Thank you man!!! I now have a TSOP Modded Xbox. Was easier than expected. Hardest part was trying to see the solder points and get them bridged with my shaky hands.. You definitely earned yourself a subscriber!
Extremely well explained ! Thank you very much for both part 1 and part 2 videos. Once you've finished following the tutorial, boot your console and clear the cache directly from the dashboard if you have trouble launching games ;)
Awesome job. Thanks so much to all of the original coders that figured this stuff out and created the tools, and to you for explaining everything so well. I've gone back to this several times, and it's so easy to get the info and do the work. Thanks again!!
I didn't realize how easy it is to do this. Way back when the Xbox was new I paid someone to TSOP flash my Xbox and I've always thought it was a complicated process. Now I think I might TSOP flash my other Xbox, not needing to lock hard drives makes this mod worth it over just softmodding imo. I have a 500GB drive that refused to lock in my softmodded Xbox, but my TSOP flashed Xbox doesn't care about locked drives so no problem using it there. Anyways, thanks for the video, this was super helpful
Thank you so much for these to videos. I have a 1.4 xbox and was trying to flash it and none of the TUTs told me about the types of TSOP and which one to use. This helped and I was about to flash the xbox. Thank you so much.
Dude you are awesome and I want to send you a big hand shack that is to thank you. Good clear true knowledge with clear examples is all I saw and heard and I followed them with ease because of you and it worked. Thank you!
Awsome...AWSOME video, man! This is an amazing method for modding an Xbox, no need to install modchips especially since their not readily available plus the extra features like unlocking the hard drive. Just awesome :)
Hello, I would like to ask a question about the Original xbox v1.0. But it does not directly pertain to this video. Is there someway that I could contact you? Thanks.
jason dowsett if you have the eeprom.bin file or the password written down you can lock the HDD with XboxHDM on a PC. then install the HDD in your xbox so the softmod works and TSOP flash. or you can buy/build an eeprom reader and manually recover the eeprom.bin file from the motherboard and then use XboxHDM. or you can hardmod first, then install and lock the HDD, remove the chip, then TSOP flash
don't have the keys,ive got 4 mod chips coming, so ill hard mod them.thanks for all your help.oh by the way ive just managed to tsop 2 other xboxs,using electric paint.was very easy to do.
*******Special Insturctions for Winbond Chips Only********* When attempting to flash the bios on a Winbond chip and boot Gentoox (around 23:26 of the video) the screen may go black if using component cables =5 wire cables. The solution is to: either use composite cables =3 wire cables OR you can flash without a display, just carefully follow the video and count button moves and the selections. I was able to do it without a display just CAREFULLY follow selections.
Great video! I'm pretty happy with my softmod right now (and I don't know if I even can flash it) but very informative if I ever need to take the next step.
+thewheelman282 the xbox 1.0 I just got looks like this was attempted and botched. The solder pads for R7D3 are gone with slight burn marks. Is this fixable? Or possible help with alternate solder points?
Hey, curious. What does the "clean up install" choice on the hexen menu do? I am timid as I have bricked an xbox by thinking I knew things I didn't. (future chip for that one)
Excellent tutorials man!you managed to explain everything I needed to know.I just softmodded my xbox and tried upgrading the HDD but i got error 07.The molex y splitters were cheap so I dont think they were supplying enough power.Have you ever had this issue?
Gave it a go today and well . . . even though I can solder pretty good, I almost messed it up completely. Managed to get everything re-soldered in it's right place and it still works, but wouldn't accept the command to flash. Going to leave well enough alone. Hadn't touched it for 6 months so I think caring about what BIOS I have is a little behind me. :)
The hexen disc is pretty cool. It will i.d. the version you have. I was attempting to do my first tsop flash and found out I have a v1.6. Oh well, I don't need to open it just for removing the clock cap so I will save it for later. As @Cartman122 said 1.6 :( I have other versions and am excited for my 1st flash. Thanks Wheelman.
