KaosEngineer

Disable 1080i in the MS dashboard's video settings and see if it continues to randomly reboot.

No! ER next to the size of partition 6 and 7 indicate an error. Both partitions need to be reformatted using the correct cluster size of 32KB. You could also use partition 6 only (F drive) with 64KB cluster allocation. Move the selection up to each of the two partitions, 6 and 7, to see the cluster size currently configured for each in the bottom section of the screen. Update: If they are set to use 16KB clusters once you write more than 256GBs of data to the drive, the content at the beginning of the drive will be overwritten. Corrupting the content already present on the hard drive (e.g., strange characters appearing in file names, missing files and/or directories). All sorts of bad things happen to some of the data previously written.

Is the console modded? If so, possibly. As long as, the MS dashboard installed on the hard drive is not already version 1.00.5960.01.

If cleaning the belt did not work, replace it. The magnet on the spindle is too strong. Once stretched, the belt/pulley mechanism used to eject the tray cannot provide enough force to pull them apart. Leave a disc in the tray and it may open. Or, try what @jhark mentions, place a round paper sticker on the disc clamper in the top of the DVD drive casing.

XDVDMulleter's Batch ISO operations option.

Is the hard drive properly formatted? Run XBPartitioner v1.3 to verify that the extended partition(s) are using the proper cluster size allocation. If you see ER (error) printed to the left of an extended partition's size, it is NOT!

There will be no conflict as long as they are installed in different subfolders, for example: /E/Apps/XBMC4Gamers /E/Apps/XBMC-Emustation However, if you try to install all the cover art, previews, synopsis data for both E, it may run out of space. or, both installed on the F drive (partition 6) /F/Apps/XBMC4Gamers /F/Apps/XBMC-Emustation Or, a split between two partitions/drives available - E, F and G.

Edit the Programs -> Games sources. With PROGRAMS highlighted (selected), press A to show the sub-menu listing that includes Apps, Emulators, Games, Program plugins, Add source. Highlight Games and press the White button to pull up the context-sensitive menu. Select Edit source then press A. The current set of paths scanned to list items in the Games menu will be displayed (e.g., F:\Games\ and G:\Games\). If both are not listed, Add the additional path(s) you want XBMC4Xbox to scan to add items to the Games menu. However, when the list is long, it will take some time to scroll through it to get to a particular game. I'd split it up into smaller sections instead of having one long list of 600+ items.

I thought that transistor is a PNP MMBT4403, not a NPN transistor.

I always strap BT to ground (pin 2 of the quick solder region on the modchip) - always-on operation. Doing so will not allow you to boot the stock BIOS but you don't need to any more as there's no reason. No Xbox Live available where you'd want to boot the stock BIOS to keep from being banned from the service. Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20160331200649/http://xbox.bula.nu/aladdin/xt/BTGround_resize.jpg The wire from the D0 pad on the modchip is connected well to the D0 point on the motherboard?

FTP the guisettings.xml file while running UnleashX. From the information you've posted above, isn't XBMC-Emustation installed in /E/players/xbmc/? If so, the file needs to be uploaded to /E/players/xbmc/system/UserData.

There are no really good tools available to read/write files from/to an Xbox hard drive with a PC. Use FTP! Get used to it.

Yes

You have to press the power button long enough to boot the modchip's BIOS. If too short, you should boot the stock BIOS.

What dashboard runs when you boot the Xbox?

What size is the guisettings.xml file in /Q/system/UserData? Is it 0KBs ? The two folders, /P/ and /Q/system/UserData, are one in the same just accessed through a different mapped drive location on the Xbox's hard drive. It is in /<E, F or G drive>/<folder where XBMC-emustation is installed>/system/UserData. All these locations provide access to the same files. Change a file in one and it will show up changed in the other two. Have you tried to FTP XBMC-Emustation's extracted archive file XBMC-Emustation\system\UserData\guisettings.xml to the Xbox's /Q/system/UserData folder? My XBMC-Emustation's /P/guisettings.xml file is 33,690 bytes. The latest archive's original extracted XBMC-Emustation\system\UserData\guisettings.xml file is 7,628 bytes. I'm guessing when you first run XBMC-Emustation it adds additional settings into the original guissettings.xml file.

