KaosEngineer
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There's a Youtube video series by Surly Sot Gamer Club showing a daily series of updates to their/his Xbox. On Day 16 he's working on no DVD operations but didn't get much accomplished other than causing more problems. On Day 17, he continues with HDD partitioning and no DVD operation testing. Using iND-BiOS 5003.67 or is it really 5004.67. The NMS TSOP flasher he used shows both values the first as the Kernel version with a BIOS name of the second. A misconfiguration of the MD5 hashes used to ID the BIOS? The console DOES boot without the DVD drive attached and NO DVD Simulator plug is connected. He's completely disconnected both the IDE cable and DVD power cable from the DVD drive. There does seem to be a long pause - 10-14 seconds of a blank screen - after the flubber animation ends and the dashboard shows up when the DVD drive is disconnected though. Updated correct Days for Surly Sot Gamer Club's YouTube videos and added links to them.
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What's about pins 2, 10, 1 and 9? Those pins supply power to the DVD drive. Update: Oh, I see. I missed your post on powering on/off the DVD drive with a switch. You need to make this so called DVD Simulator jumper to plug into the motherboar's DVD power connector to pull HIGH the CD_RDY and TRAY_IN signals routed to the SMC so it knows the drive is ready. Here's one such plug I found at xbmc4xbox.org.uk - https://www.xbmc4xbox.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=373#p13212 However, instead of a wire to directly connect from 5V to B and 5V to D, I would use a 10KOhm resistor.
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I think the BIOS's DVD check looks at the IDE bus for a SLAVE Xbox DVD drive attached. It doesn't skip the assertion check of CD_RDY and TRAY_IN signals done by the System Management Controller (SMC, a PIC processor in v1.0-1.5 or custom Xyclops chip in v1.6 Xboxes).
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I've never done this mod; however, I understand the basics. You need to have a BIOS flashed to the TSOP/modchip that disables the DVD check on power on. And, I think you also need to make a properly configured connector to plug into the DVD power connector on the motherboard. This is the image of the connector pinout I've seen but it only has 12 pins not the 14 present on the motherboard. The next two 13 and 14 have no connections to the DVD drive though so I guess the original author just left them off. TRAY_IN and CD_RDY need to be tied to Updated: hmm, either Ground (GND) or +5V to signal to the System Management Controller (PIC processor v1.0-1.5 consoles) that the tray is closed and the drive is ready. I don't know if TRAY_IN and CD_RDY are active low or active high signals. I'll have to see what I can find again. I've seen a slim build log on the Internet of someone that removed their DVD drive and showed the jumper plug they had made. Update: Looks like they are active HIGH so they need to be tied to +5Vdc. Although I'd probably use a pull-up resistor of 10KOhm for each from 5Vdc to the signal pin. (2 resistors one for each signal to +5Vdc). +5Vdc(pin 2) -\/\/\- CD_RDY(pin 6) and +5Vdc(pin 10) -\/\/\- TRAY_IN(pin 7) -\/\/\- is my ASCII representation for a resistor. Use a 10KOhm 1/4watt. Probably could be a much wattage rated resistor (1/8 watt).
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The Extras Disc ISO is on google drive, not in the github repo - at least not anymore. Try here in Build v1.1.6/Extras Disc for the disc image.
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U6F1 on a v1.0 - v1.5 motherboard. Not present on a 1.6 motherboard. From the little bit I've seen / read about it, MS removed it to save some money as there were hardly any overheating problems with the console.
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Those are a bit old and can be easily updated. Dashboard RemoteX is also known as Evoxdash. The latest release is +3935. A slight naming change from the previous 1.8.nnnn that dropped 1.8 in front of the nnnn value. BIOS Update X2 4981.67, M8plus, iND-BiOS 5003.67 or iND-BiOS Feb-11-05 Beta (aka 5004) are most of the latest BIOSes to use with your modchip. Evoxdash can be used to flash a new BIOS to the chip. All of these are on the HeXEn 2018 disc which after extracting and burning the image to DVD-R media can be booted and used to update your modchip's BIOS as well. Dashboard Update There are other dashboards considered a better choice as they contain a built-in File Manager - UnleashX 0.39.0222A Build 572 and 0.39.0528A Build 584 are the latest releases. Build 584 has an FTP server bug that adds extraneous date string preceding the root listing drive letters. Rocky5 has released a hex edit patched version of it to take care of that and a couple other bugs. A couple of other replacement dashboards include XBMC4Xbox v3.5.3 and XBMC-emustation .
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What kernel/BIOS is currently flashed to the modchip? Which replacement dashboard is installed?
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Welcome to OGXbox.com Mod it or lose it, KaosEngineer
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That's one of the last few releases of UnleashX - the one I prefer to use as it doesn't have the FTP server bug that shows up when using the FileZilla FTP client on a PC. The Xbox's root directory listing the drive letters has extraneous date strings added to the front of the letters. Makes it impossible to click browse directly into one of the drive partitions. You have to manual enter which to go into in the remote directory box (e.g. /C/ - to get to the files and folders stored on the Xbox's C drive). 1.0.5838.1 can be either the stock v1.6 Xbox's BIOS or EvolutionX's M8plus BIOS which is their latest release. Since the EvoX shield is displayed in the flubber animation, it's not the stock MS BIOS but EvoX. It could be M8 instead M8plus, I've not checked to see if it also used the same kernel version. Thus, neither is too old to be of use.
