Hi
a buddie talked me into a xbox mod. its the origional black one, he called it a virgin, as no one has ever opened it.
I got what he told me the xecuter 2.6 light and solder less adapter from divineo. and a 200 gig hard drive.he wanted me to get the big drive so I could save all my games to the drive like he does
well i went to him and he opened it up and put the chip in and hard drive , and couldnt get it past the call for service screen.
and then told me he didnt know what to do , and to post for help. he gave me this disk with auto installer on it, and it says sorry your xbox doesent reconize this disk.
so I went home and played with it. with the switchs set to disable the chip and old drive in it works as before.
So now what.?????... What I need is someone to walk a dummie thru this.
What I wanted the mod for was for the xbmc and naviX. and he said he had some emulators to run old games like pacman and glaxian, that my kids wanted .
so can anyone tell me what to do. I have tried reading thru somethings and have no clue what I looking at.
my only other option is to find someone to send it to....but I think with a dummies guide i could get it running

whats the error number that it gives when it says call for service?
try different bank settings on the chip.
has the chip had a modified BIOS flashed to it?
if no one has ever flashed the chip then it should still have flashbios on one of its banks (a blue screen for flashing your bios).
if it has been flashed before then google and download a copy of slayers 2.7 and burn it to a dvd-r (memorex works pretty well)

well it tried with different switch settings will hook it back up and see what the error code if there is one. all i saw was alot of writing. and call for service. the chip is new. so how it came is how it is, i never saw a screen for flashing the bios. the disk he gave me was the one he used on his xbox, which didnot do anything.
i tied the switches on bank 1 and bank 2 and nothing different happened. if the switch for the chip enabled is on i get the flashing red light on front, if i disable the chip it boots normal, same goes no matter what position the back switch is in

if the chip doesnt work when you turn it on it means either the install is wrong or the chip is bad. The easy way to find out which it is is take the chip to your friends house and see if it will work in his xbox. If the chip works and the flash bios screen comes up like murauder mentioned the chip is good. If the flash bios does come up or it dont try flashing the chip by first put his chip in his xbox then boot the xbox and then with the xbox still on switch the chips out and flash your chip with a bios that will work in your xbox if all goes well you can start his xbox with your chip on and it will work. If the flashing doesnt work your chip is most likely dead. If the flash bios came up when you tried to use it in your friends xbox then check to make sure your solderless adapter is installed right. Also make sure its the right solderless adapter for that chip and for your xbox.

ok
I went and looked again
he gave me slayers auto install he used. he said its the newst one and he just used it to update his
I cant get the error screen to come up
all it does id the chip is on with the switch is try to boot. box will try 3x then the front button will just flash red. and do nothing. I can turn switch off and box will work as it did before we put chip in. he went and checked the solderless adapter ( it should be correct it came in a kit) like the intructions said and he says that part is fine
so I will try the place i got chip and see what happens there

I wrote company I got chip from and they agreed with you guys and want me to send chip back for replace ment
will let you guys know when I get new one...company said could be sevearl weeks
thanks for the help

what version is your xbox by the way?

check HERE

1.4 1.5 has focus chip according to that guide

have you tried powering on with the power AND the eject button?
2.6ce has 2x 512k banks on it. selectable by powering on with the power or eject buttons. one or the other should have flashbios on it

Ok
I got my new chip. I aslo put in the 200g hard drive
I now get to the flashbios screen says flashbios 3.o.3
I put in my buddies disk that he says is slayers 2.6 final auto installer and nothing happens.( its the one he uses) it just ejecs the dvd. I slect the load from disk selection. but is doenst do anything
so now what do I do???

You need to flash a BIOS onto the chip before it will do anything.

Boot up to FlashBIOS 3.03, then flip the switch to the other bank, then reflash the chip.

Best option would be to flash via http (network flash).

Connect your xbox to your PC, then flash the BIOS from your PC:
http://www.team-xecuter.com/flashbios/http.htm

You will need a hacked BIOS to flash onto the chip. I suggest X2_5035.
It's a 512K BIOS so it will fit on the bank without having to resize it.

Download it to your PC, then follow the flashing tutorial above to put it onto your chip.

Once it's on the chip, you can use Slayer's to install a dashboard onto the hard drive.

Ok I did all that and I thought it all went well. it flashed ...but now when i turned it back on
I have no video. but hear the audio like the xbox is booting up
I tried switching beteen both banks on the switches and get same thing. I flashed to bank 1 like you said.....so what went wrong??? I used the bios you said. I just dont get the enjoy screen..lol

did you use x2 5035 vOLD? or x2 5035 v16?

just said x2 5035
i have the file if you need to see it
is there a way to fix it or am i screwed ???
i knew I should of sent it off somewhere

one of the problems I hate about executor chips is that e=when you try and flash it with a bios it always flashes both banks. Thats why no matter what bank you choose its the same thing. You probablem is totally fixable and you have alot of different choices. First though you are gonna need ftp access to the xbox if not you are gonna need to download slayers boot cd.

Sounds like you flashed the wrong 5035 BIOS. You said you had a 1.4 so you needed to flash the original X2_5035 (not the 1.6 version).



Nope. It only flashes both banks when you try to flash a 1MB BIOS.
If you're simply flashing a 512k BIOS, it'll flash it to whichever bank you have selected.


