Just did a fresh install using hdm2.2 (usb) with Ndure-3.1.exe for the first time.

The startup fan speed was greatly increased after the xbox boot screen gets done loading how do i configure the ndure options to lower the speed? It's very loud

I cannot figure out problem #2 if my very life depended on it.
In the ndure3.1 installer there is an option for Dual boot with eject button. (ms dashboard) Both power and eject buttons both launch the XBMC dash. What the Heck! Is it my Kernel version 5530?
I can launch the ms dashboard within XBMC but why won't it work from the eject button? i tried to do this all day and never got any where!

Why would you want to boot to ms dash?

http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?s=&...t&p=4110672

NDURE Toolset (E:\ndts\default.xbe) allows you to change the eject button boot behaviour - although, as Movax says, why would you want to?

I'm interested in that comment about being able to boot the MS dash from XBMC. BTW I'm using XBMC as an app not the main dash.

Obviously you can launch the MS dash from XBMC File Manager but for a long time (just for the hell of it really) I've been wanting to find a way of enabling a direct boot option to it from XBMC Programs just like the other other dashes I have as apps. But there appears to be no simple way of doing this.

I've thought about doing something sneaky. Using one of those other app dashes I have but rarely use (Avalaunch) and replacing the .xbe etc so it boots to the MS dash instead. It should be possible, I have an alternative UnleashX version available in this way but surely there is a better method for XBMC.

As said it's not an important matter but if somebody can explain how to do it properly, if possible, I'd appreciate it.

Look in the settings for XBMC, there is a 'default dash' setting somewhere. Click the right thumbstick to launch that dash. EDIT: It is under Settings -> Programs -> Dashboard

I think I know exactly what you mean - XBMC > Settings > Programs > General : Use Custom Dashboard Path - Dashboard?

If so I've had that pointing at my MS dash on all my machines to no apparent effect for years. I#ve never been certain what that was for. If all it was is not knowing that a right stick click would enable it I'm going to slap myself.

Yay! I'm almost glad to say it doesn't work!

Right clicking just brings up the XBMC Shutdown bar as normal - no MS dash. Restart just brings up my main UnleashX dash and Shutdown does just that. I've tried using another .xbe for the MS dash, the one in my Backup folder rather than the post softmod renamed one, msdash.xbe, and still no joy.

The thing is in the main menu Programs > programs my v.4.4 AID installed XBMC by default lists two odd "programs" not shown by any other dash app list:- MS Dash (Modchip or Virtual C) and MS Dash (Softmod). You'd have thought they were shortcuts as the file size shown is 0.2kB and 0.1kB respectively. But if you A click on either - nothing. I've just tried click the right thumbstick over them too - again only the shutdown menu appears.

Could it be an issue with the version I'm using: XBMC 9.04-SVN (Dec. 2008) - if so no way to fix it until I get broadband?

I think what it shows in the shutdown menu depends on the skin or skin settings. I use JX 720. (Obviously the best skin.. )

I don't know about the other stuff...except 2008? Time to update.

the ndure toolset tray options does nothing. also, when launching ms dash from the unleeashx menu it says "xb0xdash.xbe" not found. lol im thinking to just forget this and just keep xbmc as dash. the reason i wanted to get it to work is because not everyone in my household knows how to use xbmc

What functionality does ms dash offer them that they can't get from xbmc?

I think they aren't too well at adapting to change. I finally did set it up. Decided not to use ndure3.1.exe this time around. Instead used sid5.1 with mech assault game save exploit. now i don't have that fan spinning at insane loud speed. Thanks!

Always good to hear somebody has solved a problem.

Sorry to hijack the thread again but you didn't say how you have the MS dash working (assuming it still is) from XBMC. I'd very much like to know how the option is provided ie. is it launched via a shortcut in Progams menu or by some other method? If it is launched from a shortcut I'd appreciate a description of the contents/layout of your XBMC > shortcuts folder.

I have found a way of getting it working myself and I think it is partially correct but it bypasses the two shortcuts and the Xbox image that is obviously meant to appear whilst the MS dash is loading. So it can't be the intended method.

What I did was copy my MS dash .xbe (msdash.xbe) from the C:\drive into XBMC's shortcuts folder using File Manager. The main menu Programs > Programs list inow shows an additional item: Xbox Dashboard as the last item underneath the two shortcuts I described earlier. It works just by (A) clicking on it.

