Weird problem

[vinney]

Ok, my problem is that when i turn on my xbox the chip will not go blue or purple, it will boot 3 times and on the third boot just frag. i know the chip is in securely becuase when i put my original HDD in and hold down the power button it will boot to the normal M$ dash. i cannot for the life of me find what is wrong i have checked over my d0 and soldier points many times and i think they are good i have resoldiered many to near perfection... thanks in advance,
vinney

 

[Martin C]

"it will boot 3 times and on the third boot just frag"

Just so you know, then entire process of reboot x 3 and flashing red/green is called a FRAG, not just the flashing part. A lot of people post they have a FRAG when they don't.

You however, do

Have you tried booting from the backup BIOS?
What Xbox do you have?
If it's the 1.6, did you use the PCB? If so, then this is the area you need to work on.

Martin

 

[vinney]

my xbox version is a 1.4 and no i cant get it to boot to the backup. it seems to me for some reason i have recieved a blank chip. i probably did not, but that is my first guess, i will take no further action untill instructed because i dont know what the hell im doing. i was wondering if it would be possible to flash it with my 2.6 programmer i just got. just a thought. thank you

 

[Martin C]

my xbox version is a 1.4 and no i cant get it to boot to the backup. it seems to me for some reason i have recieved a blank chip. i probably did not, but that is my first guess, i will take no further action untill instructed because i dont know what the hell im doing. i was wondering if it would be possible to flash it with my 2.6 programmer i just got. just a thought. thank you

There's no way you have a blank chip.

I'd recheck you soldering points - do you get both lights on the chip when booting for instance?

Martin

 

[vinney]

yes i do. i rechecked my points and everything seems to be in order. thanks again

 

[Martin C]

When you try and boot from the backup BIOS, do you see the X3 logo turn purple at any time?

Martin

 

[vinney]

i cant boot from the backup bios thats the worst part, no matter what combination of buttons i push, the chip is always red. thank you

 

[Martin C]

If you press power and eject together, but press the power button slightly before the eject it should go into a backup BIOS.

If it doesn't then check the power/eject board that the yellow cable goes in to.

If it still frags then you need to check the soldering.

Martin

 

[bollocks19]

vinney,

I had a similar problem (backup bios never worked) and fortunately I was able to use a friend's X3 to test the connections. My connections were fine and his X3 booted up great. I just used his to boot my xbox and then swapped chips and flashed while the xbox was running. I think there is something wrong with my backup bios as I don't know of any other explanation, and perhaps you are having the same problem. I would, however, go ahead and seriously doubt that your X3 chip has lost its backup bios, but it wouldn't hurt to try a friend's X3 in its place to test.

 

[vinney]

well... i would really like to do that, but i live in smalltown usa where nobody even has a chip, let alone an X3 but i do have a 2.3b lite if that would work...

 

[Bounchac]

Using Sata Port off the mother board

hi guys having a problem with my hitachi drive connecting it through the mother board as I am having nothing but trouble with my via card installed, so trying to do it from that, any tips as cannot get it to even see there is a drive connected using this method? is there anything I havent turned on that I should of or anything? Jungleflasher just refuses to see the drive but will using the via card problem is using the via card it wont dump the firmware to the comp so hence me using the mother board instead. Please help!

 

[philipdude]

Re: Using Sata Port off the mother board

Same thing happened to me.. **But I should be getting a SATA Chip Set. Soon, so I'm in a different situation.. But if you find out a way to do it w/o... Lemme know =P

EDIT: I'll do the same.

 

[ir6ub9]

Re: Using Sata Port off the mother board

what probs are you having with the via card

 

[philou74000]

Re: Using Sata Port off the mother board

Have you removed the via drivers for your pci sata card?

 

[Farly]

Re: Using Sata Port off the mother board

What problems are you having using your onboard SATA ports? You should really be using onboard ports when flashing the Hitachi drives, primary port preferred.