Salvage From a SoftMod

[matthew129]

I had a softmodded ver 1.0 that wouldn't boot so I installed Xecuter 2.6 CE and loaded up a bios. I want to pretty much get this box back to it's original setup plus the new chip and a new dash etc. Is there a way to flash the original bios back to the original MS bios?
thanks~
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[Koadic]

I may be wrong, but I dont think you could have done anything to the original bios with only a softmod, so you shouldn't have to worry about that. You could have messed up your dash files on your hard drive though. If you have your chip installed and working, try downloading a copy of Slayer's or AutoInstaller Deluxe (AID for short) and burn it to a cd or dvd. From those disc's, you can then restore the MS dash to a working state, and you will also be able to install some alternative dashes included on the disc. I would start by booting to one of those disc's and format your C drive (your E drive will have any existing game saves on it) and let the disc reinstall the MS dash so you know there wont be any stray files to mess it up.

 

[Fantmx]

What is wrong with the box that you want to fix?

 

[matthew129]

most of the time ot won't boot at all (frag) now that the chip is in and working it's booting ok. I have two disks, thc auto installer and hq auto installer deluxe. this is now where i need the help. I formatted the drive to factory settings but i'm not sure which drive to load dashboards etc on. Guess i have to keep looking around.

 

[Fantmx]

Doesn't really matter where you load your dashboards. I put them on the F drive. What bios do you have? If you have 5035, which I would really recommend, there is a config file where can tell it the path of your dashboard.