How do you have the Aladdin modchip configured to be enabled? BT strapped to GND or connected to the power button signal If BT strapped, remove that wire. If using the power button signal, you are good to go, power on the console with a short tap (unmodded operation) so you flash the TSOP. This operation will require copying the TSOP flashing game save and booting one of the exploitable games to load it to flash the TSOP. You could softmod the console with the Xbox Softmodding Tool and use the HeXEn 2018 disc to flash the TSOP. The exploit flashing packages can be found on xbins FTP server or a couple of web site backups. One such backup of those packages is here The TSOP flashing packages are those that have raincoat in their folder name or flash.

No, it uses the same tools to lock and unlock the hard drive. If your console is modded with a modchip and you installed a new hard drive, it should be unlocked. Locking it would require you to do so. Back in the heyday of Xbox hacking, tools made by Xbox scene development teams used two different master passwords either TEAMASSEMBLY or XBOXSCENE or left the hard drive manufacturer's default master password. For Western Digital hard drives, it is WDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWD (32 characters long) For Seagate hard drives, it is usually: Seagate followed by 25 space characters For a list of manufacturer hard drive master passwords see: https://ipv5.wordpress.com/2008/04/14/list-of-hard-disk-ata-master-passwords/

The SmartXX modchips have their own OS that starts. You can load a normal hacked BIOS to do normal Xbox gaming console operations. Please post a picture of the startup screen. There are many different releases of the SmartXX modchip. Much information can be found in the web site captures that the archive.org's Wayback Machine made. The content is accessible at: http://web.archive.org/web/20080606071817/http://www.smartxx.com/

What's the size of the guisettings.xml file stored in the Q:\UserData subfolder?

Basic question here, how is your Xbox modded? A modchip installed booting a modified BIOS or softmodded. If a modchip is installed, which BIOS is flashed to it? Or, if softmodded, which softmod package was used to mod the console?

No. well, really depends how you have installed your Aladdin modchip. Once the LPC attached flash memory chip is accessed, the TSOP is disconnected from the memory bus. There are game save exploit files that can be used to directly flash the TSOP instead of softmodding the console. The modchip has to be disabled to use them. Booting from the TSOP, running the game and loading the exploited save to flash the TSOP. The Aladdin XT 4032 (aka Aladdin XT plus 2) is enabled by either strapping the BT pad to GND on the modchip (quicksolder region's pin 2 of the LPC debug header) or connecting BT to the power button signal coming from the the front panel. A short power button press/tap boots the console with the modchip disabled (loads the BIOS from the TSOP). A longer (> 1 second) power button press enables the modchip which loads the BIOS from the modchip's LPC attached flash memory chip.

The Q and P drives are virtual drives that XBMC4Gamers (Q alone I think) and XBMC-Emustation (Q and P) create. They are not additional partitions on the Xbox's hard drive. They are mapped to sub-directories of each application. The Q drive is mapped to the folder where XBMC4Xbox's default.xbe file is executed from. P for XBMC-Emustation is mapped to the folder Q:\UserData. Some of these mappings can be seen in the following lines from the xbmc.log file you posted to pastebin. 11:34:30 M: 56733696 NOTICE: special://xbmc/ is mapped to: Q:\ 11:34:30 M: 56733696 NOTICE: special://masterprofile/ is mapped to: Q:\UserData 11:34:30 M: 56733696 NOTICE: special://home/ is mapped to: Q:\ 11:34:30 M: 56733696 NOTICE: special://temp/ is mapped to: Z:\ ... 11:34:42 M: 56705024 NOTICE: Mapping drive P to Harddisk0\Partition1\players\xbmc\UserData\ 11:34:42 M: 56705024 NOTICE: special://profile/ is mapped to: special://masterprofile/ Can you post a directory listing of your Xbox's C, E, and F drives? Note: I can't seem to get rid of that vertical bar in front of these last two lines of text.

Not completely a paper weight. If locked with ConfigMagic, the MASTER password is TEAMASSEMBLY and it can be unlocked with a wide variety of Xbox or PC tools.

If you left the drive unlocked, install the old Xbox's upgraded hard drive into the new Xbox after TSOP modding it. Easy!