KaosEngineer

The original Xbox memory unit is only 8MBs in size. Most softmods can be installed using it. The maximum size of USB flash drive that the Xbox can access is 4GBs. If the Xbox accepts it, the 256MB drive is large enough. The other two drives are too big.

No, your DNS server settings are causing the problem. Start the stock Xbox dashboard, go to the Network Settings menu. What are the Xbox's IP address, gateway address, and DNS server addresses? Which replacement dashboard are you running? What are the same set of IP addresses for it as requested above? From Insignia's Connect webpage, it states:

Kids have an uncanny way of easily breaking softmods. You might try Rocky5's Xbox Softmodding Tool which has better safeguards in place instead of the older easily broken softmods such as SID. If you are stuck on using SID, try powering on the console with the Eject button. SID 5.11 could be installed with dual-boot mode functionality. Power on the Xbox with: the Eject button boots into the installation menu, or the Power button boots into the replacement dashboard. If Eject doesn't start a menu to reinstall the softmod, SID 5.11 can be downloaded from the link in the tutorial at se7ensins.com: https://www.se7ensins.com/forums/threads/how-to-softmod-your-xbox-with-sid-5-11.556/ Which downloads the RAR archive file: Softmod.Installer.Deluxe.v5.11.Final.Xbox-Hq.rar

From the information givent, the original hard drive is still locked with the password generated with the original HDKey that was on the motherboard, not the password generated with an all 1's HDKey. Error 06 means the Xbox cannot unlock the hard drive. Error 07 the hard drive cannot be accessed or has died. Is the new hard drive SATA or IDE? If SATA, Which IDE-to-SATA adapter are you using? Did you swap out the stock IDE cable for a new 80-wire 40-pin one? With the new SATA drive installed as the boot drive, did you set the IDE device selection jumper on the adapter to MASTER?

Have you tried swapping the DVD drive control/power cable (the 12 pin all yellow-insulated wire cable - brown insulation on some Xboxs) from a different console?

Does the OSSC show the type of signal that it is receiving - NTSC/PAL 480i, 480p etc.?

You don't get High-Definition video output from a PAL Xbox. You must change it to NTSC output mode.

Thanks for pointing them out to me. I had entirely missed them. I only saw the patch files in the xbox-hd-plus repository.

I've hidden the bickering in the last few pages and requests by those to clean this thread. If I've left posts in that you think need to be hidden, let me know. Thanks. Carry on civilly.

I did not see source for the patches. They were provided as binary data without any code to read through to understand how the patches worked.

Try Evoxdash's BIOS flashing operation. When you attempt the flashing operation, what does it say the Manufacturer and Device ID are?

Bad caps on the motherboard. All 5 of those 3300 microFarad 6.3Vdc low-ESR electrolytics need to be replaced.

XBMC-Emustation ??? Upload the XISO file to the E, F or G:\Game folder. Run the XISO to HDD Installer script to move the dot iso into subfolder of the Games directory and to create the attach app for the disc image. Reboot. The game should now be added to the Games menu to play it.

NO!

If it is a Samsung DVD drrive, take a look at this old tear down tutorial from llamma.com - Samsung Xbox DVD Dissassembly (archive.org) In particular, make sure the plastic nub shown in picture 5 is in the slot on the bottom of the DVD tray. IIRC, this is part of the spindle raising / lowering mechanism.

Over the production life of the Xbox, Microsoft installed many different DVD drive brands and models. Which one do you have? Edit I think I recognize it a Samsung drive but which model in particular is it?

Some Team Xecuter X2 BIOSes (4981 and 4983 - KernelBasher v1.1. The v1.0 release supported a few more older X2 BIOS releases.) and Evox BIOSes (M7 and M8, not sure about M8plus). Addresses to the image must be built into the program. Each BIOS's size is a bit different so the addresses between different versions most likely change. From KernelBasher v1.1's README.TXT file: Instructions Launch kernelbasher and open the bios you wish to edit. ,M7 & M8 are supported in this release, Make Changes and then select SaveAs, choose and name and click save. Unless you open a recognised bios you wont be able to use any of the options. As always dont run the same bios through the program twice else you'll get unexpected results. IIRC, ind-bios has its own method in load a different image from the hard drive - no injection needed.

