dtomcat Posted July 16, 2023 Report Share Posted July 16, 2023 Just seen this ….WOW Thoughts? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtomcat Posted July 16, 2023 Author Report Share Posted July 16, 2023 Imagine in case link dies (post gets deleted) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SS_Dave Posted July 16, 2023 Report Share Posted July 16, 2023 Looking at that pic I wonder why you would dumb down a working chip and it's not even able to have extra bios banks Cheers SS Dave Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtomcat Posted July 17, 2023 Author Report Share Posted July 17, 2023 Technically it’s the same. 3x 256 is the same as 512 and 256. With last being 256 OS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtomcat Posted July 17, 2023 Author Report Share Posted July 17, 2023 Both have 1 MB flash Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SS_Dave Posted July 17, 2023 Report Share Posted July 17, 2023 7 hours ago, Dtomcat18 said: Technically it’s the same. 3x 256 is the same as 512 and 256. With last being 256 OS The way I read it he has replaced the Xenium OS with the Xblast OS A Xblast eeprom is 1024kb X 8bit and the OS is in the 1st 256 kb and the remaining is 1 X256kb and 1 X512kb A Xenium eeprom is 2048kb X 8bit and the OS and skin is in the 1st 1024kb and the rest is the 4 X 256kb banks A full Xenium re-flash including the skin and OS with 4 X 256kb bios files is 2meg Unless he has just used one of the Xenium bios banks for Xblast like this then Whoopie Cheers SS Dave Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtomcat Posted July 17, 2023 Author Report Share Posted July 17, 2023 Yea. My bad on space. Difference (my understanding)…. XblastOS doesn’t play well with OX. Like can’t use it to test ram install for instance. If replacing XOS with xblast… I’m guessing that would now work ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SS_Dave Posted July 17, 2023 Report Share Posted July 17, 2023 34 minutes ago, Dtomcat18 said: Yea. My bad on space. Difference (my understanding)…. XblastOS doesn’t play well with OX. Like can’t use it to test ram install for instance. If replacing XOS with xblast… I’m guessing that would now work ? Yes that is correct In my view it's easier to just flash a Aladdin chip with Xblast Cheers SS Dave Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtomcat Posted July 17, 2023 Author Report Share Posted July 17, 2023 True! I have one for that reason… but this can be exciting news for those who have an open xenium and can’t afford/don’t want to buy another modchip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweetdarkdestiny Posted July 17, 2023 Report Share Posted July 17, 2023 I would say it is way more interesting to make changes to XBlastOS and change the XBlast-Lite layout to fit a S29GL064S70TFI040 (8M x 8 / 4M x 16) flash to it. Not to sure if the 9572XL-10VQG44C could handle the bigger flash or if it also would need to be upgraded to a 10VQG64C but that is something which crosses my mind latley. This could give team resurgend also more room for there maybe upcoming XBLastOS mod (For got the name of it so shame on me). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milenko Posted July 17, 2023 Report Share Posted July 17, 2023 I’m working on implementing Ryzee’s banking logic. He has an OpenXOS branch that was being worked on. This was just fucking around as I learn more about the chips design and the OS’s differences from Cromwell as at this point Xblast is a fork loL 19 hours ago, SS_Dave said: Looking at that pic I wonder why you would dumb down a working chip and it's not even able to have extra bios banks Cheers SS Dave Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milenko Posted July 17, 2023 Report Share Posted July 17, 2023 8 hours ago, SS_Dave said: The way I read it he has replaced the Xenium OS with the Xblast OS A Xblast eeprom is 1024kb X 8bit and the OS is in the 1st 256 kb and the remaining is 1 X256kb and 1 X512kb A Xenium eeprom is 2048kb X 8bit and the OS and skin is in the 1st 1024kb and the rest is the 4 X 256kb banks A full Xenium re-flash including the skin and OS with 4 X 256kb bios files is 2meg Unless he has just used one of the Xenium bios banks for Xblast like this then Whoopie Cheers SS Dave Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing. Nope! Replaced the Cromwell/RTOS bootloader from a flash dump with a recompiled build. Funnily enough it ‘runs’ out of the box. But I’m trying to ensure that it works with the chip itself so I’m replacing/moving some code from Ryzees Cromwell, to this. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plato Posted July 25, 2023 Report Share Posted July 25, 2023 (edited) I recently did a ram upgrade using Xenium Ice by Nemesis with Xblast on one of the banks. I found that even with the console not booting with not all ram chips on board, I was able to get into the Xenium Menu by pressing and then holding eject after frag and launch the Xblast bios to do the ram tests. Obviously I did this till all 4 passed. Basically did this without any Xblast chip. Edited July 25, 2023 by Plato Spelling 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bowlsnapper Posted July 25, 2023 Report Share Posted July 25, 2023 13 minutes ago, Plato said: I recently did a ram upgrade using Xenium Ice by Nemesis with Xblast on one of the banks. I found that even with the console not booting with not all ram chips on board, I was able to get into the Xenium Menu by pressing and then holding eject after frag and launch the Xblast bios to do the ram tests. Obviously I did this till all 4 passed. Basically did this without any Xblast chip. Aren't frags pretty much fatal? