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39 minutes ago, Bowlsnapper said:
That's true. If it's old enough, yeah, it wouldn't surprise me. If that's the case, then I respect how retro this guy's storage solution is. Lol. I'm surprised he had access to ones that worked. Just had one, I guess.
I used to get people bring old PC drives when I was upgrading their Xbox and I have recently had one here with a 40gb HDD that would have been older than the Xbox and the drive seemed to be working fine it was just to small.
The owner was going to put that 40gb drive on eBay
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SS Dave
Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing.
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16 hours ago, Bowlsnapper said:
5400rpm? Is it a 2.5 inch laptop HDD. lol No Wonder only UDMA 2 works.
The original 3.5 inch HDD's are 5400rpm as are a lot of old small 3.5 inch hard drives
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SS Dave
Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing.
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The Xbox should boot fine with the rebuild board still on the board or wires on the board
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SS Dave
Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing.
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47 minutes ago, Viggen66 said:
Finally all my concerns are gone, equivalence to Indbios 30 is actually 60% on the other bios settings, now my temps are normal, and full shutdown also works, everything is perfect now, thanks for all the support.
Which bios did you flash? The UDMA 5 or 4
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SS Dave
Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing.
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What happens if you unplug the mod-chip? Will the Xbox boot normally?
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SS Dave
Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing.
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11 hours ago, MadMartigan said:
Try two things before you go to drastic measures.
1. Fill a sink or tub with hot water and Dawn liquid dish detergent. Submerge the case and let it sit for an hour or so. Then give it a good scrub and rinse.
2. Buy some Dawn Concentrate spray. Soak the case down and let it sit for 5 mins or so. Then scrub and see results.
Both of these have fully revived yellowed and dingy crystal cases for me.
Thank you, The difference is like night and day.
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SS Dave
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The version 1.0 doesn't have error code on the screen but it will flash the front led in slightly different patterns.
Check the led flashes and compare to the above chart
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SS Dave
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2 minutes ago, lopenator said:
no that was not me. you think it's a faulty chip?
Sorry my mistake.
Try linking the D0 and L1 like the image I posted.
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SS Dave
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1 minute ago, lopenator said:
I did that originally and the console was fragging. as soon as I grounded it on the board it started working
That means the Xbox was trying to load from the mod chip.
Didn't you get the chip replaced from Modzville
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SS Dave
Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing.
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26 minutes ago, lopenator said:
thanks Dave. I do have the xblast Aladdin from modzville
Just connect the D0 from the main board directly to the mod-chip and not to ground.
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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3 hours ago, PRince404 said:
Is there any benefit of using Cerbios UDM4/5 on a Hardmodded 1.6 with Aladdin X2 running a 160 GB IDE Drive with stock cable? Would I get any speed benefits?
If the 160 Gb drive is a 7200 rpm then you might get a slight drop in load speeds using the UDMA4 bios
3 hours ago, PRince404 said:Can I somehow convert HDD Ready dumps to CCI and play them? Without having to download the redump ISOs again? Because I want to save both my HDD Space and Internet Data.
Yes there is a PC program called Repackinator
https://github.com/Team-Resurgent/Repackinator
3 hours ago, PRince404 said:Does CerBios allows stock Boot Animation? Or is it only the three Headed blue wolf thing? Because I want to keep the boot as much Stock as possible.
I believe it does
Using the Cerbios Tool you can turn off the blue dog at the very start and there is a boot animation that looks very much like the original animation but you will need to change the colour to green as by default is blue.
There is a config file that you can edit to change that in the folder called BootAnims that you put on the Xbox C drive.
3 hours ago, PRince404 said:And apart from Custom/Multiple IGR methods what other benefit would I have if I were to flash CerBios?
The ability to use a CCI files for people using small hard drives can nearly double the number of games on the HDD has got to be a plus.
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SS Dave
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1 hour ago, lopenator said:
can confirm my consoles boots into cerbios when I remove the d0 trace from the d0 pad on chip and leave it grounded only on mobo.
retail tsop doesn't boot still.
The Xbox is still booting from the mod chip because you have the D0 point on the main board grounded and you connect the D0 from the main board directly to the mod chip D0 and not to ground.
