HELP Please with xbox classic! I am a newbie in xbox world!

The story. Friend of mine give me his console, on wich we were playing before 12 years as kids.
The console came without HDD, I found working one, and then installed it, but I get error 16 on screen. I was reading about 4 hours on www then found xboxhdmaker, but I need eeprom file to create bootable ISO... don't have it/the eeprm file/. I found article about eeprom reader/writer trough com port. Then open the console to see pins form where I shoud read data and what the f*ck... Xbox Modchip Aladdin Xt / Duo X3 - link/ installed on it. Now i found out that i can't read eeprom because the pins are welded with the modchip.

SO Please help me and give me direction.
What I am suppose to do? I have working /basic/ console - without formatted HDD for use in xbox. When switch on the console it goes to blackscreen with ERROR 16.

Sorry for my bad english!

 

If it has a modchip installed on it it should still be able to boot a disc like hexen. Burn yourself a copy of that and throw it in the Xbox and it should load that disc without error and then you can use the tools on that disc to rebuild a hard drive for the Xbox. Very simple.

 

Thank you so much! Nodoby want to help me here in Bulgaria. All they say, that I should put the console in the trash because it is too old, but I am nostalgic.
I will try hexen disc tonight.

 

Good luck! let me know how it turns out!

 

Don't throw the XBox away, it has some superb games, and also if you mod it then it makes an excellent emulation machine.

Also, when the XBox is modded then you can install the XBox games to the hard drive, and then you don't even need to use the game disc again (so just keep them safe in a cupboard somewhere). You simply install the games to the hard drive, similar to the way you do with a PC, except with an XBox you need to use a program (called DVD2XBox), as XBox games of course don't come with a program to install them to the hard drive.


To do this, the XBox first has to be modded, either with a modchip (known as hard modded) or via one of a few methods of softmodding, which is where you only alter what is on the XBox's hard drive. I know nothing about the latter, but for all things to do with the XBox, go to xbox-scene.com and look through their FAQs and forums, as they are the experts when it comes to hacking the XBox. When the XBox is modded (soft or hard) you install the software, preferably using a custom made disc of XBox utilities (such as Slayers, again XBox Scene has all the information you need), and you install a dashboard replacement (Evo-X, UnleashX, XMBC, etc) and DVD2XBox, which is the software I use (there might be others) to install XBox games to the XBox. Every XBox game works from the hard drive, unlike the PS2 there are no compatibility options or incompatible games.


You can run all XBox homebrew too from the hard drive, and also any films/music/pictures via XBMC (XBox Media Centre, a fantastic media player). Plus you get access to lots of great emulators, running software for the SNES, Megadrive, ZX Spectrum, C64, Atari ST, Commodore Amiga, Neo-Geo, etc, and ports of open source games like Duke Nukem 3D, Doom 1 and 2, Quake 1, 2 and 3, etc. And all of the emulators and their roms can be run from the XBox's hard drive.

All of the software is free, of course (though for some open source games you do need the original game disc to extract the game's data, only the XBox game engine is free to download), and the XBox supports ingame reset from the joypad (all games support it, as far as I know).

Plus a few (very few) XBox games support PC mods ('mods' here means software mods, freeware fan made alterations to games), such as GTA: Vice City, GTA: San Andreas, and Morrowind.

You also should replace the hard drive with a larger (in capacity) model, as otherwise the 8GB/10GB/20GB (different XBox's came with different capacity hard drives, it was always one of these three, but on any of them only 8GB was used) will only allow you to store a few games or programs. My XBox has a 500Gb hard drive, with all of my XBox games installed, plus lots of emulators and ROMs, and some game ports, such as Doom 1 and 2, Duke Nukem 3D, and Shadow Warrior, and I really can't recommend enough that any other XBox fan mods their machine and adds a larger hard drive. There really is no comparison between a modded and unmodded XBox.

 

IKR why would you throw any game system in the garbage.

 

Nobody is allowed to trow away any gamesystem. Giving them to a member of assemblergames is allowed

 

So nothing happens! Don't want to boot from dvd rom - just give me error 16. here is a video. Please help me! I gotta make this xbox work! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acbDzHTKbl0

1. The xbox is hard modded with some kind of Aladdin x3 duo or something, i don't realy know!
2. Original HDD is broken and my friend opend it! Count it dead!
3. I have put there a third party 80GB Seagate ultra ATA HDD.

 

Xbox disc drives are selective about the kinds of discs they'll read. Try different brands of CD and DVD until you achieve compatibility. And be sure to cold boot the disc (disc in tray and tray closed before powering on).

 

I can't see the video, but most probably your xbox doesn't like cd-r, try burning hexen, autoinstaller deluxe or whatever on DVD.
Another possibility is late disk insertion. You should try to insert disk, wait for error 16 and then press reset button.