Great video I'm going to pull my old Xbox out of storage and attempt this. Do you have any recommendations or video links on how to softmod first and upgrade the HDD to a bigger drive after TSOP? Thanks will be checking out your other videos in the near future.
easiest method to softmod is to use the save game exploit with splinter cell or 007 AUF. then follow this video to perform the TSOP. you can upgrade the HDD later if you download Hexen 2017 from theisozone. it makes the upgrade process very easy
@23:30, funny you say that about 3rd party controllers. As I have been attempting to TSOP my 1.3 Winbond Xbox today after following another guide, pretty much the same as yours. Every time I get to the Gentoox Loader XBE v6.05 screen to move the Dpad to the right to get to Advanced I cannot for the life of me get the menu to move! It just hangs and tries to look for a boot disc after 5 seconds. I have a shitty Saitek pad pfft, I am going to borrow my friends controller S tonight so hopefully it will work ok?! I will keep you guys updated :) Thanks Mike
So I successfully managed to flash my 1.0 Xbox with the 512kb x2 bios. Everything works well, except for "xecuter2 config live loading" coming up whenever I boot. Just looks unappealing. Any suggestions on how to go about removing that, if I even can?
very easy doing this on revision xbox 1.0 , only need to solder 2 points for the 1.0 , points are close enough for just beaded solder, actually , no room for wires really, just put the least amount of solder, when bridging the points. and at least for me , didnt see any problem with the points staying soldered on my 1.0 , but thats me , and my 1.0 , others could be different. im sure i will try other bioses later also. i love you xbox ver. 1.0
I think I have the same version as you. Mine has the GPU fan on the heat sink. So this version doesn't require a wire to supply extra power just solder the two points?
I still have my old 1,0 Xbox that still has an old xecuter lite+ solderless chip in it of course that thing always frags. Would love to fix it as it has a 1mb bios in it. But it still frags even without the chip. Luckily I had this 1.2 box :)
+TheGoose81 easier troubleshooting /upgrading mostly. if you want to upgrade the HDD or rebuild file system for whatever reason, you dont have to bother with locking and unlocking it. and if you dont have access to tools to perform the locking/unlocking, it can be a huge pain to troubleshoot
Hello I’ve Softmoded my Xbox then done a tsop now he’s the problem I can get it to show in hd/720p but when I got to play a backed up game ie xbox original game it loads up but I can not see it put the standard cable back in it work but with crap res so I go to settings it not pal bonus so go to ms dash it loads but now I can not see the standard dash now what is going on I’ve I tryed this every way I can please please help the only thing I can think that has changed is the tsop and uninstalling the softmod 🤯🤬
First, thanks for the great videos. I now can change thermal paste and light up my controller ports thanks to you. Couple questions because I’m just learning about this stuff. Can I do the TSOP if I’ve already upgraded my hard drive Secondly, when you unlocked the hard drive does that mean I can now put any ide hard dive on my Xbox if the one I have ever fails? Thanks again.
1. Yes. I upgraded the HDD before the TSOP mod. 2. You should be able to put in any IDE drive. With an adapter, you can even put in an SATA drive. You will need to format the drive and build the partitions with a program like Xbox HD Maker.
I have a couple questions. I have access to a chip writer. and I think even some of those 1mb tsop chips. could I remove any 256k tsop and replace it with one one of the 1mb chips? also if they are intrupted during flashing on the xbox I assume that they are actually still flashable they would just have to be removed from the motherboard and put in a chip flashing machine like I have access too. I have a chipmax 2 with tsop adapter. I am interested in the quad bios setup. or maybe just 2 bios. and which BIOS that may take advantage of ram upgrade. if you have any information on that?
The 1MB and 256K TSOP chips are different physical sizes and have different pin counts so you probably couldn't put a 1MB chip on v1.2+ motherboards. The chip is still writable if it's bricked so you would need an external programmer. Afaik all 3 of the newest custom bios's support the RAM upgrade so it y just your personal preference
I've got one question : is it possible to tsop an 1.4 Xbox with aladdin xt modchip soldered to the Mainboard? My goal is to have two bioses. One on the modchip an one on the xbox
5:20 i have a single row but it doesnt have those extra gnd or 3.3v stb wires but it does have that orange 3.3v wire tho; does that matter? Or is it just the single row thats all that counts? P.S my softmodded xbox already says on screen i got a 1.0 version
Thanks man, Great video, got my xbox TSOP now, 1st time i ever solder anything lols; now i gotta see how to fix stuck DVD drive and how to make it quite since the fan is loud on this 1.0 model.
Stuck dvd drive tap it ontop while pushing the button.. After you get it open clean the belt its easy job i used tweezers to remove and replace on all my xboxes lol. U can find vid on utube to clean belt.