The D0 point on the mod-chip is a switch the turns on when the chip is active and when you want to load the original bios the switch turns off so the Xbox can boot as if the chip is not fitted.
Some Aladdin chips the D0 point on the board is not strong enough and you can link the L1 and D0 on the chip together and connect that to the main boards D0 point.
This is only works on the Xblast version of the Aladdin chip sao you can select the original bios from the main menu
Or if you have a basic Aladdin chip that has the BT on the chip wire to the power button and in this case you power on the Xbox by pressing the eject button.
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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2 hours ago, Viggen66 said:
My fan is not stock, because is too noisy, but is a Nexus 70mm, on this fan the difference is night and day, also now I'n not using old IndBios but newer IndBios posted by KaosEngineer, the reboot system and shutdown works better now, but is weird Cerbios the fan runs slower, probably it needs higher value than Indbios, also Cerbios should also have a key stroke as Indbios to shutdown the console instead of going to the power button.
As I said 30 on the ind bios is not the same as 30 in the cerbios
I think you will find the 30 in the Ind bios is closer to 50%
From the IND config file
FANSPEED=10 ;Fan Speed 10-50 = 20-100% Default=10
From the cerbios config file
Fan Speed 0 = Default, 10-100 = Manual Control, Supports increments of 2's
FanSpeed = 0And cerbios has a Fullsystem shut down, Full system reset, Game only reset, Reboot back to dash and if you really want you can even set which port can perform the IGR
Try this on the cerbios Left trigger, Right trigger, Dpad up, Back button
Here is the IGR settings from the cerbios config file.
; IGR Master Port, 0 to 4, 0 = All Ports
IGRMasterPort = 0; A = 0, B = 1, X = 2, Y = 3, BLACK = 4, WHITE = 5, LEFT_TRIGGER = 6, RIGHT_TRIGGER = 7
; DPAD_UP = 8, DPAD_DOWN = 9, DPAD_LEFT = A, DPAD_RIGHT = B, START = C, BACK = D, LEFT_THUMB = E, RIGHT_THUMB = F; IGR Dash Combo, Resets back to dashboard
IGRDash = 67CD; IGR Game Combo, Resets the current loaded game
IGRGame = 467C; IGR Full Combo, Full system reset
IGRFull = 467D; IGS Shutdown Combo, Full system shutdown
IGRShutdown = 678DYou should really be using the cerbios as you get better IDE bus speed ( up to 133Mb/s compared to 33.3Mb/s) plus more than the Ind5003 patched
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SS Dave
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36 minutes ago, lopenator said:
no the Aladdin is installed on a 1.2/3
I currently have d0 grounded on the mobo and d0 going to the pad on the aladdin also. I have not tried disconnecting the aladdin d0 and leaving only d0 grounded on the mobo yet.
On your 1.2-1.3 connect the D0 from the motherboard directly to the D0 point on the mod chip
The mod chip is always active but if you select boot from on-board bios in the Xblast menu the chip will reset the Xbox and let it load from the stock bios.
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SS Dave
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That originally was posted here.
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SS Dave
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4 hours ago, Bowlsnapper said:
What is different about those controllers that causes them to not work in XBlastOS? How are they different? The regular MS software treats them no different...
The Xblast is a Linux program same as Chimp and will only work with a genuine controller.
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SS Dave
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12 hours ago, Viggen66 said:
SS_Dave,
Yes i set to 30% and runs slower than IndBios, hence the reason og xbox overheats.
I think you will find the 30 in the Ind bios is closer to 50%
FANSPEED=10 ;Fan Speed 10-50 = 20-100% Default=10
On 6/22/2023 at 6:36 PM, Viggen66 said:On IndBios, og xbox 1.4 never gets pass 53 degrees on Cerbios, it reatches 60 degrees, also fans ran slower and quieter, with same fan setting than Indbios, 30%
Do you have the HDD and DVD trays still fitted? as they form part of the cooling.
Is it a stock fan as in my view the stock fan works a ship load better that the new fans
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SS Dave
Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing.
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4 minutes ago, lopenator said:
I guarantee that when I had d0 from the Xbox mobo connected to the Aladdin d0 pad the Xbox was fragging. after I grounded d0 on the mobo i was able to boot into xblast. and yes you're correct that makes the tsop bank of the chip usless
Is it a version 1.6?
