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I noticed the Xboxdash.xbe was 199 bytes and the one in the archive was much bigger, I tried to copy it over top but FlashFXP said it couldn't copy it so I deleted the 199 byte one and FTP'd the other one over and that worked, now I can use UnleashX to go to MS Dashboard and the MS Dashboard works, That solved me not being able to go in there and change settings. It hasn't fixed the rebooting problem though. The other interesting thing is if I do the reboot combination from within UnleashX it reboots fine, if I do it from in a game then it does the orange light for 20 seconds then green light and no signal. Interesting it works fine from inside UnleashX only. This is my drive now after deleting the 199 byte file and replacing it with the real one. After replacing that file I can still boot into UnleashX fine, but the power on to MS Dash still doesn't work. Only enabling the mod chip gives a signal on the screen. Perhaps my TSOP is buggered up? It's never been flashed as far as I'm aware as the Xbox went from stock to mod chip, I got a guy that was doing them for lots of people from his shop in Brisbane/Australia to do it for me.

Okeydokey. Some more information. If I just press the power button to turn the Xbox on, the light goes orange for about 20 seconds, then green. No signal on the screen. If I do the button combination to reboot the same thing happens, instantly I get no signal on the TV and the light goes orange for about 20 seconds then green with no signal. If I try turn the Xbox on with the eject button the light cycles between red and orange and no signal on the screen. The only way to turn it on is to hold the power for 2 seconds and it works fine into UnleashX Here is the contents of my C:, I've also copied the Xbox C contents from the supplied archive over the top of C and it made no difference to the problem. So does it sound like my only solution is to pop the hood and remove that wire from the front of the XBox and put it under a motherboard screw so the chips always on? Thanks for any help, I'll wait for replies before doing that hardware mod as I'm a bit scared of doing it

Thanks everyone, I used OGXBox Installer 2021 and went to "Install MS Dashboard" and it come up with an error, so I went into another menu and went to "Repair MS Dashboard" and that had success. It didn't solve the problem though. I'll try FTP over the files in that archive provided and see what happens. I intend to pull the xbox apart and move that wire from the front to under a motherboard screw and see if that solves it, I'm not so good with electronics but that sounds possible for me to do but if I found a software solution I'd prefer that. It's a 1.4 XBox I believe. I will fire it up soon and post screenshots of the contents of C and E

Thanks heaps, I'll give it a go tomorrow!

I've got 2 XBOX's and one works perfectly and that's the one with a Xenium Ice chip in it, the other has an Aladdin chip I think, I can't recall as it was done about 15 years ago The chip requires that you hold down the power button for about 2 seconds to turn the mod chip on and boot the Xbox to UnleashX. If you don't hold the power button down the screen just goes to no signal and the Xbox doesn't work, it powers on obviously just no signal. If you do hold it down and enable the mod chip the Xbox boots up fine and works well, the only problem is if you do the two trigger / 2 button reboot trick with the M8 bios it does start the reboot process but just goes to a no signal screen. If I go to the option in UnleashX to boot to MSDash it just goes to this same black no signal screen. I tried reinstalling MSDash in case it was a problem with the dashboard, but that made no difference. Does anyone know a solution to this? it's not a big deal but I'd like to resolve it if possible. Thanks in advance.

The one on 1fichier works.

Is it possible the OGXBox 2021 Extras Disk 3 - GAME Wide+HDD Fixes+Updates v1.0.3.RAR on Mega is incomplete? I've downloaded it twice and it won't unrar, incomplete archive, I'm trying the one on 1fichier.com now but at first glance it seems to be complete as the file size is significantly bigger.

Well, I must say what a smooth process it was, you've created a wonderful installer disk. Simple and easy and flawless operation. Champion effort. Thank you.

Thank you, I'll use that bios, Pretty exciting getting this done.

Thank you so much for your detailed reply, I had a look on your DVD and it seems this bios is best for me? I will be using UnleashX as I prefer it. EvoX.m8.480p.ece.fg.67.noDVD.UX.256.bin ********************************************************* Use your D-Pad UP and Down to scoll UP and Down. To close this window press the "Back" button. ********************************************************* ! FORCE 480p BIOS ! You should never flash this unless your are 110% sure what you are doing! ********************************************************* This is an F+G (.67) bios. It's a noDVD bios. (Yes it will still boot any DVD you want). It has no Logo in the upper left corner. It has a blue XBox boot screen. This bios will boot : E:\Dash\UnleshX\unleashx.xbe C:\evoxdash.xbe (Shortcut to E:\Dash\UnleshX\unleashx.xbe) E:\Dash\evolutionx\evoxdash.xbe ********************************************************* Seeing I have a Xenium Ice I will flash this bios onto the chip first using the Xenium OS as it's quick and easy and then boot from it to the DVD and start the install. I assume the E:\Dash\UnleshX\unleashx.xbe is a typo and really means e:\Dash\UnleashX\unleashx.xbe? Thanks for all of your help.

This is all great info, does the install disk include the 480P patched bios files? I run my Xboxes with 480p bioses as my HDTV goes mental if 480i is attempted on it and I'm using a Component to HDMI adapter to get it to even plug into my TV as it only has HDMI, no old connector options available on it. I'm going to attempt to do my xbox tomorrow, after I put a 2TB into it. At the moment I've put a 480p patched M8+ bios on it, it's a 1.6 XBOX with a Xenium ICE. I believe it's capable of a 2TB drive, soon see I guess. I used EVtool to make it so partition 6 takes 137g partition 7 takes the rest as it seemed to be default to only having an F drive. My bios had all the dashboard options defaulting to C drive so would I be best to flash with another one with them defaulting to F drive before trying to install off the disk? Also, how do I know if my bios has LBA48 v3 patch, I got it from Force 480p XBOX bios collection v3.rar Thanks for any guidance.

