I have found various guides for tsop flashing online, however they are old and almosy always are very detailed on the exploit steps only. I have bridged the solder points. I have also found some threads here explaining the same. However when it comes to the details of the actual flashing, most just say "now flash it". How exactly? I am already soft modded. I am also setup with an X3 to help. I've always done mod chips in the past so even soft modding has been new for me. I did find an iso of Slayers Evox 2.6 and it included some bioses and I'm guessing a built in flashing utility within it's menu. I tried one of its X2 options, but it never flashed it. It just said "Uknown Flash" I am not familiar with the latest bios choices or where to find them, (pick one from xbins?) and I believe that I am limited to a 256k flash size. I have seen some people often mention something called hexen, m8, and ind-bios. Can someone please advise? Thanks
Best BIOS to flash on 256K chip is Evox M8 or if you plan to get it 128MB RAM modded then go with IND-BIOS 5003. Both are 256K and will fit on the 256K TSOP chip in the console. As for "how" part of flashing, there are various methods. Some say to use the Evox dash as it has a flasher utility built in. I personally use the Gentoox Linux bootloader 6.07 as it has a flasher tool built in. Lastly, be sure you have the modchip removed before booting the console or else the flash won't work properly if it even works at all. Some modchips do allow for TSOP flashing but if memory serves correctly they are the older 29 wire chips. X3 works on the LPC port. Best bet is to make sure the HDD is locked and boot from the original TSOP BIOS then load whatever you choose to flash and fire away. If all went well the new BIOS on the TSOP will boot the console normally.
The bios has the 128 RAM support. If you use other bioses they will only show the 64 RAM. Also I like to use EvoX over gentoox. I have fried a few TSOPs with gentoox. EvoX tells you what type of TSOP you are using! But be careful here! You have a 1.4! That might have a winbond! I use Hexen when I get winbonds. The TSOP will have a w in a circle on the chip if it is winbond!
It's the BIOS that supports 128MB RAM. Without that support your console won't boot. As far as I know only the Xecuter X2 5035 and IND-BIOS 5003 will support the 128MB RAM for TSOP. You can't use the X2 as it's a 512K BIOS and you have a 256K TSOP.
EvoX keeps saying Flash Unknown or Flash Unwritable. My solder points are fine as far as I can tell. Do I have to be purely softmodded? I'm attempting this while just coinviently booting from the X3. So my X3 is installed when I'm attempt to flash the TSOP. Is this my problem? It's a ST brand TSOP. Do I need to add the 5v jumper wire from the underside of the motherboard like they do on 1.0/1.1 versions?
Makes sense. Ok so I must of been wrong about my softmod status. AID and SID fail on a "rename" action while they are trying to backup the m$ dash. Do I need to have an untouched, stock M$ dash in order to softmod? I used Slayers 2.6 to restore the M$ dash to factory on an original 8GB hdd. I can boot to that with the X3 uninstalled. When using the X3 for coinvience to boot AID, it fails to do the the one click softmod with that error.
Simplest method I use for TSOP flashing. Softmod stock console. Bridge the points on the board. Install Gentoox or Evox via FTP. Put the new BIOS in the proper location on the HDD for the tool to find. Flash. If you get errors then you did something wrong. Remove softmod and install hardmod dash. Unlock HDD. Done. I also use this time to upgrade the HDD if I want to use a bigger one. I just put the blank drive in the TSOP flashed console and boot AID. It builds the new drive and it's ready to go after that.
How do you get drive back to stock condition? I have my eeprom and hdd key. What does removing a softmod mean? Sounds also like restoring an hdd to stock.
Use aid to softmod then remove your chip. After that make a copy of the hexen disc over at isozone.com afterward use that to flash your tsop as it comes with bios. hdd doesn't have to be stock.
Thank you takeshi385. I had to do what this user did... 3rd post. http://www.xbox-hq.com/html/postt25900.html&sid=744aa5b88aa8016180d1bcdcb92aad5c Since I initially used a modchip, I never had such a backup made from softmod tools. Therefore AID was never going to be happy installing my softmod. Evox M8plus installed to my TSOP just fine after "booting from my TSOP" and using my softmod to load the tools. Will try ind-bios soon. Thank you all!
To restore to complete stock, you must remove the softmod. That's all there is to it. If you've upgrade and no longer have the stock drive, you'll need a standard 8GB hard disk unlocked. Then lock it with your EEPROM (assuming you have XBOXHDM with your originally backed up EEPROM) and build the hard disk from scratch. Removing softmod, does what it says. Removes the modified files and reverts the system to stock.
Thanks HEX1GON. Your vids on youtube have been helpful too. I liked the softmod tutorial and the X2 5003 demo. My TSOP is only 256k however. But that would be fun to run X2. I am using ind-bios now with a config file I like. Seems to be just as useful. I do miss config live though. Editing an cfg file is alot easier than re flashing a new customized bios over and over. Thanks for the 8GB restore help.
To load an x2 5035 bios on a 1.2/5 you can set up PBL to load the X2 5035 BFM bios on boot. That way you get all the features, but its a bit redundant since the ind-bios is basically the same. anyone know what's differences bar the group that made them are? From what I have read & tested there the same, feature wise.
When I flashed my 1.4 with "Winbond" chip I used the Hexen disc and went into the "Flash Winbond" menu, it was easy, if it has a Winbond none of the regular flashing methods will work.
after softmoding the xbox and bridging the motherboard points can i use hexen disc or slayers evox to flash the xbox tsop v1.0-1.4? i know winbond tsop need raincoat flash and hexen is the disc for this
The thing I like about using EvoX for flashing TSOP's is the fact that it reads and tells you the type of TSOP that you are using. This way you know what type of TSOP you have. This saved my butt a few times! EvoX also will tell you what the eror is if you can t get the TSOp to flash. Like if on the solder points is not enabled. It will tell you that the TSOP is write protected.
