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2 minutes ago, Benur75 said:

Ok, I am in France, not far. Did you try another power supply ?

You can do a last test, as soon as you press the power button, quickly unplug front panel connector from motherboard.

Tomorrow, test another PSU....

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3 minutes ago, Benur75 said:

So you are nearly sure that the problem comes from the motherboard ?

I don't know the tracks is repaired, tomorrow disassemble the other xbox and try the power supply, so we are sure that the problem is the motherboard...

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If you have an old backup of the configuration EEPROM's data (eeprom.bin file), restore it.  There are three options to do so:

  1. Use a serial Xbox EEPROM reader/writer, a PC with a 9-pin serial port and PonyProg software
  2. Use a Raspberry Pi and PiPROM software
  3. Use an Arduino and DuinoBoX sketch

Another possibiity is that the configuration EEPROM chip has died and needs to be replaced and the data restored to it (if you have a backup of it).

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57 minutes ago, KaosEngineer said:

If you have an old backup of the configuration EEPROM's data (eeprom.bin file), restore it.  There are three options to do so:

  1. Use a serial Xbox EEPROM reader/writer, a PC with a 9-pin serial port and PonyProg software
  2. Use a Raspberry Pi and PiPROM software
  3. Use an Arduino and DuinoBoX sketch

Another possibiity is that the configuration EEPROM chip has died and needs to be replaced and the data restored to it (if you have a backup of it).

Have a Raspberry and Arduino what is the easiest way? what is the chip on the motherboard? 24WC02J???

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Eeprom reader as KaosEngineer suggested but whether even that will help fix the problem I'm not confident.

The suggestion that a major component has gone ie. the eeprom chip as KE also suggested means it needs replacing and that is not an easy job. If you haven't a backup of the eeprom and the eeprom is dead how do you get round that? Even an eeprom reader is not going help in those circumstances.

Whether a Xbox would work with a chip fitted but a broken eeprom reader I have no idea but you'd probably still have the problem of unlocking the old HDD too.

 

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17 minutes ago, HDShadow said:

Eeprom reader as KaosEngineer suggested but whether even that will help fix the problem I'm not confident.

The suggestion that a major component has gone ie. the eeprom chip as KE also suggested means it needs replacing and that is not an easy job. If you haven't a backup of the eeprom and the eeprom is dead how do you get round that? Even an eeprom reader is not going help in those circumstances.

Whether a Xbox would work with a chip fitted but a broken eeprom reader I have no idea but you'd probably still have the problem of unlocking the old HDD too.

 

I'm waiting for the openxenium modchip,if I install it I have some chance?

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16 hours ago, aries said:

Have a Raspberry and Arduino what is the easiest way? what is the chip on the motherboard? 24WC02J???

I'd say using either of those two options are on the same level of difficulty.

Yes, it's the 24WC02J - 8-pin 2Kbit serial EEPROM  (256 bytes) between the TSOP flash memory chip and the PIC processor (System Management Controller).

Grimdoomer's tutorial web page on using a Raspberry Pi and PiPROM software to read the configuration EEPROM's data.

ExtraordinaryBen's DuinoBoX at github.com.

Edit: Once you have the data read, if the chip itself is not dead, load the eeprom.bin file created into Yoshihiro's LiveInfo_Beta_3-Xbox_v1.6 Windows application.  It may show that one of the two checksum values are in error or the HMAC-SHA1 Hash of the entire content is bad.  I think it will recalculate those values to fix the content when you use the save option to write a file to the PC. (I'm not 100% sure if it can do that or not.)

You could also open it in a hex editor and try to determine if the content is corrupted.

The configuration EEPROM's content is documented at https://xboxdevwiki.net/EEPROM.

 

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19 hours ago, HDShadow said:

Eeprom reader as KaosEngineer suggested but whether even that will help fix the problem I'm not confident.

The suggestion that a major component has gone ie. the eeprom chip as KE also suggested means it needs replacing and that is not an easy job. If you haven't a backup of the eeprom and the eeprom is dead how do you get round that? Even an eeprom reader is not going help in those circumstances.

Whether a Xbox would work with a chip fitted but a broken eeprom reader I have no idea but you'd probably still have the problem of unlocking the old HDD too.

I meant broken eeprom chip not broken eeprom reader.

An eeprom file from another Xbox, whatever version, is not going to work.   

 

 

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23 hours ago, HDShadow said:

Eeprom reader as KaosEngineer suggested but whether even that will help fix the problem I'm not confident.

The suggestion that a major component has gone ie. the eeprom chip as KE also suggested means it needs replacing and that is not an easy job. If you haven't a backup of the eeprom and the eeprom is dead how do you get round that? Even an eeprom reader is not going help in those circumstances.

Whether a Xbox would work with a chip fitted but a broken eeprom reader I have no idea but you'd probably still have the problem of unlocking the old HDD too.

 

A chipped box will not work with a trashed EEPROM.

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I can't read eeprom with the CH341A usb programmer the eeprom is broken, I did a test on a working xbox 1.4 and it works read eeprom successfully, my question is the following; if I buy a compatible eeprom and I will flash it would the good file and hard drive swap works?

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10 minutes ago, Benur75 said:

You can change a component, program it with the same file as you read in your working xbox, then you will have cloned xbox.

OK, then after unsoldering the eprom from the working console and I try it on the faulty one.

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