mannymod85 Posted June 5, 2019 Report Share Posted June 5, 2019 im waiting for the alladin plus x2 chip to come in the mail while waiting I have installed my break away header and the corresponding wires needed and cut the l trace my question is what does the xbox do when you tun it on without the chip and the trace l trace cut my xbox is a 1.6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magicaldave Posted June 5, 2019 Report Share Posted June 5, 2019 Same thing it did before. Without having a chip, or just a random wire installed, to pull the D0 line of the Xbox low, it’s just gonna boot from it’s internal ROM. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mannymod85 Posted June 6, 2019 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2019 44 minutes ago, Magicaldave said: Same thing it did before. Without having a chip, or just a random wire installed, to pull the D0 line of the Xbox low, it’s just gonna boot from it’s internal ROM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mannymod85 Posted June 6, 2019 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2019 ok so it seems I may have a problem then ive read in a few places that the xbox wont boot up! which is what mine does ill know more once I get the chip just curious if I may have made a mistake installing the breakaway which does happen time to time this is my first xbox so it wouldn't surprise me if I did mess something up heres the symptoms as of now push power lights up yellow orange shuts off repeats that cycle one more time and then turns on a 3rd time and blinks red to green and stays on but nothing load on screen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magicaldave Posted June 6, 2019 Report Share Posted June 6, 2019 (edited) 51 minutes ago, mannymod85 said: ok so it seems I may have a problem then ive read in a few places that the xbox wont boot up! which is what mine does ill know more once I get the chip just curious if I may have made a mistake installing the breakaway which does happen time to time this is my first xbox so it wouldn't surprise me if I did mess something up heres the symptoms as of now push power lights up yellow orange shuts off repeats that cycle one more time and then turns on a 3rd time and blinks red to green and stays on but nothing load on screen Ahh, yes, my mistake. The Aladdin chip has its own ground points for LFRAME. You cut the LFRAME trace on your board to make sure it doesn't fry your console's MCPX chip over time. So your console is looking for a BIOS, but it can't find one - because you essentially chopped its head off. No big! You can temporarily fix this with a little bit of wire and tape if you wish to use the console in the meantime, but you should be back up and running when you're able to supply it with a BIOS over the LPC port (aka, installing a modchip) FWIW, this is an optional step from what I understand. But it's certainly not one that hurts as replacing your MCPX chip... not gonna happen. Edited June 6, 2019 by Magicaldave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mannymod85 Posted June 6, 2019 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2019 yea! I was thinking that once I put the modip on it will act ok I more less got it ready for the chip and turned it on just to see what it does and it did that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaosEngineer Posted June 7, 2019 Report Share Posted June 7, 2019 Cutting the trace prevents it from booting - no BIOS can be loaded from the Xyclops chip across the LPC bus without that signal. Once the modchip is installed, it will be able to boot from the BIOS stored on the modchip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loggio Posted July 6, 2019 Report Share Posted July 6, 2019 thanks for the info Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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