Any chance you know what R7D9 and R7D2 actually are or what they do? After doing this with my Winbond chip I'm having trouble with my ethernet port. Prior to applying the new TSOP flash I noticed that my router showed no link light whatsoever when connected to my Xbox. After the flash I now get a blinking link light on the router end, but I can't quite tell if the Xbox end is blinking. In the network settings under UnleashX it shows "No Link". I'm curious if I may have damaged one of those two components when I was soldering so close to them, and if that could kill the ethernet port.
your not the first person this has happened to apparently. there have been like 1 or 2 other people commenting that the ethernet port stopped working. personally i have never heard of this until a long time after i posted this video so im clueless
I fixed my problem, but the solution made absolutely no logical sense I can decipher. Before doing the mod my Xbox connected to my network without any issues. After I soldered the points, without making any other changes (still running under the softmod at this point before flashing), I noticed in UnleashX I had no IP assigned, and according to the network settings it didn't detect a link. Without changing any settings I reconnected my ethernet cable several times at both ends, restarting the router and Xbox several times, but it refused to acknowledge any connection. I tried different ethernet cables as well with no luck. When I connected my laptop to the ethernet cable/router and used the same network settings, everything connected fine on the laptop. I tried a different router and the Xbox actually connected with it just fine. If something had actually been damaged it shouldn't have been able to connect with any router. A settings issue either on the router or Xbox end shouldn't have been the problem because I hadn't changed anything on either end except making the solder connections for the TSOP. The router shouldn't be damaged because my laptop could connect with it. Unless the Illuminati installed a specific feature on my one router that specifically blocks an original Xbox from 2002 connecting to it after modding, I can't figure out any logical explanation for why that fixed it. I tried everything else, but it now only connects with the new router.
Man, Best explanation ever!! believe me I have seen many before I TSOP my xbox. A quick question, I want to upgrade me ram from 64mb to 128mb do you know which bios support it? I am struggling a little bit and is getting hard, I am good at soldering but clearly not so much in software!! Thank you.
thewheelman282 not really!! I TSOP with evo x and no results at all, one xbox flashes green no video, the other one flashes orange and red but once i press the dvd button it turns off and starts back with green and red light!
Do you know what the R7D2 (Resistor?) does for the Xbox? I accidentally removed it and my console is still working but I'm not sure if I should replace because it might not be needed. I have the windbound V1.4 Board.
im not sure what its for and im not sure how important it is. if possible, you can measure the resistance of R7D2 from another xbox and get a resistor of the same value. it doesnt have to be SMD. you can use a standard resistor if you want to
Does my xbox have to already be tsoped to read hexen 2017? I copied the file to a disc and put it in my softmoded console and it kept saying that the tray was empty. I am using a Memorex cd-rw that I formatted in windows 10. Should I have not formatted the disc? I check the disc and the hexen 2017 is on it. Do I need to install an image burner?
probably the xbox cant read your disc for some reason. either it wasnt burned correctly or the disc drive cant read cd-rw's. use the PC program imgburn to burn discs just to be safe
how many xbox version 1.6 does it take to mod your bios, exactly none , lol , i feel you , had a few 1.6 , microsoft basically hosed all those people buying the 1.6, thanks again microsoft.
dj don bentley With 1.6 the only option is a modchip or softmod, but you could still have custom BIOS with the modchip. Exact same benefits of a TSOP really.
i performed this correcly but i can't run game backups or extract them and FTP them to the console, it just boots me back to UnleashX. Anyone knows whats going on? my main purpose was to make a slim xbox but without being able to play backups its not feasible
I may want to do this in the future and this is a very good video for it. I am new to soldering and I have never done it before but since the points are so close to each other, couldn't you use a very small wire and use some sort of glue? I know I sound like a complete noob, because I am one, but let me know if I could use this method.
Ok, I'll have to try and practice some soldering, doesn't look that hard, and get an original Xbox without a Sharp EEPROM to make it easier. I would want the connection to be somewhat permanent so I think that I would just learn to solder for when the time comes. :)
Does the connection needs to be permanent or does it only have to hold on during the flashing part? I'm also thinking about using conductive paint because I have no soldering skills yet.
+jason dowsett i never have. check your soldering on the write protection disable points again to make sure they are connected. if one is not making a good connection, then write protection is still enabled
it doesnt matter. if you removed the joints i guess it could act as a layer of security if someone were to try to flash the TSOP without your knowing but thats all
Wow, this is easier than I thought. I have 3 Xbox consoles (only two are currently soft-modded, but doing the 3rd one is easy). I may try this with my Halo Edition Xbox if its not a 1.6 (is there any way to tell what version it is w/o opening up the console? Like a date code or serial number code or anything?)
