Could someone tell me what the clock loop i have read about is, what causes it and how it can be fixed or avoided all together. Thanx for any help you can provide.

I just got burned with the clock problem too.

From what I understand, if you unplug your xbox for too long (the length of time can be variable), your xbox forgets what time it is and you have to reenter it. However, if you are booting to evox, this prompting doesn't happen in the way its supposed to. Mods, do I have that right?

I think that "Bert and Ernie Reloaded" will fix the problem, but obviously we can't ftp this exploit to the xbox anymore.

The only solution I've heard of so far is to connect the xbox's hard drive to your computer's secondary IDE.
http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/articles...d=2002173055209

Does anyone know if this will work with XP?

If anyone else has also been burned with this, and figured out what to do, please post.
Thanks!

Thanx for the reply, i hope someone can give some help on this. I would like to avoid it if possible or at least find a way to fix it.

In the other nochip forum, there is a discussion going on about this. Take a look if you are interested. If I figure it out, i'll post here again.

http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?act...ST&f=45&t=76966

Ok, thanks for the heads up. I'll check it out. Anyone who has any info to add feel free to add it here.

To those who have a xbox in the clock loop:

Just let it sit there. I've tried everything, and I got so frustrated, I went back to the kitchen and paid some bills. When I came back, about an hour later, amazingly my evox screen was back up there.

I plugged in my crossover cable and ftp'd the original files back just to be safe. Whew!

So if you were about to take out your hard drive, and try to hot swap it, DONT!!!!!!!!!!!

Just let it sit there for awhile. It should go back to evox.
Good luck!

Nice, thanx for the info. That is a relief, i would hate to f*ck up my xbox just to play emulators on it

did you leave a game in there or what? i've had it sitting forever now, and i really don't wish to "swap"

bump^

same thing just happened to me...
ok, i just hit a and start a whole bunch and it went to the evox menu...
i turned it off and abck on and its doing the same thing tho so i dunno wtf the problem is

i got mine working by having it hooked up as if i was gonna connect to it (plugged to my router) sitting there trying to boot DVD movie, good luck (took it like 8 or 9 hours)

is there any way that we could do a mod , say like connecting a power battery backup, kinda like what Computer mobos have, just for this, cause there are a shitload of peeps with this problem, why hasent anyone found out if this is possible, you know kinda like if you turn off your xbox, then the battery kicks in to keep the clock going, untill you plug it back in!!

Why does everyone use the font files? I just have to boot up 007 everytime I want to load the complex program, but I will never get problems with the clock.

Mad Gouki --
What I did after I got mine going again was to replace the hacked font files with the originals. So when I rebooted, the clock screen came on. I then changed the time, and took a deep breath.

Then, I booted up 007, and ftp'd to the box again, and reinstalled the font files.
I tried replacing the "bert is cheating" fonts with "b&e reloaded", but it didn't work. I'm just making sure not to unplug until a better hack comes along.

In general to everyone,
Each xbox takes a different amount of time to recover from the loop. People are still unsure of what breaks the loop. Although some have said to use the ethernet, and others have said to use the start button, neither of these methods worked for me. Give everything a shot, but if nothing works, just be patient.

QUOTE ({later} @ Jul 18 2003, 01:28 PM)

Why does everyone use the font files? I just have to boot up 007 everytime I want to load the complex program, but I will never get problems with the clock.

Can you eject disks from the drive?

Wooger

The only way I have figured out to fix the reboot issue, even if you do get back into evox. Is to either reset the time in the original xbox dash. (To do this you have to hex edit the original dash and resign it). Or have evox automatically update the time by allowing evox to connect to the internet.

Wooger

QUOTE ({later} @ Jul 18 2003, 01:28 PM)

Why does everyone use the font files? I just have to boot up 007 everytime I want to load the complex program, but I will never get problems with the clock.

not to mention, not all of want to buy 007, lol (the game blows majorly) and just rent it, and i dont want to spend 50$ on mech assult (i prefer armored core)