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I forget where I saw it, but I read that to avoid the issues with power saving drives, you need to disable the head parking feature. Not sure if this is a permanent fix, or it just helps reduce the chance of issues. I saw someone on reddit say that they used Autosol for the shielding. I've never tried anything myself. I've seen some caps between the board and fan bulge, but I don't know if any others fail at a more extreme rate.

You've read all the rules and faq, and did whatever it said to request an invite? Is this the Coinops or Backups discord?

V1.0, ST-3944, Thomson, Startech, 80 wire, and WD20EZRZ, udma 5. It also double resets on a bone stock v1.0, though. 10GB Seagate, Philips, Hynix-4034, stock udma. Both tsop, no chip.

Are you tsop or chip? If tsop, what did you use? What bios version, udma speed, default paths? What's your Cerbios.ini look like?

I got around to working on this one again, and I can't figure it out. I completely wiped the stock hdd, installed only Hazeno's C and E (with apps), and it still double resets IGRFull, however IGRDash and IGRShutdown work fine. I then long formatted a new 2TB hdd in FatX, installed Hazeno's C and E with apps, same thing. I only have P/Q while in 4Gamers, UnleashX doesn't show them. Can you verify if you have 4Gamers, that P/Q aren't present in File Manager? There's no possible way for me to have softmod files still present. Would my Cerbios bios be the culprit somehow? I just noticed something in UnleashX Patched. When I loaded into it, the IP was static, so I set it to DHCP like normal, reset to 4Gamers, and now my 4Gamers IP changed to the Static IP of UX Patched, but 4Gamers network settings still shows Default Dash. What's the difference between UnleashX and UnleashX Patched? Some apps aren't named default.xbe, I have to change multiple, if that matters. Unleashx.xbe, XblastOS.xbe, etc.

No error code? 50% Red, 50% Green? If you can get the 1.4 going again, I'd swap the chip to the 1.6 and tsop the 1.4. You'll need to rebuild the lpc on the 1.6. Can you upload some pics of the artifacting? No bulging caps?

Before giving up, I would try removing the dvd power cable to see if it forces an error 12, instead of 06. If so, it's now unlocked until the hdd loses power. While keeping the molex power connected to the hdd, swap ribbon cables from the xbox to a pc and use FatX to copy your u/data folder. If you initially power the hdd via an external source, the xbox is no longer needed after the swap, and can be turned off. The hdd will lock itself back when powered down.

The points don't look bridged, and the lpc looks untouched, I'd say softmod. Did the previous owner say it was indeed modded? No error code at the top left?

I completely forgot about Hazenos guide until you said that. I'm so used to softmods, I forgot. The disc instructions said to repair C and E with my dash of choice, and that's all I remember doing. I then backed up C and E, formatted the hdd in FatX, installed the backups, and here we are. Would this fix Dashloader not working or did I install it wrong?

Yeah. I went from Rocky's v1.2.1 and burned the OGXbox Cerbios Disc v2.3.2 Build 05. Booted it and read the instructions and went good. I deleted the nkpatcher settings folder, I figured I didn't need it anymore. Also flashed the bios to increase the fan and delete the bootanim. Selecting xboxdash.xbe boots to the msdash like normal, either from UX or Gamers. If I do still have softmod files on there, I don't know how to determine which ones to delete, besides the nkpatcher settings.

I did my first tsop last night and flashed Cerbios to it. It all works good, but my IGR double boots as well. Selecting restart/reboot in XBMC operates as expected, only IGR. I've tried disabling AV Check in Cerbios Tool, changing back to UDMA 2, and modifying Cerbios.ini. Heres a video of it, and contents of C. I also noticed that when in UnleashX, selecting 'load ms dash', it says its missing xb0xdash.xbe, I only have xboxdash.xbe. I deleted the bootanim folder for faster boots as well. I downloaded Dashloader Customizer off 4Gamers downloader and ran it, but I feel I need to do something else, it's not working. It created a dashloader folder in C, with the buttons I created, but nothing happens.

Not sure if you saw my comment, but my issue had already been documented to the Cerbios team. Are you BFM or hardmod?

It's best to play a game once to generate a save folder, and then download the dlc and updates. I don't think the downloader TU's will fix broken games.

Yes, all of the ones I've been working on just happen to be v1.6. I already have the circuitscribe pen ready to go for the others. I rebuilt a trace on a garage door opener with the pen a few weeks ago, and its still working. So I feel pretty good about it.

The wiki is the only art I've came across. Just a green X with XCAT logo, and a few screenshots.

