JasperVanCleef

I decided not long ago to TSOP flash my xboxes, so it's no longer a problem for me. It was so easy, I wish I had done it earlier!

Hi all, It seems at last my problem is solved. So, here's how it got solved. 1) My first problem came from the cloned drive not working properly, though the cloning part was successful and the drive was locked. I had the startech adapter, so I thought it must have been the cables. I ordered Chimeric's cable, still had the same problem (error 11). Everything was connected fine, the dvd drive was working. After some tinkering, I must have screwed something up as the xbox would fail to boot to dashboard and was in a bit of a loop. Sometimes the dash would appear for a split second, and be gone the next. On KaosEngineer's advice, I disabled PAL60 and the flickering was gone on game discs, but the dash still failed to load consistently. After some digging around (it was perhaps obvious but I didn't know), I read a post by Rocky5, talking about his safe mode (START + Y on startup), and this saved me. As he said when the utility was running, I was "in good hands", and I would need to "be careful next time". That solved my dashboard not loading, done! 2) There still remained the question of error 11 when plugging the new HDD in. Since that error means the DVD drive was not connected, I thought I'd try a DVD or CD for shits and giggles. First disc around was HeXEN. Popped it in, no Error 11 and the disc worked fine. I go around it trying to find useful stuff and thought I might as well try ConfigMagic. I went in there and clicked on "LOCK DRIVE". Chimp had told me the drive was already locked but, might as well try, Configmagic did say "Drive is already locked??", but... I exited and rebooted, and now it threw error 21, so I knew something was up with the dash, but at least it was the right path. Used START+Y and now everything's good! I don't know if configmagic helped in any way, I just know it works now. Anyway, thanks for reading this wild ride and having helped in any way, shape or form, especially to KaosEngineer and MadMartigan. And of course thanks to Rocky5. Now I'm done with the 1.1, I'm on to the 1.6 I bought for €60 (with dvd remote, controller and memory card - had never seen one for real before) because I thought the 1.1 was toast. Why are Xboxes so expensive now... when I see guys picking those for $4 at Goodwill, I'm jealous. And I had bought a cheaper one there a couple hours before, but upon checking it more closely, I saw it was fully corroded on the side (salesman hadn't let me handle the console...). I brought it back and they let me buy the other one instead. Wife is okay with it so now I have two Xboxes PS: sorry about the corny formatting, but maybe those colours are gonna help someone someday

Hi all, It seems at last my problem is solved. I will be posting the same answer in the softmod forum as I had opened a similar thread there, and some people might find some answers in here. So, here's how it got solved: 1) My first problem came from the cloned drive not working properly, though the cloning part was successful and the drive was locked. I had the startech adapter, so I thought it must have been the cables. I ordered Chimeric's cable, still had the same problem (error 11). Everything was connected fine, the dvd drive was working. After some tinkering, I must have screwed something up as the xbox would fail to boot to dashboard and was in a bit of a loop. Sometimes the dash would appear for a split second, and be gone the next. On KaosEngineer's advice, I disabled PAL60 and the flickering was gone on game discs, but the dash still failed to load consistently. After some digging around (it was perhaps obvious but I didn't know), I read a post by Rocky5, talking about his safe mode (START + Y on startup), and this saved me. As he said when the utility was running, I was "in good hands", and I would need to "be careful next time". That solved my dashboard not loading, done! 2) There still remained the question of error 11 when plugging the new HDD in. Since that error means the DVD drive was not connected, I thought I'd try a DVD or CD for shits and giggles. First disc around was HeXEN. Popped it in, no Error 11 and the disc worked fine. I go around it trying to find useful stuff and thought I might as well try ConfigMagic. I went in there and clicked on "LOCK DRIVE". Chimp had told me the drive was already locked but, might as well try, Configmagic did say "Drive is already locked??", but... I exited and rebooted, and now it threw error 21, so I knew something was up with the dash, but at least it was the right path. Used START+Y and now everything's good! I don't know if configmagic helped in any way, I just know it works now. Anyway, thanks for reading this wild ride and having helped in any way, shape or form, especially to KaosEngineer and MadMartigan. And of course thanks to Rocky5. Now I'm done with the 1.1, I'm on to the 1.6 I bought for €60 (with dvd remote, controller and memory card - had never seen one for real before) because I thought the 1.1 was toast. Why are Xboxes so expensive now... when I see guys picking those for $4 at Goodwill, I'm jealous. And I had bought a cheaper one there a couple hours before, but upon checking it more closely, I saw it was fully corroded on the side (salesman hadn't let me handle the console...). I brought it back and they let me buy the other one instead. Wife is okay with it so now I have two Xboxes PS: sorry about the corny formatting, but maybe those colours are gonna help someone someday

Sorry I can't edit anymore, I thought I did earlier but must have forgotten to submit the edit. So basically, with hexen in the disc tray, I'm able to use the TV via component, it works fine. I even switched it to NTSC and, first of all, HD on a console this old is amazing, so gutted we didn't get to enjoy in Europe at the time. When I rebooted it however, trying to boot to unleashX, it went back to the loop of black screen -> backlit screen -> black screen, etc. Could it be the hard drive on the way out? It does seem to click. That could also explain why I couldn't have its clone work (though it said it was cloned successfully in Chimp).

