Hi,
My xbox started freezing at random spots yesterday.
I have XBMC as my dashboard, but at time it freezes as soon as it boots up(in the blob animation).
Yesterday, when it froze on the "X" logo, I pressed the eject button and it came out of the freeze.
Any ideas?
I have a v1.0 with TSOP flash. My bios is evox 2.6(eject fix).
Thanks
Full Version: Xbox Freezes
QUOTE(dannygupta @ Jul 23 2007, 01:10 PM) 
Hi,
My xbox started freezing at random spots yesterday.
I have XBMC as my dashboard, but at time it freezes as soon as it boots up(in the blob animation).
Yesterday, when it froze on the "X" logo, I pressed the eject button and it came out of the freeze.
Any ideas?
I have a v1.0 with TSOP flash. My bios is evox 2.6(eject fix).
Thanks
Evox 2.6 is ancient. Update to something like Evox M8+ or X2 5035.
DVD drive taking a dump?
QUOTE(Alex548 @ Jul 23 2007, 04:20 PM)
DVD drive taking a dump?
Meaning something wrong with DVD drive?
NO, i dont' think so. Its running fine, but pressing the eject buttons seems to cause an interrupt which brings back teh CPU from being frozen.
^ yep, dvd drive.
U have a Philips drive? That's a common problem with those drives. The circuit board is taking a dump.
If you have a spare dvd drive, pop it in there temporarily & see if you still get the same problem.
U have a Philips drive? That's a common problem with those drives. The circuit board is taking a dump.
If you have a spare dvd drive, pop it in there temporarily & see if you still get the same problem.
Yup. The Dvd drive is Philips.
So it might the DVD drive, nothing to do with bios?
Also, I'm not using the DVD Drive at all, the dashboard is booting from hard drive. There is no disc in drive.
So it might the DVD drive, nothing to do with bios?
Also, I'm not using the DVD Drive at all, the dashboard is booting from hard drive. There is no disc in drive.
It doesn't matter what you're using, the circuit board on the philips drive causes the xbox to randomly freeze (usually at startup).
Like I already said, get a hold of another dvd drive (borrow from someone if you have to) and swap them out & test your xbox again.
No, it's not your hard drive as you assume in this thread. If pressing eject button "unfreezes" your xbox, then it definitely has nothing to do with your hard drive.
Like I already said, get a hold of another dvd drive (borrow from someone if you have to) and swap them out & test your xbox again.
No, it's not your hard drive as you assume in this thread. If pressing eject button "unfreezes" your xbox, then it definitely has nothing to do with your hard drive.
Ok,
I went ahead and swapped the dvd drives with a friends xbox.
So, after the swap the xbox doesn't freeze anymore. However, it did behave wierdly couple of times. When i pressed the eject button to close the drive it wouldn't respond, but after a while it responded.
After extensive testing, i couldn't get the philips drive to freeze my friends xbox though. The philips drive in his xbox works completely fine, no freezes.
I'm starting to wonder if upgrading the bios will help. I will try upgrading to latest executor bios X2-5035 and see if that makes a difference.
Thanks for the help Alex
I went ahead and swapped the dvd drives with a friends xbox.
So, after the swap the xbox doesn't freeze anymore. However, it did behave wierdly couple of times. When i pressed the eject button to close the drive it wouldn't respond, but after a while it responded.
After extensive testing, i couldn't get the philips drive to freeze my friends xbox though. The philips drive in his xbox works completely fine, no freezes.
I'm starting to wonder if upgrading the bios will help. I will try upgrading to latest executor bios X2-5035 and see if that makes a difference.
Thanks for the help Alex
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