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Hello everyone, I recently received a classic Xbox that was modded with a 1.4GHz CPU. I'm having the classics troubles with the games running incorrectly or experiencing stability issues. Patch em it's an option, but... it's some hard work... After some research, it seems that underclocking the CPU attempt to 733MHz might solve these compatibility issues with the original games. I read that the "Xbox Overclock" tool can help with this adjustment, and I understand that I also need to patch the BIOS to make it work properly. However, I’m not familiar with this tool and don’t know how to use it safely (Im noob), plus... I'm not speak english... I’d really appreciate any guidance from anyone who has experience with this process, in depth: Recommended values: What specific settings should I use in the tool to achieve a stable underclock? What steps should I follow to safely apply the BIOS patch and ensure the console runs at the correct frequency? Any advice or detailed guidance would be an incredibly helpful guys, I appreciate your time and support in advance!
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So I have finally gotten a grasp of everything but the N64 emulator. I downloaded EWJ ROM pack, copied over the surreal64 folder into the emulators/n64 folder, copied some ROMs over in the roms/n64 folder. It scans and actually shows my files scanned but always comes up with a script error saying it cannot make a list. What am I doing wrong exactly? I've read how frustrated rocky5 is over people asking about this same issue but I followed his instructions as he laid them out on a Reddit thread. I'm stumped. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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I've used the cerbios ogxbox installer and loaded emulator disks after ftping to xbox as have no dvd drive. I have dropped my top 100 snes, megadrive and pc enigine roms into the specific rom folders , they scan and play fine. I am struggling to get any neo geo emulator working as won't discover roms or thinks emulator is not installed. I have some reading and think i need to use final burn, and may need a dat file with roms specifically named in it. Had anyone got this all set up and can share the files and where need to dump them etc. As long as have a but of metal slug and andros dunos. I have full rom set just struggling to get it all working. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
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I have a v1.0 board that is TSOP flashed with Cerbios 2.4.1. My UDMA is set to 5 in the cerbios.ini file and I am using a Startech, an 80 wire, and a Seagate Baracuda HDD 2TB from this year. I run this in a cool below room temp room. I have 60mm noctua fan mod running on 100 percent. The temps are around 55C. I have sent this console in to a professional and reputable repair service. I had a full recap done and a PSU swap with a recap also done on the PSU and various testing. I’ve sent this console in two times. But it always seems that when I get this thing back it will run awesome for about 2 days with a couple of hours played. And then eventually I will be playing a game and then I will hit the dashboard shortcut and it will fail to load the dash. And and that point I know its cooked. And lo an behold when that happens it frags when I power it off and on from that point. And if I leave it off for a bit and try again, boom no frag and it boots up and plays well until the next time it “overloads” enough to frag again. Every time I send it in they cannot replicate this frag I am having probably because it takes quite a few hours of play time to get it to frag. They ran microsoft’s internal memory test and there are no issues with the memory modules. The only thing that they mentioned was the HDD was getting pretty hot possibly due to my fans being set at the default speed which isn’t enough with a 60mm fan. Since then have set my fans to the max. The disc drive is good. The caps are good. The PSU is good. The memory is good. The temps are good (at least the the numbers shown in XMBC4gamers dash). What does this leave me with? There is something having to do with using it for an extended period. EDIT: oh and forgot to mention I also have force 480p enabled in the cerbios.ini and 480p mode enabled on the main MSDash(my main dash is UIX lite) and I use an electron shepard xbox2hdmi adpater hooked up to an LG CX in case it matters
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Hi Guys; I have been out of the scene for a couple years now. I recently helped a mate softmodding his system which i followed MrMario Cerbios BFM tutorial. But now i will like to hard mod the system with the latest \ stable version of cerbios. 1) Where is the download link for the latest version of cerbios 2) whats the safest way to flash the bios, I already have tsop points preped and system is connected via ethenet. Please note i dont have access to a working DVD Drive
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Hey. I been trying to configure the dash. X2 seems to only boot to the dash when it's on the root of c. Anytime I try to put the dash in a for (for example c:dash\default.xbe) it does not work. On top of that, default.xbe isn't working. It only works when I rename it to unleashx.xbe. It is my understanding the path should be written as e:dash\default.xbe but it won't work. Is there limitations I'm not aware off? basically the only thing that works is c:unleashx.xbe
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I've recently bought a used Xbox, only to find it doesn't turn on. Plugging it in with a known good power cable, neither the power nor the DVD drive button have the console showing so much as a single sign of life. No noise, no lights, nothing. As I was planning to mod it (and replace the capacitors) anyway, I opened it up to try and diagnose the problem. So far, however, I've come up short a definite culprit. Initially I suspected the clock capacitor, but it seems to be fine to my (amateur) eye. There are some other capacitors that look problematic, but I don't quite see why they should prevent the console powering on. There's also some goop I cannot identify on the power supply. Some people I showed it to said it could be epoxy or some other insulating material that got spilled. I've come here to ask for opinions from people who are experienced with the console. Is replacing the bad capacitors and clock capacitor likely to bring this thing back? Is the goop a problem in any way? Is my console beyond saving? I've added some pictures of the guts below to hopefully help anyone who's helpful enough to put up with my questions. Overview: Closer view of the main board (mostly to show this really is a 1.6): Clock capacitor: Unidentified goop: Bulging capacitors: To close, I'd like to ask you to be patient with me. This is my first hardware project, so I'm gonna do this wrong in all sorts of ways, no doubt. I'm also happy to provide more info as requested (and as I am able to gather it).