Take a look at the following PDF file included with the homebrew xbox-scene bios tool application KernelBasher v1.0: XBOX TEXT TUTORIAL.pdf Edit: diomtec.com closed the legacy xbins mirror website. https://legacy.downloads.diomtec.com/mnt/downloads_ams3_01/old_downloadshomebrew/xbins/PC Based Applications/bios tools/KernelBasher/_old/KernelBasher_1.0.rar Release 1.1 includes a Setup.exe file to install the application and its additional content: https://legacy.downloads.diomtec.com/mnt/downloads_ams3_01/old_downloadshomebrew/xbins/PC Based Applications/bios tools/KernelBasher/KernelBasherV1.1.zip However, there's a new site with the same content: https://xbxbx.ams1.ppn.prutzel.com/?dir=xbins_xbox_mirror/PC Based Applications/bios tools/KernelBasher _old subfolder for the v1.0 and v1.0b versions of KernelBasher and the one listed above has the v1.1 version. On my WIndows 10 PC, running the application complains about a missing DLL file: MFC71.dll. It can be downloaded from DLL‑files.com. Extract the content from the downloaded ZIP file then copy MFC71.DLL to KernelBasher v1.1's installation directory: C:\Program Files (x86)\KernelBasher\ This application only works for a limited set of modified Xbox BIOSes.

Which BIOS/kernel version? There are different tools for the various modified BIOSes available. For example, logox2. Here's its nfo file content: xecutter2 logo changer for X2 bios 4979/4980/4981/4982/4983. v.41 Beta version. This is a command line program. The logo can be a 24 bit bitmaps 100x17 (cf chips.bmp example) or raw type (8 bits pers pixels greyscale). In the bios, the logo is compressed with a RLE algorithm. So a too complex logo will not hold in the bios. Do not hesitate to report any problem in the french forum www.xbox-hacks.net (bios section). or in the bios section of xbox-scene.com forums. Happy customisation ! Chips/alg5 History: 0.41 : Accept more type of bmp. 0.4 : 1st version with GUI. Logo can be either raw or bmp. 0.3 : Image file needs to be bmp instead of raw. 0.21 : Correction of one bug: the logo was shifted by 1 pixel. 0.2 : Add support for X2 bios 4979, 4982, 4983. 0.1 : 1st release. Support for X2 bios 4980 & 4981. Thanks to: Team xecuter for their bios. NghtShd for the bios pack/unpack code. Caustik for the logo pack/unpack code. Yoshihiro for starting me again on the subject and giving his findings.

Check for bulging and/or leaking electrolyte on the top of the capacitors by the CPU heatsink and power supply connector on the motherboard.

bad cable! What color is the ribbon cable insulation? People have had problems with ones with yellow insulation.

Which setting are you using on the IDE-to-SATA adapter: Cable Select or Master? To connect an 80-wire 40-pin cable to the motherboard, DVD and hard drive of an Xbox, you normally install the cable end-over-end - Host adapter connector connects to the hard drive, the DVD drive still connects to the center connector as the Slave device and Master connector to the host adapter on the motherboard. When doing so, Cable Select is not an option. It will not work. You must set the hard drive adapter's device selector jumper to MASTER.

Depends on the format of the ISO file. Redump disc images usually 6GB+ in size - NO XISO's usually <4GBs - Yes.

Replace all 5 of the 3300 microFarad 6.3Vdc low ESR caps by the CPU heatsink and power supply connector.

Take a look at this archived web page - https://web.archive.org/web/20030204002904/http://jone.fateback.com/XBOX/PCDrive/PCDrive.html Edit: There's also this page in Superfro's multipage tutorial with W, X, Y and Z locations: https://web.archive.org/web/20061109085145/http://www.xbox-scene.com/articles/lg-dvd5.php Other pages as well (dvd2 is actually page 1 of the tutorial): https://web.archive.org/web/20061109085133/http://www.xbox-scene.com/articles/lg-dvd2.php https://web.archive.org/web/20061109085133/http://www.xbox-scene.com/articles/lg-dvd3.php https://web.archive.org/web/20061109085133/http://www.xbox-scene.com/articles/lg-dvd4.php https://web.archive.org/web/20061109085133/http://www.xbox-scene.com/articles/lg-dvd6.php https://web.archive.org/web/20061109084214/http://www.xbox-scene.com/articles/lg-dvd7.php And lg-dvd1.php is an English translation of PSXBase's original German tutorial's text.