TotalMoop Posted September 4, 2017 Report Share Posted September 4, 2017 Just interested in which bios you flashed? I've used the Hexen 2017 disc and followed a tutorial on YT which suggested the M8 Evo x What are your suggestions and recommendations... and also why? i.e. what benefit, features etc... Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scrappysphinx Posted September 4, 2017 Report Share Posted September 4, 2017 I asked a similar question and was told it depends on version of xbox, V1..0 has a 1mb tsop so you can use X2.5035, later versions have a 256kb tsop so you're limited on options, on the 256kb tsop recommendations are iNd.5003 or Evox M8+ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MvZiC MaN Posted September 4, 2017 Report Share Posted September 4, 2017 Scrappy is right, It depends on what TSOP chip is in your xbox. any xbox can use a 256k bios. but if you try to flash a 512k onto a 256k chip it will fail and youll need an eeprom reader or modchip to recover it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaosEngineer Posted September 5, 2017 Report Share Posted September 5, 2017 (edited) ind-bios 5003 or the beta Feb-11-2005 (aka 5004) or EvolutionX's M8plus after using EVTool 1.0.9 to patch in the latest LBA48 support as the official release does not have it already applied. Open... the m8plus.bin file in EVTool1.09 select the Partition 6 Takes Rest of the Drive or Partition 6 Takes up to 137GB / Partition 7 Takes Rest option in the LBA48 Suppport dropdown then Save As... the updated BIOS file to have the latest LBA48 patch applied. Edited September 5, 2017 by KaosEngineer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TotalMoop Posted September 5, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2017 52 minutes ago, KaosEngineer said: ind-bios 5003 or the beta Feb-11-2005 (aka 5004) or EvolutionX's M8plus after using EVTool 1.0.9 to patch in the latest LBA48 support as the official release does not have it already applied. Open... the m8plus.bin file in EVTool1.09 select the Partition 6 Takes Rest of the Drive or Partition 6 Takes up to 137GB / Partition 7 Takes Rest option in the LBA48 Suppport dropdown then Save As... the updated BIOS file to have the latest LBA48 patch applied. Is the Bios on Hexen 2017 already patched? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaosEngineer Posted September 5, 2017 Report Share Posted September 5, 2017 (edited) 27 minutes ago, TotalMoop said: Is the Bios on Hexen 2017 already patched? I'm not quite sure how it's setup. There are two for 1.0-1.5 Xbox's m8plus.bin - Partition 6 Takes the Reset of the Drive and IGR more compatible m8plus.fc.137.bin - Partition 6 and 7 but don't see why labeled fc as it doesn't look for the dashboard first on F then on C. MD5 hashes for various M8Plus BIOS files: 94acfb5b4ddd81515386e733ea0020f3 m8plus.bin on hexen 2017 disc bec9f026e59b170ef24142b7a71a8a3c m8plus.fc.137.bin on hexen 2017 disc which doesn't match any of the M8plus.bin files official or configurations I patched with EVTool 1.0.9: DFC6288F6B67FD021E1970491C64C0A0 Official release M8plus.bin EB2E705A3C4B8F3D196025B91C8DBCE7 M8plus 67 patched with IGR More Compatible 64FB05A5DD69E0B3BB40CE9E5B01C3C6 M8plus 67 patched with IGR Quick as their dashboard search list has been modified from the official release which I also used in the patched BIOS's. One character changed and the MD5 hash is different. The reason you have to add the MD5 values computed for each update you make to a BIOS to get it recognized in EvoX dashboard, etc. You can tell if they contain the latest LBA48 by running XBPartitioner 1.3 at the top of the page it'll tell you the version of the patch. If not v2 or later, you'll get a pop-up on startup that you don't have LBA48 support in the BIOS. Edited September 5, 2017 by KaosEngineer 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TotalMoop Posted September 6, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 6, 2017 Thanks for this info.. very helpful! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freeziekat Posted July 30, 2018 Report Share Posted July 30, 2018 is there a good features listing somewhere with what bios work on what and what features they have? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaosEngineer Posted July 31, 2018 Report Share Posted July 31, 2018 (edited) On 7/30/2018 at 12:12 PM, freeziekat said: is there a good features listing somewhere with what bios work on what and what features they have? There's (not sure why the big whitespace appears here ->) one here under ogXbox.com's Forums - Software - BIOS section. I recall seeing it but it's format doesn't quite fit the pageview for this website. It's the page that was on xbox-scene.com that can be accessed via the Wayback Machine's captures on several different dates. Here's a link to one of those captures: https://web.archive.org/web/20050411235648/http://www.xbox-scene.com:80/bios_retail.html This particular table does not have the X2 5035 or iND-BiOS Beta Feb-11-05 (aka 5004) BIOSes. Edited August 1, 2018 by KaosEngineer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forlorn Penguin Posted July 31, 2018 Report Share Posted July 31, 2018 https://www.reddit.com/r/originalxbox/wiki/bios/features Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
needa Posted August 2, 2018 Report Share Posted August 2, 2018 I use M8 but looking to use a bigger bios now I have a chip[ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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