I've had this posted in the Newb section and I'm getting a little help. But they mentioned it would be better off here so well here it is.

My box has been working fine for about a year. And then recently when I disable the chip to go to the standard M$ dash it frags on me and displays no Video. And ideas on what may be wrong? Also, if I remove the chip the same thing happens. Thoughts are either the EEprom (which I haven't touched) or maybe a corrupt bios. Also, YES my HD is locked. It's like a Maxtor 80Gb I upgraded to.

Please let me know what I can do to remmedy this. Also, I"m a bit of a noob so laymens terms would really help.

Thanks,

Anyone have any solutions? How bout how would I put the original M$ bios back on the drive? Or isn't that my problem is it EEPRom? Anyone....Bueller.........Bueller.........

wut is the name of ur evox dash?

make sure the names go like this....

MSDASH is named as...xboxdash.xbe
EVOX or wuteva dash ur using is...evoxdash.xbe (even if ur not using evox name it that)

I just remembered that when I'm in Evox and goto System Settings to change the Date and Time. It goes to the M$Dash fine. So I'm not sure if that helps but.....

ok the original dash needs to be named msxboxdash.xbe not xboxdash.xbe

NO NO NO, dont mess with your files on C, you need to get a program to lock you hard drive , not sur eif i can give name of prog out, please PM me ....

My drive is locked. It's always been (well since I've swapped, etc.) I used the function in Slayer/Evox. And then I double checked it again using ConfigMagic.

Okay,

I tried renaming the msdash and double checked the hd to make sure it was locked....yep it is. Then I went and unhooked the HD and DVD and 1 time it booted up when the chip was enable to the error 07. But of course I couldn't get it to do that again. It continues to Frag and not show video or sound. This makes me think maybe I have a loose connection?


Thanks for the help.

when its booting with chip disabled, does it try to reboot a few times, then frag with no video?

or does it go right into a frag? also, can you eject the DVD? (i know, sounds pointless, but it does help pinpoint the problem)

It trys to reboot a couple times then Frags. I CAN'T Eject the DVD. And that's why I keep telling you the small things I think of. It could be something simple.....Also. It just occurred to me that I recently scraped up my D0 point a bit to get a better pogo connection. Looking under a Magnifying glass it looks fine but....


Thanks,

Still no luck. Any ideas on what my be wrong? A loose connection somewhere?

could be a bad TSOP bios or d0 is grounding at all times (although i think if that was the case it would always boot the chip whenever its in)

most liekly bad TSOP (means 29-wire chip to fix)

So basically I should just be happy with it the way it is?

Yeah I don't need the original Dash that bad. Just wanted it in case I would ever get Live. Guess that won't be the case now.

What is a good chip, just in case?

So I can just flash the original bios to my second bank on the 2.2b Lite +...................consider it done! Thanks a million................


one last thing, so Live doesn't care about the chip being enabled as long as it has the original Bios loaded???


Thanks,

Well, I found out what was wrong. It wasn't my TSOP or anything like that. It seems that when I boot up with the Chip disabled I need to squeeze the back left corner of the box. Or else it Frags..............weird. I'm guessing there is a loose connection or something.