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Error 21/No Dashboard
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Engreido
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18. December 2006 @ 17:25 |
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I have a lttle problem and hopefully u guys could help out. I decided to try the AID on an older Xbox I recently got which had the crappy Samsung dvd drive. After experimenting a few times, I rebooted and it was fine but then I rebooted again and the infamous Error Message 21 show up. I tried rebooting a few times with the tray open, close and the message still comes up which leads me to believe that I no longer have a dashboard. Looking around I found out about HotSwapping and HD fatXbox Explorer 1.4 and I managed to get the Xbox to work by replacing the .xbe on C. Then by sheer stupidity I decided to mess with the AID again and again it got messed up so I figure, I fixed once I could do it again. Wrong! I replaced the files again, I add them to the E drive but nothing this time. Im pretty sure its a bios problem but im not sure how to access it or even how to tell it were to load from. I tried booting with the AID dvd and cd in the drive and nothing.
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Engreido
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18. December 2006 @ 19:59 |
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Ive been looking through all posts regarding Error 21 and Hotswap and now I have a question, sorry if it is stupid. Does it really matter if I shut off the xbox before putting the IDE cable back after a hotswap? I only ask because the first time I did a hotswap it worked and after I messed it up again I have tried it and switch files a few times but I just realized that after I did the file transfer i shut off the Xbox and then replace the IDE cable back. Am I doing it backwards?
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19. December 2006 @ 05:55 |
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Originally posted by Engreido:
.... I add them to the E drive but nothing this time.
thats because your MS dashboard is on the C drive and it needs to be repaired.
kc
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Engreido
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19. December 2006 @ 12:00 |
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I have replaced the MS DASH a couple of times, one from the one on the C: on my other modded Xbox and another with the backup copy of the original and still nothing. Ive read about FTPing the files but I cant do that since it wont boot to the dashboard, any other ways to FTP? Specially when the dashboards are not available?
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19. December 2006 @ 20:30 |
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if you reinstalled the original files and the MS dash on the C drive you won't get the error 21. when the BIOS tried to launch the dashboard from the C drive and it's not an official (signed by MS) so that is why then you get error 21.
kc
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Engreido
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20. December 2006 @ 01:25 |
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Hmmm I believe I just got an original MS DASH file from the "usual places" but havent tried that one yet. Is there any other file that would need to be replaced?
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20. December 2006 @ 01:44 |
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the 'usual place' doesn't host an official MS dashboard, an official is signed by MS and therefore you have legality issues hosting it.
i just modded a 1.6 and backed up the C/E drive to a CD-R for the customer, here is a snap shot of the C drive, all are what is originally on the drive with the exception of the 'backup' folder, that's a backup of the EEPROM i did when i modded it.
kc
EDIT: i just read your first post again, if you have AIDeluxe 3.10 it has an option to reinstall the official MS dash back to the C drive.
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 20. December 2006 @ 01:56
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Engreido
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20. December 2006 @ 14:04 |
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Finally! I Fixed it! I can relax now!
Thanks KC for the assist.
I fixed it by Hotswaping (using the tutorial here),using my backup files from my other modded Xbox and Xplorer360beta5 to transfer the files.
I think that before since I was trying to use Xplorer360 V.09 and I couldnt get the damn thing to work I used HD fatXbox Explorer 1.4 which helped me the first time but this time around didnt to s**t for me so I found Xplore360 beta5 and It work it got easier to transfer all files. Anyways Im staying away from AID this time around, at least for a while. Again, thanks KC for ur assist.
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20. December 2006 @ 14:12 |
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yeah AID can get you in trouble if you get to carried away with it on a soft modded box. the way i learned to use it was on my chipped box where if anything got screwed up i could just boot with the chip on and fix it back.
kc
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