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trencherfield Posted July 25, 2023 Report Share Posted July 25, 2023 5 hours ago, Bowlsnapper said: Aren't frags pretty much fatal? No. 'Frags' has somewhat become a generic term, when really there are of course different boot errors that flash on the LED ring. FRAG refers to 'flashing red and green' which generally indicates the hardware is okay to a point and that the BIOS has a problem - the lack of greater than 64mb ram sequentially in this instance for the BIOS unsupported, whilst Xblast does. Other Errors can flash red/orange or red only (usually hardware) etc. It was known you could get Xenium OS to boot by doing the above while adding ram. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bowlsnapper Posted July 26, 2023 Report Share Posted July 26, 2023 4 hours ago, trencherfield said: No. 'Frags' has somewhat become a generic term, when really there are of course different boot errors that flash on the LED ring. FRAG refers to 'flashing red and green' which generally indicates the hardware is okay to a point and that the BIOS has a problem - the lack of greater than 64mb ram sequentially in this instance for the BIOS unsupported, whilst Xblast does. Other Errors can flash red/orange or red only (usually hardware) etc. It was known you could get Xenium OS to boot by doing the above while adding ram. I will try this in a bit to see if I can get XBlast to boot on the console I'm trying to add ram to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bowlsnapper Posted July 26, 2023 Report Share Posted July 26, 2023 6 hours ago, Bowlsnapper said: I will try this in a bit to see if I can get XBlast to boot on the console I'm trying to add ram to. Didn't work. Not a good sign. Lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trencherfield Posted July 26, 2023 Report Share Posted July 26, 2023 That's the issue, if a ram chip has a problem, then it probably won't work to get to the Xenium OS as its now a hardware error. Still easier just to flash xblast on a dumb chip like an aladdin. Might be a flakey glitch and only works on certain boards/setups. Never bothered testing it myself having so many chips available. Might try it next ram upgrade and see. Did you try holding the eject button after the frag? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plato Posted July 28, 2023 Report Share Posted July 28, 2023 Xbox rebooted between frags I think 3 times. Then it would stay on, all lights flashing. I just kept pressing then holding eject. OX eventually came up. I know the image doesn't prove much but I ran Xenium Ice in the whole time. Video link attached here. Shows xenium booting up with failure on ram chip 4. https://youtube.com/shorts/nTs6EYBQZwQ?feature=share 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plato Posted July 28, 2023 Report Share Posted July 28, 2023 On 7/27/2023 at 2:18 AM, trencherfield said: That's the issue, if a ram chip has a problem, then it probably won't work to get to the Xenium OS as its now a hardware error. Still easier just to flash xblast on a dumb chip like an aladdin. Might be a flakey glitch and only works on certain boards/setups. Never bothered testing it myself having so many chips available. Might try it next ram upgrade and see. Did you try holding the eject button after the frag? I think it was flaky glutch but I got lucky. I intended to flash Xblast to an old Duox2 but the chip wouldn't fit past the hdd connector. So I decided to do the install blind and test the xbox till it boots. I physically couldn't see any issues after the ram install and out of frustration with frags, I started pressing/holding eject and bam! The OS came up. FYI, console works a treat now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bowlsnapper Posted July 29, 2023 Report Share Posted July 29, 2023 On 7/26/2023 at 9:18 AM, trencherfield said: That's the issue, if a ram chip has a problem, then it probably won't work to get to the Xenium OS as its now a hardware error. Still easier just to flash xblast on a dumb chip like an aladdin. Might be a flakey glitch and only works on certain boards/setups. Never bothered testing it myself having so many chips available. Might try it next ram upgrade and see. Did you try holding the eject button after the frag? My mobo died. I lost power to the LPC after I tried to remove the RAM chip and resolder. Gonzo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trencherfield Posted July 29, 2023 Report Share Posted July 29, 2023 That's unfortunate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bowlsnapper Posted July 29, 2023 Report Share Posted July 29, 2023 1 hour ago, trencherfield said: That's unfortunate. I wanted to kill myself. Lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trencherfield Posted July 29, 2023 Report Share Posted July 29, 2023 Are the pads and tracks lifted at the ram? Might be saved if you can clean it up and just use it as a 64mb standard console? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bowlsnapper Posted July 29, 2023 Report Share Posted July 29, 2023 7 minutes ago, trencherfield said: Are the pads and tracks lifted at the ram? Might be saved if you can clean it up and just use it as a 64mb standard console? The TSOP was dead upon arrival so I rescued it with the lpc... I killed the lpc doing the ram install and the board is done for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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