xecuter3 xboxv1.0 wd160hd thomson(is that how you spell it) i installed chip and drive at same time. didnt work. took out wire install re installed with pin header. got to blue screen. everything is good.have a hard time breaking through the bios barier. never flashed bios. it was always one stupped thing stoping me. my tv is blury, thomson doesnt kike memorex cd-r's, dont have a dvd burner,... . i never even got to the loading screen. never got passed- install cd. never got passed- dchp adress. all of a sudden... blinking re/green after 3 etempts. it fraged before i could flash it. i could see the external switch light up. lan= orange hd=blue x logo stayd blue wile the christmas lights blinked untill i shut it down. ive clean up the conections the best i could without a pen or anything. just solderd better conections. now for the big moment... accidentely i pressed eject. it tried to boot three times wile blinking orange and green i i tried it again and it did the same but this time i pressed the power button. i actually forget- but i think it blinked orange and green and stayd blinking orange and green. next i brought it over to my tv and pluged it in to see if there was anything going on. this time when i pressed the power button it tried green 3 times again then stayd blinking red and green. nothing on the screen. i then long press the power to start with original micosoft bios and bypass the chip. it starts rite up! though it tells me i gota service my xbox, its cool cause i have a 160gb hd in there and it doesnt know it yet cause i havnt been able to flash anything at all yet. all this shit started before i could figure my bios stuff out. so i dont think i screwd it up flashing. i was messing with the network ip bios load and couldnt even get to the site were you select your bios. (its in the xecuter3 flash bios tutorial @ there site) it craped the bed when i was messing with the network but i was unpluging and pluging new cords in the unit and mabey moved it,... maybe. i really dont think it happened at a sensable time. not after i did somthing or when i bumped it. just basically, as far as i can tell,on its own, like it just got board of being green. when i press eject and power at the same time it goes purple (the xecuter logo) for basically as long as i prees it and then just goes red and my xbox starts up in reg MS bios mode(green) wow, yah there yah go.. i wish i could get it working. care to enlighten? cheers Lucas
has to be something with your soldering...triple check you soldering, and look for solder splashes. do the lights on the chip come on when you attempt to boot the box?
yes, they do. all the lights on chip (meaning chip and switch) work. they all light up properly. does that mean definately that the chip is fine?
I installed an X3 on my v2.0 box once and then moved it to my v1.6 later. It is working perfectly if you know what to press and what to expect with that press. It is not well-documented I would say in their documentation. I always press the eject button when I want to boot from the chip. Press the power button when I want to boot the original M$ bios. Your problem is in your thomson drive that it fail to read the CD-R while you do not have a DVD burner. It is very hard to get around this part. The best approach is to use http to flash your BIOS. Make sure you have the 1995 X3 FlashBios on your PC. It was pretty straight forwarda for me.
mdsup when you hold down the power and eject at the same time the chip doesn't boot to the backup bios? no
sjchu the thomson cd-r thing- i was told that it could read cdrw. do you know if that is true? man, one of the problems i had network flashing was, i couldnt read my screen. it and the onely other tv in my house were blury and i couldnt tell what #s were in the ip adress...
Some Thomson drive can read CD-RW disc some cannot. I have one that reads cd-rw very slowly. I just can't get any of my thomson drive to read cd-r disc. if you have a linksys router like I do, use IE or FireFox and open http://192.168.1.1/Status_Lan.asp and click on the "DHCP Client Table" button. you will find a popup window with a list of all devices connected to the router. the one with a blank in "client host name" column is your xbox. Take that IP address and enter it into the address line of IE.
