somewhat worked yesterday, today frag/blank screen

bubulater

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Dec 22, 2006
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I flashed cromwell 3.03 / 5035 on v 1.0 xbox yesterday, chip 2.6ce, banks 1 and 2 respectively. chip was working before flash. I did get xecuter rox by box to load yesterday on bank 2 and cromwell loaded on bank 1. I had to reboot a bunch of times to get bank 2 to load because i couldn't get video to come up a lot of times. Well I was preparing to backup my hardrive so i deleted a bunch of gamesaves and music i had on the box. After that, i loaded slayers 2.7 boot disk, but did not do anything with it, just made sure it worked and shut off my xbox and went to sleep.
Today i wanted to continue where i left off but i cannot get bank 2 to load, it just has a blank screen. When i try to load bank 1 it frags. Is there some kind of trick to get the video to load consistently, or is my box totally f'ed up? I'm worried i deleted somthing when i deleted the gamesaves. The MS dash boots with the chip disabled. I'm using the regular AV cables. i took the chip out already and redid all plugs and put back in, no help. Any ideas?
 

Big_Whoopin

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Jan 29, 2004
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Since the chip was working before the flash (assuming with a mod BIOS, not just loading up FlashBIOS...) did you use the correct version of 5035 for your box? Can't explain why it would have worked one day and not the next, but you should have used 5035 vOld for your 1.0 box. Just a thought...

-Whoopin'
 

bubulater

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Dec 22, 2006
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Well i redid the 3 wire soldering points and still no change. I did flash with the old version of 5035. It's almost like the flash banks memory faded or something and lost all their memory overnight. Because even though bank 2 would load somewhat inconsistantly, the bank 1 flashbios bank would load every time. Now just frag on 1 and blank screen on 2. When i press eject when started up on bank 2 the machine restarts, could that be a symptom of something? Also since the flashbios bank won't load, i suppose i'm going to have to invest in a programmer huh?
 

bubulater

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Dec 22, 2006
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I was looking into this problem a little more and i should add that when i try to boot from bank 1 the box shuts off 3 times then frags.