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  1. Bowlsnapper
    It actually looks like the pad is missing entirely.
  2. Bowlsnapper
    Doesn't this require injection molding, which is tens of thousands of dollars? This looks great.
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    I believe she came into the Discord a short while back and asked if I might know what's wrong with her dev kit. Somebody else had it and was tasked with fixing it but I think they were pretty overwhelmed already with projects and weren't able to give it their full attention, so I asked her if she would like to have me take a crack at it. She got it back from them and then sent it to me and I thankfully did know what was wrong and fixed it immediately. Then sent it right back.
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    I doubt it, although I would make sure that you have the latest version. It couldn't hurt. It's a good idea to rewrite the TSOP flash anyway. Go for it. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1T_Ix7cdYp3nN2-tapp_WAE8mgM_O1TD2/view?usp=sharing
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    This sounds like a Coma boot. However, it is happening intermittently. What I would do is reflash the TSOP first, although it doesn't necessarily sound like it's corrupt, but more like the IC itself is finally failing. I would try an LPC boot and see if you get more consistent bootups with that. ...IF it comes back up. Usually RAM errors end up in FRAGs.
  6. Bowlsnapper
    He makes some pretty nice stuff. I'm surprised I keep forgetting this one exists. I should try it out.
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    This makes me so happy I had to actually post about it. ... I'm happy.
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    Interesting. It causes an issue with the drive becoming ready. What an odd problem. I don't clearly remember any issues either and what I remember is anecdotal. And so it should be treated as such.
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    Nem's adapter uses the Marvell Bridge chip that the startech uses. You should be able to get UDMA6 right off the rip, easily. I wouldn't worry about that. The Marvells have a weird issue where they won't support a config with a certain model of DVD drive and over a certain size HDD. I bet @nikeymikey or @MadMartigan knows. Afaik, it isn't common enough to really be a consistent issue, but I'm not a hundred percent.
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    It's sorta like seeing a delorean in real life. They're around, but you mostly only see them on TV and on the Internet. I'm very glad that I was able to get it going within a short time. It would have been faster but life got in the way. I had always wanted to see one and take it apart, and now I have.
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    Yeah... Your last point is one reason of many that I don't want to officially give the green light on this. There are too many layers to this that make me uncomfortable. You have to kinda trick a soft mod into running a setup like this. Softmods are built around a shadow C and they have 64 megs of RAM. It just seems like it would be more trouble than it's worth. It may actually be more work to do this than it is to just hardmod and install some RAM. I wonder how stable the xdk launcher is on 64 megs... Thank you, Rocky.
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    I received a DVT-5 development kit that has been owned by Rebecca Heineman since the days she was actively working as a game developer. She has along history of gaming involvement and development. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1826380/ When I received the kit, it had been worked on previously. There was a hole punched in the SuperIO ribbon for some reason, and I had a ribbon on hand, so I replaced it. I cleaned the entire console after disassembling and then reassembled it. It had some tabs on the RF shield that were bent to oblivion so I had to straighten those to even get the lid on, which was not bolted down at all, and in fact some bolts were missing entirely. The IO cards were not seated properly and were at odd angles. Thankfully, everything else was okay. Except that it didn't boot to anything but a black screen. Based on the symptoms, it sounded like a coma console. So I asked her to send it to me and see if I could find out if this was true. I grounded A18 first, which was a FRAG, so then I grounded A19 (TSOP Splitting Method) and I got it to boot, so I ran the latest recovery disc and, after releasing A19 from ground, flashed the bios. I was then able to boot the console without bank splitting and could finally reassemble it. This is her personal development kit and she will probably leave it in her will or be buried with it. She will actually dev with it, not let it sit on a shelf. I'm glad that I could bring something that has sentimental value to her back to original condition and leave her with a gift inside to make it unique. -Completely deep cleaned and then reassembled casing and parts. -Added activity light prototype and mounted the front panel board inside of the front panel, which looks pretty clean and keeps a stock outward appearance. -Repaired corrupt TSOP and installed latest dashboard. -Straightened things out and made sure IO cards were seated properly. -Straightened RF shield. Original Condition, externally anyway. Cleaning things up. Sorry for the lack of photos. Everything got scrubbed/brushed with simple green crystal and rinsed off, the motherboard, daughterboard, IO cards, PSU and all casing. Everything in before the bays get put in. With everything inside. The cables were organized better. This is the only pic I took. Put together and ready to rock.
