Crystal Green purple X3 modchip with Faceplate Broken :((

[hastings298]

Hi all

I was playing Black earlier (great game) and left it for a while, came back and it was frozen. Not too surprised. So a couple of restarts later and it's just getting worse. To the point where I can only get into XBMC for a minute or two, but can't launch a game without it freezing.

At this point I can still hold the white button and get into the X3 boot menu.

The power supply looks in a bad way, and I have an identical model lying around, so I swap it out and - no dice, pretty much the same thing as before.

Try changing the hard drive: Acts up a lot, get one or two boots out of it before i'm back to square one again.

Notice I can still boot into that blue screen where you can flash stuff, I figured maybe my BIOS had gone bad with all the freezes and restarts. Drop a new bios into a folder named C:/BIOS. Load back into the blue screen and manage to start flashing, gets about 3/4s of the way through and it just freezes again.

At this point it's completely fucked, just fragging, occasionally it gets to the "X" BIOS screen.

Absolutely heartbroken at this, it belonged to a friend of a friend who died in 2005 in a motorcycle accident.

If anyone has any idea what could be up with it i'm all open to ideas or paying for repairs (UK) if someone really knows what they're doing.

I really don't get it, I pretty much ruled out the HDD, i don't THINK it's the PSU since i replaced it and same again. Just don't know what's up with it. Won't boot into a Hexen 2019 disc I made either.

Please help!!!!