X3CE Flash Protection Switch Mislabeled

[blankizbak]

Hey everyone, this is my first post. This information exists elsewhere in the fourms, however it is very disorganized and hard to find, so I thought I would just put up an informational post about the situation.

On my X3CE chip, the flash protection switch (not the external switch, but the actual switch on the chip) is mislabeled. According to the Team Xecuter tutorial on installing the X3CE, RED means UNPROTECTED and GREEN means PROTECTED. On MY chip however, the label states that RED means PROTECTED and GREEN means UNPROTECTED. I switched my flash protection switch to the "supposed" protected position and now I can flash my BIOS without any problems. This is how I know for sure the switch is mislabeled.

Now, I am not sure if only certain X3CE chips have this mislabeled flash protection switch, but I know there have been other posts with people reporting similar scenarios.

Can anyone comment on this situation? Does anybody have an X3CE that is labeled correctly? I am wondering if it was just an accident on a certain batch of PCBs at the manufacturing facility.

To all those having problems flashing a BIOS to their X3CE chip, pop the hood on your XBOX and see if you have this problem.

I hope this relieves some headaches for some people.

 

[warrel66]

X3CE chip mass production mislabeled?

Yep, sounds like the IDENTICLE situation i was in this weekend. Took no time but 10 minutes to install chip and solder lcp rebuild to version 1.6 motherboard, yet i spent a whole day trying to flash the BIOS! Well, in case you tried flipping the switch to unprotect (labeled protect on chip) and still does not take the Bios, try a power cycle, mine took this way.
Lookin for a good dashboard, any good suggestions are welcomed.

 

[g$$$]

this has been reported by several people.

 

[Rad5us]

warrel66 use avalaunch for your dash or you could use Xbmc as your dash. i perfer xbmc.

 

[pwoswc23]

Flash Protect

I think I am having the same issues as Warrell66. I bought a new front panel (the one with the inbuilt LCD screen) when I got my 3CE chip. No combination of the chip switch setting and the front panel will allow me to flash the 3294.

Warrell66 - whats a power cycle??

The other issue is I have to use the plug to power the box up. Is this related?

 

[fufu123]

Same here. Took a while to figure out what was going on. Hey is there something out there that tells you how the chip works? Maybe I'm missing something, but is there a document that describes what the pot does? I now know what it does, but couldn't find anything when I was installing.

 

[sandman2055]

Wow am I glad you started this thread. My flash protection switch was also mislabed. What a pain. Thankfully these forums seem to be fairly up to date and helpful. I made the mistake of ordering 1st from easybuy2000. I spent hours trying to get thier solderless adaptor and the xlite chip to work. Only took me like 5 minutes to install the x3 and xapt3r, and a few minutes more to find out what the deal was with the mislabeled flash protection. Glad I switched.

 

[cableguy84]

yep, I had the same problem...