A What Not To Do With Your Tsop, what not to flash Options

[JohnnyHunng]

There are always lots of folks that wind up having a fraggin xbox due to flashing bad bios files to their tsop..Now this is not a tsop tutorial, there are plenty of them, this is more like an addendum...I would like whatever i miss for people to add what not to flash to a tsop....

1.) DO NOT flash an Xecuter 3 (X3) bios to a tsop, ever...There is no reason to even try this, there are plenty of X2 bioses out there, use those if u need an Xecuter bios.

2.) DO NOT flash a Boot From Media (BFM) bios to a tsop, these are for softmods, key words here are boot from media...usually they will be xboxrom.bin files...Just think, if you got the file from a softmod gamesave package, don't use it.

3.) If you are not using raincoat .7 to flash ur tsop, please pay attention to the bios size you need, for 1.0/1.1 you need a 1MB bios, for 1.2-1.5 you need a 256k bios...This will save lots of people having to do the 3 wire trick.

[lordvader129]

x2 4981.**
x2 4983.**
evox m7
iND-Bios 5001/5003

those are the only bios anyone should have to flash to their TSOP (too many folks flash d.6 or 4977 to their 1.4/1.5 and it makes me wonder why they are even wanting to use such an outdated bios in the first place)

Retail Kernels

1.0 = 4034
1.1 = 4817
1.2-1.5 = 5101
1.6 = 5838

[i800phyco]

might i add dont flash the xenium os to tsop
i've seen the ? a few times

[lordvader129]

or any modchip OS, lol

dont flash an xbe either (i seem to remember one person somehow flashing an evox xbe to his chip/TSOP/whatever

i just realized, this could get way out of hand...

...dont flash a jpg of your own butt to the TSOP either, thats not the kind of image we are talking about, lol

[LoganDzwon]

hehe, just figured the BFM thing myself... I thought it ment that it could be a bios OR BFM. Luck it was a mutibios and I just booted the oem bios I had in there.

[unknownuser]

What about cromwell?

[lordvader129]

What about cromwell?

depends, im not sure about newer versions of the flashbios but older ones used the sector erase command (like evox) and couldnt flash winbonds, so you were pretty much stuck unless you installed linux and used raincoat

other than winbonds it can be used to reflash a TSOP just like a modchip

[lordvader129]

another thing to not flash

Evox TSOP D.6: this bios is not made for TSOPs, its made to REPAIR TSOPs and should only be flashed to an LPC modchip

Matrix TSOP bios: same as above

[Zergo]

I have a 1.1 Xbox with Hynix ram. Do I want x2_4983.67_1MB.bin or x2_4983.06_1MB.bin, and what is the difference between .06 and .67?

[JohnnyHunng]

Do u mean Hynix TSOP or Hynix ram, i'm only asking to see what methods of tsop flashing are available to u...Anyway, yes either of those X2 bioses would be suitable, if u use raincoat .7 u can use a 256k bios of either one of those files...

.67 = F takes up to 137GB, G takes the rest

.06 = F takes rest of the drive

[Zergo]

Do u mean Hynix TSOP or Hynix ram, i'm only asking to see what methods of tsop flashing are available to u...Anyway, yes either of those X2 bioses would be suitable, if u use raincoat .7 u can use a 256k bios of either one of those files...

.67 = F takes up to 137GB, G takes the rest

.06 = F takes rest of the drive

Hynix TSOP. I had someone flash it through EVOX last time, I beleive it is a 1MB bios. The Chip is HY29F080

[psyddicus]

You guys know more about this than me, so I'll ask you:

I used an EvoX M8 on mine (I have a 1.1 so I used the program to make it a 1MB bios) and it's working fine, but I see that nobody pointed out whether or not it was a good bios to use for the TSOP flash.

I was just hoping to get some input on that.

[lordvader129]

You guys know more about this than me, so I'll ask you:

I used an EvoX M8 on mine (I have a 1.1 so I used the program to make it a 1MB bios) and it's working fine, but I see that nobody pointed out whether or not it was a good bios to use for the TSOP flash.

I was just hoping to get some input on that.

its basically the same as evox m7, i generally dont recommend it since its easy to get it confused with m8_1.6, which will frag your TSOP (since its only for 1.6s)

[manatarms25]

M8 bios works good for me I have used it on my last few TSOP's but im with lordvader on this one unless you are 100% sure you dont have the 1.6 bios dont use M8
Here is the problem when you unpack with either

EvolutionX M8 Bios or EvolutionX M8 Bios_v1.6

There is a file in each archive called m8_16.bin ... its to easy to get these if you have uncompressed them

Stick with the newest X2 Bios

[terrorvis]

I have just tried flashing the FlashBIOS 3.0.3. Which works. but you can't use it to flash a TSOP after you get it on there!