phrunt
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I think I found the cause of my problem. That trace looks like its disappeared. It's a bit beyond me fixing this one, I think.
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The HDD is new 6TB Seagate, the emulators are on F:\EMULATORS\EMULATORNAME, 256kb Cluster size done recently with the latest Fatxplorer I haven't checked the resolution difference, it's quite possible I guess, but they're the emuxtra's packs for videos I sourced off Archive.org, unfortunately or fortunately the Xbox that was having this problem is one that recently died on me, it went to a green/red frag and now won't display a signal.
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Replacing the PSU didn't change anything unfortunately I might have to turn this one into a parts unit, such a shame as it had been working great.
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I'll try another one, thanks for the tip.
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I was FTP'ing stuff to my 1.6, it was going for about 14 hours OK then it locked up, I turned it off and on and it tried to kick in twice by starting to go green then restarting before anything comes on the screen then the third time it started the light flashing from green to red I thought maybe my mod chip was playing up so I desoldered it and tried the Xbox, exact same behaviour, no signal to screen and flashing red and green.. The boards had all new caps only a few months ago. What could it possibly be? I looked at the board under zoom on my phone and can't see any obvious signs or problems anywhere.
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I've always found the process of upgrading a softmod to a bigger hard drive too hard, it's easier to TSOP it and flash it with Cerbios and then use any drive you like. Watch this video to get a basic idea of what to do https://youtu.be/YLcEAbb2iP0?si=63vkEbsWxXbj7aM0 I'm not all that good at tiny soldering, so I bought some conductive paint and used a very fine needle to paint it on under a magnifying glass, far easier and just as good as it gets the job done and anyone could do it. You can't damage your Xbox doing the paint method, and if you mess up and get it where you shouldn't just use some pure alcohol and wipe it off and start again. Very easy and far safer than soldering. I don't know why anyone would solder it.
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A bit like my odd emulator preview video problem, a real hair puller!
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linksbox essentially useless and other openxenium problems
phrunt replied to mikeoxlong's topic in Applications
All you can do with linksbox is make sure your time and date are correct which will help with some sites, although try run an old version of Internet Explorer or any other browser from 2005 and you'll get the same problems, you just can't use an outdated browser, sites will error, massive changes in that time with the way sites were made and Linksbox just doesn't support the new security stuff. It's pointless to use it really. -
I have the same combination and while I don't know about Dash configurator, I run XBMC off it no problems on my F:\Apps, I've always put XBMC on F: as I need all the space I can get on E: I'll try dash configurator today, I've only even run off your pre-configured XBE's not configured my own using the tool. Maybe as a long shot test what I'd do is put XBMC on E: in the exact same location as you put it on F: such as E:\APPS\XBMC and also have it on F:\APPS\XBMC and run it from F: and see if it works, that'll tell you if it's looking on E: for some file. Probably won't help at all but would be weird to see if it's getting something from somewhere pointing to there, especially if that was your original install directory for it. Still makes no sense then it works on G: though.
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This is an odd one. Various Emuxtras video collections have been causing me issues with Madmab emulators, some preview videos play, others lock up the Xbox, if I delete all the ones that lock up the emulator the Xbox is fine, it will play 90% of the videos, as soon as it hits one it doesn't like it locks up. I've been on this problem for a couple of weeks or more. I found installing the latest emulator versions has helped sometimes with some emulators, and they no longer lock playing preview videos, others still lock up such as the Colecovision emulator, NeoGensPlusGX and the PSX emulator. On some of the Madmab emulators it won't even acknowledge there are any videos in the video folder, it will just leave the video preview window blank but will still lock up if I hit a game with a known lockup video. Another thing, there was a non-calibrated controller joystick problem with aftermarket controllers causing freezing on some of the emulators, I was using an aftermarket controller so was affected by this, updating versions or just plugging in my stock controller resolved this freezing problem scrolling the menus. All that did is complicated my problem even worse before I saw in the changelogs that was a problem so I was aware of it and could establish when that was the cause of the freezing. At first, I thought perhaps corrupted videos, but today I proved that wrong by removing the HDD from my 1.6 Xbox and putting it into my 1.1 Xbox, suddenly the problem is entirely gone, all preview videos work fine on every emulator. Now I'm totally confused, it's not a software problem, unless it's a 1.6 compatibility problem I'm not aware of, it's a Pal 1.6 Crystal Limited edition Xbox, all new capacitors and no known hardware problems, without the preview videos all emulators work well as do all Xbox Games. Even if my skin isn't set to play the preview videos if the videos are in the folder and I scroll the games it will lock on the games that have the videos that seem to cause the problem. If I change the time that it starts to play the preview video from half a second to 5 seconds or more I can scroll the menu without it locking up, as long as I don't pause on one of the bad game's that I know their video locks it up. If I just disable where it has the option to play movies in the emulator it never locks up. I thought I'd reach out and see if anyone else has encountered this, it would be odd my 1.6 has a fault that only causes freezing in emulators when playing video previews and it works perfectly elsewhere. I spent about a week FTPing all the contents of the 6tb hard drive in it to another Xbox, it didn't freeze once being left on all that time doing the FTP. It gets countless days of gameplay with no freezing. It's running a mod chip with Cerbios 242 on a red Startech adapter, the hard drive in it is brand new and perfectly fine, tested with WD Daigs on a long test. I'm at the point of giving up on this one but thought I'd ask first. My next test I guess is another 1.6 XBox with the same HDD and see if it acts the same.