My guess is you flashed the 1.6 version of the BIOS onto the chip.

the file names should be either x2_5035_vOLD_512k.bin or x2_5035_v16plus_512k.bin. you need the old one if your xbox is not a 1.6 (which from what you said its a 1.4 or 1.5).
me and steveo walked a guy through a blind flash (on a doux2 i believe) somewhere in these forums.. i cant seem to find it though. so you can def recover from this

edit: steveo and alex beat me while i was searching for that thread. steveo do you know where it is? it would be a lot easier to just link him to it than write it all out again.

ok so what do i do?
I tried logging on to the xbox with my pc..(thats the way I flashed it thru my network) but with out the bios I cant type in the ip address and get to it
I tried that all ready
so whats next?

I've done a blind reflash on a TSOP'd motherboard. Not sure whether it works with a chip, but it's worth a try.

You can download EurAsia Pro Generic Flash Disc v1.3, then burn to discs (CD-RW or DVD-R).
Disc 1 is EurAsia, Disc 2 is your custom BIOS. Since your chip now has a hacked BIOS, it SHOULD load the EurAsia flash disc.

Steps:
1. insert EurAsia disc into your xbox, then shut down the console with the disc inside.
2. Boot up xbox with disc in dvd drive
3. EurAsia will open the tray automatically when ready
4. Take out EurAsia disc, and insert BIOS disc & press A
5. Console will shut down when done
6. Power it back up & hope it works.

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If your buddy has an Xecuter 2.6 (or X3) chip installed in his xbox, you can hotswap and reflash.

Steps:
1. Acquire FlashX and view readme.
2. FTP FlashX and your BIOS to the xbox hard drive.
3. Boot up modified xbox and once it reaches the dashboard, remove working chip from LPC pins (leave d0 connected).
4. Install bad chip onto the LPC pins (no d0 wire needed).
5. load FlashX from the APPS menu (or wherever you have it installed)
6. Reflash chip with your BIOS
7. Remove your chip and place his back on the LPC pins

Done.


I'd try the EurAsia method first, walk-through (with someone's help) second, and hotswap as a last resort since you'd need your buddy's xbox to do this.



... if all else fails, mail me the chip and I'll reflash it for you.

You can also blind boot into evox and flash the chip there is a post around here some where I helped some one do that. You might also be able to make your own evox disk that will help flash the chip where you just hit the A and Y buttons a few times to get it flashed.

Try the eurasia disk first its pretty simple.

custom bios being the excutier flash bios v 303 that was there??

No, the custom BIOS is the BIOS you want to flash to your Xbox - in your case that's x2_5035_vOLD_512k.bin, renamed bios.bin.

ok got the eurasia file from thier site... someone point to the right flash for the second disk...I dont want to mess this up 2x..since i got the wrong one last time
thanks

you put x2 5035 v old.bin on a disk but rename it to bios.bin first.
open dvd tray. put in eurasia. close tray. turn off xbox
turn xbox back on. wait till eurasia opens the try itself. then insert your bios.bin disk and press A

it will turn itself off when its done.
hopefully it all works out right.

ok
I tried It wont boot with eurasia
I am aslo having trouble with the solderles adapter. the place the small gold wire goes into the hole is not clear and it keeps popping out and i afraid to solder to it...
Can someone recommed ,someone I can send the hole thing to and get it back done??? any idea what would be the cost???. I dont want to ruin it. My buddie sent his out a long time ago. But he said he lived in boston at the time and he thinks they guy is not there any more.
if the wire would stay put i would be somewhat ok if I could just send the chip....
this is pissing me off, most of the time I dont have any trouble with this stuff

well thats not working
i even tried to reburn eurasia disk
I need help with soldering that gold wire down also I have to hold it in place for the chip to even boot. all I get is the sound and no video if I have the chip switch enabled...I want to send it somewher and have chip installed and reflashed......

Rob251,
If you feel comfortable with it, I can help you out with the hardware and flash for free. If you pay shipping both directions (i think it is about 13 or 14 dollars each way to use USPS depending on locations). you can toss out the solderless adapter if you want, I will install a pin header for you. and i have an X3ce I can just hot swap flash your chip like Alex suggested. i would just need the MB (for the solder install) and chip (for the hot flash) i have everything else (case , power supply etc) PM if you are interested. Also be sure to send any extra wires you received with the chip if you still have them, just in case, since I won't be using the solderless adapter.
-PTF

edit... If you want to fiddle with the solderless adapter on your own, you can just send me the chip and I can hot swap/flash it, and you can deal with the connection on your own. It would be cheaper for you that way.

sent PM

Ok so just to follow up for anyone else with a similar problem...

Rob sent me his xbox and I hotswapped his 2.6 with my X3CE running XBMC and tried the flash with FlashX as was suggested. but for some reason, FlashX was not loading up properly. I then launched Evox instead and used the Evox utility to flash the chip, which worked perfectly.

I did then go back (after successfully flashing with Evox) and try to load FlashX and now FlashX was able to load and it was able to flash the chip. (I had flashed the first bank with 5035 using Evox, and i flashed the second bank with FlashX and 5035 just in case the first bank ever got hosed he still had the second bank.) Not sure why that was, but it could have been anything, and not real worried about it. Flash X does work, and Evox also works, there is a million different ways to skin a cat i guess, LOL. Just giving some more ideas for anyone reading this.

Also as a side note, if you chose to go the eurasia route... be sure to google how to burn an .iso, I know it has been said a million times before, but you can't just copy the iso file directly to the disk. You have to burn the file with a special program. you can obtain these programs freely and legally. Google is your friend.

however, as just one out the million ways to skin this .iso cat, here is a way i think is explained really well:
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/toolsofthetr...burnisofile.htm

Finally if I may take a moment to thank Rob for alerting me to a cool script for XBMC i hadn't heard of before,
http://www.navi-x.org/website/home.html
Thanks Rob!


-PTF