Yet Another Zephyr Topic

[Statecowboy]

Doing a Zephyr now. Install went fine, read nand fine. Trying to boot to Xell now and it is not having it (going on 30 minutes). CR is blinking trying to glitch but the console just seems to not want to glitch.

My question is, what's the longest someone has gone while trying to glitch to Xell? Also, I assume if glitching to Xell takes forever, glitching to a hacked dash would take just as long (is this right?). All of the consoles I've worked on before this have glitched first time almost all the time.

 

[playingmax]

the easy part is booting to xell. I have worked on 10 zephyr and was only able to boot 2 to dash. the rest only once or twice to dash then never again. good luck. the longest I left on was 10 mins after that Ill just flash original nand back.

 

[xColorado880]

I had one boot dash for a week and suddenly stopped. I gave up on zephyrs after that. I usually give it 15 minutes to boot than call it quits or try to rewire.

 

[BL4K3Y]

It's a Zephyr and it's already known that those boards can be stubborn as hell, some just won't glitch at all.

All you can really do is try re-routing the wires and/or even add a cap (or bridge the pads if it is a Rev B CoolRunner).

 

[mrdrifta]

also using the double sheilded cable from x-consoles couldnt hurt, people seem to be getting the best results with that.

 

[Statecowboy]

Ugh, got it to boot twice to xell in about an hour, kind of pointless. At least I got the key. Is it expected that RGH 2.0 will increase boot times for Zephyrs?

 

[BL4K3Y]

Is it expected that RGH 2.0 will increase boot times for Zephyrs?

Maybe it will, did you try the new shielded cable solution?

 

[Statecowboy]

Maybe it will, did you try the new shielded cable solution?

I was going to order some but XConsoles is out of stock. I'm going to try and search around for something similar when I get off work. However, from what I've read that only marginally helps boot times, seems like I need a total freeking overhaul.

 

[BL4K3Y]

At this moment in time, you have everything to gain and nothing to lose... it can't hurt to give it a shot can it?

 

[Statecowboy]

At this moment in time, you have everything to gain and nothing to lose... it can't hurt to give it a shot can it?

Correct, like I said I'll give it a shot.

I had a nother thought, will Fusion eliminate the RGH boot times altogether since it's a complete custom kernel (once you have your cpu key etc.)? This would breath new life into these pain the A Xenons and Zephyrs.

Maybe Uber will read this and can chime in.

 

[BL4K3Y]

I had a nother thought, will Fusion eliminate the RGH boot times altogether since it's a complete custom kernel (once you have your cpu key etc.)? This would breath new life into these pain the A Xenons and Zephyrs.

Fusion is a kernel, it's the way the hack operates that causes these issues as well as the wiring configuration(s) used.

 

[The504]

One Zephyr I did took 1 hour and 15 mins to boot.

 

[T3chWarrior]

I put a post up a couple days ago showing me using a peice of wifi cable on the cpu rst wire, it helped my zepher quite a bit.


http://team-xecuter.com/forums/showthread.php?t=84048

Ive also noticed with mine that after 10-15 i power cycle it or pull the power cable, seams to help some times...

 

[XeX_DuBwoofer_x]

this is really strange i've not had a single problem with any zephyr i've glitched booted up to xell and dash instantly seems like everyone else has pain in the butt boards i've only ever had problems with my jasper took like 2-5 mins to glitch

 

[Statecowboy]

I ordered some of that shielded cable from XConsoles. I'll give that a shot and let everyone know if it does the trick.