How To Flash A 1.6 Tsop., This is the first tutorial. Options

[littlejonny]

90% of the info came from personal reserch from our company into the matter, hence there are no links. However there is a lot of spec sheets for amtel chips out there, if there was any chance of brute force working, the meothod would be examine the flash codes from each chip and find a pattern (multilayerchips only) then try brute force. Does anyone have a spare jtag programmer lying around i could borrow?

[johnny.deathmatch]

This may seem like a stupid question, but has anyone tried distributed computing to crack the xbox private signing key? Or would that not work.... Is it the right kind of encryption? Just thougt I'd ask.

[TKramka]

Yeah, there is an active netowrk of computers trying to find the key, somewhere in xbins there's a program to help, but by the time they figure it out, its going to be 2008.

[lordvader129]

Yeah, there is an active netowrk of computers trying to find the key, somewhere in xbins there's a program to help, but by the time they figure it out, its going to be 2008.

thats a pretty liberal guess, lol, i figure it will be the year 5000 or so

[membre999]

Sad, that TSOP-Flashing doesn't work on 1.6-Boxes

I have a v1.0 X-Box with NitroXX here, but it's so loud i wanna throw it out of my window. So I thought about getting a less noisy 1.6 X-Box, I guess I'm gonna get another modchip for that then..

[lordvader129]

Sad, that TSOP-Flashing doesn't work on 1.6-Boxes 

I have a v1.0 X-Box with NitroXX here, but it's so loud i wanna throw it out of my window. So I thought about getting a less noisy 1.6 X-Box, I guess I'm gonna get another modchip for that then.. 

get a 1.1, they are just as quiet at the 1.6, or any other xbox besides a 1.0 or 1.1

[TKramka]

Ahh, the 1.1, my favorite, as you can see by my sig. All the other things in my sig would compliment that 1.1 quite well.

[bourke]

hmm, thats very interesting, do you have links to this info? im not tryign to refute you or anything i would just liek to read about the revese engineering thats been going on

i would sya theres a chnace the flash adresses or codes could be leaked, but theres about as much chance of that as the private signing key being leaked, lol

littlejohnny operates out of Melbourne and has close ties to the Australian defense forces... basically he knows his engineering :-)

[jameswalter]

thats a pretty liberal guess, lol, i figure it will be the year 5000 or so

Current estimates of computing power would take more energy than the sun has. The biggest key to be factored currently is 576 bits (took 2 years)...the xbox is 2048 bits. This means that without huge jumps in computing power it will take 10^444 (thats a 1 followed by 444 zeros) times as long to crack it....so never.

[4everlearning]

I believe this could be arguably the best tsop tutorial on XS.

[pimpjuicee1335]

first off there is away to flash the TSOP on a v 1.6 just you can't do anything but i will tell u how any way (this is not for real do not try unless u are an idiot).

1. open ur box
2. find 3 places to soder bridge to gether
3. put ur box back together
4. turn it on
5. and now you will have a $150 christmas light

[dw5304]

ok , just hear me out on this one.
i have not done this yet so it is purly speciation.

if u had a xbox 1.0 - 1.5 with all the tosp points together for flashing, couldnt u grab the eeprom chip from xbox v1.6 and solder it inplace from the older xbox and then flash it. or use a eeprom programer to write the data to the chip?

[StrictPuppet]

The eeprom is not the same chip as a tsop. 1.6 boxes have an eeprom chip, that is flashable, but they do not have a tsop (where the bios is stored). The eeprom just holds info such as region, serial number, video mode, parental settings....etc

[hymen00]

im wondering. if theres no tsop, where is the bios loaded from?

[kirky1991]

Old thread but hey.

The BIOS is in the MCPX I believe. I'm not sure if its hard coded in or just you cant write enable it because there are no points to solder to enable this.