Somebody please help! Crazy problem!

[brandonchatham]

installed a x3 on my 1.0 and flashed the BIOS fine, and I booted the machine and the X3 BIOS screen comes up fine and I can edit it and so forth. But the problem occurs when I reboot to Dash. When I reboot to dash it literally reboots the machine and takes me back to the x3 screen.

So I thought it was a bad flash, so I installed a working 2.6 chip and flashed that, and it booted up fine and even showed the icon in the corner when its booting, but then after the microsoft logo comes on at the bottom of the X screen it reboots and does the same thing over again.

I checked my connections and LPC soders and they seem fine.

Please let me know

P.S. I flashed the x3 with x3_1959. and the 2.6 with x2_4983

 

[buck0690]

I did the same install for a friend of mine, had the same problem, i had to download the bios again (must have missed something on my sh*tty dial up) but with a new bios disk @ flash it worked. i'd say re-download the bios and try re-flashing the chip.

 

[brandonchatham]

That couldnt be the problem because I have tried it with two chips. The 2.6 and the 3.0. I will try that though.

Let let me know some other idea. Im lost. I am almost possitive that, that is not it.

Thanks
Brandon

 

[BLUEku]

sounds like you D0 connection is lose and bouncing around causing the chip to reset.

 

[brandonchatham]

I re sodered the do point and pulled on it to make sure it was connected. It only reboots after I click on reboot to dash. So that is not the problem either.... Thank you.

Brandon

 

[BLUEku]

I will have to look into it. PM with all the info about your install, xbox version, chip, bios, and pictures of all your solders

 

[dryfter21]

Bought a used 360, planning to mod. A few quick questions?

I bought a broken 360 on ebay for $7. It has red ring of death 3, general hardware failure thing. I can fix that, so that's not a problem.

This is my second box and I'm planning on modding this one. I've never tried this on my first because I wanted to keep it stock for various reasons.

Anyway, a few basic questions.

1. This thing didn't come with a hard-drive. I have a few 7200 rpm SATA pc drives laying around. Can I use one of them? Or do I need to go out an buy an xbox drive or an external usb drive? Or can I just go without a drive and hook the thing up to my pc everytime I want to play?

2. Are there any materials/hardware that I need to mod this thing? I've got a samsung drive and have read the jungleflasher tut and didn't see anything other than the obvious xbox and pc.

3. Anything I should know that isn't mentioned in tutorials or newbie facts? I'm not technologically illiterate. I've build multiple gaming rigs and currently have a water-cooled rig running eyefinity and on a projector. I've just never messed around with consoles before.

I have to admit, I'm overwhelmed. Not by the actual process, but by the crazy amount of unorganized information out there. I read the jungleflasher tut, and it's mentioning firmware that is outdated. I go to ixtreme website, and it has a whole crap ton of tutorials for various things.

Is there just one place I can go to get all the info I need to flash my samsung drive?
Thanks

 

[phantsam]

Re: Bought a used 360, planning to mod. A few quick questio

1. No hard drive *required*. If you get it fixed and can hook it up online (before modding), get the dashboard updates and you should be able to use USB flash drives as storage, if that is your concern. Otherwise, if you want a larger HDD, find a used 20GB, they're pretty cheap (and you can upgrade it to something bigger with HDDHACKR (google that) and a laptop WD HDD).

2. Would be recommended to use a CK3/Maximus to power the disc drive while modding instead of using the 360 itself. It's been understood that the 360 can detect when it is powered without the drive connected to the internal SATA connector.

3. Follow the Jungleflasher Tutorial as a foremost authority. Make sure your SATA ports are compatible, you may need a VIA card to do it.

 

[dol]

Re: Bought a used 360, planning to mod. A few quick questio

Otherwise, if you want a larger HDD, find a used 20GB, they're pretty cheap (and you can upgrade it to something bigger with HDDHACKR (google that) and a laptop WD HDD).

You can not make a 20GB hdd bigger. you can use HDDHACKR to make the HDD smaller tho. for example you can take a 80 GB HDD and make it show as a 60GB or a 20GB xbox drive. but you can not make a 20gb drive a 60 GB drive.

You are also limited to flashing the drve to match the official xbox sizes of 20, 60, 120, and 250 GB drives.

HDDHACKR also will only work with certain Western Digital scorpio hard drives only.

 

[phantsam]

Re: Bought a used 360, planning to mod. A few quick questio

Otherwise, if you want a larger HDD, find a used 20GB, they're pretty cheap (and you can upgrade it to something bigger with HDDHACKR (google that) and a laptop WD HDD).

You can not make a 20GB hdd bigger. you can use HDDHACKR to make the HDD smaller tho. for example you can take a 80 GB HDD and make it show as a 60GB or a 20GB xbox drive. but you can not make a 20gb drive a 60 GB drive.

You are also limited to flashing the drve to match the official xbox sizes of 20, 60, 120, and 250 GB drives.

HDDHACKR also will only work with certain Western Digital scorpio hard drives only.

Didn't say anything about making the 20GB HDD itself bigger, obviously didn't read the full sentence you quoted. You need the casing from it, or else just the HDD itself is useless, so that's why you'd need the 20GB to begin with if you didn't want to spend more on larger drives.

 

[dol]

Re: Bought a used 360, planning to mod. A few quick questio

Otherwise, if you want a larger HDD, find a used 20GB, they're pretty cheap (and you can upgrade it to something bigger with HDDHACKR (google that) and a laptop WD HDD).

You can not make a 20GB hdd bigger. you can use HDDHACKR to make the HDD smaller tho. for example you can take a 80 GB HDD and make it show as a 60GB or a 20GB xbox drive. but you can not make a 20gb drive a 60 GB drive.

You are also limited to flashing the drve to match the official xbox sizes of 20, 60, 120, and 250 GB drives.

HDDHACKR also will only work with certain Western Digital scorpio hard drives only.

Didn't say anything about making the 20GB HDD itself bigger, obviously didn't read the full sentence you quoted. You need the casing from it, or else just the HDD itself is useless, so that's why you'd need the 20GB to begin with if you didn't want to spend more on larger drives.

I did read the full sentence. you make no mention of swapping the drive out for another one. only that you need HDDHACKR and a laptop WD HDD. why buy a 20gb drive when you can just buy the housing anyway by itself.

Sorry but the way you wrote it makes it sound like your trying to upgrade the drive and not replace it.