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Hi @KaosEngineer, Sorry for the ~1 year lag... I left off this in frustration then, but want to come back to thank you. Your last post mentioned about the need for the SD AV cable and that actually did the trick - the "blank screen" attempting to boot the backup/recovery FlashBIOS 3.0.1 was due to my use of the HD component cables (duh). Once that was resolved, everything else was "as expected" - I managed to "erase"/overwrite the 2x 1MB 3924 with 4x 256KB ROMs, then re-flashed 1MB bank #1 again with 3924 and my Xbox was working again, replete with all my saved games, profiles, et. al. still on my HDD... Thank you so much, @KaosEngineer!

Hi @KaosEngineer, I am, unfortunately, in a similar boat... Unfortunate that in this case, as I believe my recovery FlashBIOS is still 3.01 on my XBox v1.6 (blank screen and purple X on backup power+eject boot), and both 1MB banks on my Xecuter 3 have 3924 on them and a password was set on both (which was working fine for some ~4 years from 2006). Both banks currently stopped accepting any passwords. I only knew of those password problems and the FlashBIOS incompatibility now, after things fail. Any suggestions? Is there a way to connect a serial port directly to the Xecuter 3 to flash it, or pull the backup and/or main EEPROM to re-flash externally? Thanks!