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I think I may have f'd up big time
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brodie214
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17. August 2007 @ 15:13 |
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I soft modded my xbox last week using Ndure installer and everything worked fine. I then decided to upgrade my hard drive. So I thought I would use chimpanzees tool to sway hard drives. I followed the instructions and now neither my old or my new hard drive will be recognized and I get a screen saying my xbox needs to be serviced. PLEASE tell that there is a way of fixing this.
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psykarrd
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17. August 2007 @ 16:47 |
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are u getting an error number?? and if so what is it?
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brodie214
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17. August 2007 @ 16:49 |
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There is no error number on the screen
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psykarrd
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17. August 2007 @ 17:15 |
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do u have a backup of the eeprom on yr PC?
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brodie214
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17. August 2007 @ 17:18 |
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No backup that i know of...maybe on my memory card, but it wont let me transfer it over from AR to my computer.
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psykarrd
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17. August 2007 @ 17:30 |
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ok i haven't used chimpanzees b4 so im not really sure what might have gone wrong. But i would suggest trying to hotswap with your original drive and try to return it to factory setting or re-softmod, hopfully some files have got corrupted but the eeprom is still ok. here is a guide on hopswapping (if you need it) http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/332766
if this works, use an app like config magic to backup your eeprom and save it on yr PC, once the eeprom is backed up it is much easyer to get out of trouble. but be carefull, you don't want to wipe this drive and lose your eeprom for ever then u are in real trouble.
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psykarrd
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17. August 2007 @ 17:39 |
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just be really careful, and if you are not sure what your doing, wait and see if somone else gives u an easier solution. I really don't want you to fuckup yr xbox!
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brodie214
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17. August 2007 @ 17:51 |
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ok thanks for the help i will try this tomorrow if i dont hear anything else. is there any way to see if i ruined my new hd?
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brodie214
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17. August 2007 @ 17:54 |
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also is there a way to get my eeprom so i could put it on the new hard drive using hotswap?
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psykarrd
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17. August 2007 @ 20:41 |
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ok your other hdd should be fine, but it may not yet have the eeprom on it, thats way i said to use yr old one. Try putting your new one in a PC and see if it will detect it.
once you have backed up the eeprom, you no longer need to hotswap, you can use the eeprom to manualy lock and unlock yr drive, for all the info you need for vertually everything, check out these tutorials: http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/536595#3246424
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brodie214
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18. August 2007 @ 08:04 |
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Is there a chance I backed up the eeprom onto my memory card when I installed the soft mod?? If so how would access that?
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brodie214
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18. August 2007 @ 08:08 |
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Ok I just looked at the tutorial I used to install the soft mod and I did back up the eeprom to memory unit. Now how do I get that off the memory card and rebuild the drives.
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psykarrd
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18. August 2007 @ 18:13 |
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i don't use that method to softmod, i use hotswap so i don't know. But ill look around and see if i can find out
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psykarrd
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18. August 2007 @ 18:34 |
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brodie214
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19. August 2007 @ 09:20 |
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When I go to drag the stored date from the memory card to the pc databas it tells me the save is not a supported save, what am I doing wrong?
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psykarrd
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19. August 2007 @ 15:26 |
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can you copy other files to and from the mem card ok?? if so then the save is prob corrupted, but as i said b4 i don't use this method so i am not really sure. i had a quick look around, but couldn't find any info on not recognising the save. if the file is corrupted, i would say you have 3 options left:
1 hotswap using the tutorial i gave earlier
2 get a modchip installed, then the eeprom isn't required
3 get/make an eeprom reader and read the eeprom off the motherboard, then you can just re-build any drive to work with the xbox. tutorial here : http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/536595#3246424 (just look through the page till you find the one about an eeprom reader)
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brodie214
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19. August 2007 @ 17:15 |
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Whenever I go to drag the eeprom backup (title unnamed save) to the Action Replay PC database it tells me "This is not a valid xbox save". If I could just get the backup onto my computer I could fix my problem, but how do I get it off the memory unit?!? If I soft modded another xbox could I save it to that HD and FTP to my computer?
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19. August 2007 @ 18:28 |
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Put the old HDD back into the Xbox! Does it still boot?
I can help you if you follow my instructions!
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brodie214
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19. August 2007 @ 18:46 |
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The old hd does not boot, it clicks and produces an error message telling me to get my xbox service, there is no error number on the screen.
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psykarrd
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19. August 2007 @ 20:27 |
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if you could copy the eeprom file to another modded xbox then there is no reason why you shouldn't be able to ftp it from that xbox to your PC
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20. August 2007 @ 00:53 |
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Originally posted by psykarrd:
You have 2 options left:
1 get a modchip installed, then the eeprom isn't required
2 get/make an eeprom reader and read the eeprom off the motherboard, then you can just re-build any drive to work with the xbox.
These are basically the only two solutions left!
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brodie214
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20. August 2007 @ 07:54 |
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psykarrd
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20. August 2007 @ 14:39 |
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yep you can, but i think that chunkhead is doubting the chances of you getting the eeprom off your mem card or the old hdd and so he is suggesting your olny good chance of recovering the eeprom is with an eeprom reader. He knows alot about this stuff so he's prob right, but if you have access to another xbox i would try getting the info off the mem card and FTP see if that works. also try putting the drive in a PC and see if it is locked, mabey you'll be real lucky and the proccess stuffing up might have left the dive unlocked.
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brodie214
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21. August 2007 @ 16:33 |
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Ok I got my old hard drive to work, I followed the xboxhd guide TO THE T and now I get an error 6 or error 7 (depending on where I put the slave, master, cable selector thing). What can be done about this?
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psykarrd
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21. August 2007 @ 17:57 |
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the HDD should be set as a master. If it is what error do you get? 6 or 7?
if its 6 - then the drive has been built with the wrong eeprom
if its 7 - then the drive is dead
my guess is that it is error 6 that you are getting when it is set as master. This would seuggest that the eeprom used to build the HDD dosn't match you motherboard. Where did you get the eeprom from??
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