Just noticed that Enigmah's xml says Mouse Test App. The Mouse Test App's xml is correct, though. Any chance of making artwork for XCAT, the new dlc app?

Turns out this whole thing was a known issue with the BFM version of Cerbios, I just didn't know. Jade on xboxscene discord informed me that he reported it a while back, along with some other ones. I done wiped the hdd and reset to factory, was going to start all over and see exactly where it happened. No longer have to. Jade said he would get dirty disc errors, but I only get black screens. Probably different versions of xbox/cerbios.

I'm not sure about running xiso's from UnleashX, but in 4Gamers, he has a script to install xiso to hdd.

Does it lockup if you delete the bootanim folder? When Rocky gave me the dashloader files for Softmod BFM, the bootanim folder was deleted and it booted straight into the dash.

Yeah, v2.0.003. I've found something else. I was looking at the logs, and it mentioned not finding Root, and that's what I loaded into before all this testing. I was trying to save time finding the game each boot, so I set the default to Games instead of Root. I know about Favorites, but I wanted to eliminate every possibility. This is the only way I can accurately produce results, and play the game. Defaulting to Root black screens no matter what, but when set to Games, and time sync disabled, it always plays. If feels like a mix of invalid time in xbmc and something to do with Root. I've attached 2 logs, one right after a successful game loading into the main menu and resetting the xbox. The 2nd is with time sync enabled, black screen, and a reset. Attached 2 new logs. This doesn't explain why the game won't launch in UnleashX, though. Crimson.works.xbmc.old.log Crimson.doesnt.work.xbmc.old.log CrimsonWorksWithGamesAsDefault.xbmc.old.log CrimsonDoesntWorkWithRootAsDefault.xbmc.old.log

I downloaded a redump from Vimms, and black screen again, but I've made progress today. I've learned it only black screens when I have 'enable Internet time sync' enabled in 4Gamers. This forces my clock to turn back 1 hour, and the game doesn't like an invalid time setting. I loaded the game 5 times in a row, worked great, enabled time sync, black screen, disabled time sync, game works again. Transferred my original CCI game files back and deleted the Vimms lair one, same thing, only works with time sync disabled. Also, after enabling time sync and disabling it again, I have to launch a few random games to the main menus before Crimson will work on its own repeatedly. Once the game loads though, it works fine over and over until time sync is enabled again. I just noticed that accessing the Game Demos portion of the game, and trying to back out to the main menu, black screens as well. Relaunching the game black screens, and I have to load a random game, restart, load Crimson, in order to keep playing Crimson again.

I forgot to put in my post, but I've tried UX that's installed by Destinys disc, same issue. I deleted XBMC4Gamers just now and reinstalled a fresh copy off his extras disc, and still wouldn't load the game. But after trying those few games for OP, I loaded Crimson and it loaded just fine, with ethernet attached, twice. I unplugged ethernet, reset xbox, and black screen again. Manually selecting the default.xbe in file manager has the same issue.

I tested these games on my 2TB Cerbios softmod and they all load to the main menus. WD20EZBX, Startech adapter, 80 wire, UDMA 5, CCI. I haven't tested all my games yet, but I'm having trouble with Crimson Skies not loading. It either goes to a black screen, or the load screen appears with the skull at the bottom, and the arrows around the skull rotate a few degrees and then the system hangs. I think my issue is related to an incorrect time/date, as 4Gamers wont set the right time. I downloaded a fresh redump off Archive and it wouldn't play either extracted or CCI. This is what XBP v1.3 shows when formatted through FatX.

Instead of either pressing Eject/Power to decide what to boot to, you hold one of up to 8 buttons on the controller. Dashloader is installed by default on Rocky's softmod, and can be installed on a hardmod. I use it to boot to the MS Dash, UnleashX, and Emustation, while XBMC4Gamers is default.

I've made some progress, but it went back to not working again. I thought it may have something to do with keeping time, as I've noticed the past month or so, XBMC4Gamers doesn't show the correct time. Aero's post got me thinking to manually change the time, and the game finally loaded to the menu. I rebooted and it black screened again. The MS Dash displays the correct time/date, but 4Gamers wont automatically update. It's been an hour off for a while now, but I thought nothing off it. I have Language set to English (US), Region is USA, Daylight Savings enabled, connected to pool.ntp.org. Does anyone else display incorrect times when connected to a time server? What server should I pick, if this isn't the right one? If manually setting the time allowed the game to finally load once, but never again, is there a theory that I can pursue?