Solder Points On A 1.1 = No Video Options

[crusty_punk]

I have a 1.1 with a Sharp TSOP.

I soldered the R7R4, the R7D3 and the extra wire. When I boot the xbox it didn't do anything.

I checked my solder points and they all looked good. I tried to boot the xbox again and the same thing happened. I removed the extra wire and the bridges and the xbox booted fine without any problems. I re soldered the bridges, booted and no audio / video.

I have been searching for tutorials and came across one that only shows the bottom pads and the extra wire leaving the top pads untouched. I tried that and still got no audio / video. I removed the solder from the pads again and the extra wire and everything is fine again.

Any idea whats going on?

Thanks in advance.

[crusty_punk]

Update:

I re soldered the bottom pads and the extra wire leaving the top pads open. The xbox boots to unleashx. I ftp'd evox with the cromwell bios to the xbox. I started evo and went to the utility where I can flash and selected cromwell. It told me that its write protected.

so whats with the top pads throwing an error? This is probably my 5th or 6th TSOP flash and I have never had any of the pads give me problems like this one.

(The reason why I want to flash the cromwell bios is because I want to make this a Linux only xbox so I can host a website.)

I guess I'll try again... I know the points are correct and I know that the soldering is fine. I just don't get it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Update:
OK.. I just read about someone having the same problem and people were telling them to solder seperate wires to the top pads and to join them right before they want to flash.

I'll try that and report back....

This post has been edited by crusty_punk: Mar 16 2012, 01:20 AM