Thanks for making this disk, I'm yet to use it however I've just bought another Xbox to replace my old one that stopped outputting video, first I had to bend the cable upwards to get a signal on the screen, but over time that stopped working and it got no signal at all, I tried reflowing the solder on the video connector but it made no difference. So I bought a crystal xbox with a xenium ice chip. it's only got a 250gb hdd in it so I'm upgrading it to a 2TB, I have a WD green 2tb laying around that I've run WDidle on some time ago so I intend to use that and this disk to get the business done. So thanks again for making this, it's so awesome stuff is still being developed for the Xbox 20 or so years later. I appreciate it. Also, do I use the MakeMHz HDMI edition, as I am using a xbox component connector which it going into a component to hdmi adapter to my HDTV? I don't really understand what this means in the nfo The bioses on the MakeMHz HDMI Edition are not for the never HD+ version! These have a different bios patch! So do not flash the ones from the DVD to your modchip or TSOP!

There are plenty of tutorials on doing it on youtube, here is a simple one Its a well known issue and it goes beyond green drives, a lot of WD drives need it done if being used in a NAS or with Linux and obviously an Xbox Some more info https://www.truenas.com/community/threads/hacking-wd-greens-and-reds-with-wdidle3-exe.18171/ I use the DeLock 62510 IDE-to-SATA adapter. It works well with my WD Green 2TB EARX.

I recall using that when I purchased the WD Green's some years ago so it may go to explaining why I am using WD greens fine in my Xbox, the early EARS models from memory which I have had a problem where excessive parking was causing unnecessary problems on the drives especially in Linux so it was advised to use that tool to change the parking settings which I did, it was all a few years ago now so I don't remember exactly but I did do it to my drives. I am pretty sure the newer EARX I think it was Green drives didn't have the problem so a modern Green drive you would think would work fine in the XBOX?

I have 2 XBOX's both using 2 TB WD Greens. No problem for me.

I have a 1.6 Xbox that I picked up at a Salvo's a couple of years ago for cheap, I soft modded it at the time of getting it then put it away in the cupboard up until today. Seeing I've decided I'd start tinkering with Xbox's again I took the 1.6 out and fired it up today as I was thinking of putting a 2TB Drive it in like I've just done to one of my other boxes. Well, as soon as I fired it up what appeared to be a small cloud of either dust or smoke came out of the power supply side of the box. Nothing major but enough to get me worried, it didn't have the magic smoke smell of burning electronics but there was a bit of a smell, maybe it was dust but it seemed strange as I've never had it happen before on other Xbox's. I haven't popped it open yet for a look as I can't find my screw driver kit with the right bits, lost it the other day somewhere around the house Is there a common thing on a 1.6 Xbox that'd cause this symptom? It's a clear case crystal special edition 1.6 box.

Cool Google Drive, thanks for doing that. A few virus related blockages from Google Original Xbox/Homebrew/Super Mario War.zip The requested file contains a virus. Original Xbox/Dev/SDK/Xbox SDK 5558.zip The requested file contains a virus. Original Xbox/Dev/SDK/Xbox SDK 5849.zip The requested file contains a virus. Original Xbox/Dev/SDK/Xbox SDK 5788.zip The requested file contains a virus. Original Xbox/Apps/PC Apps/Bios Tools/X2 Config Maker/Windows/X2 Config Maker V50350.1.zip The requested file contains a virus. Original Xbox/Apps/PC Apps/Xbins/Xbins TIRC.zip The requested file contains a virus.

Thanks for the reply Morris. Yes, my component to HDMI works great, and I use optical for the audio to my amplifier so all is well.

Is there a reason people go to all of this trouble to get HDMI when you can just use a cheap component to HDMI adapter? I've been running my Xbox on a component to HDMI adapter fine. Is there something I'm missing?

As the SSD in the XBox is mostly going to spend it's life only reading and not constantly writing like in a Windows PC then there is absolutely no problems with the Xbox not supporting trim. Once your games are on it there is very little write activity I'd imagine. The SSD should be a reasonable thing to do and more reliable than a hard drive especially as most people are using quite dated hard drives in their xboxes.

I had an Xbox 1.4 that would turn on and boot up but the screen never had a signal but the sound was working fine, it wasn't my video cable or anything it was the Xbox. I used my solder station heatgun to put a bit of heat onto the heatsink so I could easily remove it, I took it off and cleaned off all the thermal paste leftovers with some 99.9% rubbing alcohol, I then set my heatgun to 300 degrees C and put a bit of solder onto the top of the GPU, the reason for this was to know when I had it hot enough, I had a small nozzle on the heatgun and kept the heat on the chip with the bit of solder off to the edge, I kept blowing the heat onto the top of the chip until the little bit of solder I had sitting on it started to melt then I held the heat gun on the gpu while pushing on it a little bit with the back of a screwdriver to make the pins move in the sockets a bit with the solder soft, I then quickly took the heat gun off it and let it cool down, put new thermal paste on and the heatsink back on, waited until it was cold and plugged it in and fired it up, working! signal to the screen and the Xbox working fine. I've now used the Xbox most days for the past couple of months and it has stayed working fine. Today I upgraded the old 500g IDE drive I had in it to a 2TB with a SATA adapter, all went fine. In the process of filling the 2TB up with Coinops and games now.