Purchased a 128Mb Ram board and PSU, Advice apreciated please....

[Craiguk]

Hi, Long story short i brought a v1.1 Board and PSU- TSOP with x2_5035 BIOS i was told from the seller, Then brought a Stock faulty xbox (Trace rot), installed new board and PSU into the faulty xbox, Kept he stock HDD and DVD Drive from the faulty Xbox......

Anyway powers up (No Flubber) say's EXECUTER2 CONFIG LIVE LOADING..... and stays on that screen, Eject button FRAG's

Is it looking for somthing from the HDD? I did try Hexen and various other Installer DVD's that work on my other consoles. Faulty DVD drive?

Im a total TSOP noob and would appreciate some advice please, Theres a video i upped to my Dropbox so you can see what im talking about.

Thanks all.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/d4t4sh6u1k9zvp0/PXL_20221128_181143241.mp4?dl=0

Edited November 28, 2022 by Craiguk

[Puritan001]

Your description is a bit confusing but if one Xbox was soft modded and the other hard mod, the hard mod one should work to boot a disk (hexen etc)  while the softmod will not work with a hard drive from another xbox unless you get the eeprom and lock that hard drive to that motherboard... try a different dvd drive or boot hexen with no hard drive plugged in to narrow down what could be going on? 

[Craiguk]

Hi sorry, basically I brought a totally stock faulty xbox and just swapped the faulty motherboard, with the TSOP 128MB board and matching PSU so the HDD would be stock. 

Thanks for looking

[Puritan001]

1 hour ago, Craiguk said:

Hi sorry, basically I brought a totally stock faulty xbox and just swapped the faulty motherboard, with the TSOP 128MB board and matching PSU so the HDD would be stock. 

Thanks for looking

Ok. You'd be better off with a good new hard drive in my opinion. That stock drive is locked and possibly bad. However, if it isn't bad,  and if it would boot a dvd like hexen you maybe able to unlock that drive with a "master password".  That's a lot of if. The bios is looking for a config.ini file on the hard drive,  but with it or without it it should boot a disk like hexen if the dvd was good I think. 

 

What I'd do is set up a new drive on a pc with fatxplorer beta 3 by eaton works. I'd put xbmc4gamers on it and use c and e from a hard mod disk. 

 

I prefer 500gb to 2tb sata hard drives,  whatever you can afford.  Then use a startech sata to ide (they are red)  and a new 24" ultra ide/pata (80wire/conductor, 40 pin) 

 

If done correctly like that it should boot with or without dvd.

 

The dvd drive may need a lense clean with ipa, or it may not work,  as I believe it should boot dvd regardless.  

[prtscn]

Try booting with disconnected HDD.

[Craiguk]

Thanks peeps for the advice, I'll try to boot Hexen with Stock HDD removed, if that fails I'll try with a working DVD drive and let you know how I get on really appreciate your help. 

[Craiguk]

Next question lol, if it dose boot up Hexen will it setup the new HDD with the required config.ini and I'll be good to go? 

[Craiguk]

6 hours ago, prtscn said:

Try booting with disconnected HDD.

Ok disconnected the HDD tried various Boot Disks Hexen, Slayers, AIO etc still won't boot, tried know working DVD drive still the same, only it don't FRAG straight away takes about 20 seconds.  Still on EXECUTER2 CONFIG LIVE LOADING.....  Mmmmm any ideas mate? 

Tested suspect faulty DVD drive in my hard modded crystal and that work fine, so that's a bonus. 

Appreciate everyones help. 

[Puritan001]

9 hours ago, Craiguk said:

Next question lol, if it dose boot up Hexen will it setup the new HDD with the required config.ini and I'll be good to go? 

Yes.  You'd choose hard mod disk set up and it'd do that exact thing. 

[Puritan001]

4 hours ago, Craiguk said:

Ok disconnected the HDD tried various Boot Disks Hexen, Slayers, AIO etc still won't boot, tried know working DVD drive still the same, only it don't FRAG straight away takes about 20 seconds.  Still on EXECUTER2 CONFIG LIVE LOADING.....  Mmmmm any ideas mate? 

Tested suspect faulty DVD drive in my hard modded crystal and that work fine, so that's a bonus. 

Appreciate everyones help. 

If you can try another hard drive,  ide cable, and or sata adapter if you can 

[prtscn]

5 hours ago, Craiguk said:

Ok disconnected the HDD tried various Boot Disks Hexen, Slayers, AIO etc still won't boot, tried know working DVD drive still the same, only it don't FRAG straight away takes about 20 seconds.  Still on EXECUTER2 CONFIG LIVE LOADING.....  Mmmmm any ideas mate? 

Tested suspect faulty DVD drive in my hard modded crystal and that work fine, so that's a bonus. 

Appreciate everyones help. 

Likely corrupted bios.

[Puritan001]

7 hours ago, prtscn said:

Likely corrupted bios.

Hard to belive a reputable? Seller would ship a board without testing it.

[prtscn]

i think you need to have x2config.ini file in your harddrive, no idea where to get it and in what HDD location to put it.

here, there is a tool to create a config.

https://www.xbox-hq.com/html/article2052.html

problem, you have to put is somehow in your HDD, maybe ftp would work during this bios screen, don't know.

Edited November 30, 2022 by prtscn
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[Craiguk]

17 hours ago, Puritan001 said:

If you can try another hard drive,  ide cable, and or sata adapter if you can 

I have a few stock IDE cables and some old IDE Hdds about. 

My crystal xbox (Executer 2.6) has a 80 wire cable with SATA adapter I could try that also. 

Maybe the Bios is setup to skip boot from DVD if the sellers drive was faulty? 

I'll let you know