SS_Dave

March 6, 2023

24 minutes ago, Naokhan said:

hey thanks SS_Dave, i found MakeMhz, i ll buy some kits from there, way better than adapteurs.

Soldering is not a problem

cheers

The Digital is a better option as the other 2 convert component to HDMI where the MakeMhz is taking the digital signal .

Cheers

SS Dave

Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing.

March 5, 2023

Here is one plug and play option

https://electron-shepherd.com/collections/all/products/xbox2hdmi

Or

https://chimericsystems.com/products/hdmi-video-adapter?variant=36769343963316

There is also the MakeMhz HDMI but that needs soldering.

Cheers

SS Dave

Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing.

March 3, 2023

4 hours ago, Maverick923 said:

Thanks Dave. I wonder if actual DVD images would be better instead of backs done the traditional way. I do have quite a bit of roms installed as well. Also, the boot time was more of an issue before switching the IGR so that LT, RT, Back, and Black can take you right to the dash.

Even still I would like to improve boot times. I made a backup image of the drive so I can do another system. I am going to try with the Startech and I will see how much things are improved. I have been reading and many folks swear by it.

Did you mean like Cerbios 2? dogs logo? Or is there a logo with 2 dogs? It may not matter, but I was wondering.

I meant the dogs logo.

This screen. There was a version (V2.02) of Cerbios that didn't have it

Cheers

SS Dave

Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing.

March 3, 2023

21 hours ago, Maverick923 said:

HGST Ultrastar 7K4000 HUS724030ALA640 I am using

I have the same make and size HDD in a Xbox here and I get 28sec from pressing the power button to the main screen of xbmc4gamers

The drive was formatted with Fatxploer as C, E, F: only there is still 900gb free with around 850 games plus CoinOPS 8 Massive and Ninja Massive

I have a 80 wire IDE and Startech sata adaptor

I have a 2tb WD blue that's about 25 seconds from power button to dash loaded.

As a test I fitted a 2tb that only has a files on C drive and xbmc4gamers on E drive with no games or app and it's boot time from pressing the power to the main xbmc4gamers screen 19 seconds and 95% of that is the Cerbios dogs logo..

Cheers

SS Dave

Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing.

March 2, 2023

1 hour ago, Maverick923 said:

I am using the NFHK SATA to IDE, and Emustation.

Have you set fast game parsing on?

What make and model of hard drive are you using?

I suggest to get a StarTech Sata2ide part number IDE2SAT2 and I assume you are using a 80 wire ide cable?

Cheers

SS Dave

Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing.

March 2, 2023

4 hours ago, Maverick923 said:

Thanks! I thought of that, but I was not sure if it would cause any issues. That worked real well. That saved like more then 10 secs to boot. I am trying to get it lower then that. I am down to 41 secs before the dash is loaded. I wonder if there is anything else I can do?

What HDD and sata adaptor are you using and what dash?

Cheers

SS Dave

Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing.

March 2, 2023

4 hours ago, Onaga said:

Is the Modchip a Xblast? Becasue you can put the fan speed to 100% in Xblast OS and it will overtake the settings no matter whats missing (for example the cfg file on C). Its basically a good insurance just in case you forget something. Not sure about OpenXenium or other Modchips with Custom OS. I have a N64 Freak 1,4Ghz as well and it came with the Xblast.

The OP's N64 Freak board hasn't got a mod-chip, Both the N64 Freak boards and the OP's come flashed with IND5004.67 bios and as long as the HDD is working and the config.ini is there then there is no issue. If the config file is missing then the fan returns to auto

I have found there is no need to run the fan at 100% unless you have downgraded the stock fan with an Noctua fan.

Cheers

SS Dave

Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing.

March 1, 2023

43 minutes ago, Maverick923 said:

I was able to flash the updated bios with the 256kb UDMA 5 and I am using the Chinese IDE to Sata adapter. That went fine. I ran bios checker to verify the bios. While I did not see the bios because it is unknown, I did see the bios chip which is the Hynix Hy29f080. I think this is a 1mb bios chip. I went with the 256kb bios to be on the safe side because I was not sure. Does it matter that I did not use the 1mb version?

The issue with using the UDMA5 with a cheap Sata2ide is stability with some hard drives. You are better off using the UDMA4 until you get a Startech brand adaptor

I tested using UDMA5 on a cheap adaptor and some drives work and others have random booting and loading of games problems.

Cheers

SS Dave

Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing.

March 1, 2023

29 minutes ago, Onaga said:

but he is getting a bios flash screen. xbox should be able to boot hexen.

if he gets nothing (black screen) without chip, he most likely needs to rebuild C. otherwise he would get error 16 becasue of missing dashboard. thats what I know from my experiance.

The screen he is getting will not boot a OS disk ( Hexen, OGXbox 2021 installer) or a game disk, it's purely add a bios that will allow you to load a OS from either a DVD or the HDD.

This is the screen he is talking about

Also if he has a version 1.0 there is a good chance the OP will not get any errors on the screen just the Eject LED flashes differently depending on what's caused the Xbox to not boot.

Cheers

SS Dave

Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing.

