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[Quinn]

First I had the xbox pluged in with all the regular cables in including the video so it wouldn't get the no video error (yellow flashing light) and had the hdd pluged in to the xbox. I booted up the xbox and waited for the red lights to flash. Then i quickly unpluged the IDE cable from the xbox and pluged the hdd into a Compaq Deskpro EN with the power still pluged into the xbox, then turned on the computer, waited a while and then when I booted up HDM1.9 I still got the same error.

[iBotPeaches]

Unplug the disc drive of the IDE cable and redo what I told you. THe will prompt error code 12, or 9. Wait till the error code on the xbox appears then take your time and take it out, and do what I said

[Quinn]

The computer's dvd drive or the xbox's?

[Quinn]

This is still not working for me. Any suggestions about what I'm doing wrong?

[Quinn]

I think that I will just buy an eeprom reader.

[iBotPeaches]

Eeprom reader probably won't help you. Since its the same process except connecting to the EEprom instead of computer. I apologize this topic just fell below the others. There is a "Bump" function somewhere, feel free to try that. I won't care.

Disconnect the IDE part of the DVD and only run the IDE from motherboard of xbox, to HD of xbox, with power of xbox connected to xbox. Turn xbox on, wait till error codes come up then remove IDE from xbox HD, plug your computer IDE into it, and turn on your computer. It should pass all checks, since its unlocked and you may continue using X-Browser

[Quinn]

I will try this tonight, will you be on around nine or so? Because I will be done by then.

[iBotPeaches]

I don't know what nine is for you. I'm in Central Time at 9. I might be out with friends since I only get these Friday, Saturday, Sunday days to myself. I'll try and get on, or maybe later.

[Quinn]

I think I made my drive into a true paperweight. I got the method working, then after going into something I didn't want to, I rebooted my computer, then the method didn't work anymore. Then a while later I was working with it and the drive stoped spinning up/ starting up. Is the drive totally done. Or can we fix it?

[Quinn]

*BUMP*

[iBotPeaches]

If its not making any noise. Your toast.


To test though. Plug the xbox back together, and turn it on, hope to get an error code, because if you don't then it crashed and will give you error code 5 in 1 min after turning it on.

[Quinn]

I think I will try getting another xbox (I'm buying one for $20), unlocking the drive with a softmod, putting it in my busted xbox to set the internal clock, put the M$ dash on another hard drive, loading up slayes evox cd and locking the drive with that.

[iBotPeaches]

Whoa whoa whoa. You can't just replace harddrive unless you have EEPROM, just resoftmod the new xbox, instead of breaking 2 xboxes

[Quinn]

Sorry I may not have made it really clear what I was going to do. I will take the new xbox, softmod it, unlock the hdd through the softmod, make sure it has the M$ dash on it, place it in the busted xbox so that the dash can set the internal clock and get the unlocked hdd error, then get another random hdd, put the M$ dash on it, and from what I understand, slayers evox cd can boot up in a xbox, so have the cd boot up, then lock the random hdd and possibly have a working xbox.

[Quinn]

I made a xbox hdd in HDM1.9 properly, since it was a 15 gig made an f partition and put it in my xbox resulting in error five (unlocked hd). This should have set the internal clock. Then I plugged my xbox hd in and got error 7. I looked it up and I tryed all the options and no luck. You say if nothing works, sell the xbox to you. I'm not quite at that stage yet. I am going to buy a eeprom reader and with some very smart programs I should be able to get my eeprom.bin file.

[iBotPeaches]

Do you have any backup files? So you can get eeprom. Buying an Eeprom reader is very difficult to use.

[Quinn]

I found a eeprom reader on ebay and it comes with software and instructions. You just plug it in the motherboard and in your computer I think.

[Quinn]

http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie ... K:MEWA:VRI this is the eeprom reader.

[iBotPeaches]

That one is nicely built and even has connector cable. Go for it. Looks very nice and easy.

[Quinn]

Ok, I will buy it soon and tell you if it works.