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tyche7

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23. June 2005 @ 11:08

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Hey all ...
I have an older Xbox that had a 120gb hard drive in it for quite a while. Well, there was a great sale and I got a 300gb hard drive CHEAP. I have installed the new hard drive and it's functional. I have evox on it and everything -- however, to get it to read both F: and G: partitions I needed to flash my bios to a bios that allows that. I flashed it with the M8 (evox) bios. Before I switched out this hard drive I FTP'ed a lot of my games to my desktop computer. Well...I FTP'ed them back onto this new hard drive and now I'm having problems with those games.

For example: Need For Speed Underground 2 hangs on the loading screen. Midnight Club 3 Dub Edition starts the intro but as soon as it's supposed to go to the game's menu it starts back at Evox's main screen. GTA San andreas wouldn't start (I got that fixed by changing my video mode to NTSC instead of automatic...but still it worked before).

There are other examples but long story short...same Xbox, same modchip, just a new HD and a new bios and now most of my games are unplayable!

Anyone have any ideas on this??? Any help would be appreciated. If I figure it out I'll post here but for now I'm lookin for more ideas on this. Or any other bioses that might work really well for a 300gb hard drive that reads and F: and a G: partition. Thanks in advance everyone!

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Brent

"Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some smaller countries are neutral. "

tyche7

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23. June 2005 @ 11:12

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Oh -- one more thing -- I try launching these games from Boxplorer AND from Avalaunch and I get the same results so it isn't evox (the dashboard -- which hasn't changed anyway).

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tyche7

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24. June 2005 @ 07:45

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Ok ya'll -- I figured it out (and yes I just said ya'll). I did a couple of things and I'm not sure which fixed it but I have my ideas. Here's what I did...I reflashed my bios from the M8 bios to an Xecuter2 bios (basically a newer version of the bios I was using before as my chip is an Xecuter 2 chip). Then I deleted the games off my hard drive and re-FTP'ed them over. Restarted the Xbox and tried them and they all work so far. 5 of 5 games now work instead of 1 of 5.

My ideas...although the bios might have helped I'm actually now thinking that when I FTP'ed the games over it didn't transfer everything quite right or something (either files were missing or were not completely ftp'ed or whatever). Since I deleted them and re-FTP'ed them and it worked I'm sorta leaning towards that. So as a hint...if you ever FTP a game over DO NOT go on the internet or use up any bandwidth as you can get errors / glitches / burps or whatever you wanna call them in your file transferring. Thanks for looking!

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Brent

"Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some smaller countries are neutral. "

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