No Video?

[m00k13]

I've installed over 10 soldered Xecuter 2.x chips in the past so I'm pretty confident in regards to putting these things in but ran into a new problem today...

I put a brand new Xecuter 2.6CE into a 1.0 box today and when I boot the box, it has no video signal. Fortunately there is no flashing reset/frag lights but I'm just getting no video. Is it possible that the batch of chips I have don't have Cromwell on them (or whatever its called)? Unfortunately I don't have the flasher to connect the chips to the PC.

Any clues? If the D0 wasn't connected correctly, these things normally don't even boot, right?

 

[m00k13]

I'm colorblind as hell so I'm going to get someone to check the LED colors for me to see if its the Green/Amber issue. Maybe the FlashBIOS on my chip is wrong?

 

[m00k13]

I should note that this behavior is with the chip enabled. This box had an old Matrix chip on it with a swapped HD, etc. It obviously wont boot with the chip disabled because of the HD not being locked.

I had someone watch the power light and it stays green the whole time. When I hit eject, it resets the box.

I've tried this on both banks and its the same.

 

[m00k13]

I'm absolutely stumped. Checked the voltages on the LPC and they're all good. In the process of checking and re-checking everything I managed to mess up my D0 point and even re-worked the traces on the board near that. Same exact results.

Any clues?

 

[Fantmx]

Was this a working Xbox before you put the chip in? I know you said there was a different chip in it before, but it almost sounds like the EEPROM is not corrupt.

 

[m00k13]

Yeah. XBOX worked fine with an old matrix solderless chip.

I took another un-modded XBOX (1.0) and installed the 2.6 on it last night and have the same results.

 

[m00k13]

I should also note that both installs are using the pin header and not the wires.

 

[m00k13]

Everything I read suggests the EEPROM is bad but I find it hard to believe that two working motherboards all-of-a-sudden died on me.

Any other ideas? I'm waiting for a new MB and a flasher for the chip to rule out a bad bios or some other oddity.

 

[Aergin]

I am having the exact same issue with my 1.0 xbox. I have tried using a different 2.6 mod chip and it still has no effect. I would apprieciate any insight into what it going on.

 

[Fantmx]

What happens with the chip off? Is this a new install?