halo-nine

Hello, my apologies for the late reply. i re-flashed the Bios with an IND bios and its working perfectly now, and yes the DIp switches are set correctly, Bios protection was off when i attempted to flash, not sure what happened but never mind, it is working now! are there any drawbacks with the IND bios' over the EvoX M7? i cant seem to find any comparisons between Bios'! With regards to the board, it must be a 1.4 as it has a Focus video encoder. you are the first to mention (At least in my Google trawls) about 1.5 revision being a myth! good to know! i am not in the process of loading games, and setting up XMBC Emustation. loving the forum BTW, i notice every time i google something, it seems to direct me here, it is a wealth of useful information I must say!

Update: so it appears it bricks as soon as i press the open tray or power buttons too. i have now loaded one of the IND BIOS' and it seems to be working correctly. can any advise which is the best BIOS for me to use? my setup is: XBOX Crystal, 1.4 or 1.5 (unable to determine exactly which model) Xecutor 2.3b PRO Modchip thanks for you help!

Hello everyone, i am new here and looking for some help! after over 15 years (possibly more) i got my old Xbox out of the attic for my children to play with. it has a Xecutor 2.3b Pro modchip, and had the EvoX M7 Bios. i happened to have an old redundant laptop with a 1tb 2.5" Sata drive not being used, so i decided to get the 80 wire cable, IDE to SATA converter and install a larger Hard drive. so last night i did this and discovered i needed to update the Bios to EvoX M8+ in order to see more than 130gb on the F: Drive. so i did this, initially selecting the wrong Bios (i assume!) as on the 'FLASHING BIOS NOW' screen (i used Hexen 2018) it got about 25% of the way through.... then just sat there, after 20 minutes, I decided to had to turn off and it was FRAG! its been YEARS since i used the thing, and after some googled i realised i had the duel bios chip with the Dip Switches, so managed to get it to boot into the backup EvoX M7, this time, flashed again (the duff bank) with 256k EvoX M8+ F&G and everything worked perfectly (950+ GB on F:, way more than i will ever need!) so this morning, I managed to configure the FTP setting with a Crossover cable and transfer a couple of games to the HDD. they seem to run fine, but i have an odd issue: when i use the short cut on the controller (both shoulder buttons, Back + Start) to return to the dash.... the Bios WIPES itself!!! what the heck is going on!? anyone got any ideas? I can flick the Dip Switches and boot back into EvoX M7/Hexen and re-flash but this is a very odd issue! and i cant seem to find any info about it, has anyone experienced this? thanks for your help, much appreciated!