:evil: I recently bought a Xbox Debug console that was broken. At the time of purchase, and the thread I found the seller in, everyone thought all it needed was a new Hard Drive and to have the Recovery disk run on it. I have since found out that is not the case. It is in PAL however I can still see most of it, but it will start up normally, then at the after flubber screen it will go Christmas lights on me, and go to the error screen (in NTSC I think), but with no error code. I have tried August 2001, and 5849 recovery disks, with no luck. I have tried a phillips DVD drive, and Thompson, both with no luck. I have tried several different hard drives, and had no luck whatsoever. The guy I bought it from is positive it is a Real Debug, and not a Beta Live Debug. I think there is a slight chance it is a Beta Live, but as I can't get it working, I am not sure. One guy I was talking to thinks it could be a bad IDE controller chip. I think it could have a bad, or corrupt eeprom. I was thinking about buying a chip like an X3CE and using it to reflash the eeprom (with the debug eeprom of course) and then using the chip to run the recovery disk to get it working. I know the motherboard has the MCPX X2 chip, and the sticker has 4039 all over it. Does anyone know if it is popssible to chip a Debug and get it working, or if it is repairable? Can you please help me? I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you so much. :evil:
As far as I have seen, certain mod chips will in fact work fine on a debug kit, especially if all you want to do is fix the EEPROM. There used to be a few threads over at xbox-scene that talked about it that you might find more information on.
I will try to look there for them, any idea which section they might be in, or if at least the X3CE might work in it? Thanks again for the help.
I thought that I saw it a while back in the TSOP section. I wish they would get the search engine back up, it's a pain in the ass to find anything.
I wish they would too. It has been down forever. it really is hard to find anything. I will try to look there. Thanks.
Here is what bigsexyolli replied to me about my inquery on the history of the Debug (there will be more info on it soon): So I finally got word from that guy, here is the story: He sold the devstuff for a buddy, which was supposed to be a dev guy back when I bought it, not he isn't (as far as I remeber from all the emails back and forth) Thats rahter uninteresting anyway, here comesthe sotry of the debugger: His buddy wanted to use the Recovory CD with it (to upgade it and play normal games with it, ...lame...), but the proccess didn't work out, there was an error and after that it didn't work anymore. After that the buddy gave it to another buddy and they tried to fit in a 1.0 Chip (whatever that is, that how he described it, sorry. I'd say a Modchip for a 1.0 Motherboard) in it to get it running, but that didn't work out. Bottom line is (as far as I can tell): While using the recovory CD, an error occered and since that it doesn't work anymore. I don't know how helpful that info is and how you can repair it, if its even possible, which I do hope. But I guess thats what it has come down to, a mistake in wanting to use the recovory disc and play normal games with it. (Here is a Pic showing the wire on the bottom of the Motherboard: ) I hope this is able to help someone help me out. ALso as a note, the wire in the picture, it is only connected to the point on the mobo that is visable in the picture there. The other end isn't connected to anything. Thanks again for all the help.
No. The other end of the wire would go to a modchip...the only reason i know of to "hijack" the d0 line to the TSOP flash rom. There is a "special" ROM for the Matrix modchip for flashing Xboxes that have had their TSOP hosed, though I'm not sure if this would work for Debug units.
DO you by chance know if the X3 CE has that option at all? Thanks again to everyone for all their help.
No. It does not. Regardless, the BIOS in question would not work for a debug unit. If you want to recover a TSOP on a debug you need a working debug BIOS and an old 29-wire mod chip. -hl718
I know I would need a debug bios for it, I think I am just goin to get the X3 and at least try and boot a debug bios from it. Anythign at this point to fix it. Thanks again for all the help. If anyone has any tips, or any other kinds of advice, feel free to post them, or pm me. Thanls again.
I found a deal on a X3, I decided to buy it and give it a go. Hopefully it will work. Thanks again to all for the help. I will post updates when I get it going.
I think thats the case to, there are threads on X-S regarding it but I can't find them using that google search they insist on using.
I have pretty much given up. I can;t find anything on how to either build, install, or places to buy a homebrew mod chip, and there is no way in hell I am going to try a tsop with it. I have it for sale now, $150 + shipping. If anyone is interested, please let me know. Thanks again for all the help.
