Odd installation problems

duckjones

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Jan 27, 2006
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I'm having some issues with installing a pair of 2.6's in the two xbox's I own. The first is a v1.0, I did a wire install and I tried flashing the bios on bank 1, but got an "Erase Failed" error and booting from bank 1 will now FRAG the box. I did some research and found that there seem to be at least a few other people who've had this problem on v1.0 and I'm guessing I just need to tighten up my connections, but my question for this issue is, if I try again on bank 2 and have the same problem, how do I go about fixing that with both banks FRAGing the xbox?

The second xbox I'm trying to mod is a v1.6. I got a Xapt3r 1.6 and seem to have it installed correctly, I have a blue, green, double orange, and red LED shining steadily when I power on the xbox. However, when I assemble it all up nicely and turn it on, bank 1 FRAGs but the green LED on the little toggle switch board lights up, bank 2 FRAGs and has no LEDs on the toggle board, and booting with the chip disabled works fine and a red LED shows up. Any thoughts on how to diagnose those problems?
 

duckjones

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Jan 27, 2006
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I verified that the little pins on the Xapt3r are sticking in the holes shown in the picture contained in the sticky here in this forum. I pushed the adapter down pretty hard onto the motherboard before screwing it down. There was some solder left in some of the lpc holes from a botched pin header install, but from what I've read, that shouldn't bother the Xapt3r.

Is there any specifics on what could be wrong when all the lights are lit? Does that mean the pins could be in the wrong holes? Or they're all in the correct holes but the connections may be bad?