Xecutor 2.3B basic how to

[schmooot]

I've purchased a box with the executor 2.3B chip as far as I can tell. 

Please forgive my noobishness, it's been years since I've played with this stuff. 

I managed to find an install guide for this chip but nothing that really tells me how to use it.  The three switches on the front for starters. 

From what I can gather, Switch one appears to be enable/disable the chip.  Switch 2 is to protect/unprotect the bios from flashing? and switch 3 is for Bank 1 and Bank 2?  Can anybody verify and explain purpose of the third one?

Next question, the hdd is set up in ways I don't understand.  I'm showing like 4 different drive paths/partitions.  C, E, F, G I think and they are full of junk I don't know what I can safely delete (and how)?  The C is where my emulators and roms are stored and it is partitioned for like 100mb and full, whereas there is 4 or 5 gigs of stuff in the other partitions.  Can I just take out this hdd (so I don't mess with a working machine), put in a different one and install an OS on it?

I want to start fresh with a clean OS (I have the newest hexen image burned already), I want only one partition, a different dashboard perhaps (I don't particularly like the XBMC on there)

Next question is how do I find out which bios is installed?  Should I install a new one or just leave it?  

 

[SS_Dave]

2 hours ago, schmooot said:

From what I can gather, Switch one appears to be enable/disable the chip.  Switch 2 is to protect/unprotect the bios from flashing? and switch 3 is for Bank 1 and Bank 2?  Can anybody verify and explain purpose of the third one?

SW 1 is to allow you to load the stock BIOS/Dash so you could use Xbox Live without getting banned

SW 2 is to prevent accidental reflashing of the BIOS

SW 3 is for 2 different BIOS's

The only real reason to have multiple bios files is to boot to different dashboards

 

2 hours ago, schmooot said:

Next question, the hdd is set up in ways I don't understand.  I'm showing like 4 different drive paths/partitions.  C, E, F, G I think and they are full of junk I don't know what I can safely delete (and how)?  The C is where my emulators and roms are stored and it is partitioned for like 100mb and full, whereas there is 4 or 5 gigs of stuff in the other partitions.  Can I just take out this hdd (so I don't mess with a working machine), put in a different one and install an OS on it?

I want to start fresh with a clean OS (I have the newest hexen image burned already), I want only one partition, a different dashboard perhaps (I don't particularly like the XBMC on there)

C drive is normally the main boot drive

E drive is normally where the game saves and music are stored.

F and G are normally only present on 10gb and above drives and are for Game, Apps, Emulators

I would not randomly start deleting files as it may fail to boot, If there is nothing on the Xbox you really need or want use a installation disk ( OGXbox installation disk, Hexen) to remake the drive and install the dash you're after.

On my setups C drive is the boot drive and E drive has the game saves and xbmc4gamers dash with F and G drive used to hold the game files.

 

If you plan on having a HDD larger than 137gb you will need a new bios file flashed in the chip, the 2 BIOS file i recommended are Ind5004.67 and the EvoxM8 as both support 2tb or a 3tb(2.2tb useable) hard drive.

With that chip you need to flash both BIOS files a 1 file.

 

Cheers

SS Dave

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

[schmooot]

Thanks for that info it is super helpful

 

I answered a few of my own questions before you replied.  I took a leap and downloaded and burnt the OGXbox installer.  Used it to format the hdd and flashed a new bios (holy crap there are a pile of them to choose from!) 

 

I will definitely take your advice and recommendations and start playing.

 

I would like to flash the Evoxm8 but I'm faced with a dozen different options/versions.  Is there a writeup somewhere on how I narrow it down?

 

[SS_Dave]

What BIOS did you flash

 

Cheers

SS Dave

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

[schmooot]

24 minutes ago, SS_Dave said:

What BIOS did you flash

 

Here's the one I chose. Menu after menu after menu, each one had more options than the last

 

EVOX 1.0-1.4 (It was this or 1.6)

EVOXM8+ (512KB) (the choices here were 256, 512, and 1024)

EVOXM8+ DEFAULT(512)

UNLEASH UX

ECE 67 YES DVD UX

 

It worked and I have a dashboard on boot...so I guess I didn't screw it up that bad

Edited March 8, 2021 by schmooot

[SS_Dave]

If it's working then I would leave it.

 

Cheers

SS Dave

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

[schmooot]

On 3/7/2021 at 8:22 PM, SS_Dave said:

SW 1 is to allow you to load the stock BIOS/Dash so you could use Xbox Live without getting banned

SW 2 is to prevent accidental reflashing of the BIOS

SW 3 is for 2 different BIOS's

The only real reason to have multiple bios files is to boot to different dashboards

 

C drive is normally the main boot drive

E drive is normally where the game saves and music are stored.

F and G are normally only present on 10gb and above drives and are for Game, Apps, Emulators

I would not randomly start deleting files as it may fail to boot, If there is nothing on the Xbox you really need or want use a installation disk ( OGXbox installation disk, Hexen) to remake the drive and install the dash you're after.

On my setups C drive is the boot drive and E drive has the game saves and xbmc4gamers dash with F and G drive used to hold the game files.

 

If you plan on having a HDD larger than 137gb you will need a new bios file flashed in the chip, the 2 BIOS file i recommended are Ind5004.67 and the EvoxM8 as both support 2tb or a 3tb(2.2tb useable) hard drive.

With that chip you need to flash both BIOS files a 1 file.

 

Cheers

SS Dave

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

How do I modify the shortcuts on my dashboard?  Right now I have to go to the file manager and then browse for the emulator I want to use and load the default.xbe file.  I would like to be able to select "emulators" on my dashboard and just select the one I want from that list.  Is this possible?

[SS_Dave]

What Dash board are you using?

 

Cheers

SS Dave

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

[schmooot]

Xbmc

[SS_Dave]

Check where you have the emulators saved

On my xbmc they are saved  in E:\Apps\Emulators\ and F:\Apps\Emulators\

You can edit the sources.xml file that's in xbmc/UserData to direct xbmc to look any where you like.

 

Cheers

SS Dave

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

[schmooot]

Hmmm I don't appear to have that file.  Here's what I see in my file list.  I did open up guisettings.xml to have a look but there is no reference to the shortcuts in there that I can see.  I did however find reference for the shortcuts in C:/config.xml and changed them to point to my Emulators folder (F:/Emulators) but it appears to have had no effect on my dashboard

[schmooot]

I managed to do it from the dashboard.   Didn't have to go on from the back end at all apparently

[SS_Dave]

That's good to here I know my XBMC is a older version (dated 2006) as I don't really use it I never bothered putting the later version on so the file structure is going to be different. 

 

Cheers

SS Dave

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