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I have OpenXenium on order, after I'd messed up my EEPROM. It's not in an ideal state to test booting, but I guess i'll find out in a few week

I tried softmodding it, by manually copying NDure C and E files over, overwriting without backups. I didn't use any script to try modding it. All I have is an apparently corrupt EEPROM file that my bad Arduino code gave me. 9 of those 64 bytes are there, the rest are blank. Though this 'backup' I made with Arduino is highly unreliable. I have only one Xbox, a v1.6, the one where I wiped the EEPROM is also the one I prepped for a modchip. I've got the chip on order, thankfully. The seller tells me that it has 4 bios banks, and that it could boot from them instead of EEPROM. I don't understand it, but it should help. The EEPROM isn't used for a bios image, only for settings I think. Changing them 64 bytes gives heaps of feedback from the eject LED. Still no video out (either LPC rewire or EEPROM caused that initially). I got it solid green by setting all to 0xF0 (fan very slowly gets faster) It goes red, then orange when set to all 0xFF I have EEPROM read/write working well now from the Arduino, so can easily test putting anything in the last 64 bytes

Does anyone know if 50 mega Ohm is unusual for an SMD resistor? I got the iron on it [R7P4] at 330*C, and that's how it measured afterward

I use a "1600x USB microscope". It's not a perfect setup, but has adequate zoom. There's some adjustments in the mounts, to hold the camera really steady. Learn them, and the plastic mount will remain firm and reliable. Mine had 2 adjustments, one holds the ball and socket that holds the camera directly. The other pivots on the base. -If you use phone apps or alternate software, needing to mirror and flip the image so it moves as you expect -Suction cup can loose grip, and the camera can end up falling onto your LGA CPU socket, bending even more pins (Don't trust the mount if your working on anything delicate)

I accidentally wiped my EEPROM with an Arduino when trying to read it, and have no backup. Now even with Config Magic's valid blank EEPROM, there's no video out. Only a green blink code (34? It's 3 fast and 4 slow blinks) Now I'm wondering if there's any way to fix it. This rarely happens, so there's not much info on the net about it. I'm thinking even if I got a modchip such as openXenium, the motherboard might be useless. Should I give up on this yet and just get another box, or get the modchip (already prepped the v1.6 board with headers and LPC rebuild)? Can the modchip make it boot with bad EEPROM data? Eventually, I got the Arduino code reliably reading and writing data, but even with the 'valid blank' EEPROM data, that hasn't helped so far.