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I used to work in a computer repair centre around the time the Xbox came out, and we used to get so many NVidia Geforce Video cards in that would scramble the screen and do stuff like your Xbox is doing, some would only do it in high resolutions and work in others fine, some would do it in low resolution but work in some resolutions, it is very weird how it all plays out, we used to use a heat gun and reflow the solder holding the chip to the PCB and later a small oven on them to fix them for our own needs if they were out of warranty ones where customers elected to replace them with a new card and left us the old card to bin. It happened the most on the very expensive cards, sometimes the fix worked forever, sometimes it worked for a few weeks, sometimes not at all.
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I wonder if it's resolution related, can you boot to the XBox MS dash and disable 720p and 1080i for an experiment
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UPDATED 07/04/25!!!! Custom artwork (_resources) packs for XBMC4Gamers :)
phrunt replied to nikeymikey's topic in XBMC4Gamers
thanks for sorting the oversexed artwork, we can't have that -
If you unplug the HDD and or DVD you will get error 07 regardless, thus you're causing the error doing that, it's not going to improve it. You could plug another DVD in and see if that resolves it if you have access to one, but it's likely the hard drive I would think, lucky to be the ribbon cable but good if it is being the easiest to replace. If it's the HDD and you're not TSOP'd you're in a bit of trouble, you'll need to mod chip it with a preflashed mod chip and put in a new hard drive. If it's not modded and just running the original hdd, it's highly likely to be that.
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was the same orange flashing of the light happening before you changed the caps?
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You may want to show some photos of the motherboard, both sides would be ideal. You didn't get any solder splash doing your cap replacements did you? Check the board over.
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I replaced all the 1500uF caps on the board the other day, none were showing signs of problems however it has been fine ever since (fingers crossed it stays that way) I'd already replaced the caps around the PSU entry a few weeks ago as they were leaking, but left the ones that looked OK, in hindsight I should have just replaced them all as it looks like that may have been the problem.
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There is a red and blue, the blues not so good, slower and can't be used with DVD drives at all. You want the red one. You can read about the various Sata adapters here
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I'm guessing by your links you're in UK? This Ebay listing has the best one you can buy, the Startech, you may find it cheaper if you hunt around I'm not sure. They are the favoured adapter to use, only known issue is some 1.6's with Samsung DVD drives the DVD drive won't work, I know this from first hand experience too, but I just have the DVD unplugged. They're the fastest most reliable adapter.
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Some of these shorter cables are a pain to get to reach, if I use them, I just disconnect the DVD Drive and set Cerbios to their modern No-DVD mode, how often do you use a DVD drive now anyway? Extremely rarely, then the cable has plenty of length and can be put in neater. You may be lucky with your Sata adapter, you may not, some of them work great, I have a bunch I ordered a few years ago and they run fantastic, newer ones maybe missing a resister that you would likely need to add to make them work well. There is plenty of information on this around and I'm sure the knowledgeable people here will be able to guide you to which resister you need. You can just start on a low UMDA mode, and it should work fine, and work your way up until its troublesome, but they boot slowly without the resisters, and the photo of yours on the marketing shows it missing them. I've had great success with the same Sata adapters, even running one at UMDA6 stable on my daughters Xbox but it seems that's not the norm, and results vary a lot. I bought all mine at one time from one seller about 7 years ago and was clearly lucky to get really good ones. You need to add a resistor to R4 - 0603 - 101 and another one to RH1 - 0603 - 103
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I had an Xbox do that, it was my Focus chip (1.4 Xbox), I used a heatgun on my soldering station while pushing down on it to reflow the solder and it is still working fine now weeks later. Try pushing down on the Xcalibur chip and see if the problem goes away while you're holding it down, mine did, as soon as pressed down on the image corrected itself.
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Well, today I did something similar, except instead of my Sata adapter touching that metal heatsink it was my finger, got quite the kick, highly doubt it is 240v like the power input though, felt more like touching an electric fence.
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I'm lost, I can use Repackinator with the three V8 Supercars Australia games, and turn my ISO's into CCI's, yet it doesn't create a default.xbe to run it. I tried going into the Repackinator program, I have no idea how to use it, looks confusing to my simple mind! It doesn't list the V8 supercars games on it's list of games, I tried selecting the directory I have the CCI's I've made in, but have no idea what to do from there, I tried to process and it just errored. The problem I believe is I can't just extract the ISO's and put the games on my HDD, they have unsupported filenames or something that stop them working, I remember years ago there was a HDD patch for them, I can't find it on my old drives nor the internet. I'm lost as to how to get them working, any help appreciated.
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Holy cows! I just had a good look in the zip, what a massive amount of work you've done to create this, well done and thank you so very much for your time, effort, skill and patience.
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This particular console is using an XblastOS based modchip that I installed myself, my first ever chip install So it doesn't support PromethOS, I can select which bios to boot from XblastOS by using an eject startup. Maybe I could go into that and see if it helps. It was quite bad this morning with multiple switch reboots when I was transferring a bunch of emulator stuff over the network (tiny files), later in the day I was putting on some much larger ISO/CCI files and the network never locked up and ran stable and I had no issues. It's something to do with doing an FTP of a lot of small files that seems to cause the initial network failure. I'm using a passive transfer with binary and a single file at a time. I will try use unleashX when I next transfer a mass of small files over (likely tomorrow) and see if it locks up the network like Gamers does.
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