madmon Posted August 5, 2020 Report Share Posted August 5, 2020 So I have sometime on my hands and Ive been playing around with some cheap aladdins I have kicking around. I've managed to get urjtag to read my jtag programmer(HW-USBN-2A) but when I run the 'detect' command it tells me my that TDO is stuck at 0 or 1. I originally tried with a cheap USB blaster but it just would not work. Ive tried changing the wire, reconnecting the wires, powering the chip with the programmer, powering the chip with a xbox and powering the chip with a bench power supply. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaosEngineer Posted August 6, 2020 Report Share Posted August 6, 2020 You sure that the connections to all the JTAG signals are correct. You don't happen to have TDI and TDO connections reversed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmon Posted August 6, 2020 Author Report Share Posted August 6, 2020 6 hours ago, KaosEngineer said: You sure that the connections to all the JTAG signals are correct. You don't happen to have TDI and TDO connections reversed? I double checked the wiring. I think I might be having an issue with the PC, I was looking at the long files and it seems sometimes its allowing the drivers and sometimes it is not. Its a bit older system with a x3440 Xeon running windows 10 pro. I will try it in a newer computer and I'll just try installing win7 on a spare HDD and try that. The wiring seemed okay, I marked the points and connected them one at a time. Im just at my wits end, I've reflashed bios on corrupted gpus and motherboards using a usb converter and had less issues. Thank you for the reply BTW. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmon Posted August 7, 2020 Author Report Share Posted August 7, 2020 Okay, so a little update. For what ever reason I could not get urjtag to work, but I did manage to get diamond to recognize the programmer and actually fash it. No idea how I managed to get the program, the tutorial is all in Chinese and I found it on a site selling the programmer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmon Posted August 7, 2020 Author Report Share Posted August 7, 2020 Okay so from what I can tell the cpld is programmed, it refuses to boot with the stock stt. I placed the upgraded stt and tried to hotswap(using a stock aladdin ) it using evo dash and xblast os. I keep getting the error that it is unable to write to it. Am i missing something? I have read through a bunch of archived stuff and just cant find anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmon Posted August 10, 2020 Author Report Share Posted August 10, 2020 Okay just giving an update if anyone comes across this looking for answers. Unfortunately the Aladdin clone I have simply does not work with the xblast or non-xblast code. I bought a lattice clone JTAG programmer and flashed the cpld. After many failed attempts at flashing the SST via hotswap I went out and bought a lpc programmer with the plcc32 adaptor. After successfully programming the .bin and trying to boot I was met with nothing but frags. Ive tried everything and still it just doesn't work. I guess either I messaged up somewhere(very possible) or the clone Aladdin was made differently than before(doubtful but still possible). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ging3rguy Posted August 11, 2020 Report Share Posted August 11, 2020 23 hours ago, madmon said: Okay just giving an update if anyone comes across this looking for answers. Unfortunately the Aladdin clone I have simply does not work with the xblast or non-xblast code. I bought a lattice clone JTAG programmer and flashed the cpld. After many failed attempts at flashing the SST via hotswap I went out and bought a lpc programmer with the plcc32 adaptor. After successfully programming the .bin and trying to boot I was met with nothing but frags. Ive tried everything and still it just doesn't work. I guess either I messaged up somewhere(very possible) or the clone Aladdin was made differently than before(doubtful but still possible). I would try and pm psyko over on this site and see if he can help. https://www.obscuregamers.com/threads/mod-aladdin-xblast.505/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmon Posted August 12, 2020 Author Report Share Posted August 12, 2020 4 hours ago, Ging3rguy said: I would try and pm psyko over on this site and see if he can help. https://www.obscuregamers.com/threads/mod-aladdin-xblast.505/ Ill try posting in the thread, but he did say sometimes it just does not work with some clones. Im gonna try to use it for a LCD if it doesn't work then ill remove the lattice cpld and solder the points directly to the lcd. Wish I was able to pull the original firmware but it was secured and saved as zeros... bummer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sceriffo Posted August 13, 2020 Report Share Posted August 13, 2020 I had problems flashing it in Windows. Tried different machines at work (a Dell Xeon notebook, a i5 PC, and even a core2duo machine. Errors all around, even tried different drivers). Came home, I flashed it under Linux in one shot, no error, all smooth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SS_Dave Posted August 13, 2020 Report Share Posted August 13, 2020 I had problems flashing a Aladdin to make a Xblast chip with a windoze 10 desktop but windoze 10 on the laptop 1st go and the it was the other way around when making a Aladdin LCD chip. 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...
madmon Posted August 14, 2020 Author Report Share Posted August 14, 2020 14 hours ago, Sceriffo said: I had problems flashing it in Windows. Tried different machines at work (a Dell Xeon notebook, a i5 PC, and even a core2duo machine. Errors all around, even tried different drivers). Came home, I flashed it under Linux in one shot, no error, all smooth. hmm thats so interesting. Im not the most well versed in linux, but I might try it. Ill try a different pc first before I dive into the linux route. Did you just use urjtag on ubuntu? I have an old windows xp system sitting here ill try. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sceriffo Posted September 30, 2020 Report Share Posted September 30, 2020 On 8/14/2020 at 4:22 AM, madmon said: hmm thats so interesting. Im not the most well versed in linux, but I might try it. Ill try a different pc first before I dive into the linux route. Did you just use urjtag on ubuntu? I have an old windows xp system sitting here ill try. Thank you. Sorry for being late. I used another linux distribution but I think also in ubuntu will work. In most distribution modules/drivers for that programming device is already there, so even if you are not so experienced you'll manage to do it in 5 minutes. You can even try to do it with a live CD, without the need to install the operating system to your hard drive. Install urjtag via your package manager, plug in programmer and start flashing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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