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Post Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 9:43 pm   
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Hey all, everyone here has heard me go on and on about how easy Xenium Ice modchips are to install.

So, you all know that it would take something drastic for me to change my mind how reliable these chips are!

Well...the ball is rolling!! First, let me begin by saying these still are great chips once they are installed and flashed... This is an installing point of view and only deals with the initial boot up of the chip...if you have a Xenium, or Xenium Ice..and it's stable..it's an unbelievable chip.

The last four chips that I have purchased I have noticed a disheartening trend. Mind you, OzXodus has left the Xenium development table about a month or so ago. Since then, the OS 2.0.1 has been released and I have seen the OS 2.0 Public Beta change a little too.

Three of my last four chips have had the Green OS Menu's instead of the Red. All three chips gave me fits trying to get to boot.

I am getting an Amber LED on the chip, and a Green flashing Eject. No power cycle, no FRAG..just a green flashing light.

This is OS related and not to be confused with poor soldering. Do not do as I did and spin your wheels for several hours trying to find your soldering flaw. I solder ten or so chips a week...I am accustomed to an occasional frag...but this is slightly annoying.

Here is all you have to do to get past the problem. Mind you it may take a few tries, but eventually it will work.

Instead of opening the machine and flipping the recovery switch, while the green light is flashing hit the eject button. It should start the recovery process. You will see an image of the chip on the screen. Then the tray will eject. Place your update CD in the tray. You will most likely get Halt Error. I haven't been able to update one from CD yet.

Don't worry. Eject that disk, turn off machine. Now, power up with the power button and you will actually get the chip to boot up fine.

Now, use the Xenium Ice disk tools and unlock HD. FTP the recovery.bin file to the E drive. Reboot and select recovery. You'll upgrade fine now.

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Later all

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Post Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 11:40 pm   
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Hi RM,

Im sure plenty of newbies would be stressing out about that one..
Especially if you spent a couple of hrs trying to find soldier splash.

Glad you added the info to the site mate.. I can bet everyone will find it very usefull.. Maybe it would be a good idea to ADD A TUTORIAL explaining the errors and how to fix..

??

up to you bro.

cheers and talk soon,

your mate from down under,

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Post Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 6:05 am   
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I am in the process of making a few killer Xenium tuts. Could you recommend an application (free of course) that will edit existing PDF's and create PDF's?

I have some killer images that I want to scarf from an existing tutorial that is a PDF file.

I talked to the owners of BMmods and passed the info onto them about the issues that I have been seeing...they have been getting a lot of people saying the same thing about strange frags. What jacks me off is when I originally asked about the issue I was just told that the stock Xenium OS has been very unstable...

then after I give them a solution, they were like..oh yeah, that's what we do...

fucking pecker heads. I wish someone would have told me what to do three hours before I chased fucking non-existent solder splash. They just want me to start buying the more expensive SmartXX's..HA.

later bud

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Post Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 11:59 am   
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hey realmccloy ,

i had the same thing happened a few days ago with my oryginal xenium

not xenium ice with OS 1.1 ,

the chip was pulled out of one xbox and was just laying around for a while

the i installed it in the other box ,

i had to power it on and off a few times ,

then when i hit the eject button it went into the recovery mode ,

stopped saying recovery......halting ,

when rebooted everything was fine ,

it might be some kind of OS settings that it remembers for each xbox and maybe it needs to be reset for the chip to work properly ?

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Post Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 1:58 am   
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Who knows...from what the owners of BMmods are telling me is the Xenium OS is having a lot of issues with being unstable. I am having these issues with brand new never installed chips! That would explain the one I pulled out of the other customers machine, but not the three that I pulled out of the packaging and had it act up like that.

I never had this problem until recently, and so far they have all been on the newer Public Beta 2 blue/green colored screens. I will so that those chips upgrade to the 2.0.1 very easily. I have a hell of a time with the 2.0's that have the red OS screen/menu....

I actually look for all the fourth generation chips to come down in price real soon. With XBL being the way it is right now, and most customers only wanting mod chips so they can play backups I look for cheap mods to really gain some interest. I used to easily talk people into the Xeniums for several reasons...

They are very easy to operate in regard to cloaking for XBL
They have great eeprom backup, disk tools, and FTP tools built right in
They offer killer support, tons of manuals, very easy to install.

But now, if a regular joe buys one of these chips and doesn't have much experience and they get one of those types of frags...there goes the ease of install. Also, with XBL banning everyone and their mother, that reason is taken out of the mix....so far all we have is lots of manuals.....HA.

I'm going to stick with Xenium chips for now because I have never had a bad one yet...but if these initial OS quirks keep cropping up I am seriously thinking of cheaper chips and using SmartXX for the fourh gen installs.

later man

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Post Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 4:36 am   
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*BUMP*

Another Xenium Ice..same result. Booted after flawless install. Got an amber colored LED on chip and no audio, no video, and a green flashing eject light.

Held Eject button for a few seconds, light turned red and went to recovery.

Turned off, turned on with power button and went straight to OS screen. All is fine after that. I upgraded to Xenium OS 2.0.1. with no hassles.

This is 5 out last 6 chips doing this to me.

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Post Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2004 2:59 pm   
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I recently installed a Xenium Ice into a friends 1.1 Xbox and I have no problems. The chip came flashed with 2.0.1, though the screen is a silverish color with a blue background behind the text, and the LED lights up green. Is this menu the same as one of the two you have delt with? If so I sould send my friend a printout of this thread so he'll know how to fix the problem should it happen without calling me all the time!
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Post Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 4:22 am   
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I just did a few Xenium Ice's last night. Three to be exact. Two of them went fine, but one did the stupid green flashing light.

Just tell him if he ever turns his xbox on and gets a black screen and a green flashing eject light to just hold in the eject button until it starts to flash orange.

Then turn it off, and turn it on again and it will be fine. I think if he has the 2.0.1 he will be okay. So far, I haven't had any that were upgraded do this to me. They have all been the Publick Beta 2.0's.

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Post Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 5:13 am   
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Ya, these are the 2.0.1 version OSs
I bought my chip from www.xbox-modchips.com.
Ist a store in Canada, the chip came with OS 2.0.1 preinstalled
Great for n00bs like me!

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