Now the fact it recognises the .xbe (or an .xbe in the shortcuts folder) as being the Xbox Dashboard surely suggests that this is partly what you're meant to do. But it can't be the whole story - the shortcut(s) etc must have a purpose.

Currently my XBMC > shortcuts folder looks like this:-

MS Dash (Modchip or Virtual C).cut
MS Dash (Modchip or Virtual C).tbn
MS Dash (Softmod).cut
MS Dash (Softmod).tbn
msdash.xbe

Does anyone here know how it is actually intended to work and whilst we're at it why there is a differentiation between the shortcuts required for Softmod and Modchip or Virtual C set machines?

@fallenangle: There's a difference because the real MS dash has different names. For a chipped Xbox the MS dash is C:\xboxdash.xbe i.e. no change. For a softmod Xbox without shadow C (or with shadow c disabled) the MS dash is C:\xb0xdash.xbe for Krayzie and Kingroach, and C:\xb1xdash.xbe or c:\msdash.xbe for other softmods. For a softmod Xbox with shadow C the MS dash is C:\xboxdash.xbe.

@stuntz0rZ: You must have been picking the wrong options in ndts..... Now that you've decided to use SID, make sure you selected one of the options with shadow C and virtual eeprom protection. Also, take a backup of your eeprom.

Heimdall - that is exactly what I assumed was the reason for the differentiation. Just wanted confirmation about how these XBMC's pre-created MS dash shortcuts 'know' what is their target.

So the softmod version shortcut must be set up to target anything on the C:\drive that isn't xboxdash.xbe.

The modchip/virtual C (on) version is set up to target a xboxdash.xbe on C or E:\drives only.

All fine and dandy but what none of this helps with is why neither of the shortcuts work on any machine I have whether chipped or softmodded. My MS dash .xbes are where you would expect them to be post-mod but these shortcuts obviously aren't targeting them.

They are pre-made shortcuts which expect their respective target .xbes to be in a particular location and, presumably, associated with their respective MS Dash.cut and MS Dash.tbn file too. How is this done? Does anybody here know?

The orignal Xboxdash.xbe will run from anywhere
it only needs all the support files on C:\ (virtual or real whatever is on)

use the XBE for E:\apps\xboxdash.xbe
and it will show up as a app

Thanks. That something I hadn't thought of trying ie. just putting a Xbox dash.xbe in the Apps folder rather than the XBMC shortcuts folder. It does work too as I've just tried it.

Just like putting it in the XBMC > shortcuts folder it appears as a source called Xbox Dashboard in the Programs > Programs menu. Now if all I wanted was to be able to do is boot the MS dash direct from XBMC I now know how to do it two different ways.

But the problem is that whilst they are good solutions neither method actually requires the use of those provided shortcuts. What I'm really trying to work out is how they're intended to be used. Nobody here appears to know.

I've been searching through XBMC .xmls and the only place I've found a shortcuts reference is in the UserData folder source.xml where there is a <path>Q:\Shortcuts</path> entry. But that doesn't really help.

I beginning to wonder if this is a skin issue as Movax suggested earlier and it needs the right skin to enable the shortcuts.

I use the default PMIII and only have PM3.HD as an alternative. The skin clearly affects what options are provided because the PM3.HD skin has a different shutdown menu which includes additional options like "Exit XBMC". When you use that it reboots to the MS dash. But which XBMC .xml decides that (and whether PMIII skin can be edited to enable that too) I can't work out.

As it is the PM3.HD version is unsuitable for my use. It doesn't even seem to feature a Programs menu at all and anything related to games appears unavailable when using this skin. Looks like I may have to try downloading a few new XBMC skins.

If you don't have Confluence as a default skin and you didn't delete it yourself, then you really should update your entire build of XBMC because I suspect that your build has to be quite old to not include Confluence.

That's the dilema - still on dial-up so updating XBMC is impractical due to the file size so I'm stuck with my late 2008 version which only came with the two skins mentioned. Ironically this XBMC version (which came on the AID disc somebody burned for me a long time ago) is the one I used to replace my even older XBMC. What I forgot about when I did that was that it also included a 35+ skin pack. It was deleted in the process.

However there's no reason why a new or alternative skin which enables everything shouldn't work on my XBMC version. Why would they provide the MS dash shortcuts otherwise? I should be able to find some skins or even skin pack downloads that are practical.