February 27, 2023

12 hours ago, syfer1987 said:

my Xbox has broken ied port see pic

If you mean the missing pin in that IDE connector that's normal.

12 hours ago, syfer1987 said:

i know i can unweld this

Unsoldering 40 pin connectors requires a lot of practice as there is a high chance you could/will damage the board.

Cheers

SS Dave

Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing.

February 27, 2023

2 hours ago, Ewok0815 said:

Yep... it's a Philips drive. There is no Modchip on the MB. Just TSOP. Which actually works nicely right now. I was able to mount the SSD using a 80 wire IDE cable and Star Tech converter with the help of the OGxbox installer you've provided the link for. Took me day to find the settings with the partitions and copying though. It is such a relief with this SSD now. Cloned everything back from the HDD and it runs just great. I was able to lower idle temp to 54C°. Seems okay for now. I actually thought about getting rid off the DVD drive and optimizing airflow. Maybe I'll check that route on a later mission. For now I am pretty happy with my very silent mod to feed my arcade cab. Just love this little box. Thanks alot for all your input Dave.

You are welcome..

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I actually thought about getting rid off the DVD drive and optimizing airflow.

The HDD and DVD mounting brackets are there to assist with cooling by directing the air towards the GPU/CPU.

2 hours ago, Ewok0815 said:

There is no Modchip on the MB.

On the MB I got from N64 freak he left the pin header on the board so adding a mod chip is a simple thing to do as you only need one wire to the board for the D0 and by having a mod chip it's good when testing a new bios in case it doesn't work on your board.

Cheers

SS Dave

Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing.

February 26, 2023

Check and or replace the main filter caps next to the GPU heat sink and I find some have poor shielding and when I install then in place of the AV port I add a extra ground from the HDMI connector shield ( the metal around the HDMI Socket) to ground.

Cheers

SS Dave

Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing.

February 26, 2023

11 hours ago, Squishyrob said:

Hey everyone, apologies if this is in the wrong place. I recently bought a component cable from eBay, the ones made from a 360 component cable and standard ogxbox composite. I downloaded enigmah-x and changed from pal to ntsc, enabled 480 and 720p. I plugged it in and there’s a weird green tint to everything. The Xbox splash screen seems ok (the evox logo doesn’t appear greener) but the xbmc menu does. Anybody have any ideas what could be causing this? The composite cable works fine. I even turned up the red setting on my tv but that just made everything orange. I love electronics, why don’t they feel the same? Why can’t I just blow into something and it work? I miss my nes. Thanks again,

Rob

Who the the seller that you got the AV lead from? Send me a PM if you like

Cheers

SS Dave

Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing.

February 26, 2023

16 minutes ago, Squishyrob said:

Thanks for the replies fellas, I appreciate your time. Just wondering the best way of installing cerbios? Using ftp, usb or is there some sort of installation disk? And would I just use FileZilla to drag and drop the config file to Xbox then run it from file explorer from the Xbox? And I can use XBPartitioner to reformat, is there an option to only have a F drive? I’m going to try the 2x format before I load up cerbios/only F drive, to satisfy my curiosity. Thanks again fellas, big help.

Rob

You can use Xblast to re-flash the bios on that mod-chip but with that chip if you can not flash each bank separately, So whatever you flash to bank1 is also on bank2.

I use Xblast net flash option, Load Xblast, select net flash, it will give you an IP address to connect too using any browser, you then select the bios you want to flash and click upload. If it was me I would use the UDMA4 and UDMA5

The reason I format the HDD twice is there is a bug in practitioner that has a hiccup with 2tb HDD's

If you want to still retain the two banks with separate bios's then you need to combine the 2 files to make a 1024kb ( 1meg) file and flash that.

There is a program called "Xecuter Bios Manager V2.3" that can combine the to bios files. you can down load this and flash it

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mOAdc-gzT6OywY006BbsiYY9HEh3Kc4G/view?usp=share_link

Bank1 = UDMA2

Bank2 = UDMA5

Cheers

SS Dave

Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing.

February 25, 2023

12 hours ago, cpg said:

I got a lockable hard drive I wrote the Xbox dashboard files to the hard drive but when I tried to lock it and then put it back in my Xbox .my Xbox came up with error six so I checked the hard drive password again and they were the exact same.

Error Code 06
Problem: Incorrect hard drive password.

What program are you using to check the passwords?

If the Xbox is hard modded then you don't need to lock the HDD/SSD

What program did you use to copy the files to the Xbox?

Cheers

SS Dave

Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing.

February 25, 2023

4 hours ago, Squishyrob said:

Hey everyone, apologies if this is in the wrong place. I recently bought a component cable from eBay, the ones made from a 360 component cable and standard ogxbox composite. I downloaded enigmah-x and changed from pal to ntsc, enabled 480 and 720p. I plugged it in and there’s a weird green tint to everything. The Xbox splash screen seems ok (the evox logo doesn’t appear greener) but the xbmc menu does. Anybody have any ideas what could be causing this? The composite cable works fine. I even turned up the red setting on my tv but that just made everything orange. I love electronics, why don’t they feel the same? Why can’t I just blow into something and it work? I miss my nes. Thanks again,

Rob

Check that you haven't swapped the 2 red connectors.