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I'm really in a bind here. All my xboxes are faulty in one way or another. They're going to be hard modded, HDD upgraded, and recapped, but I want a working disk drive and I've already sunk a lot of time into this. I have a GDR-8163B, the computer BIOS recognizes it. I have a USB drive flashed (Rufus) with FreeDOS. And I have the Fixed Firmware (8050L), but when I try to flash it, I get the error "no CD/DVD Drive". I am at a loss of what to do to make this work. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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The more I check my Xboxes the more I find. Today I popped another open, it's been working perfectly but had some caps gone, different ones to I have been finding though, they're the more solid type caps. The guy I had do my modchips two decades ago seemed to like sticking on heat sinks, maybe to make his work seem premium, unusual place to bother putting one though I think. Anyway, here are the caps that I believe are popped. I'm not even sure what that mod chip is, I was able to put Cerbios 2.42 on it with XblastOS no problems. The board looked nasty around the two caps so I've cleaned that all up with a spray can of electroncis PCB cleaner. Here's the full board, they're the only bad looking caps, the clock caps been removed at some point thankfully. This is a zoom in after the clean up, it came up pretty good I think. Now what caps can I buy to fix those two? Hopefully I can source some locally somewhere to speed up the process. I have these in my Xbox parts collection, will these do the trick? I can't read much on the others but do see they're 6.3v. Thanks in advance for the caps advice and identifying the mod chip. I just noticed it has a Foxlink PSU so I popped it out for a look and found this What is this brown stuff? Scorch marks on the bottom of the case Otherwise it looks OK -
Hey guys, was curious to see if anyone here might be able to assist - Hardware wise, i've got 4 Hard modded Xbox's (1.0, 1.1, 1.4, 1.6) all running OX chips with the LithiumX Dashboard. I'm using the Halo 2 Complete Edition () linked prior, across all 4 xbox's. Lastly, for my "switch", I'm using the linksys RE6500 with brand new CAT 6 Cables. The two main issues I'm having here are firstly & most importantly - I cannot get all 4 Xbox's to hook up on a LAN. Earlier, I got 3 to hook up together, but now at this point I am running into an issue where every time I try to connect, it either doesn't show the additional xbox joining as a new person, just the original host, or the "You can't join this party. Please wait a moment and try again later.". Secondly, I keep having an issue where anytime I try to boot up H2 while having a cord in the ethernet slot, the game will freeze at the starting screen after pushing start. Any help is super appreciated, thank you guys!
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Everything was just working fine. Cerbios 2.3.2 was successfully flashed and I had the default xunleash dash on boot. So first I flashed the Cerbios 2.4.1 bios using Xblast OS. Because I wanted the lasted version becuase you could change the UDMA level through the Cerbios.ini. So I flashed it, was successful and then copied over the update cerbios.ini and changed the UDMA value from 2 to 5. Then I unlocked and removed the HDD and formatted it for Cerbios through Fatxplorer to clean the old softmod files off. Then I put it back in the xbox along with the ogxbox installer 2021 disc. I popped in the ogxbox installer 2021 disc. Installed dashboards and set one as my main single dashboard and then when I rebooted I got an error 13 from Cerbios saying something about the UDMA level. And then after that it won’t boot anymore. No splash screen straight frag now and cannot load discs. What did I F up?
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I've recently got back into my Xboxes after years of them being untouched, I've got boxes of old stuff I've got to go through to find everything but I'm gradually doing it, this forum's been so helpful in my endeavour. I have a crystal 1.6 Xbox, it's softmodded but I want to try and chip it, I've never done a chip before myself but I guess back in the day I bought a few of them. I found a bunch of new ones that I've not used, although one of them has a wire with some solder on it that doesn't look original so maybe it's one, I did have used at one point and it was removed from it's Xbox, maybe when the Xbox died it was thrown out and I kept the chip, I have no idea, so long ago! I found this bag of mod chips The one with Aladdin Advance written on it looks like it can be used on a 1.6 seeing it says so, what about these Duo X2 chips? Is there a guide somewhere how to install these on a 1.6? I think on any further Xboxes I find that are below 1.6 I'll just TSOP them as I've done two now the past couple of days and doing a TSOP is very easy with some conductive paint, as I'm no soldering expert, very basic skills there. Thanks in advance.