Hi, Thanks for your help! It did solve the problem of the VERY unstable picture, so the picture stopped jumping up and down, at least when booting from the Hexen disc. I removed it and had a very stable run on the UnleashX dashboard, goofing around looking at saves and all. It restarted out of the blue and now I had again the weird jumping / rebooting problem on the dashboard. It's now sitting idle on the Hexen disc menu and the temps seem pretty high for idle (56m/b and 52cpu!). It's about 20 degrees in the room (all celsius), so that might be part of the problem? I repasted with a noname kind of paste. I didn't think it would make a difference because the stuff that was there before was atrocious but maybe it does? M/b is at 59c now, CPU 53. The top is removed but the disc drive is in its bay, where it's supposed to be (I think that's the part that redirects the airflow to the GPU right ?), HDD is off to the side. What I don't get is that this monitor does support 60hz so why would it jump up and down like that? It's going through a cheap composite to hdmi adapter but there aren't any problems when Pal60 is disabled. Also, it straight up won't go past the Xbox screen after flubber when outputting through the 360 component on TV. I bought another Xbox yesterday (1.6, wanted the 1.0 they had but could see it was highly corroded by looking at the sides). I'm going to try the component with Hexen, I'll edit this post to tell you if it worked. I still need to figure out the reason it won't work with the cloned drive too.

Hi all, So I received the 80 wire cable from Chimeric and tested it out this morning. Didn't have much hope as the og cable should have worked with the og HDD. It still flickers and seems to be rebooting when I boot into unleashx. However I burnt Hexen on a dvd-r and it while it does flicker in the menu, it doesn't reboot and I can go about the menu. What's weirder is that enighmah doesn't flicker and works perfectly, so the video out looks ok? Here are two videos : https://imgur.com/a/kH1myvo However, if I change it to NTSC my screen recognises it as NTSC446 instead of 60. I'm really at a loss!

Hi all, I had originally posted in softmods regarding a softmodded Xbox that would throw an Error 07 whenever booting from a newly cloned drive. Now, I can't even boot properly into the dashboard with the original HDD because it will just reboot constantly so I think this part of my problem might be more at home here. Revision is a 1.1 (Kernel 4817). Softmodded with Rocky5's Softmodding tool (use SC Pal save exploit from a USB stick) - all went flawlessly. Before putting the xbox all together, I thought I'd clean the underside of the motherboard and while I was at it, remove the old thermal paste and repaste. I used a hair dryer on low with a couple of temp spikes to speed up the process on the GPU. After my problems with the new cloned drive, I gave up and thought I'd just use the console as is for now, cause I can still play my physical games. However, I'm confronted with a new problem : It will do the boot animation and then 2 scenarii : 1) If I'm on my new Tv with my component cable (had to resolder everything cause I misinterpreted the schematics as being from the back but it now works properly as I see the boot sequence -s can this badly soldered cable have shorted omething?) : I get a black screen with the occasional flicker. 2) Now, on my LCD PC monitor I'll have either a) it boots and I can go about the menu and all, played a game (too scratched to really start but menu was there, buggy music but working). or b) the picture flickers and I catch a glimpse of the boot menu for a split sec and it disappears. I tried going to applications and enigmah to change it back to pal, but my monitor seems unbothered by that (recognises ntsc fine) and every time I press down, thinking I'll be in applications, next flicker I see of the menu, it's back at the top, meaning it's actually rebooted in the meantime. Here's a video to visualise it : https://imgur.com/a/EmA5mmy I've managed to have a stable boot and changed Enigmah back to Pal to be on the safe side. Now, I checked for continuity on all traces, on MadMartigan's advice, and they beep effortlessly. Here is a pic of both sides. I know top looks pretty gnarly but all was cleaned with 90% alcohol and cotton swabs. I didn't scrub it though. https://imgur.com/a/y72odPm The little transistor O7G1, right from the original clock cap on the second picture, looks a bit weird at the pads. Could this play a part? How would I test it? Thanks in advance for your insights and time! Cheers

I was fearing this, hopefully there is more troubleshooting I can do. Maybe the fact that I plugged in the av cord with the wrong pins soldered shorted something? I don't think the current is there is strong enough but you never know.