Also clean the AV port on the Xbox using a bush like a tooth brush and some isopropanol.

Cheers

SS Dave

Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing.

February 25, 2023

When formatting a 2tb hard drive I always format it twice

The first format of F and G partitions I set the size of the drives to around 920gb each then after it's formatted you need to power off the Xbox for a good 30seconds the power on and load the partitioner program again and this time format F and G to maximum, Then power cycle the Xbox again

6 hours ago, Squishyrob said:

would it be worthwhile flashing the cerbios bios if at all this is possible?

Yes I would use the Cerbios and don't forget to put the cerbios.ini config file on the root of C drive.

The lastert Cerbios is 2.2.1 beta

Depending on you IDE cable and your sata2ide adaptor you may not be able to use the UDMA5 version, For the UDMA5 you need a good quality 80 wire IDE cable with a Startech adaptor.

Cheers

SS Dave

Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing.

February 24, 2023

23 hours ago, Hispano said:

Also modzville (the chip seller) told me that he always tested them before send them but maybe is a problem of the aladdin itself and not the SST chip

Anything is possible and it could be a faulty CPLD chip or a faulty EEprom and there is always a chance the mod-chip that was shipped to you is one that was in the box of tested chips by mistake ( we all can make mistakes ).

21 hours ago, Hispano said:

Then i supose that is a failure from EEPROM, the chip cant read from it because is blank

Then all my installation is fine!

The only way to 100% confirm if the eeprom is a black would be to read the 49lf080 with a eeprom reader/writer or to fit a known working eeprom from another Xblast chip.

Cheers

SS Dave

Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing.

February 24, 2023

3 hours ago, KaosEngineer said:

That value is the HDDKey stored in the Configuration EEPROM. It along with the hard drive's model and serial number are used to compute the locking password.

If that's the case then there is no point on nulling the HDD password if the key is calculated using the drives serial number, The way I read is the hard drive key is calculated from the Xbox serial number and nothing to do with the hard drive's model and or the serial number.

As an example you can buy a fully loaded Hard drive online that's pre locked to a nulled key and drop it in any Xbox that has a nulled HDD key.

I might be wrong and misunderstood the whole HDD locking part as I only ever unlock after a hard mod if the customer has plans to reuse the original drive for something else.

Cheers

SS Dave

Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing.

February 24, 2023

22 hours ago, Gurjsagoo said:

i managed to lock the hd. so it all ok now. boots into ms dash. but when i plug in the mod chip. i get the flash screen. flashed with the xecuter bios. but when i switch the console off and on i get the same screen again telling me to flash it

Flash it with EvoxM8 or cerbios 2.2.1

Cheers

SS Dave

Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing.

February 24, 2023

4 hours ago, kit352 said:

No, no white lines on my 1.0 with the xenium. It's just very grainy, like a ps1 game. Works great without the chip. Settings don't seem to matter with the chip in either. It's always in low resolution.

Can you post a pic of the image on your tv and the installation of the chip?

Cheers

SS Dave

Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing.

February 23, 2023

Is the DVD a Philips drive?

Do you have a mod-chip on that MB? or would you consider fitting a chip?

If it was mine I would at least test the Cerbios and if you use a modchip if you don't like it all you have to do is remove the chip and it's back to the way it was.

The Cerbios in conjunction with a SSD will allow you to take advantage you faster IDE bus speeds, currently the bus runs at UDMA2 and the Cerbios allows UDMA5 when you use a Startech Sata2Ide and a 80 wire IDE cable.

As for cooling I would remove the DVD drive and mount the SSD there and 3D print a shroud to cover the CPU/GPU some thing like this.

Cheers

SS Dave

Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing.

February 23, 2023

Is that screen on both banks?

Cheers

SS Dave

Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing.

February 23, 2023

3 hours ago, Hispano said:

Also i discovered a table with different lights of Xbox and i was wrong calling FRAG to my problem, mine is Christmas lights .

I hope that mistake dont make differences to get a solution

I still believe the modchip has a blank EEprom.

That list you found lists "Usually due to a failed or improperly installed modchip"

We have been over your installation and besides some soldering issues at first, The soldering issue has been fixed so that leaves the Mod-chip at fault.

If it was a installation problem then just disconnecting the D0 wire ( Red wire) from the modchip would not allow the Xbox to boot normally.

Cheers

SS Dave

Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing.

February 23, 2023

1 hour ago, kit352 said:

Thanks for the advice. I will give that a try.

I haven't messed around much with the system. With the xenium chip installed it makes my power and eject buttons crazy and it's bothering me. If I take out the chip all is well. I've been using my stock 1.6 for now. I did build a soft mod kit for it but have yet to install it. I keep reading conflicting reports about softmodding the 1.6 can brick it very easily using rocky5. With the 1.6 being my only fully functional system I'm loath to do something that could kill it.

Are you getting white lines on the menu?

On the Xenium, Open Xenium mod-chips when connected to a version 1.6 you need to back date the firmware or use the firmware from MakeMHz

Cheers

SS Dave

Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing.

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