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I did not, I turned it on though and rebooted the Xbox. It didn't appear to make any difference for me. Do you have to rescan the games with that setting on? I scanned game gear as it had the least games. It seemed to scan faster, but the menu was still just as slow to open. The videos I'd watched still seemed like they opened pretty snappily even with thousands of roms in their lists. Like 2-3 seconds maybe... But they may have just been editing the videos or something.

So I've gotten my Xbox all setup and am using xbmc-emustation. Which is amazing. However, it seems like my game list menus are a lot slower than any of the YouTube videos I've watched. The videos look like it takes a second or two for the games lists to come up, but mine is more like 30-40 seconds. When exiting a rom (with the option to return to the list enabled) it only stays on the black screen for a second or two then displays the list. Is it normal for it to hang for 30+ when loading the list from the carousel? I can still hear the button press noises it you press them. I'm on the latest version as far as any update checking tells me... It scanned everything fine. And the lists look/work fine once they open. Thanks in advance for and help.

I'd have to reinstall it to give you a solid answer, but I want to say it did the 3 green flash then orange "frag" boot. Which I understand to mean that it was trying to boot from the modchip, but couldn't successfully. Which is why I was thinking the bios was just incompatible. I had tried to install it using the wire harness vice the pin header though, just because I had the wiring harness still unused. However, the wiring harness that came with the X2.6 has less connections than the pin header would have. I'm unsure as to why they did that though. At this point, I've got the console softmodded. I'm probably just going to write the modchip off and leave the console softmodded since it looks like you can swap harddrives with a softmod anyway (per the guides I was reading), which was the whole reason I thought I needed a modchip to begin with. Thanks for you time, you definitely answered my questions. It makes sense that it locks to whichever location it boots to, I was mostly just hopeful that toggling the chip to "enable" after a boot would have somehow tricked it into swapping over but that also wouldn't make a ton of sense either I guess. *shrug* I was thinking about TSOP-ing, but if that goes bad I'm kind of out of options and it doesn't seem like I'd get much more than what a softmod with a swapped harddrive would provide anyway.

Thanks, I figured that this was probably the case. Appreciate the answer. I wonder if I just did something wrong installing the modchip in the 1.4 when I tried. It wouldn't boot off of it so I assumed that the 1.6 version wasn't backwards compatible. I'll give it another try and see if I can't get anything loaded from the installer disc. Thanks for the link as well!

So, I wasn't really sure which forum to post this in since the question will touch multiple categories. I have an xbox 1.6 which had an xecuter2.6ce that I installed in it many years ago. At the time, I flashed both banks with evoXM8+_16 as a "just in case one of the banks corrupts". I had also bought the programmer for these back then... unfortunately, I didn't keep a computer with a parallel port That Xbox ended up freezing up a lot and dieing. So, I figured I would try to move the modchip to a backup Xbox I have (daughter's autistic and playing on this is part of her daily routine... you keep backups...) Unfortunately, this backup Xbox is a 1.4. I had a mishap with some traces on the 1.6 while moving the modchip, so going back to reflash anything isn't an option. I'm an Electronics Tech by trade, and am no stranger to soldering... so I'm a bit ashamed of the trace damages and don't really want to elaborate. So, I have no access to a parallel port, IDE cables on a computer (mine only has SATA ports now), or the original 1.6 xbox. I ended up going to a local vintage game shop and got myself a copy of Splinter Cell as I plan on softmodding the 1.4 console, then probably TSOP-ing it so that I can install a larger harddrive (or just move the HD over from the 1.6 as I know it at least works fine with the Xbox). My question before starting this process is this: Is there someway with either the softmoded or TSOP flashed Xbox 1.4 to install the Xecuter2.6CE chip and reflash it? I was thinking that maybe it would be possible to boot the xbox with the chip disabled (via the control switches) then maybe enable it once everything's booted and flash it. Basically, I'd like to reflash this chip to evoxM8+ on one bank and evoxM8+_16 on the other or maybe flashbios on one, just in case this unit dies in the future that I can just reuse the modchip in another if needed. Unfortunately the prices on modchips has increased quite a bit, so replacing it with a fresh one isn't really an option right now. I figured I should ask here before I started doing all of this and doing something out of order. I'll probably go ahead and do the softmod though since I know that'll have to be done for anything else. Thanks in advance.