Possible that an xbe can damage upgraded xbox hardware?

Hi peeps,

Recently I purchased an upgraded 1GHz/128mb xbox. Yesterday I patched Coinops 6 Lite with the 1GHz patcher, and FTP'd over it over to the box. When I tried to run the XBE the only thing that happened was a black screen displayed on my TV..strange I thought..I turned off the box, and then switched it back on, at which point the box fragged and displayed the flashing red-ring! I'm bewildered how this has happened since I have not done anything in my opinion that could have damaged it in this way. I have not used any other programs or even opened the case until today, all I did was FTP Coinops over in XBMC and then tried to run the program. At first I thought maybe I had somehow damaged either the bios or the Eeprom somehow, but today I popped a Xenium in it and had the same reaction, although the chip would boot in recovery mode. Is it possible that running an XBE could damage upgraded hardware in this way? At this point I am lost and am searching for answers...

Thanks,

Looney

 

I doubt it has anything to do with the XBE. Possibly the system has just died.

Does it reboot after the frag?

 

Flashing red and green or solid red?

 

More likely that the XBox tested fine but the trip back from what I would assume is n64_freak's place primed it for failure. Hopefully it's as simple as removing the CPU and reballing it.

 

Sounds more like the ram than the CPU to me.

 

Did we ever get a answer for what happened to the board?

 

Clearly hasn't been a follow up considering on 6 posts have been made here :\

 

Got the board a few weeks ago and had a look at it. I removed the added Ram and replaced the cpu with a retail 733mhz one but the board was still dead.
Seems like the original 64mb or the board itself died somehow. Well every Xbox classic is about 10 years old now and it seems like some of them just reach the end of there life!

 

Sorry people I completely forgot to update this thread! As N64 freak has already said the board just seemed to want to die at that specific time....My new upgraded board is running great, and sports almost perfect n64 emulation through Surreal. I am however scared to run Coinops on my board until I find out more information on this topic, just to be on the safe side. Has anyone here had Coinops running on an upgraded 1Ghz/128 board? If you have I'd like to hear more about how it runs, as it is hard to find information on this topic.