Crystal Xbox Development Kit DVD Emulation Card Issues

So I recently picked up a Crystal Xbox Development Kit (I believe to be a DVT-4). When I first turned it would boot through the flubber animation and make it to the xbox logo then stop while looping the ending sound of the bootup. Looking at this thread I believed it to be the Hard drive. I opened up the kit and eventually discovered that if I connected a different DVD drive that the kit would boot. I wondered if maybe it had something to do with the DVD Emulation board. So I connected the Dev DVD Drive straight to the board and it still froze.

I discovered the kit had a game on the hard drive but was password protected. So I proceeded to bang my head against that for a while. Finally I managed to recover the game and ran a Recovery disc. I then used Hack-devkit v2 on the system and started testing the different DVD Drives I had to get the best drive into the system. I find a drive that works well and decide to start putting everything back together. I reconnect the DVD Emulation board, and boot the system and now it can no longer open or close the tray or read the disc I left inside. (Halo 1 Retail). However the system still boots which tells me that it is getting enough info to boot the system but not enough to actually open close the drive. I tried a different Power cable as per Hexigon's suggestion in the other thread.

Right now I'm kind of at a loss of what to do next. Hoping someone will have some ideas.

 

Pics of the cabling with top removed?

 

If you ever need help getting stuff off the HDD, I can give you plenty of methods to get around the password (I know you've since gotten it, but still).

Honestly, start by removing Hack Devkit Bios. It is awful, and does nothing good.

 

I would use the app called retail game loader to boot retail games.
http://www.assemblergames.com/forum...Game-Loader-1-20&highlight=retail+game+loader

 

Bypassing the DVD-EMU board with this DVD drive connected directly to the system board.
Does it now do the same thing? You mentioned before re-assembly the DVD drive tested fine, just curious if thats still the case.

 

What's wrong with Hack-Devkit v2?

I use a program called DevXSwitch that basically turns Hack-Devkit on and off. It's found here: http://svn.huntsvegas.org/listing.php?repname=DevXSwitch

If you had another DVD Emu board, I would suggest trying that. Does the DVD drive that came with it (that it failed to boot with) work on another console?

 

HackDevkit is awfully made, and interferes with a lot of different things. Even save files aren't compatible or can get corrupted with HDK

 

@Borman Hackdevkit is removed. I can no longer play retail signed files on its own.

@Pikkon Thanks! I searched for this a bit before but didn't have much luck finding. Thankfully the link on that post still works.

@Syclopse Yes this is still the case. If I bypass the DVD Emulator Board I'm able to open and close the drive and also read disks that I insert.

@weinerschnitzel I have a suspicion that the DVD Emulator Board may be bad and unfortunately don't have an extra. (Wish I had moved faster when Borman was selling his) I'll have to try the devkit drive in another xbox to confirm that it is dead.

I was afraid I wouldn't have a ton of options with this. The DVD Emulator board seems pretty straight forward and unless there is some sort of trick I'm missing and so far that doesn't seem to be the case. The only other option I can think of (which will probably take me a little while to have time to do.) is setup a PC with the raptor board and see if the DVD Emu works with it and maybe if it has some sort of control to switch how the board operates. (Maybe the board was left on?)

 

I know this isn't the reason, but for skg's can you confirm the USB connection on the card isn't shorted.

 

@syclopse Just looked at the USB connector and all appears to be fine.

 

Then its either the pata cables or the power cables or the board itself, only way to know is to have another DVT4 to switch out parts I guess.