Hello @sweetdarkdestiny
A pleasure to talk to you
I didn't know that bridging to fool the xbox was possible!
However, I've opened up my other (softmodded) XBOX which is a 1.6 and put the Hitachi in my Crystal 1.6 and it boots fine.
This is a great opportunity to use your "all singing all dancing" (as we say in the UK) install disc. I will use the BIOS you recommend.
BTW, I noticed that you said to delete those 2 fonts in your thread for v1.0.6, but when you go to the link there's v1.0.7 have you fixed it in this version?
All the best and thanks for your help