Yoshihiro Bios And Aladdin Chip?, Supported or not? Options

[K@mui]

I have probs with some games like Morrowind,Deus Ex,Star Wars KOTORII etc these games hang at the in game loading screens.So I just want to test Yoshihiro bios to test if probs will be fixed.Is there ny problem with that? IF i use Yoshihiro bios on aladdin XT,may i'll mess it up?

[HackDaBox]

It's not the bios ... X2 4981/4983 and Evox M8/M8+ all load all games (80 installed on my 250gig Western Digital).

If you are using Evox dashboard ... change these options in the settings menu

IGR = Disabled
TSR TYPE = Disabled

And make sure you save and exit.

HackDaBox !

[K@mui]

I heard this solution before,also i done this "clear cache" thing,but nothing worked for me nothing at all!!! The only thing that remains is changing bios.My aladdin XT chip,i think, is from the problematic december release that doesn't support M8 bios (www.xenochip.com). With M8 bios my xbox can't boot.I must power off and restart it a couple of time to finally turn on with the chip enabled.So that's why i want to check other bioses(For now X2 bios work perfect except those loading freezes).
BTW do you thing if i use a flash util (util for xbox,i don't have programmer for the chip) may i have better results and which tool do you suggest me?

[HackDaBox]

Check your SST chip , if it is a 49lf020a then use sunday flash V1 from www.clevermod.com (protos page , near bottom). If its a 49lf020 then use XFLASH V2.

Check the eeprom is set to the correct region (PAL or NTSC). I don't believe the bios is your problem but it shouldn't hurt for you to experiment. It's better if you have another SST chip allready programmed incase something goes wrong.

HackDaBox !

[K@mui]

I don't have backup from one of those SST chips ,my eeprom is set to PAL i know that and finally there is a little prob.My SST chip is black black black nothing is writed on it.I didn't buy and solder the chip.A prof did that for me. Is there any other way to identify my SSt chip model?

[K@mui]

Oh my God i'm such an idiot.EvolutionX build-in flash util regonises my SSt chip. It's an 49lf020a so i'll follow your guide.But tell me if i use Yoshihiro or any other 256K bios (except M8 that doesn't work for me of course) is there any way to f**k my aladdin XT?

[K@mui]

Hm finally Sunday flash doesn't waork for me.An error message comes up when i try to flash the chip warning about "Is your chip flash enabled ?"(Something like that) But of course it's flashable because EvolutionX can flash it. When i start to flash it from evolutionX this is the message that comes up <FlashType Winbond W49V002A> Any idea which is my chip? I noticed that it is 49V002A and not 49lf002A

[ckh2004]

Just add the following lines to your evox.ini:

Flash = 0xbf61,"SST - 49LF020",0x40000
Flash = 0xbf52,"SST - 49LF020A",0x40000
Flash = 0xdab0,"SST - 49LF020A",0x40000

If the flashing function has not enabled, add the following line to the "Root" section:

Item "Flash Bios",ID_Flash_Bios


If your flash ID is "dab0", then you have a Winbond clone of the 49LF020A. If this is true, you can't use Sunday Flash to flash. Alternatively, you can use raincoat to flash by adding the following lines to raincoat.conf:

Flash = 0xbf61,"SST 49LF020",0x40000
Flash = 0xbf52,"SST 49LF020A",0x40000
Flash = 0xdab0,"SST 49LF020A",0x40000


IMPORTANT!!! REMOVE the following line in evox.ini or raincoat.conf:

Flash = 0xdab0,"Winbond W49V002A",0x40000


This post has been edited by ckh2004: Feb 23 2005, 11:58 PM

[ckh2004]

I never need to use Yoshihiro's bios for v1.6/1.6b.

I never have any problem using

Evox M8_1.6 bios (use Evtool v1.06 to edit) for v1.6 (Samsung RAM)

and

Evox M8+_1.6 bios (use Evtool v1.09 to edit) for v1.6b (Hynix RAM)


Before flashing with Evox M8+_1.6 bios, make sure your Aladdin XT CAN indeed support v1.6b!!!

For v1.0-1.5, I will use X2 4983 or 4981 (if I want to edit using Xbtool).

[K@mui]

Thanks ckh2004 I'll check them out.

[K@mui]

ckh2004 thanks again for all those great tricks but nothing again. My Xbox doesn't want to play those freakin games Yesterday I learned that my best friend has just the same problem as me with those idiot freezes at the ingame loading. Maybe i must live with it Also i reflash my chip with M8 using your tricks but the same thing happen.Xbox doesn't want to start with the 1st,2nd....time also i checked if games doesn't freeze with M8 but again the same s**t. So i reflashed X2 again.Maybe all of the guys said isn't bios responsible for those freeze was right.

Sorry Answering so many days after.