Flash Xkiller Chip Options

[bjhille]

I recently received an xbox from a friend of mine who bought it at Goodwill. He no longer wanted it so he gave it to me. I wanted to put a larger hard drive in it and when I opened it I saw it has an "Xecuter 2 - Xkiller" bios in it. I bought a 250GB drive, but it won't see all of it.

I used NewHDEvox1.4 to prepare the drive. I don't think that is the problem, from what I've read, I think it's the BIOS (it only formatted F to 123GB). When I tried to use Evox to flash it, I'm told:

Manufactures ID 09 Device ID 00
!! Flash Not Writable !!

Any ideas how I can flash this so it will see my who drive? If I can't, is there a problem with leaving the bigger drive in it (I really don't want to buy yet another hard drive).

Thanks for your help!

Here's my Evox.ini

[Misc]

AutoLaunchGames = No
AutoLaunchDVD = No
DVDPlayer = "e:\dvdx\default.xbe"
AutoLaunchAudio = Yes
#AudioPlayer = "c:\xboxdash.xbe"
MSDashBoard = "c:\xboxdash.xbe"
UseFDrive = Yes
SkinName = Administr8or

UseFDrive = Yes
UseGDrive = Yes

[Network]

SetupNetwork = Yes
StaticIP = No
Ip = 192.168.0.3
Subnetmask = 255.255.255.0
Defaultgateway = 192.168.0.1
DNS1 = 0.0.0.0
DNS2 = 0.0.0.0

[Clock]

JumpToMsDash = No
JumpIfNoLink = Yes
Use24 = Yes
SNTP_Server = 216.244.192.3
SwapDate = No

[FTP]

Enable = Yes
Password = xbox
IGR = Yes

[RDTOOLS]

Enable = No
Name = EvoX
IGR = Yes

[BIOS]

#
ROM = "EvoX 2.0",0x76fd88337b8d8c1f116f85f3984b98b6
ROM = "EvoX 2.1",0x99487615bb30670cb65993388fcf2a63
ROM = "EvoX 2.2",0x220ade778785cfc3c98bb5ea8bbd8608
ROM = "EvoX 2.3",0xd79bc87c2caa1a50dcc7016adf2ccc0a
ROM = "EvoX 2.4",0xe3ce66b99957a92fdac40af951c3f1fd
ROM = "EvoX 2.6",0xdd3de3542bff7b36cdb0dbe078c27fbe
ROM = "EvoX 3.6",0xcb73b4914bb6c70b66e21377989726a0
ROM = "EvoX 3.6ef",0xf754767b388ce7a08bf57304e24c9ae9
ROM = "EvoX D.6",0xc349c2b047a3d6c2de2e1c10185ecf86
ROM = "EvoX D.6ef",0x74c6235497f474bf88b54b3fc52a20b2
#
Flash = 0x01d5,"AMD - Am29F080B",0x100000
Flash = 0x04d5,"FUJITSU - MBM29F080A",0x100000
Flash = 0xadd5,"Hynix - HY29F080",0x100000
Flash = 0x20f1,"ST - M29F080A",0x100000
#Flash = 0x378c,"AMIC - A29002",0x40000
Current = 0xe3ce66b99957a92fdac40af951c3f1fd

[Skin_Original]

#
# <Time> =
# <IP> =
# <Name>
# <Version>
# <CD>
# <BIOSVer>
# <KernelVer>
# <RDName>
# <SpaceC>
# <SpaceE>
# <SpaceF>
# <SpaceX>
# <SpaceY>
# <SpaceZ>
#
Text = 30,37,0.5,0x000000,0,"<Time>"
Text = 28,39,0.5,0x808080,0,"<Time>"
Text = 620,420,0.5,0x000000,1,"<Name> V<Version>"
Text = 618,422,0.5,0x808080,1,"<Name> V<Version>"
Text = 620,37,0.5,0x000000,1,"<CD>"
Text = 618,39,0.5,0x808080,1,"<CD>"
Text = 30,420,0.5,0x000000,0,"RD Name : <RDName>"
Text = 28,422,0.5,0x808080,0,"RD Name : <RDName>"
LogoType= 0


[Menu]

Section "Root"
{
Item "Prepare HD",@210
Item "-----------","c:\nonexist.xbe"
Item "MS Dashboard",@3
Item "Reboot",@5
Item "Power Off",@10
Section "System Utils"
{
Item "Settings",@9
Item "Flash BIOS",@1
Item "Backup",@11
Item "Skins",@13
}
Item "-----------","c:\nonexist.xbe"
Item "Flash Bios to EvoX D6 EjectFix",@211
Item "-----------","c:\nonexist.xbe"
Item "BoxPlorer","d:\boxplorer\default.xbe"
Item "ConfigMagic Final","e:\configmagic\default.xbe"
Item "-----------","c:\nonexist.xbe"
Item "Fix Attributes","d:\attrib.xbe"

}

[Action_10]

LogFile = "e:\test.log"
Info "Prepare NewHD"
Warning "This will format all drives"
Warning "This will Copy Dashboard and Apps"
Progress "Now Preparing New HD"
#
# This will format all drives
#
ConfigSector "\hd.bin"
Format c:
Format e:
Format f:
Format g:
Format x:
Format y:
Format z:

copy "\cdrive\" "c:\"
copy "\edrive\" "e:\"

[Action_11]
Info "Flash Bios"
Warning "This will flash your modchip with Evox D6 EjectFix"
Progress "Now Flashing"
flashbios "\bios\EvoXD6EjectFix.bin"

[Heimdall]

The rest of the space is in the G partition. Use XBPartitioner 1.1 to format the G partition (partition 7).

[bjhille]

When I loaded XBPartitioner1.1 it said that my Bios did support LBA mode and any changes I made would not be recognized. What's interesting...it didn't even see the F: drive. Could I have done something wrong?

Oh, I forgot to add before...I ran (I don't remember the name of it) a Bios checker and it said the xbox was running "Chip: LPC (SST 49LF020) Bios: Xecuter2 4974

[Heimdall]

Yep - that BIOS doesn't support large drives!

Your Evox.ini doesn't contain an entry for flashing your chip - that's probably why you're getting the error. The entry in my evox.ini for the SST 49LF020 is:

Flash = 0xbf61,"SST 49LF020",0x40000

.... but I've never tried it - I don't have a SST 49LF020 chip!!!!

If you do decide to try it you'll need to put your new BIOS in the BIOS directory under your Evox dash directory.

In terms of BIOS, you'll need a 256k BIOS - have a look at iND-BIOS.5003, X2.4981, and Evox M8+. Apart from the large disk support (all F, or F and G), everything else in iND-BIOS can be configured from a text file. For the other two you need to edit the BIOS file before you flash it, to tell it where to load your dashboard from, etc. You use EvTool 1.09 to edit the Evox BIOS, and XBTool 1.0.23 for the X2 BIOS.

[bjhille]

Wow! This worked like a champ. I had to use Slayer's install program to format the drives, but I eventually got everything working just the way I wanted.

Thanks for your help!