Bios Wont Flash ? Options

[hangover]

I have a new crystal xbox V1.4 that i just got out of the box a month ago and sotfmodded straight up , yesterday i opened it op and bridged the write points and proceeded to flash the tsop. Well i tried 3 times and even re-soldered the write points and even did the 3rd point on the underside of the board but it still wont flash , its a winbond and cant see any reason why it wont flash.

[Heimdall]

Nowhere near enough information (how are you flashing? error messages?).

However, ....

its a winbond

....so you need to flash it with a Raincoat flasher rather than Evox - Resctoox and Eurasia are the only two Raincoat flashers I've ever managed to get working reliably.

[hangover]

Nowhere near enough information (how are you flashing? error messages?).

However, ....
....so you need to flash it with a Raincoat flasher rather than Evox - Resctoox and Eurasia are the only two Raincoat flashers I've ever managed to get working reliably.

Tried using AID disc which is what i used on my last couple but raincoat maybe the answer, i tried hexen disc but my dvd rom wouldnt read it. I've never the raincoat method before and have yet to find a decent step by step tutorial on it. Does Eurasia have the bios's and flasher on the one disc ? I'm sure i have an iso of eurasia.

[ldotsfan]

Eurasia is 2-disc. One for flash , another for the bios.

[hangover]

Eurasia is 2-disc. One for flash , another for the bios.

As thought as much, i have problems with the dvd reading a small file on the disc and even with adding a dummy file.

[lordvader129]

you can try mecheursia, IIRC that loads eurasia and the bios from the HD

since your already softmodded you can just launch it as an app if you dont have a copy of mechassalt

[hangover]

you can try mecheursia, IIRC that loads eurasia and the bios from the HD

since your already softmodded you can just launch it as an app if you dont have a copy of mechassalt

Yeah i dont have a copy of mech assault so launching from the hdd would be good, i tried eurasia disc last on both dvdr and cdrw and all i got was a blank screen. In xbmc i can browse both discs and but it just wont boot of either or load from the default xbe on the disc.

[lordvader129]

well a blank screen is what you see, but it should also eject the cd tray

[hangover]

well a blank screen is what you see, but it should also eject the cd tray

Previously when i got the eurasia disc to work it did eject the tray but it wouldnt read the bios disc.

[hangover]

Well i managed to get my Hexen disc to boot but when i try to flash i get flash failed, i have already re soldered the write poinst so i'm sure its not them. Anything else that would prevent a flash ?

[Heimdall]

Are you using the Winbond Flash option (3.3.x)?

[hangover]

Are you using the Winbond Flash option (3.3.x)?

Certainly are, cant think of any other reason why it wont flash.

[hangover]

For the life of me i cannot gt these bloody winbond chips to flash, using Heimdalls Hexen disc i have flashed a few hynix/hyundai chips successfully but not one of the winbonds will flash. Am i missing a write point somewhere, i have soldered the 2 points on the top side of the mobo's and re checked the a few times.

[Heimdall]

When the flash fails, are you getting any error messages? Does it get as far as trying to flash, or does it give you an error before that?

[hangover]

When the flash fails, are you getting any error messages? Does it get as far as trying to flash, or does it give you an error before that?

I get the animated flash failed message, i can load gentoox and select flash menu and hdd flash and then fail message.