Ok, here goes. Xbox been modded for well over a year, with no problems whatsoever. Last night I wanted to play a DVD in it I started the DVD and it locked up. Rebooted the XBOX, and I lost the xecuter2 logo at the bottom of the boot screen, it said Microsoft again. And brought me to an evox dashboard, but not with all the menus I had originally. After some research way too late at night I decided to try to re-flash the chip with the New HD installer CD. Im sure this was a bad idea, as now I get the "Christmas Lights" and an error code of 05. Depending on what switches I flip on the chip, I can get into the Cromwell blue flash screen, but that is it. Please help! I have no clue where to go from here.
i havnt had this problem so i dont know much about it but here is someinfo on an error5. 5 - kernel - HDD not locked (The retail xbox bioses require the hd to be locked) When you upgrade your hard disk drive for one that is larger, you most of the times use a new hard drive that you bought in the shop. Now, when you put this hdd in your xbox and you try to boot up with your chip off. It gives you error 5. Why you ask? Well i will try to explain it simple. The original (also called "Retail") hard drive is locked by MS. Why did they lock the harddrive? Well if it wasn't it wouldve been more than easy (in the start of xbox hacking) for hackers to change content on it. Thats why MS locks it. It is just a security measure. This locking proces uses information thats on the motherboard. The "Lock" on a xbox hard drive contains information that is based on the harddrive itself and the motherboard it came with. One thing that makes this clear: You can not change a retail harddrive with another one from an other not modded xbox. With every xbox there is only ONE i repeat ONE compatible harddisk drive. That is, if they are locked. If you don't mod your xbox (tsop or modchips) you can not change harddrives. Not even from another xbox. However when your xbox IS modified you can change your harddisk for almost every other harddisk (thats UNLOCKED). This means that even when your xbox is modified, you can not just put another (retail) XBOX harddisk in your xbox. However some smart people made programs that can lock or unlock your xbox harddisk on the fly. So when does the error occur? The only time this error should occur is when you boot up your xbox in original mode AND you have a harddisk in your xbox that is not yet locked. So now you ask what do i have to do to make your xbox work again? Well the answer is pretty easy. Boot up your xbox with the chip on. Preferably with a slayer evo-x cd. Now you choose "Eeprom management." Than you choose: "Lock hdd." It takes one second. After its ready it should say something like "Done" When it is "Done" just turn off your xbox. Disable your chip and try to boot in original mode. Now there should be no more error 5. hope that helps
Does your Modchip have more then One Bank in which to store a Firmware Image? I gather most non Cheapmod Chips should be able to split into at least Two ~to~ Four Banks. It sounds to me like you inadvertadly switched from your X² Firmware, to One that has an EvoX Dx or Mx. Given which Chip you have and how it's able to change it's Bank Settings. It could be as simple as flipping a DIP Switch. At least that's how it would work on a X-B.i.t Modchip anyway...
Itchijoe you are correct I fixed this problem yesterday, Im sorry I didn't update. I have 4 memory banks on my chip. The original settings were 1 2 down 3 4 up. I messed with it yesterday and got it to work with 1 3 4 up and 2 down. So Im guessing bank 2 is messed up. No clue how it happened as I did no upgrade/flash whatsoever. The dashboard was still messed up. Well at least I got back into the xbox So I grabbed Slayers Evox v 2.6 final and installed upgraded the dash everything is back to normal, except my memory banks I can't get back to the way they were. I guess I just have to deal with that cause at least I can use the XBOX again.
