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I softmodded and then tsopped my original xbox. Before doing this I made a custom component cable which worked great with all my games and the stock dashboard. In one of the menu's during the softmod process the screen went crazy (kind of looks like a sink issue, the screen is squashed and scrolling across rapidly, impossible to tell what is on screen). I plugged in the composite cable and finished up the process and then TSOP'ed it. Now when I boot with the component cable the bios flubber animation works perfectly but the screen goes nuts when I get to unleasheX despite changing the video settings to NTSC-M, no to 480p-720p-1080i- enable pal, no to faster refresh rate. what could be causing this? EDIT: SOLUTION FOUND because the xbox restarts when video cable is reconnected I had to write down the button presses required to get to ms dashboard while using composite, then swith to component, follow the button presses, stock dashboard worked, go into settings and disable all high resolutions, and then restart. everythings fine now and I hope this helps others with the same issue

So I very ignorantly thought I scortched the board (more than I actually did) because I had a hard time getting the flux off, once I got all the flux off of the board it was one burnt up pad but I utilized a different pad in a diagram I found, I ended up having to enlist someone elses help because both my tip was to large, my eyesight to poor to make out what's going on and my skill level was'nt quite high enough. I'm used to working on much bigger spots like through hole capacitors or soldering wires together where higher temps are useful. thank you for all the advice

I have a newly tsoped xbox with evox and unleash x, I am a massive fan of UIX lite but when I tried to open it in unleashX it told me the file could'nt be fount, I downloaded 1.0 and coppied the files to the location and now I can go into UIX and I love the interface but I can't switch to any other dashboards like the MS one or unleashX. I want to make UIX my default but I still want to be able to switch to others on ocasion. Is there some config file I'm missing or something

It was hard to get a good image, I think I damaged the board pretty bad. I figured my years of recaping crt's and some smd soldering here and there would make me qualified. I think I might have seriously damaged it beyond my repair abilities, I had such a hard time trying to make that joint (I made the mistake of using flux), any advice on what to do now? worried I might be S.O.L

I FIGURED IT OUT, to anyone who might be having a simalar problem out there here is what I did, first copy a save to the ipod from the xbox (not nessisary but helpful for diagnosis), use explorer360 to create a backup of the memory card/ipod, open that backup in FATXplorer, you should now see a folder inside created by the save you coppied from you're xbox, this means it is working, now copy what you need to for the softmod (in my case rocky5 splinter cell and the softmod folder) then unmount this, restore to memorycard from this moddified backup in explorer360 and whala. there may be an easier sollution but I haven't found one

The issue with that is that if I save files to it from my xbox, they show up after reboot so I know it worked, but when I use explorer360 to look at it there are no files at all. it's as if their both writing to different partitions but it only has one and I confirmed that the computer actually coppies files to it by checking the ipod with explorer360 on another pc. The xbox can see the files it writes to the ipod and the pc can see the files it writes but neither can see both. edit: the error FATXplorer gives me when attempting to preload after successfully formatting is "The format completed successfully, but the preload failed, the parameter is incorrect: '\\.PHYSICALDRIVE6'

The issue with that is that if I save files to it from my xbox, they show up after reboot so I know it worked, but when I use explorer360 to look at it there are no files at all. it's as if their both writing to different partitions but it only has one and I confirmed that the computer actually coppies files to it by checking the ipod with explorer360 on another pc. The xbox can see the files it writes to the ipod and the pc can see the files it writes but neither can see both.

I tried that, FATXplorer does not recognize it in the devices screen, it sees it as an option to format but after I format it it does'nt show up, if I try to preload them when formatting it says something along the lines of "partition 0 does not exist or cannot be found", not sure what to do

I got the xbox to usb adapter and a copy of splinter cell to softmod my xbox, multiple sites confirmed you can use an ipod nano to do this so I plugged in the ipod nano to the xbox and it reformatted it. I tried coppying a game save to it and restarting and it was still there. when I open fatxplorer it does not see the ipod, when I try xplorer360 I am able to copy the save folders 5553000c and 21585554 and it stays after removing the drive and reopening and I got them to show up on xplorer360 using a different computer with the ipod connected. Then when I tried to view those saves in my xbox on the memory card, only the test save (soul calliber) shows up, not the ones I coppied over. I also noticed that I don't see any folders in xplorer360 that would be from the soul calliber save which my xbox can still see, but my xbox does not see splintercell or anything else. any help would be appreciated