Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 11:54 am Post subject: NOOB! 1st flash Bios. So nearly there but.......
Hi guys. Wont bore you with the whole story but if said have struggled with the whole modding thing it would be an understatment.
Brief History
xbox v1.1 Bought with x2.3b lite already installed.
Used AIDeluxe 3.0 to upgrade improve etc.
Installed PBL from AID disk all went tits up
Where Im up 2
Bought x2 programmer
Made several unsucceesful attempts at flashing bios.
Nearly smacked wife 4 coming out with such classics as "It cant be that hard" & "Do you want me 2 get my dad 2 have a look at it"
Anyway as it stands I've managed to flash bank 1 with x2-4983.06 512k
And bank 2 has flashbios 3.03 on it which flashes ok via web browser.
Ive locked the HDD & when turn off x2 the ms dash boots as should do, which means more often than not my original games work ok.
The Problem
No backup DVD's or bootdisks such as AID 3.0 will work.
Any ideas folks pleassseee _________________
Pson Xbox-Hq Genius
Joined: May 06, 2006 Posts: 1155 Location: Philly, PA
Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 12:25 pm Post subject:
Well did you install a dash yet?? It sounds as if you turned your chip off and booted to the ms dash. you need your chip on to read disc like that. _________________ The mighty V6 Passat came to chew bubble gum and kick%^* and shes all out of bubble gum!
Matty-K Xbox-HQ Enthusiast
Joined: Apr 18, 2006 Posts: 44
Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 1:34 pm Post subject:
Pson wrote:
Well did you install a dash yet?? It sounds as if you turned your chip off and booted to the ms dash. you need your chip on to read disc like that.
Sorry yeah. Chip on loads xecuter2 screen bank 1. Bank 2 loads flashbios. _________________
Pson Xbox-Hq Genius
Joined: May 06, 2006 Posts: 1155 Location: Philly, PA
Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 1:47 pm Post subject:
Try going to bank one and put in the AID 3 disc and install all the dashes...I would use evox and then you can just ftp the bios you want and reflash via dash. as for bank two you haven't flashed that yet if its still asking for it _________________ The mighty V6 Passat came to chew bubble gum and kick%^* and shes all out of bubble gum!
Matty-K Xbox-HQ Enthusiast
Joined: Apr 18, 2006 Posts: 44
Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 5:11 pm Post subject:
Sorry m8, gotta say you lost me & i do hope its me thats confused.
You say in your post.
Quote:
Try going to bank one and put in the AID 3 disc and install all the dashes...I would use evox and then you can just ftp the bios you want and reflash via dash.
But my orig post states thats the prob. I cant load a boot disk such as AID or any other disk apart from orig game.
Then you say
Quote:
as for bank two you haven't flashed that yet if its still asking for it
Had kinda left that with Flashbios 3.03 on there as its easier to use the http flash than keep pulling apart xbox and attaching chip to programmer.
Basically in the hope that if someone knows another bios which will work, i'll try that. Anyway like said prob me whos got wrong end of stick n cheers for the reply. _________________
Pson Xbox-Hq Genius
Joined: May 06, 2006 Posts: 1155 Location: Philly, PA
Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 6:13 pm Post subject:
Chip on loads xecuter2 screen bank 1
Thats what you posted there for it toke the bios and you need to install your dash. the second one you can leave blank till later...So did you infact flash the bios?? _________________ The mighty V6 Passat came to chew bubble gum and kick%^* and shes all out of bubble gum!
Greven Xbox-Hq Genius Xbox Version: Xbox V1.6 Modded: Xecuter 3 CE
Joined: Jan 19, 2006 Posts: 2755 Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 7:44 pm Post subject:
Ok, if your using flashbios, lets make sure that your flashing this right:
Did you create a bios that will work for you? Needs to be 256k and be able to boot from media so that it will read the AID3 disk. Have you been able to do this?
I would probably start with thex2 4983.67 bios. Open the bios in xbtool(available from the xbox-hq pc-essentials kit), set the BFM flag on it, and then save the bios.
set the chip to your flashbios bank, boot the xbox. set the chip to the first back, and then use the http flash procedure. Open the tray, drop in AID3, and do a cold boot. It should boot the aid disk and let you install a dask to your E: partition.
Then, use evtool to open the m8plus bios and adjust the boot order to boot from your e: for the appropriate file name(evoxdash.xbe, defualt.xbe, etc).
Reflash bank 1, using the same method as above, and you SHOULD be good to go.
Keep in mind that I've never flashed either the m8 for the 4983 bios before, but that seems the best way to go for me. Someone else may be able to shine some light on this.
[EDIT]
BTW, all these bios come with the AID3 files when you extract the .rar file. _________________
Na dont work m8. Had enough of it now. Can get all bios to load xecuter2screen Rox My Box etx but then it just frags.
Tried what you said in xbtool bud but when have loaded the either 1 of only 2 working files and then go to save. I get an error message saying Error expanding kernal.
Well there goes another 9hrs.
And there another thing why do i keep having to set the clock?
Keeps trying butr as soon as the second spin has wounbd down the xecuter2 rox my box comes up n the lights start flashin.. Need sleep _________________
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