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hi i have a strange problem i have a xbox classic v1.4 tsop on cerbios umda4 with startechadapter and 80 wire cable. as dash xmbc4gamers.everything works except the dvd drive,but when i insert the dvd and restart xbox completely it reads the dvd.only in xmbc4gamers it does not read any dvd,not even an original one it always says busy on the top left,also dvd2xbox does not read any disc. xmbc4gamers is the latest one. does anyone have a solution?
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I'm about to take on a mission I've never done before, and I'm not overly good at this sort of stuff. I found a very clean great condition Xbox, it's been softmodded and a 200GB HDD installed at some point, I'm having a little trouble identifying it but I think it's a 1.1 from what I can tell, it's date seemed a bit new for that which was confusing. The other thing is, I believe a 1.1 has a 1mb Bios, so once I've TSOP bridged the points I would then need to flash it with a 1mb bios correct? This morning I burnt onto a DVD the Cerbios Disk 2.3.2 as I used it to flash Cerbios onto another XBOX that had an M8 bios on it, I as it only has 2.31 on the Cerbios disk I just ftp'd the bios across to C:\bios and used the EVOX flash tool to get that one done, it all worked out well for me. Would that be the way to do it with the 1mb bios too? I made up a 1mb 2.41 to flash onto my X3 mod chip in 1mb mode (long story of a broken dip switch) I'll put some pictures up that might help describe what I'm dealing with as I really have no idea although I've been reading like mad trying to work it all out. So do I just needed to follow this and bridge the points indicated below? I can hardly see the points at all with my eye I have to use my phone zoomed in to see them so it's going to be a challenge to solder it. Thanks for any help, greatly appreciated. I'm in a bit over my head here.
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Hey everyone, I have had this dead console for quite a few months. It had been a couple of years since I had played on it. One day, I plugged it in and smoke started coming out of it. There were 3 bulging capacitors that I have replaced, none of them leaked. The PSU works fine, as I have tried it with my other console. However, it still doesn't want to turn on. You plug the console in and press the power button but get no signs of life. No sound, noises, lights.. Nothing. I was hoping if you guys could help me to try to figure out what's going on. I took as many pictures as possible, but if you need anything in specific, let me know. I am putting them in Google Drive since I can't really upload more than 4 MB. HERE they are.
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Hello I recently received a version 1.6 xbox with a failed LPC rebuild in which the previous person has knocked off capacitor C7T3 circled in blue in pic and was wondering if anyone is able to help me know what it is so I can replace it...thanks
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Hello there, I have an old OGXbox rev 1.0 with a homemade modchip with an executer bios (don't know which version as of yet) and the EvolutionX dashboard on a 120GB PATA HDD. I'm gonna put in a new SSD instead, and reinstall everything and possibly flash another custom bios. My question is, which installation disc is most recommended to use? I have HeXen 2018, TruHeXen 2021/2024, OGXbox 1.5.4, 1.9.3, 2.3.2, SlaYers 3.5 etc... And which custom bios is recommended to use? Best regards -
My soft modded Xbox worked great then all the sudden one day it started freezing right after the boot of xbmc4gamers dash it shows dots loading then eventually freezes completely on dots, new to Xbox modding and not sure what to do.. thought about doing a hard mod and replacing hdd as well, this hdd is ide and I have have the code 7 error at times, but not anymore now it’s just the same freeze everytime after trying to load xbmc it loads up automatically every boot, it’s a evo x soft mod I believe, there are no chips installed on this motherboard also its a 1.4 Xbox any help would be great please!
