tray wont open with ribbon on hdd

[shayne-tas]

Hi,

I have a unique issue with my xbox. I have had this thing sitting in cupboard for about a year because I tried a softmod and it failed due to a power failure in my area when I was renaming the font files. I would get the service screen etc. From memory error 21.

I finally decided to pull it out of the cupboard and bought a Xecuter 2.6 CE modchip and Xapter to try and fix this issue then eventually upgrade the HDD etc. I installed the chip fine and I didn't have any hastles (I think) with the D0 wire. Now I get the pretty blue light on the side of the chip and it booted to the Cromwell bios fine (told to test this during install of the chip). I then removed the chip and flashed it (with a programmer) with the xecuter2_4978.3_xboxMulti_512k bios in bank 1 and the evox bios in bank 2. (I don't know why as yet)

Now, I can't open my dvd tray. With the box open. I can power off, unplug either the power or ide cable from the HDD, power on and the dvd tray WILL open. If I plug these back in, power on, it WONT open. If I unplug the ide cable only from the dvd drive, power on, it WILL open. If i let the xbox finish booting with either bank enabled, i get error 7.

It sounds to me like a jumper setting (master/slave/cable select etc) but I'm pretty sure I haven't touched these. I did try a year ago the hotswap method but it wouldn't work so I gave up and stored the xbox in the cupboard for the past year or so.

What I am trying to do is run boxplorer off a cd-rw and just rename the 2 font files back to the originals and at this stage just get the MS dash to boot. They are still there, they just have the *.xtf.bak extension. But I can't do this atm because I can't have both the DVD and the HDD working together which is pretty much useless to me as an xbox console anyway.

Any else heard of a similar issue?

Thanks heaps,

Shayne.

 

[shayne-tas]

Or, is it because I have the wrong bios.. Input/Output?.. Maybe they it is telling the xbox to boot from HDD looking for evox which isnt installed yet.

Should I put the cromwell back on and try that?

 

[shayne-tas]

Or, is it because I have the wrong bios.. Input/Output?.. Maybe they it is telling the xbox to boot from HDD looking for evox which isnt installed yet.

Should I put the cromwell back on and try that?

Ok, it's the HDD. I have another xbox HDD I bought off a mate and both HDD and DVD drive seem to be working. The problem I have now it the password is obviously different for this HDD so therefore, wont boot.

It seems weird as the old HDD seems to be spinning so I can't imagine what could be causing it to do the original error.

 

[Fantmx]

First off, reflash your chip with 5035. That probably won't help the situation, but at least you will be using the most current bios. Error 7 means hard drive timeout. Set the jumper on your hard drive to cable select and see what happens.

 

[shayne-tas]

Hi Fantmx,

Thanks for the reply.. I was one step ahead of you.. I reprogrammed the chip last night with x2.5035 in bank 1 and decided to put flashbios 3.0.3 back on bank 2. Your right, it hasn't helped. The jumper is also on cable select.

I reckon its the HDD. I took the chip back off the motherboard and tried booting the xbox (just in case it was the chip) and it still wouldn't load both the DVD and HDD.

It sounds as though the HDD is spinning but maybe one of the I/O chips is knackered on it.

I will probably just buy a new HDD. Just gotta figure out how to get MS dash/Evox on it? I guess it would need to be formatted with the xbox file system then everything loaded from a disk.

Let me see if I get this right. The xbox unlocks the HDD at bootup (eeprom) then looks for MS dash and loads that. With a modchip I am able to load unsigned code so therefore Evox/Avalaunch, Backed up games etc. modchip will also enable me to run utils off a CD/DVD. I wouldn't need to lock a new HDD as I will have the modchip. The only issue I could see is xbox live? I wanna refrain from opening my pc to hook up the HDD as I am still covered by warranty with my pc that cost me around $3,000.

So buy a new HDD. Burn everything I need to CD, then format and copy everything to the new HDD. I only hope I don't live in fantasy world and it is all that simple.

 

[islander223]

Get a new hard drive and use Slayer's Evox 2.6 auto-installer to format and rebuild the original M$ files and install Apps that you need , it's all that simple!

 

[shayne-tas]

Hey,

Yeah just finished doing that. It took a while to get a CD o boot. Turned out to be the clock check making it boot from HDD first.

Just fine tuning evox now as none of the apps are in the menu when it boots, just M$ dashboard, settings, reboot, power down. It installed 9 other apps I can't access atm. I will play around with an evox.ini file on my pc and burn it to disk and transfer it to the xbox and see what happens. Also, I can't boot into M$ dashboard when the chip is turned off. Error 21 (I guess the xbox doesn't like the M$ dash files that sLaYeR's cd installed.

I still have no idea what was wrong with the original HDD. I guess it doesn't matter now.

Thanks for your help guys.

 

[freakzilla3333]

It's much easier to FTP than burn discs, check this site for any tutorials on how to FTP. Then you can just connect to the xbox, edit the .ini file wth your pc and save it to the xbox. Then use boxplorer to have a look in the C drive of your xbox: the msdash should be the one called xboxdash.xbe (i think some of the older slayers auto-installers installed evo-x as xboxdash.xbe and yboxdash.xbe as well as the evoxdash.xbe) so just press a on each of them and see which one is the msdash, and if necessary rename it.