I checked for continuity for those three traces and it beeps without having to fiddle around. I checked the wider trace and it beeps too. To be complete, I checked the one above C3 and it seems to be fine. However I noticed that the little transistor just under the clock cap (O7G1 on the board) seems to be very corroded and maybe lifted from the trace ?

Thanks, I was hoping those were artifacts due to my phone's camera, because I hadn't really seen that when I cleaned it, and mostly it was working before I decided to clean it, so I was afraid I fucked something up I tried cleaning it with 90% alcohol + cotton swabs, do you think I should use a toothbrush around the pads you circled ? I'll test the continuity this afternoon. Thanks so much for the help!

I removed the clock cap about a year ago and it had leaked. It wasn't pretty but it seemed to be okay. Then fast forward to this month, decided to dust up the Xbox to play games I had never owned but always wanted (eg Blinx). Since I had started the softmod and the console was open, I thought 'might as well clean the backside of the MB and change the thermal paste'. Backside seemed fine but decided to give it a little cleanup with rubbing alcohol. https://m.imgur.com/a/y72odPm What's weird is 10 minutes ago I managed to have it boot to dashboard fine (while opening disc tray). Shut it down then tried to replicate and it's doing the flashing all over again, but the light is solid green (I had changed it in the dashboard because I did not like it being orange) when it reboots. Fully functional, I'd say it's always had its ups and downs and was actually serviced twice by Microsoft back in the day (drive swap, then new PSU + protection cord with it). I hadn't played it much these past years so other than a clicking hard drive, I'd say it seems to have been okay.

Hi all, this might be its own thread, but since I opened this one not long ago, I'd rather not open a new one (if the mods would rather I create a new topic, I'll do it). Since I'm waiting on Chimeric's IDE cable, I reinstalled the stock 40 wire cable and am using the stock HDD (modded with the prebuilt version of Rocky5's softmodding tool). I'm halting the hdd clone thingy til I have the new IDE cable, but I've tried using the system as is and it's pretty hit and miss. It will do the boot animation and then 2 scenarii : 1) If I'm on my new Tv with my component cable (had to resolder everything cause I misinterpreted the schematics as being from the back but it now works properly as I see the boot sequence) : I get a black screen with the occasional flicker. 2) Now, on this LCD PC monitor I'll have either a) it boots and I can go about the menu and all, played a game (too scratched to really start but menu was there, buggy music but working). or b) the picture flickers and I catch a glimpse of the menu for a split sec and it disappears. I tried going to applications and enigmah to change it back to pal, but my monitor seems unbothered by that (recognises ntsc fine) and every time I press down, thinking I'll be in applications, next flicker I see of the menu, it's back at the top, meaning it's actually rebooted in the meantime. Here's a video to visualise it : https://imgur.com/a/EmA5mmy I did unplug everything to clean the console inside out (hadn't cleaned the underside when I removed the clock cap so I did this time, and applied new thermal paste as well). AFAIK everything is plugged in properly. I'm thinking this, AND the weird behaviour with the clones, it is going bust? It's my childhood one so I'd rather keep playing with this one, but if push comes to shove I'll get a new one and turn this one into a lamp, or something. Thanks for your time!

It seems to be working alright with the stock HDD and does not seem to be possible given the difference in distance between MB to dvd drive connectors and dvd drive to master connectors. However, given the general quality of the cable, it's entirely possible it's reverse from factory? In any case I ordered Chimeric's cable and should have it in between 10 days to three weeks and will keep you updated when I have it and test the whole thing with it. If ever you have other ideas I can try out in the mean time, I'm all ears. (I took advantage of ordering the ide cable and joined the waiting list for HDMI adapter)

(sorry, couldn't reply due to the 24hr limit). I'm using the same 80 wire ide cable with the stock drive and it seems to work, though as I've said in the previous message, the dash seems to take longer to appear "solidly". I've also tested two out of the three. I bit the bullet and got Chimeric's, which will have the added bonus of having the dvd drive connector the right way around.

Cables are snug and everything seems to be working fine with the stock drive. However, plugging it all back again to check what version of chimp I had, I noticed that the dashboard would load upon booting, then suddenly disappear and it will be some time before it reappears. I don't know if that could be the cause but I tried 'pushing' the ide cable back in the (stock) hard drive and the dashboard came back. Now, the cable I'm using is from Amazon and I had to buy 3 minimum so I tested two already. People are saying it does work in their Xbox in the reviews. https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B000TND1VI/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_i_3C7QRZJWRF2CA6ATMTMW?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1 I'd buy Chimeric's but I'm not in the US and don't know when I'd get it. What bums me is the Startech adapter seems to be fine with detecting and the drives I have half a mind to take my computer's hard drive and try it out.