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    I grounded A18 and got a FRAG. I tried A19 and was able to get a boot. I booted up the 2003 recovery disc with the newest XDK and kernel, as well as the newest bios. Once it started installing, I released A19 from ground and allowed the flash to occur, then I restarted with the TSOP wired normally and was greeted with a successful boot. The console is back together and working perfectly. I'll open another thread about it with more pics. Thank you @L2000 for the bank selection method.
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    I have spent the last hour researching this and I cannot pin down which files are used to run the exploit. The contents of the C partition that get extracted and installed is 166MB and is pretty extensive, including the dash xbe itself. This is a question that has come up before and I never really seem to have a good answer. If anybody with knowledge of softmodding is able to shed some light on this, I'm sure many would appreciate it.
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    That's so cool... Do you remember when that timing was?
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    I have been wondering about splitting the TSOP. As long as I cannot damage the MCPX by grounding anything or rewiring things, I would be open to this, of course. Please, if you can, are you able to point me to this method,? If I am able to boot and run the recovery disc, and flash after switching the back selection back, this would be perfect.
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    I would like to reflash a corrupt (Coma boot) console. I have limited experience with reflashing TSOPs manually. I have an XGecu programmer. Which adapter is best for this, socket, or PCB footprint? Are there any tutorials anywhere for this? I've only heard anecdotes about doing so but never really seen it being done. OGXboxAdmin mentioned that he was able to boot off an LPC dumb chip and then reflash the TSOP by disconnecting D0. Apparently this is possible, but I am not even able to try it. I have 1MB flash chips, so I could wire one manually, if I must, or source a dumb (cheapmod) from somebody. Does anybody have any advice about how to proceed? What would you do? Maybe I can TSOP flash a 1.1 flash with the debug bios and then transplant it onto the debug board? @KaosEngineer
  18. Bowlsnapper
    TX is SI on the PAR. Hook up your Display CSN1 to the CS on the PAR.
  19. Bowlsnapper
    I'm not sure I understand what it is you're trying to do. ModXO already runs Prom and has LCD support as of 1.5.0. What were you trying to do differently?
  20. Bowlsnapper
    @steve1 I use postimg.cc and post the "Direct Link"s. They will automatically populate the window with rendered images.
  21. Bowlsnapper
    That's what I've always said. Although I didn't know that 40s can result in an error when I was in the middle of my builds/projects, even at UDMA 2. I thought my I would only ever have an issue once I pushed to 5 or 6, which I would always end up doing anyway before I was done.
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    That explains some of the head scratching failures over the years. I remember very specific projects giving me issues for no apparent reason, with switching the cable miraculously working. I wouldn't know why it was happening or expect it because I have been able to achieve UDMA 4 easily on the 40 wires almost every time. It's only when I want to go to 5 or 6 where I've absolutely needed the 80s.
  23. Bowlsnapper
    @OGXbox Admin I'm in this situation and will need to work on a coma DVT-4. Did you try this with anything other than the chameleon? I thought I read in the threat that the addresses are not locked with the X2 when it comes to d0 being pulled low.
  24. Bowlsnapper
    I've heard that Kekule has maybe had some life things pull him away. but I wish I saw more of him around. He's a very talented guy and has done some cool things. I'm glad you're sorta able to finish what he started and actually bring it to people. It isn't easy to get these going and the BOM is pretty obscure, with sourcing being problematic, at best.
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    @trencherfield Dude... I am such a huge fan. I LOVE how much you're getting into this and I love that you took the time to create a tutorial for this task and actually got it done. I struggle with this so I admire it. Keep going and keep the momentum up. All I wanna see is more and more Trencherfield/Redux stuff. Nice work, buddy.

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