I installed x2.6 last summer. It's been working fairly fine ever since.
Then yesterday, for no apparent reason, when I would turn the xbox on, after the green intro animation, it would cut to a screen with discombobulated green sh*t everywhere, and would freeze and go no further. I assumed the bios somehow magically f**ked up all on its own.
OK. So I switched banks to where I had FlashBIOS 3.0.1 installed. I burned a disc with the latest x2.6 bios build 5032 (yes, I burned it correctly, dummy bin and all) and put it in to flash. But the program would not take it. It stayed on the "Waiting for Disc" message for about 60 seconds, then ejected the drive again. I thought maybe it was my media so I got a disc made by a different co. from a kid upstairs and tried again. Once again, no dice.
OK. So then I tried doing it over my network. I enabled network flashing, accessed the box via my web browser on my comp, browsed to the correct bin, uploaded and flashed. I watched the screen for my box and watched it as it properly flashed. As it should, it booted down after flashing. I booted it back up, it played the green xbox intro, then once again cut to the frozen sh*t green screen, only this time I could sort of make out text that said something like "Oops! Something is wrong!" Great, that tells me a lot. And now I no longer have FlashBIOS on that bank, but the same dead end f**ked up bios as is on the other bank.
OK. So then I took my little mod chip card thingy, plugged it into my computer via printer cable, and opened X2 BIOS Manager (this is exactly how I was finally able to flash the bios and get the chip working when I first bought it last summer.) Only this time, X2 BIOS manager cannot possibly recognize the chip. I've triple checked my computer's bios settings to make sure the parallel ports are enabled properly, I read the X2 BIOS manager tutorial again and again.
OK. Now I am out of ideas. If anyone can tell me anything that will prevent me from chucking this piece of scrap metal in the trash and purchasing a different chip altogether from a different group, I'd much appreciate it.
My email is [email protected]
Then yesterday, for no apparent reason, when I would turn the xbox on, after the green intro animation, it would cut to a screen with discombobulated green sh*t everywhere, and would freeze and go no further. I assumed the bios somehow magically f**ked up all on its own.
OK. So I switched banks to where I had FlashBIOS 3.0.1 installed. I burned a disc with the latest x2.6 bios build 5032 (yes, I burned it correctly, dummy bin and all) and put it in to flash. But the program would not take it. It stayed on the "Waiting for Disc" message for about 60 seconds, then ejected the drive again. I thought maybe it was my media so I got a disc made by a different co. from a kid upstairs and tried again. Once again, no dice.
OK. So then I tried doing it over my network. I enabled network flashing, accessed the box via my web browser on my comp, browsed to the correct bin, uploaded and flashed. I watched the screen for my box and watched it as it properly flashed. As it should, it booted down after flashing. I booted it back up, it played the green xbox intro, then once again cut to the frozen sh*t green screen, only this time I could sort of make out text that said something like "Oops! Something is wrong!" Great, that tells me a lot. And now I no longer have FlashBIOS on that bank, but the same dead end f**ked up bios as is on the other bank.
OK. So then I took my little mod chip card thingy, plugged it into my computer via printer cable, and opened X2 BIOS Manager (this is exactly how I was finally able to flash the bios and get the chip working when I first bought it last summer.) Only this time, X2 BIOS manager cannot possibly recognize the chip. I've triple checked my computer's bios settings to make sure the parallel ports are enabled properly, I read the X2 BIOS manager tutorial again and again.
OK. Now I am out of ideas. If anyone can tell me anything that will prevent me from chucking this piece of scrap metal in the trash and purchasing a different chip altogether from a different group, I'd much appreciate it.
My email is [email protected]