X3ce V1.6 xbox 3108 bios Want to update

[Felix T Cat]

I modded my v1.6 xbox a few months ago and was able to flash v3108 bios to banks 1-4 via HTTP. It works just fine. I will say I wish I had done this sooner, It was no where near as tough as I thought and the added features are great.

I wanted to update to the latest bios version and thought that it would be good if I updated banks 5-8 so that if there were problems I could go back to banks 1-4.

I first tried just booting to bank 2 (switch 2 on) and I get no video and a orange led. I went back to bank 1 (all switches off) and everything works fine. Should there be something in Bank 2 already ?. Could it be that there is a version there that is having issues with my 1.6 box ?.

I'm just looking for a confirmation here that if I boot to x3 config live on bank 1 (switches all off) and goto the Bios tools to enable HTTP flashing I can then change the switches at the flash bios screen to SW2 ON and flash Bank 2 with v3294.

Then when I boot in the future I just need to make sure SW2 is ON so that I boot to the second bank. If I have problems I can always flip all switches off and go back to the working v3108.

Correct ?

 

[Martin C]

You've got FlashBIOS 3.0.3 on banks 5678. This will load ok on 1.6 Xboxes, but you may need to help it along.

The best suggestion is to boot the backup BIOS (power+eject) and once into FlashBIOS, set your switches for 5678 and you'll flash this and not your good working X3 3108 on banks 1234.

Just to clarify:

Bank 1234 = on on off off
Bank 5678 = off on off off

Martin

 

[Felix T Cat]

Thanks for the reply. I had a little trouble getting it into the Backup mode (I had to press the power and eject buttons together a few times to get it to power on at all).

Once there I flashed the second bios without any issues.

Thanks Again for the response, I appreciate the supporting hand.