TEK Nemesis

Absolutely, I can. It'll have to wait another day. I'm copying over about 600GB of data right now... I'll set a reminder to get at it tomorrow.

I finally figured it out with all your help and scouring the internet. I posted a summary under the X3 BIOS discussion so that people can make use of it in the future. Essentially, I needed to force the X3 live settings to look to the partition table on the HDD rather than use it's own hard coded table. From there, XBpartitioner 1.3 was able to do the right thing. I'm using 1020GB partition sizes with 64kb clusters (because I'm using a 4TG SATA HDD). Dashboard reports the exact same sizes for F and G and when I went back to check XBpartitioner, there were no errors - both still said 1020GB with 64. Thank you everyone for your help!

(So after trial and error and finally getting things right (I hope), I wanted to make a record of this under this topic heading so that others can read it in one place.) For the X3 chip, these days it's best just to use the 3294 BIOS (because 2TB HDDs are easy to find and so are the XBox games). After holding down the white controller button when you startup the XBox, go to the New HDD setup area. You must tell the X3 BIOS to disregard that hard-coded partition table and use the one on the disk (i.e. that XBpartitionner automatically creates). Then, flash the 1-4 and or 5-8 banks with the 3294 BIOS that forces 480p. (I flashed banks 1-4 and 5-8 with the same BIOS for redundancy.) Using a BIOS that forces the 480p will eliminate the weird looking transition between the flubber screen and the dashboard splash screen. (It does that because it switches graphic modes when the dash loads, if you have enabled a higher resolution in the dash settings.) From there, use XBpartitioner 1.3. (As I installed a HDD larger than 2TB, my F & G partition sizes were around 1020GB each. For a 2 TB drive, people have been using around 927GB each. The rule is that LBA48 cannot support more than 1 TB per partition so if you have selected a value higher than 1020GB per partition, you will run into problems.) Good luck!

I've seen some really nice paint jobs on the black ones. Here is Canada, there are so many OG XBoxes on our main site buy and sell kijiji.ca. I've seen some as low as $30 OBO, which is like $3 USD. LOL. Then, I'd look to YouTube to see how best to prepare the plastic and what paint would be the best. Maybe there is even a good discussion within a thread here too. Me, I look for the rarer XBoxes. I already have a Crystal one so the next one might be a green Halo edition one. I'll have to pay more, maybe $100 USD but it's worth it for me. Calgary, Alberta Kijiji has a nice green translucent XBox listed in impeccable condition. Good luck! (If anyone has a green translucent Halo edition case that I can buy, pls PM me. I'm not worried if it doesn't work. Thank you.)

Did you install an additional cooling fan under the HDD?

After you select that and reboot, what does the dash see for your partition sizes?

So, as luck would have it, I tried again. 927 GB for each partition in XBPartitioner 3.1. Saved it. Powered down. Powered back on and the partition tables remained (879, 510.88 MB for F and 949, 188.88 MB for G). I launched XBPartitioner again and it said 927 GB each with 64 (and no ER). Everything seems to be running much faster right now. Can I be this lucky?

Hello! I'm using UnleashX as well. I like it because it is wicked fast for FTP.

I've tried XBPartitioner 1.3 about a dozen times and everything looks good until I reboot and then the partitions go back to 120 and 1.9+. (I'm using a 4 TB.) So, then I just left it with the 120GB and 1.9+ GB for the last two days. I've installed about 120GB of games on the F and G partitions, ran them and everything is working well, though extremely slow until the app is loaded into RAM. Am I to assume that if I try to install beyond 1TB on the G drive that I will run into problems? Thanks for your help!

Or, is it totally okay to stick with 120GB on F and have the rest on G. I thought I read somewhere where they recommended to stick with 927GB for F an G but maybe there was simply a limitation to XBPartitioner. I was using version 1.3 and I also tried the HDD setup in X3 chip live setup.

That was one of my biggest questions in my head. I just flashed the first four banks with the original 3294 and then the last four banks with a 3294 that forces 480p. Now if I can figure out the problem of why every time I reboot my F and G partitions revert to 120GB and 1.9GB then I think I'll be good. Any ideas? I'm going to try a different IDE 80-wire cable and a different SATA to IDE interface jut to be sure.

For the X3 chip, is there any point to using anything but the 3294 BIOS? i.e. will the 3294 BIOS run every retail XBOX game plus the other apps like CoinOps? I still have a problem when I switch to other banks, the F and G partitions get all messed up.

Hi everyone! I am absolutely thrilled that the original XBOX scene is still alive! I modded a bunch of XBOXs back in the day and I kept one of them. It's a nice crystal XBOX with an X3 (with a 1MB 3294 BIOS) and the nice LED control panel. I don't know why but back then I put a version 1.1 mobo in the crystal case. Back then a popular addition was a little fan underneath the HDD when you did an IDE HDD upgrade so it still has one of those still. (Nobody does that these days?) The other day I started it up and it was okay but it froze on a half a dozen or so games. At a closer glance, some of the file or folder names had some funky symbols so I thought to myself that I better replace the aging HDD. I'm so happy to see the new hardware available. I ordered a nice 80-wire cable and the SATA to IDE adapter and that arrived today. I didn't have a single DVD-R in the house so I couldn't do the HDD installation easily. Sure, hooking everything up was a charm. I did a quick cleaning of the interior of the case and removed the clock cap. Started it back up and I could only use the X3 BIOS to handle the HDD prep. I had to use the X3 BIOS to FTP the new dash. That was terrible but it worked in the end. Huge problem trying to get the partition correct. I recently flashed a bunch of different (and recommended) BIOSes and when I switched from one to another, it deleted what I had on the HDD and the partition size was different. All BIOSes that I selected, to my knowledge, supported LBA48. I used XBpartitioner 1.3 and also tried XBPTableWriter to write the table for those BIOSes that needed it. It looks good right now but I'm hesitant to change to a different bank to try a different BIOS. Anyways, in the near future, I'm doing that Noctua 80mm silent fan installation and I'll replace the thermal compound on the CPU and GPU. Glad to be here! Cheers!