Well first of all I had a xbox 1.0, thus I didn't need the pins that come with the chip. I didn't clean the connectors on the motherboard and just kinda blow on it just to remove some dust. Put the chip on the motherboard, connected the D0 pin, fire up and I got the comewell logo. The chip was not blinking red/blue or any other color. I couldn't find out from easybuy2000 why, but I figured..if it boots right it probably works. I have a tompson DVD and no media was working. I burned 20 CDR-CDRW all kind of media but nothing I was not to able to flash the chip. So I got a Matrix programmer. The matrix instructions said that the programmer is supposed to have a light??? No light was on when I connected the programmer. I checked the programmer I didn't see any led or chip that could work as a led. So fusk it, I connected the chameleon and it could read it and flash it. The chameleon during flashing was not blinking at all. I have never seen a single photon out of that thing. I flashed the chip and nothing was working. I went on the forum and put the checksum on the *.dm5 file, which is just a text file. Flash it again, read the chip and the bios name was still unknown. So I flash the chip on bank 0 (on the original bios) and I thought I am gona fry this piece of shit. I put the flashed chameleon back in the XBOX and the one booted with the MS dashboard. I reflahsed the chip with the original chameleon bios, put it on the xbox and it booted with the linux bios. I concluded that even if you flash the chip with a bios and then try to read the chip it will still be unknown. I didn't put verify on the programmer software but I did had delay 1. Also I unclicked flash from bank 0 and bank 1. I wasn't going to use it and it was adding too much time to my testing. I flashed again the chip with the evox bios and pop it into the xbox. Burned the evolutionX dashboard on a DVD-RW and got it to work. Now, I cound't ping the xbox after I connected to my computer, check the IP address, nothing was working. I turned on static ip=YES and i got it to work. I finally was able to copy games. I didn't install evolutionX on the xbox HD yet, I am gona rest for a while and just copy games. Also, re the battery on the programmer, I had a voltmeter and it measured 8.7V. If you don't have a voltmeter put you tong on the contact you'll know if the battery has power. Also, under usage the battery voltage dropped to 7.5V. The chips on the programmer seemed to be all 5V so a 9v battery is really on the threshold, if it hasn't enough juce it won't work. if you need softwares PMs me.
Just a note: I have the thompson, and to flash the bios i used DVD-r and it read it fine, i read somewhere that it wouldn't read CDRW for bios.
