Ms Dash Missing? Options

[pongosnodgrass]

Hi all,

I sent some kid relative a Softmodded Xbox (Pakistan of all places), which worked great until he accidentally deleted something and it 'went funny'.

I was there on holiday last month and took with me AID and Slayers 2.7 thinking it would be easily fixed.
Well I tried everything but the same thing kept on happening.

Box would power up do a small black screen flicking thing and then come up with some sort of diagnostic EvoX dash with no options (apart from settings menu and 'start disc' option) - I don't know where its getting this dash from - I've tried formatting from both Slayers/AID and doing the complete installs and it's still the same.

So it seems theres some other files missing - most likely the MS Dash.

I've come back now so am looking for some sort of foolproof way of fixing it remotely :-(

What would be the best way to go about this?

Cheers

Pongo

[Heimdall]

It sounds as though it's booting the rescue dash, which means it can't find the hacked dash on E.

If it's modded with Kingroach the dash should be at E:\Dash\default.xbe, if modded with Krayzie it should be at E:\Dashboard\default.xbe. From your description of the rescue dash it sounds like Krayzie, but you should know as you modded it!

Your relative needs to boot with a rescue disc (CASH would be sensible) and check the E:\ partition for those files, and replace them if they're missing. CASH has an option to reinstall a Krayzie softmod - but you lose the contents of your E partition, including any gamesaves.

FYI, Slayers and AID are no use in helping to fix softmods, apart from giving you FTP access......

[pongosnodgrass]

Ok - cool.

Yes it was Krayzie mod I had used. I have the CASH disc ready to post out - is this all I will need ?

Cheers

Pongo

[Heimdall]

Should be. Krayzie protects the C partition, so it should just be the dash on E that's missing. On that basis you can just use Cash option 2-B-1-A-1-A, and that will reinstall the dash but leave everything else on C and E intact.

[1hotjob]

It could be the Evox.ini file is corrupt.

If there isn't a valid Evox.ini file the dash will display as you say. You can e-mail him a valid Evox.ini file and have him put it in the E:\Dashboard folder and that may solve the problem.