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SS Dave
Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing.
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10 hours ago, lopenator said:
I wonder why when I try to boot from retail bios bank via xblast it boot into cerbios.
I tested my Xblast chip and it seams to boot to the onboard bios from the Xblast menu if I have the D0 point on the main board connected to the mod chip.
9 hours ago, Bowlsnapper said:Let me try that...
Edit: Wow. XBlast does NOT like my component cables. Lol. Forgot about that.
Edit 2: My console did a hard reset back into XBlast. I'm assuming it's because my console's D0/Lframe is grounded to a pad and my chip can't let the console boot the TSOP in the first place... LPC is set up to ALWAYS load.
I gotta see if the chip's D0 is working okay. If it is, I need to solder to that instead and start using it.
Are you grounded too, instead of using the chip's D0?
I tested my Xblast on a 1.1 with 128meg ram and a internal HDMI from N64 freak and that is wired as a component output
It all operated fine with the D0 connected to the mod chip. The only issue with Xblast is it will not work with a non original controller.
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SS Dave
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6 minutes ago, Bowlsnapper said:
I don't see any purpose for it either... I see 512 and I think x2 bios. Lmao. I'm always using any 256k bank for Cerbios.
Dave, what would you be using this 512 for, assuming you have Cerbios loaded on the 256? I honestly Don't see a purpose for any other 256k bios. Ind, evox... What would they be used for anymore?
The design of the Xblast chip has been around for years and way back when the executer bios files where 512kb plus the eeprom on the chip has 1024kb space with the 1st 256kb used for Xblast and that leaves either 3 X 256kb or 1 X 256plus 1 X 512kb and they opted for a 256kb and 512kb
You can flash a 256kb bios to the 512kb bank and that way you can have a UDMA4 and UDMA5 for testing what bios works best for your Xbox configuration.
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SS Dave
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8 hours ago, lopenator said:
I am using an aladdin chip with xblast os at the moment and not a OX. Not sure if I can change that setting on in xBlastOS.
The Aladdin chip has 2 bios banks that you can flash the Cerbios too.
One bank is a 256kb and the other is a 512kb but you can just flash two 256kb versions of the cerbios to it.
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5 minutes ago, lopenator said:
I'm a little confused about the whole udma thing
UDMA is the IDE bus speed
UDMA 2 = 33.3Mb/s This its the Xbox original DVD/HDD data transfer speed
UDMA 4 = 66Mb/s This is suitable for a 80wire cable and a cheaper sata2ide adaptor
UDMA 5 = 100Mb/s This is if you have a good quality sata2ide adaptor like the Statech brand and a 80 wire IDE cable
UDAM 6 = 133Mb/s This setting is experimental on the version 2.3.1 of cerbios and is the maximum of the IDE cable and if you are using this you will probably need a SSD
On your Open Xenium I would have the UDMA 4 and UDMA 5 then test which version gives a reliable booting by powering the Xbox on and off over a couple of days. You should be OK with the UDMA5 as long as the HDD is a 7200rpm drive.
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SS Dave
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11 hours ago, Estrichleger said:
WDIdle is not compatible with WIn10. It wont open it just getting me the That app cannot run on your pc message.
You need to make a bootable CD/DVD/USB and it will run from a disk in DOS mode.
https://community.synology.com/enu/forum/17/post/17072
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SS Dave
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1 hour ago, lopenator said:
also if im using the stock IDE cable but a 120GB IDE HDD which UDMA do I flash?
Flash this file "Cerbios Hybrid V2.X.X BETA" as it's the UDMA2 version of the bios and is more suited to a IDE drive.
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The Xblast chip needs to send a reset command to the Xbox and because you have told the Xbox to not read the LPC by turning of the D0 the Xblast can't send a reset.
With the D0 connected to the mod chip as you tell Xblast to load from the original bios chip it sends a reset and then turns of the D0.
L1 was on some of the early Aladdin chips and it was to turn on the red LED when the chip was active( So you knew the chip was on and did not get banned from XBL), So basically a 2nd D0 output.
On some chips L1 was also to indicate you had turned off write protection.
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SS Dave
Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing.