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Thanks for the response. This is making me think a little harder about whats really going on. somehow the dashboard failing to load is somehow connected to this DVD PCB tho, because as soon as i re-install a nice condition drive i get a boot to dash, initially i had error 13 even after the 'good' dvd drive was reinstalled.... .

tried the same dvd pcb again. its giving error 13. replaced dvd drive again the box easily booted to games list in xbmc this time after one failed boot. i wonder what changed when i attempted to install it "permanently" before slimming the case. how can a drive cause a kernel error?

OK, Here is a little look at what im doing... Crusty old box from classifieds ended up being 1.6 with alot of nasty dirty components. Softmod and broken dvd drive (wont spin up or read a disc), stock hdd. while surfing around late on ebay i found clean well conditioned board and hdd (1.6 on both accounts) so it was purchased and installed. (didn't need to do that) Lightly cleaned everything with soft brush and compressed air installed dvd drive from another box id picked up Used hexen LXHDM after cloning stock drive to 500GB using chimp, Once i found this site i downloaded a few things and installed XBMC4Gamers Looking at slimming the box (potentially) i prepped myself by removing dvd board from drive. Also taking the "motor control board" to simulate the drive being closed by taping the switch shut. ****when i took the board out i accudentally broke the motor side of the board off****** very upset about that (these drives arent that cheap) so, installing the board i eventually got the xbox to boot after seeing an error 12 and an error 13... it was like i fiddled around a bit and it started working (strange) now, all that is logically left is the case mod. this is where my problems begin to develop please stay with me. installed my emulators (all working) installed game collection (all working) (large ftp xfers) all ready to go, i find a nifty way of mounting the board to the dvd cradle and look at how im going to get this drive in here.... i go to boot, ERROR 13 i tried all i could think of... NOTHING. in a bout of frustration i started from scratch... such a rookie move, so much data lost. clone drive etc, i have all of it working smoothly again. so, last thing i need to figure out this dvd board, i install the board. ERROR 13.. why would i rebuild my catalogue before getting this thing working?? so dumb. now, i reinstall the drive from other xbox, error 13.... oh boy... few more error 13 then get it to boot... now xbmc4gamers wont load my profile... it just keeps reloading manage profile!!! so i had a kernel error and a partial recovery I RUN TO MY PC and check the ftp works, reinstall XBMC4GAMERS and by golly she is back in business... What i should have done before writing the post but maybe only occurred to me WHILE writing the post is that maybe if i install the board while xbmc is running and reinstall it xbmc at the same time a fresh boot would help? is there some sort of write to the HDD 'about' the current dvd drive? or did the break on the board i made cause this? (i had this board working fine in my first build before tearing down and rebuilding the software) im also attaching a photo of that broken pcb my insolence caused

Hey Rocky5 thank you for your work, Curious how to add artwork to emulators and also artwork to category emulator/games/homebrew. Got all the resources loaded for xbox games... looks the tits man. really really slick. Thank you.

Good question. any idea on how to tell without any knowledge what i did prior to this point? i appreciate you droppin in. What end up happening is i booted with the dvd drive open to boot to the xbox dash and changed the language., then power-off/power-on the language change stuck.. I had been booting xboxdash.xbe from file manager in xbmc and changing language. it wouldnt stick. So, that must be a virtual C? because there seems to be another installation on a seperate partition. R: Seems to be working. I was surprised the game carried the language change,

Hey, so i have an xbox that was running UX dash had been softmodded and was in french i fixed it all up and have everything how i want it.... except the default language keeps going back to french whenever i switch it to english and then power down... anything come to mind?

LOL, is there a "stories" thread i am unaware of? Id love to read about some of the battles people had to fight to get here. although its showing its age this console is just so incredible when you factor in all these resources. LEGACY

are there any hangups with revision/dvd drive model when retaining "just the pcb" or are all drives/v1-16 compatible with this method of slimming hardware?

incredible work, extensive is an understatement. makes a bold statement.

Its a shame i didnt find this sooner but im happy to have it here. thank you for keeping this forum together. New here this is a great looking community/collection of useful information etc..

thank you i will give this a go