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Hi Everyone, 

I am new to this forum and despite looking, I couldn't find an answer to my question. 

Basically, I have an Xbox v1.1 with an ST TSOP. Awhile back I TSOP flashed it using HEXEN 2018 and I flashed on the EvoX M8 + F & G Bios. After this I installed a 2TB Sata HDD and Set up the HDD with 1TB assigned to F and 1TB assigned to G. Over time I have filled up most of the F partition and a lot of the G partition.  I want to reflash a customised version of M8 + with no evox logo and my own boot colour scheme but I am worried about some of the options (I am basing the new customised bios on the file "evox.m8plus.fc.137" taken from my HEXEN 2018 iso.)

I think I installed the 256k bios initially (even though i know my TSOP has more room) and I'm thinking of keeping it as 256k. Is this what is recommended?  

BUT mainly, do you think that keeping the LBA48 support setting as "Partition 6 takes up to 137GB/Partition 7 takes rest" will ruin/alter the partitions of my current installed hard drive as described above? I ask because I have about 1.3TB of data already on the HDD and I don't want the BIOS re-flash to wipe all of that just to get rid of the EvoX logo and change the boot colours.

Thanks in advance people! 

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4 minutes ago, Paulo011 said:

Hi Everyone, 

I am new to this forum and despite looking, I couldn't find an answer to my question. 

Basically, I have an Xbox v1.1 with an ST TSOP. Awhile back I TSOP flashed it using HEXEN 2018 and I flashed on the EvoX M8 + F & G Bios. After this I installed a 2TB Sata HDD and Set up the HDD with 1TB assigned to F and 1TB assigned to G. Over time I have filled up most of the F partition and a lot of the G partition.  I want to reflash a customised version of M8 + with no evox logo and my own boot colour scheme but I am worried about some of the options (I am basing the new customised bios on the file "evox.m8plus.fc.137" taken from my HEXEN 2018 iso.)

I think I installed the 256k bios initially (even though i know my TSOP has more room) and I'm thinking of keeping it as 256k. Is this what is recommended?  

BUT mainly, do you think that keeping the LBA48 support setting as "Partition 6 takes up to 137GB/Partition 7 takes rest" will ruin/alter the partitions of my current installed hard drive as described above? I ask because I have about 1.3TB of data already on the HDD and I don't want the BIOS re-flash to wipe all of that just to get rid of the EvoX logo and change the boot colours.

Thanks in advance people! 

Unless you have added the extra RAM there is no need to change the BIOS from the EvoxM8.

That's the only downfall with the Evox Bios it's not 128 meg ram compatible.

 

Cheers

SS Dave


Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing.

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I'm going to be keeping the evox m8 + bios. But I wanted to make sure that reflashing it (to remove the boot evox logo and change the boot colours) wont impact my HDD partitions described in my original post. 

I am customising the bios using EVtool but there are no guides available for the software and I can't find out anything about it.

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Yes you can edit the EvoxM8 bios to change the colors and the like with out affecting anything as long as you don't change the default dash orders.

On the EvoxM8 bios I use in my builds I untick a few items to speed up the booting. 

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Cheers

SS Dave


Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing.
 

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With the M8plus BIOS having the LBA48 v3 patch included after modding its settings in EVTool v1.0.9, it doesn't matter which default LBA48 scheme you choose.  The LBA48 v3 patch looks for a partition table written by XBPartitioner v1.3. It is stored in the first sector of the hard drive.  If found, the settings from the partition table override the BIOS's default LBA48 settings.

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Whilst not messing with default main dash path and making sure the D:\default.xbe is written in (some Evox BIOS sources forgot to do that) in the BIOS installed by HeXEn the main dash path are not as shown in that EVTool shot.

This is the actual BIOS from HexEN 2018 open in the EVTool:-

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My point is that unless you used HeXEn 2018 to install your main dash, and with it a load of stuff you do not need, the 2nd and 3rd paths shown are redundant.

By default Evox M8+ will load the C:\evoxdash.xbe first, pretty standard for all hardmods, and if none of the others are found it will boot C:\xboxdash.xbe which, with a hardmod, will be the unchanged MS dash XBE. But if you used a non HeXEn Evox then you also won't have  C:\AvaDash.xbe or C:\NeXgen.xbe either.

When customising the BIOS it is worth putting in 2nd and 3rd paths to bootable dash XBEs that are actually present.

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