JonahUK

Don't give up yet, there are plenty of ways to get the points rebridged, even if you can't solder.

Thanks for clarifying.

@KaosEngineer Isn't that a Winbond? I have no experience with Winbond (or Sharp) so I will withdraw.

That's the bios, not the brand. That confirms it as an EvoX D6 bios though. The best way is to open the box and look at the TSOP chip itself.

Missed that!! You have a 1MB TSOP but you need to verify if its a Winbond/Sharp/Hynix etc. You can use the Hexen disc to verify TSOP type. Not sure of the menu options to get there though.

@KaosEngineer will be of better help to you here as he knows a helluva lot more than me so I will leave you in his more than capable hands. Good luck!

See my edit. Before flashing though, you need to confirm your model number and TSOP brand/type. Please research before flashing.

What @KaosEngineer says is true. Hexen boots a bios with the LBA48 patch included. Your bios does not support LBA48 so you will NEVER get the extra space until you reflash your TSOP/Modchip. You can confirm this via the Kernel versions shown in the screenshots above. Hexen is booting 5838 and you are booting 4817. You will need to check if the TSOP is writeable via Hexen and if so, flash a newer bios such EvoX M8, 5035 or Ind 5004 and one that has .67 in the name (or F/G etc).

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Just to update (and closure I suppose), the xbox with the funny TSOP finally gave up and crossed over to Silicon Heaven. The 1.6 was in excellent working condition and came with a Samsung drive. That was quickly softmodded and Chimp installed so I can put the 320gb out of the dead box when I get some spare time this week. One of Rocky5's XBMC builds (Emustation or Gamers) will be going on this box. @KaosEngineer and @Magicaldave, thanks for the replies and assistance anyway!

Seems so fella. As I said earlier, I have a 1.6 on its way as well so I'll order another Aladdin for that unless I successfully hotswap and fix the bad flash on the x2.6CE I have as well.

Ok, so it just black screened on 4981 so I restarted and it booted M8. Strange.

Back to the usual buggered box. Turned it on this morning, saw the pink EvoX, went to a black screen. Turned it off and then back on, boots the old 4981 bios. I have a 1.6 box on the way so will wait to see how that one is before putting the Aladdin in this one as it looks like that's the only option. They are cheap enough if I need to buy another one.

Done that, stuck them on C and rebooted and tried to flash but it gets stuck at roughly 75%. Waited for a a while and then thought f*** it and rebooted. It DID boot into M8 but unsure if its the 1MB bios I flashed as I'm sure I removed that horrible pink logo. Maybe TSOP Bank 4 is borked? Will do a new 1MB bios and double check the logo is removed. I'll pull the board out tomorrow (its gone 3am here) and check for any wires present although I don't ever remember having to do that but worth a check. See comment above, will do some more testing tomorrow.

Ok, having a blonde moment here. Created a 1MB version of M8+ (F&G) but need a refresher on where to put this on the XBOX so I can flash it? Is there any app that runs directly on the XBOX or will have to manually edit one of the Hexen disc evox configs (also adding the MD5 hash etc) and then reburn a new disc?

No chip in there. I do have an Aladdin XT Plus2 that I bought it in case this box was playing up or just doing a frag on boot. My old 2.6CE was in the box with the XBOX but IIRC, it was dead hence the original reason to TSOP flash. I'm going to try flashing a full 1mb bios made from the m8+ with lba48 patch and see how it goes. Last resort would always be going back to the 5101 retail and either softmod or stick the Aladdin in. If I get it back up and running properly, I might try and hotswap the Aladdin and 2.6 to see if I can reflash the 2.6 to get that working. It's a helluva long time since I did this stuff! Nigh on 15 years!

Cheers for the response fella. Funnily enough, I have a query in the TSOP section. Basically suffering from a buggy booting issue where the TSOP keeps reverting back to its previous bios (4981) after flashing m8+, 5035, 5003/4 etc. Always ends up reverting. Going to try a full 1mb flash as suggested in that thread. Hopefully, that sorts it and I can get on to getting EmuStation up and running.

@KaosEngineer HeXEn was used to reflash. I assumed EvoX flashed all four banks when flashing anything less than a 1mb bios? If not, I have a copy of EVTool that I can use to create a 1mb M8plus and flash that.

I dug out my old box (v1.1 PAL) which originally had the x2 4981 bios flashed to it with the intention of getting it all updated (Rocky 5's EmuStation is the goal). Upgraded the HD with an old 320gb IDE, removed the clock cap and then flashed x2 5035 (256k) and all seemed good. Went to turn it on today and somehow the TSOP has reverted back to the x2 4981. Tried reflashing EvoX M8+ (256k), InD5004 (256k) and x2 5035 (256k and 512k) and all of them revert back to 4981 once I reboot (soft and hard). Video is set to PAL60 and Widescreen using the Scart AV pack. I have a composite AV pack as well. Should I restore back to retail (tsop & hdd)? Any other ideas? Currently, have no clue why it's reverting back to the 4981 bios.

Same as most of the people here I suppose? Took my old xbox out of the loft and blew the dust off it, Looking to get it all updated and running smoothly. Trying to remember everything from fifteen years ago when I first modded this box is proving to be a little difficult so found this forum through google and hoping to regain lost knowledge!