olov244 Posted December 23, 2018 Report Share Posted December 23, 2018 Hello, I'm trying to get my old modded xbox working. Back in the day I was big into it, but I damaged the board messing with led's and eventually moved onto the pc world. I picked up another xbox from ebay and put my old modchip and my old 250gb hd in, but it's only showing 5gb and none of the games are showing up, so I'm hoping I can flash some new software on it and get it working again. I've been out of the loop on xbox mods for over 10 years, but everyone says hexen will have the software I need, so here I am Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olov244 Posted December 23, 2018 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2018 I forgot to say, I'm using an xecuter modchip, probably an out of date bios/etc. so any help is welcome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xbmcmodsforxbox Posted December 23, 2018 Report Share Posted December 23, 2018 you will need hexen and you need to install xb partitioner to create partitions for your xbox to read the 250gb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xbmcmodsforxbox Posted December 23, 2018 Report Share Posted December 23, 2018 What xecuter mod chip are you using Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olov244 Posted December 23, 2018 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2018 I installed the white one on the left, using the header pins and the three wire plug not pictured Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xbmcmodsforxbox Posted December 23, 2018 Report Share Posted December 23, 2018 Oh that is an xecuter 2.6 nice but u should update the bios with a higher x2bios on hexen and then use xb partitioner and then it should be good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaosEngineer Posted December 23, 2018 Report Share Posted December 23, 2018 I think he already had it formatted in a different Xbox before with data (apps/games) on the drive. Don't reformat it again with XBPartitioner or you'll lose what was there. Need to know how the partitions were setup originally and install a new BIOS that uses the same LBA48 partition configuration. Did you have F and G (partitions 6 and 7) or just partition 6? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olov244 Posted December 24, 2018 Author Report Share Posted December 24, 2018 (edited) I don't know what I have, it's an old hard drive, I had two 250gb's at one time but I was only able to find this one(might have lost the other in my many moves). it shows C has 0, E has 5gb, F has 0, I can't get G to show up(even when I turn on the setting 'show G'), then XYZ all have like 786gb? which I know is messed up. I pulled up the xbox in filezilla to check what's on it and it doesn't have any games, so I moved one over and put it in multiple places and it doesn't show up in the dashboard so I just want to start fresh, I probably erased this hd a long time ago when I was having some issues or something, I don't think there's anything I can't live without on it. and it seems the current dashboard/format is screwed up since I can't even access any new games I put on it Edited December 24, 2018 by olov244 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xbmcmodsforxbox Posted December 24, 2018 Report Share Posted December 24, 2018 Oh then use xbpartitioner and make a new partition to get the extra gigs on your box Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olov244 Posted December 24, 2018 Author Report Share Posted December 24, 2018 8 hours ago, Xbmcmodsforxbox said: Oh then use xbpartitioner and make a new partition to get the extra gigs on your box I tried a couple times, and G still shows up as 0. I got F to format with 120gb though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John7272 Posted December 24, 2018 Report Share Posted December 24, 2018 sounds like you may need to flash a bios with proper LBA48 support, like KaosEngineer posted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaosEngineer Posted December 24, 2018 Report Share Posted December 24, 2018 (edited) What BIOS version are you using? Kernel in most dashboards as the BIOS name is determined by matching the MD5 hash of the running BIOS with a list of associated names found in a configuration file (e.g., Evoxdash - evox.ini, XBMC4Xbox - Q:\system\SystemInfo\BiosIDs.ini, UnleashX has no file to match hashes to BIOS names - it only prints the kernel version obtained from the BIOS; for example, 1.0.5034.1) Edited December 24, 2018 by KaosEngineer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olov244 Posted December 27, 2018 Author Report Share Posted December 27, 2018 On 12/24/2018 at 4:25 PM, KaosEngineer said: What BIOS version are you using? I wish I could tell, I looked in those ini files and all I see are lists of hundreds of different sets of numbers(I'm guessing possible bios versions. when I pull up evoX dashboard it says "BIOS: Unknown" - so I am fine with just flashing on another bios and giving up on this unknown bios from 10+ years ago. so what's the program/procedure to flash the bios and what bios would I need for my chip/250gb hd? I see a lot of tutorials online about softmodding, is it the same procedure? thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaosEngineer Posted December 27, 2018 Report Share Posted December 27, 2018 (edited) What is displayed for the kernel version? (The Xbox kernel contains in itself its version number. This value can be printed by the Evoxdash. Many skins display both the BIOS and Kernel values.) The BIOS name however is determined by matching one of the ROM= line's MD5 hash value to that stored in evox.ini's Current=<MD5 hash> line. The BIOS name printed is that of the quoted text entered for a particular MD5 hash value. If no match is found, Unknown is printed by the dashboard. Edited December 27, 2018 by KaosEngineer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olov244 Posted December 27, 2018 Author Report Share Posted December 27, 2018 (edited) v.0.39.0528A xbox v1.2 ? on the unleashx dashboard evolutionX says kernel: 1.00.4977.01 Edited December 27, 2018 by olov244 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaosEngineer Posted December 27, 2018 Report Share Posted December 27, 2018 Okay, that's an old X2 BIOS version 4977. Definitely needs to be upgraded by reflashing your device. Evoxdash can do that. Where is your version of evoxdash installed? Is there a file named evoxdash.xbe in the root directory of your C drive? There should also be a BIOS folder into which you'll place the BIOS's dot bin file to flash. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olov244 Posted December 28, 2018 Author Report Share Posted December 28, 2018 4 hours ago, KaosEngineer said: Where is your version of evoxdash installed? I it's in C 4 hours ago, KaosEngineer said: Is there a file named evoxdash.xbe in the root directory of your C drive? yes 4 hours ago, KaosEngineer said: There should also be a BIOS folder into which you'll place the BIOS's dot bin file to flash no, there's Audio, fonts, xboxdashdata.185ead00, xodash, then some files I have the hexen 2018 burnt dvd, there's a bunch of 256kb bios's on it, one 1,024kb bios, and four 512kb bios's. do I need to create a BIOS folder and then move one to it? not sure which one I should use - not sure which ones will fit on my chip thank you for all the help though, some of this is coming back, but I'm still needing help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaosEngineer Posted December 28, 2018 Report Share Posted December 28, 2018 (edited) You can flash using the Hexen Disk or create a C:/BIOS folder on the Xbox's HDD and copy the BIOS dot bin files into it and use Evoxdash on your HDD. I'd suggest using m8plus.bin (F & G). Other's may have a different preference. But, you can change it later if the need arises and not lose anything. Edited December 28, 2018 by KaosEngineer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xbmcmodsforxbox Posted December 28, 2018 Report Share Posted December 28, 2018 I like the x2 bios cause if you flash the right one it says xecuter rox my box on the bootup screen 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olov244 Posted December 28, 2018 Author Report Share Posted December 28, 2018 ya'll are awesome. I got it all going, thanks to you. now I think I can start to play around with this thing again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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