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Nope, @TEK Nemesis what's the button mapping files are present in XBMC4Gamers? The controller <B> button keymapping I see has the function Back assigned to it and remote.xml I see the <Back> button is assigned the Back function as well. Seems it should work the way it is if you add the remote.xml file.
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Any Straight-Forward Guides To Modding an XBox W/O a Specific Game?
KaosEngineer replied to Trove-G's topic in Softmods
Using a Raspberry Pi and PiPROM software to read serial configuration EEPROM on the Xbox motherboard, see http://icode4.coffee/?p=22 -
WIll need to know which replacement dashboard you are using, its version and the BIOS/Kernel version in use?
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Welcome to OGXbox.com. Mod it or lose it, KaosEngineer
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The Install instructions.txt file explains how to install the Chimp 261812 application itself. Where it should be placed on the Xbox HDD to run it. What version of UnleashX is it? To get started on this check UnleashX's System Info page - scroll down till you see the Kernel version value. What does it show? No. Need to know the Xbox version, kernel version, dashboard version, directory list of the files on the C, E, F and/or G drives - at least the root folder list to get started. Post pictures of the modchip and any external switchboard so we can determine which is installed, what BIOS is best to use with it and how to reflash it.
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I've never seen one of those modchips installed. I do see pictures of it were on xbox-scene.com's modchips table for gen 3b modchips column labeled - PC-BioXX, OpenXbox, NitroXX. (Wayback Machine capture of pictures of these modchips) They were all discontinued and replaced by the SmartXX modchip. The port on it still connects to a parallel printer port to reprogram the chip using a PC and custom software.
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What IP address does the Xbox show it is using when running XBMC? It may be configured to a different address than UnleashX. All Xbox dashboards configure the Ethernet port's IP address based on their own settings. Unless you have Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) enabled on your Internet access port, you will need to use a static address for both the PC and Xbox Ethernet port's network configurations. If ICS is enabled on the PC's Internet connection port, the other/Ethernet port will have a DHCP server running for the Xbox to obtain its IP address.
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The Aladdin XT plus 2 aka Aladdin XT+4032 is a clone of the true Aladdin modchip but they function the same. 30 AWG wire-wrap wire (Kynar insulated wire).
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Update: If it is an Xecuter 2.x Pro. The modchip programming port is not a serial port. It is a parallel port and connects to the parallel printer port of a PC set up for bidirectional operation. X2BM - X2 BIOS Manager software is used to program the chip. You need a 25 wire straight through DB25-M(ale) to DB25-F(emale) cable for it to work. A plain old serial cable will NOT work.
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v1.6 consoles have problems starting some games with their custom Xcalibur video encoder. It may be causing the problem you are seeing. You can use the 480p Gamer Loaders Script for XBMC to fix startup problems of many games on a v1.6 Xbox when using high definition modes. Even though the file contains 480p in its name, it is not limited to fixing only 480p startup but all supported high definition modes for the game.
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All those items look correct! A Delock 61702 IDE-to-SATA adapter will work as well. Update: I checked the DeLock on Amazon and it's more expensive.
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You can't use cable select for the HDD with the new 80-wire 40-pin cable. Reason: To install it in the Xbox, you flip the cable end-over-end. The connector meant to be plugged into the motherboard (host controller) is attached to the HDD and the HDD connector attached to the motherboard. Installing a high-speed 80-wire Ultra ATA cable in this way defeats the Cable Select function for the MASTER device.
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I attached the Xenium OS v2.0 User Manual in a post earlier in this thread: - https://www.ogxbox.com/forums/index.php?/topic/1260-noob-needs-help-hdd-upgrade/&do=findComment&comment=8293 Now, you add additional BIOS's to the Launch menu. Then, set one as the default BIOS to boot when the console is powered on. Otherwise, the XeniumOS will start and you have to select which modified BIOS to use. The console will then restart loading the BIOS you selected.
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I beg to differ. The switch is on the other side of the printed circuit board where all the components are mounted. Next to the pin header. (Update: the first picture I posted was not the Xenium modchip but SmartXX v2) The recovery.bin file is not a normal BIOS you flash to the modchip as other hacked BIOS's. It's the OS for the chip and has a special location it gets flashed to. When it boots, the Xenium OS looks for the E:\recovery.bin file and if present updates the Xenium's OS with it. (This might not be quite right, you select the recovery option in the XeniumOS to load it or flip the switch on the underside, component side, of the modchip from normal operating mode, as shown in the picture - the switch in the position silkscreened on the printed circuit board, to recovery mode.) After the update, remove the file so it doesn't update it each time you boot. If you use the reset default settings version, it also wipes any of the current user settings saved on the chip - BIOS's already flashed, etc.
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Update to my previous statement on upgrading the XeniumOS. Did a bit more reading and the XeniumOS v1.1 update readme.nfo documentation states: So download the XeniumOS 2.3.1 HDD archive, extract and upload the recovery.bin file to the root of the E drive. Select the recovery mode menu item to update the OS as stated in the XeniumOS v1.1 User Manual.
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