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[cTTbLaKeMAn]

ok, blue chip, got it, I'm very good at soldering already, but the drive must be unlocked to use the hacked bios right? Cause right now it is unlocked.

[Cio]

unlocked or locked to current xbox eeprom. In your case unlocked.

[Neilor]

@cTTbLaKeMAn:

I've finally figured out where you screwed up....

You need to take down the "A FULL detailed guide on using Xbox HDM" tutorial in your signature.... Anyone following this tutorial will be in the same mess your in very quickly.

The specific error I've seen (and I haven't read it all, so there may be more).

Do a quick windows hotswap to get your eeprom using LiveInfo Beta 2.
So right click my computer, properties, system management, device manager, disk drives. Now unplug your CD ROM drive IDE cable to your xbox drive. Then hit scan for hardware changes on your computer. Once it finds it, DONT RIGHT CLICK ON ANYTHING. Windows has a tendency to crash. Then open LiveInfo Beta 2.exe and make sure to switch the hdd drive at the bottom. Then hit save as .BIN. That will save your eeprom. Save it in the Linux>eeprom folder.

I don't know where you got this info from but it's way off.... to put it in basic terms:

1. An eeprom is a chip on your xbox that contains configuration information such as region, serial number, HD key and other stuff.
2. IT DOES NOT normally exist as a file on your Xbox harddrive.
3. To make a backup of your eeprom people normally use EvolutionX and select the Backup menu option, this will create a backup of you eeprom, bios and hd info, the data will be in a sub-directory of EvolutionX called backup. The eeprom.bin file should be transferred from this directory and put onto the XboxHDM directory to create the ISO.

What you've done, and instructed others to do is to use LiveInfo to create a blank eeprom.bin with no information at all in it.


If your putting together a tutorial, you need to make sure you are as close to 100% experienced in using the tool or method, the fact you haven't ever succeeded in using XboxHDM sadly doesn't put you into that category on this occassion.

[Neilor]

@cTTbLaKeMAn: If you used one of Krayzies installers on this Xbox the eeprom.bin should be in the E:\Backup\Eeprom directory.

[cTTbLaKeMAn]

Well, I didn't use the installer on this box, but even if I did, I wiped the fatx parition and everything on the drive. EVERYTHING IS GONE! Besides New folders and MS Dash files.

[Neilor]

Wait for the chip then, get the eeprom.bin through Evox once you've the chip installed... even in chipped mode you never know, it could still get you out of a scrape.

[cTTbLaKeMAn]

This post, http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=443446 states that xboxhdm is having problems getting calculated hdd passwords from v1.6 boxes. What if that is the same problem for me? I believe I have Xboxhdm v1.7 and they said v1.9 fixed this. Any ideas?

You guys have given me the best help so far. Thanks very much!

[Cathesdus]

I don't understand... You UNLOCKED the harddrive meaning you AT ONE POINT had the CORRECT EEPROM. Then you relocked the harddrive using a DIFFERENT EEPROM. However, you now cannot find the CORRECT EEPROM to lock it back up...

1)Why do you have more than one EEPROM if you only have one xbox? I could undertsand this if maybe you modded an Xbox for friends and wanted to keep them in a backup folder but the honest truth is you seem to have trouble doing this for yourself...

2)You are absolutely sure you can't find the correct eeprom file.

Neilor was right. You don't just create an eeprom.bin and think thats going to work. That's like creating text files, naming them xboxdash.xbe and expecting them to boot. The EEPROM is the single most important chip on the xbox as far as booting is concerned.

You are left with one option, which I know has been said a thousand times. Modchip. And Cio, I agree with you. I have had two Softmodded Xbox's in the past and my newest Xbox I decided to put the X3 CE in because I wanted to make sure it would always be good to go.

You probobly don't need this chip, it was quite expensive (~$70 with shipping) and contains a bunch of features you probobly dont need but I do know the EEPROM backup feature is definately something you wouldn't mind having...

My FINAL 2 cents.

[Neilor]

Your problem is definitely to do with the way you created the eeprom.bin with the LiveInfo program, you probably would have run into other difficulties by using XboxHdm 1.7, so you should upgrade that anyway, but it still can't work without the eeprom.bin

[Cio]

This post, http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=443446  states that xboxhdm is having problems getting calculated hdd passwords from v1.6 boxes.  What if that is the same problem for me?  I believe I have Xboxhdm v1.7 and they said v1.9 fixed this.  Any ideas?

Yeah, read up next time and use up to date apps. You unlocked ur HD, cant find your original eeprom, created a blank one and expected that to work, used old versions to manage ur eeprom etcetc.

Oh and in case these q's pop up later:
If ur backups dont work.. clear ur cache. If that doesn't work ur DVD drive is probably busted.

[Neilor]

@Cio: A pre-emptive strike?

[Cio]

to avoid any nasty threads later.

[Neilor]

@cTTbLaKeMAn

Check out the following tutorial, it's about hotswapping but it gives very clear instructions on XboxHdm use....

Hotswapping Tutorial