Leaderboard

Found your problem! The board has a „P01“ (production) marked PIC16LC63A. To get the board to work you need a „D01“ (development) marked chip from a debug or development kit board. Most likely the MCPX-X2 was installed onto a retail board. That the flash enable points are jumpered with solder instead of smd jumpers supports this thesis. So if that was done correctly you „just“ need to install a „development“ PIC16LC63A and flash a debug bios and the board should boot.

The modchip itself doesn't tell you the BIOS version. You'll need to look in the dashboard for the kernel version in use. Look in evox dashboard's Settings menu. Evoxdash may show a name for the BIOS on the skin in use if it has been configured to display it. The kernel version may be on the skin too without needing to go into the Settings menu. Evox dash computes the MD5 hash of the current BIOS. It can assign a name to be displayed if a matching ROM= line is present in evox.ini. Multiple lines are required for each different BIOS. When a match is found, the name of it is assigned to a skin variable and can be displayed, for example: Format ROM="<name to assign to skin variable BIOSVer>",0x<MD5 hash value of this BIOS> ROM="M8plus unmodded",0xDFC6288F6B67FD021E1970491C64C0A0 ROM="M8plus w/LBA48 v3 patch",0x0xb6acdf08407ccf1914980dfb606108ff ROM="X2 4983.67 256KB unmodded",0x80690587d8b936dd5c3e689fcaef8ae6 ROM="X2 5035 vOld_512k",0x7bd5649c0742d37f5fd1330ee3b5ec88 To display the name and kernel version on the skin, lines similar to the following must be present in the skin's skin.ini file: Text = 618,127,0.5,0x000000,1,"BIOS: <BIOSVer><CRLF>Kernel: <KernelVer><CRLF>IP: <IP>" Text = 616,129,0.5,0x8080a0,1,"BIOS: <BIOSVer><CRLF>Kernel: <KernelVer><CRLF>IP: <IP>" BIOSVer and KernelVer are the dashboard variables that can be displayed on the skin. Surround the variable name with <> symbols to display its value instead of the text, BIOSVer or KernelVer, at the location (upper left-hand corner of the screen is 0,0), transparency level ???, and color (0xRRGGBB hex value) specified in the Text = line. Note: if you modify the BIOS with EVTool for Evox M8 or M8plus BIOSes or XBTool for X2 BIOSes (different versions of these tools modify different versions of the latest BIOSes released at the time of their creation), you have to add an additional ROM= line for the modified BIOS to be able to ID it. The MD5 hash will be different after making changes to it. Many but not all MD5 hashes for modified Xbox BIOSes can be found at (3) bios/md5 - originalxbox (reddit.com). For UnleashX, press the (Y) button to see the System Info page (press (B) to exit back to the menu) and scroll down till to find the kernel version. XBMC4Xbox's System Info page shows the kernel version. X2 and iND-BiOS dev team's changed the kernel version to match the BIOS version number. Evolution-X did not change the kernel version of their BIOSes. They remained the same as the original Microsoft Xbox BIOS it is based upon (e.g., M8 and M8plus both have the same kernel version 1.00.5838.01). So you as the user have to know which BIOS you flashed to the modchip for M8 or M8plus BIOSes.