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escaped-root
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Post Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2013 4:21 am   
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So how do I fix this? I cloned my upgraded hdd to another drive and tried to install it in a friend's xbox. It wouldn't accept it so I flashed his xbox with my xbox's eeprom. Now his xbox won't boot--no video/ no audio/ no eject/ solid green light.

I'm guessing I need to re-flash his eeprom (I have his eeprom backed up on my PC). Any help on how to do that without being able to boot it?


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Post Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2013 7:17 am   
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If it wont boot, no video, nothing the only hope and its a slim one is to install a preflashed modchip. But honestly its cheaper and easier to just go to a thrift shop, grab him another XBOX and mod it for him. Then do like I say below to lock the HDD (using the eeprom from this new XBOX of course)

For future refrence the proper way is to clone the HDD then boot up Configmagic load the friends eeprom and use it to lock the HDD. Then put the HDD in his XBOX. Its never a good idea to use Configmagic though unless you are very well versed with it. Its a very unforgiving program. DOS locking tools or Linux Locking Tools are much safer for locking drives, but require a compatable PC


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Post Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2013 1:31 am   
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Is there a way to unlock his upgraded drive to work with the new xbox (so I don't have to buy a new hard drive as well)? It was locked to my xbox.

Full disclosure: I flashed my xbox (with its own eeprom) as practice before flashing his. That killed my xbox. I went ahead and tried it on his afterwards anyway--which killed his xbox. I now have two xboxes with no video/audio/eject and a solid green light. I read that the issue is a bad eeprom flash so I bought a dosX3 modchip (which hasn't arrived yet).

I plan on hardmodding my xbox and reflashing my eeprom, then transferring the chip to his xbox and reflashing his eeprom.

I have a third xbox which I've softmodded but can't get to load the small Linux program to upgrade its hard drive. It gets stuck at "Starting Linux" after selecting either Chimp(720 or other) or XPart(720 or other). Any idea how to get Linux to work? I've tried Linux 2.4 and 2.6 but neither work.


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Post Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2013 7:12 am   
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For locking/unlocking and building new HDDs by far the best way is with a PC. An app called XBOXHDM is what you want, and if you want it super easy grab Babylon. It uses a modified XBOXHDM and lets you build an HDD any way you want it and includes latest emus, ROMs apps etc.

As for the Chimp issue never been a fan of it, if you dont have a PC with IDE ports (required to use XBOXHDM/Babylon) grab an app called HEXEN. It has a feature that will allow you to clone HDDs on your XBOX. We dont have it here so you will have to Google search for it if you choose to go that route.

Babylon and XBOXHDM1.9 can both be found in our downloads section, and if you need guidance just hit me up, and I also have loads of vids doing HDD builds and softmods etc on my youtube https://www.youtube.com/user/Lef0rt0v0


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Post Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2013 2:33 am   
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I tried using Config Magic to unlock the upgraded hdd on the working xbox but it kept failing to unlock. It was able to load the eeprom information of the hdd but couldn't unlock it. Am I understanding correctly that I need to put the eeprom.bin of the xbox that locked the drive into /Data of the working xbox, then import it into Config Magic? Will that unlock the drive?

No IDE port on my PC unfortunately.

Hexen's clone won't work because the upgraded drive is locked, so I'm planning on leaving the stock drive in the working xbox. But to free up some room on it I'm going to remove the softmod (used SID5 then Hexen's Krayzie's One-click softmod) and re-softmod it. Anything I should be wary of when I do it?

Thanks for your help SPPV.


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Post Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2013 5:56 am   
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Yes the epprom goes in DATA, the eeprom must be the one used to lock the HDD, thats what Configmagic will use. Far as the mod itself goes I would suggest sticking with our work as it makes it much easier for support. If you want to upgrade beyond SID5 use Babylon for that. I like Heimdall hes a good guy but sadly HEXEN uses an older mod that doesnt have the security features or stability you will see with Babylon.


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Post Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2013 4:38 pm   
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Searched in the Downloads section but couldn't find Babylon. Can you post a link to it?


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HERE ya go! Razz
(downloads > Exploits/Mods)
get all four parts downloaded into the same directory and expand from the '001' archive part!
have fun! Razz

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Post Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2013 6:52 pm   
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Thanks!


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