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Hi, I've been guinea pigging my Xbox and trying to get SFC/SNES as well as a few others that support multiple regions. No trouble installing and configuring (for example) SNES9XBOX, but I'm trying to install it twice. Or at least have one of the installs load with the SFC background (skin) and (J) roms. And then have the other load with the SNES skin/roms. I know it probably sounds redundant, but should be possible. I set up one, then save the paths and close. Then do the same with the other configuration and save to a different path, they always revert to the same configuration. I received excellent advice from a member on a forum who suggested editing the XBE. I tried to open it In an editor and pretty sure it's out of my league. The emu's from Xport/Madmab are amazing. Thinking ahead... would I even be able to set up Xboyadvance with different titles/installs using the same emulator for each, but launching separately? Thanks in advance for any input. I know it sounds kinda dumb. I guess I could use a different emu for each, only pointing to the desired roms....but now it's stuck in my crawl. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
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Hi everyone. New to the forum here. First I'd like to say thank you to the community for keeping such an awesome gaming device alive! It was my first step into modding and I've been addicted since haha. Anyway... I'm looking for a rom pack with/without emulators that is setup specifically for a stock 8gb HDD softmodded xbox, to be used with FTP or from a disc. I've run into some issues with transferring files via FTP. One has to do with the naming limit, and another is an error I can't figure out. But of the SNES library only, there are about 170 games that won't transfer. So I was looking for a pre-made pack of adjusted names and such that my xbox would take without issues. Not sure if one exists or not. It's a project that would consume a huge amount of my time which is why I'm asking for help. Even if there is a way to batch-rename them, that would work also. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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Hey everyone, I got an Xbox last week (Softmodded, seller did not provide information about how he softmodded it). The HDD is dying. I can read from it but can't write to it, therefore, I can't back up the EEPROM, but I got the HDD key. I was thinking of swapping the HDD but wanted to know if this is possible just with the HDD key using FATXplorer and using FTP to just transfer all the information from the old HDD to the new HDD. The seller is unresponsive, so I can't contact him.
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Hi all I have a 1.6 xbox fitted with an Aladdin XT Plus2 which has the correct chip fitted not rebranded clone I want to flash it with cerbios but I'm not experienced with this at all and don't want to get it wrong I have a 2tb sata drive partitioned with fatxplorer ready to go Could someone help me or point me to an accurate guide, all the ones I've checked all seem to do it a different way lol Thanks in advance
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I love this skin, so. there's a way to edit xml to xbox boot directly into GAMES tab, i mean, i rarely use any of the other tabs...
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Hi everyone. I'm after a little help. I'm running XBMC4Gamers as my default dash on my V1.1 Hard modded Xbox but I'm wanting to load into a stock MS dashboard for insignia purposes. I've downloaded an MS dashboard from the internet but when I run it from file explorer I get a service error screen and I have to shut down to then reboot back to normal. When I navigate to the evodash.xmb in file manager and run that it boots into the unleashed dashboard with no issues so 'm thinking this is the method to use. Am I doing something wrong when trying to use the MS dashboard . Is this the correct method of doing this. if not could someone give me some info on how to do the procedure correctly. I'm am wondering if i've got a bad download of the MS dashboard file or am I using a wrong one. I think I've downloaded the latest one (5960) Does it matter which version I use ? I'm guessing it should be the latest one. Any help would be appreciated Thank you I
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Howdy. 8 years ago I bought my OG xbox and tinkered with it a bit - but never really found the time to really delve into it. I was confused by how it would boot differently with the power and eject buttons, I think I had attempted to softmod it before I realised it had a modchip installed and that was why it was doing different things with the different front buttons. I think at the time it might have booted with both buttons but I can't fully remember as it was so long ago. Cut forward to 2024 and I finally had some time to look into it so am trying to get help with the various issues I've encountered. Firstly, it would only boot with the eject button. The power button would go to an EvoX logo but then a black screen. The eject button would load into UnleashX dash. When inspecting the board I noticed some bulging and a leaky cap, so bought a cap replacement kit (as well as a clock cap) to do a recap. I've only a tiny bit of soldering experience so it's a little daunting but I hope I'll be fine with it. I've only soldered a wire in my old NES to make it region free so far, so a complete noob at soldering. I also had planned to replace the thermal paste, as well as the stock fan and run power off the HDD power cable, and upgrade the stock HDD to a 250GB PATA I have handy. I assume I need to redo the HDD to get rid of the softmod. But the fact that the power button doesn't boot worries me a little about that part of the process. I don't have a replacement fan yet so was going to do that later on. Today I opened her up to begin the process of replacing thermal paste and attempting the recap, but I forgot that there was a wire connecting the front buttons to my modchip. I must have accidentally pulled this off the pad when removing the drives to access the motherboard. I have read that you suggest to solder this to the chip itself so that it is permanently enabled, however will this cause me issues down the track since my modchip wasn't booting correctly with the power button? Also the wire used for this was SUPER thin. I have some thicker wire I used for NES to ground the pin on the region lock chip to disable it. Would that work ok to use instead, if I removed the existing wire? Should I just re-solder the eject/power button first to reduce potential issues with testing it out after recapping, replacing HDD etc? I forget which pad it was soldered to. Top left corner of the back of the front panel buttons I think? I can't seem to find instructions online. How should I go about trying to get the chip working - just try installing the new HDD and that should get rid of the soft mod? If I do need to flash the chip, how should I go about that? Sorry for lots of questions, just completely new to this process.
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