutes at a time to use the internet after waiting in line for an hour or two and waiting sucks!) The xbox would freeze, and I would quickly press the power off and back on like a double click. This reset the xbox alright except that it came back on with no video, just sound. WTF. OK hook up another, I couldnt believe this. Did the same thing and wam it does it again. 2nd xbox no video, just sound. sh*t why not try for a third. Now I am pretty good at solving problems with the x2's and figured this would be easy.
Here is what I did to try and fix this. Booting into the x3 gave me flubber sound, no video, didnt seem to go anywhere. Booting into ms dash gave me error 21 with a locked HD. This is the weird part, the flubber had no video, yet when the error code came up it was fine. Booting into cromwell was fine too with video. I reflashed, no avail, same problem. I tried different known working harddrives. I checked solder points on all 3 xboxs. I do not know why i cannot get video. I do use s-video and switched to the regular cables, still no video.
I have searched hi and low for an answer with my limited time, no answer. Please help, having to send these back to the States and then back to me is going to take a month or longer.
PICS! can be found at IRAQ
Thank you
Chad
I had problems with games freezing, which i read was fixed with a new bios. Before I got the chance to get online I made an error (we get 20 minutes at a time to use the internet after waiting in line for an hour or two and waiting sucks!) The xbox would freeze, and I would quickly press the power off and back on like a double click. This reset the xbox alright except that it came back on with no video, just sound. WTF. OK hook up another, I couldnt believe this. Did the same thing and wam it does it again. 2nd xbox no video, just sound. sh*t why not try for a third. Now I am pretty good at solving problems with the x2's and figured this would be easy.
Here is what I did to try and fix this. Booting into the x3 gave me flubber sound, no video, didnt seem to go anywhere. Booting into ms dash gave me error 21 with a locked HD. This is the weird part, the flubber had no video, yet when the error code came up it was fine. Booting into cromwell was fine too with video. I reflashed, no avail, same problem. I tried different known working harddrives. I checked solder points on all 3 xboxs. I do not know why i cannot get video. I do use s-video and switched to the regular cables, still no video.
I have searched hi and low for an answer with my limited time, no answer. Please help, having to send these back to the States and then back to me is going to take a month or longer.
PICS! can be found at IRAQ
Thank you
Chad