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[peckerdude]

sorry i meant disabled, heres what happenes...

boot with mod on: slayers 2.6 evox loads up

boot with mod off: error 21

i can load the m$ dashboard through evox, so how can there be problems with it if it loads like that?

hdd is locked, never messed with bios, modded with aladin 64 advance

[lordvader129]

well when xips and stuff get edited the dashboard can be resigned to work with those xips, however since this isnt an official MS signiture it wont run on an unmodded xbox (or with modchip disabled)

[peckerdude]

hmmm so how do i solve my problem? im gonna try to ftp into my xbox today and put someone else's c: drive into mine, couldnt do it before because no router

[lordvader129]

im gonna try to ftp into my xbox today and put someone else's c: drive into mine

yeah, thast pretty much all you can do at this point

[peckerdude]

update: ok i've narrowed it down to a problem with the ethernet port, since I cant ftp into my xbox. not a software problem, i figure the when i boot without mod, xbox bios detects problem and shows me that screen.

[peckerdude]

another thing, ive looked on google and someone said they're ethernet port stopped working after a storm, so maybe a power surge fried it. when i was hooking up my modem before it stopped working, i got a pretty hurtiing shock, so i must've caused a small surge and fried my ethernet port, will i have to get a completely new one?

[XTurboPower]

Error 21....what a coincidence... my Xbox (completely unmodded) was making a funny noise the other day (like a fan hitting something it shouldn't be...) and then it stopped at now it won't boot to the dashboard. It will play xbox games, it will play DvDs, it will play Xbox live, but it WON'T boot to the xbox dashboard. Everytime I boot it up without a disc, it gives me the green screen of death with Error 21 in the corner. I took apart my xbox (v 1.0) and noticed that the fan that cools that chip (I think the CPU is the big one without the fan, so what is that chip anyway) had stopped working (fan blades separated from fan casing). I was able to reassemble it, and the fan works, but I still can't boot to the dashboard. Any suggestions?? I think I may need to chip my xbox to fix this problem, perhaps I can reload the dashboard from someone elses backup. And I will spend the $150 that i would have otherwise spent on a new Xbox, on 3 new games, which in the end will give M$ a higher profit margin...so this modding could actually be beneficial to M$.

[BCfosheezy]

It sounds like your hard drive died. That would explain the whole situation. Also, if you want to update to the newest xbox live... simply unplug your ethernet cable incase it starts working . Boot modded and then in file manager in avalaunch or whatever boot up dashupdate.xbe off of one of your live discs. This will upgrade you to the newest live dash and will work with your kernel.

I know you'll argue about the hard drive dying since you swapped and the problem continued... but if your fan is not hitting anything but you heard a grinding and your dash won't load... it's your hard drive doing the grinding.

[Brain925]

Ok I think you might be onto something with the hard drive not sure what exactly though. I just got through reloading dash via slayer evox disk on a drive that was giving me a error 16. After i booted up it gives me a code 21. Just happened I'll update if i find something new.

[Brain925]

Update: After installing a new drive into the formentioned machine, she now works like a charm. I did notice one strange thing however, I was using a xenium ICE chip + Slayers for process of locking etc. The chip gave me a strange error when going into disk options, I've never worked on a 1.1 before but i know the chips software is fine. I don't know if this was part of the original problem or not.
As far as the error 21 goes i do believe it may be some sort of bad sector on the HDD. Because the new HDD was prepared in the same way. I think i might try to examine the failing drive via PC. Perhaps some partition magic will be able to clean it up or at least find the cause of all our woes. Hope this was helpful.

[BCfosheezy]

Why are you posting under multiple accounts?

[peckerdude]

i'm not must be some problem with the forums