did a second tsop today and it worked flawlessly. forgot what a pain ndure xboxhdm hotswap method is tho. once softmodded rest was a breeze. used evox m8+ this time on hynix. time for some lan play!! :-)
Hello, I have a question. I have an original Xbox system but with a broken DVD-R and it's not softmodded. Can doing this TSOP mod help me bypass the DVD drive if the system isn't softmodded? I'm also wanting to replace the HDD.
if your saying you want to remove the DVD drive completely, then yes, a TSOP mod will allow you to run the xbox without a DVD drive attached. A TSOP mod will also allow you to run your games from the hard drive so you dont have to use the DVD drive
That sounds good. So the Hexen disc part isn't required then? If I'm looking to replace the hard drive, is there a way to use HeXen without the DVD drive?
strictly speaking, using hexen from the dvd drive is not required. you can run hexen from the hard drive if you want to (i think its called hexen4hdd). but you will have to softmod first to get FTP capability to get hexen copied to the hard drive
problem is you need a working dvd drive to first run the bios flash , and usually you need to first already be softmodded. after the tsop , i wonder if you can use a standard pc dvd drive for most games, i know u cant before it. i can verify that after a succesful bios flash , the unit does boot , and work much smoother than with the softmod. same dashboards , more capabilities , basically the bios cant lock u out or give you most error codes that stop unit from booting. 1.0 xbox was extremely easy to tsop, still have my soldered points connected, no problem, but dont know about others except my 1.0 unit. im glad i dont have a sharp bios chip.
I cant run hexen from dvd (green, orange, red flashing lights). I tried using hexen form hdd to flash a 1.4 xbox with winbond, but it wont start gentoox. What else can I try?
hmm, all different revisions of the original xbox have different drives that have different success rates with all types of discs. I tried a dvd-r and it flopped, then a cd-r that didn't work. But then a cd-rw seemed to do the trick for me. Its all about trial and error. and yeah, the hdd hexen sucks, i tried it and got no success. Good luck!
Hello. I have a Xbox with st chip. One row power connector to motherboard so that menns that it's a 1.0 or 1.1? Problem is when I make a solder a bridge on R7D3 and R7R4, i put it back together and Hexen disc is not working. I have used the disc on other Xbox's and know its working. Do i need to softmod before using hexen?
yes because your xbox is not modded yet. Soldering the 2 points only disables write protection the TSOP so you can flash it later. it does not mod your xbox
thewheelman282 Thanks for the answer, and I figured it out. My problem is that I thought that when you disabled write protection you could use hexen disc to softmod. I missunderstod the whole thing. I got it softmodded and tsop now! Thanks for your help! Would be difficult to call Microsoft to ask for help😎
I'm pretty sure I have a version 1.0 or 1.1. I have a fan on the GPU so 1.0? Does my xbox require to run a wire at all or can I just bridge the two areas that need to be bridged?
My XBOX has a Xecuter2 modchip installed, right now i can load hexen, use XBMC and load backup games, but when i try to chage the dashboard, for example, hexen tells me that it cant detect a modchip (or something like that). Do i need to upgrade the BIOS on the modchip itself? In that case, i would proceed like whit the Hynix/Hyunday/ST chips?
you could try updating the bios to the latest version unless its already the latest version. Most chips can be flashed using evox like in the video but some require other software. depends on the chip
Thanks for answering! I kept digging after my question (actualy pulled an all-nighter, LOL), but i ended up flashing a EvoX BIOS, installing a 320GB HDD, and all that good stuff. Really in love with my XBOX now! (i mean, even more so than before, hehe).
I have a question: I have a modchipped Xbox, but it's working only from chip. If I disable chip it won't boot (red led only). Is it a corrupted data in tsop? And how can it be repaired.
could be corrupted tsop but that would normally cause the led to flash red and green. but it could be. also depends on the chip and how its installed. different chips have different install methods so the xbox not booting without a chip could be a side effect of the chip being used. but thats just a guess. i know for a fact that v1.6 xbox's wont boot without a chip due to having to cut a trace on the motherboard so thats a possibility
Would it be possible to send you a few boards to get TSOP done on them, for pay? I can't pay a lot. But, I don't have a microscope or soldering iron of anything. These points are so small.
sure i can if you want. heck ill do it for free man. i mean theres no real work involved. just a little time. but you will have to pay shipping both ways. let me know
Really??? Wow thank you! So, can I just send the motherboards to save money? Not sure if you were gonna flash the BIOS on them also. If not, my friend might be able to burn HeXen, on a disc for me. I just need an address. Might take a week or do to get them out. Just depends on shipping price.
yeah i can flash it too. it only takes a few mins. i need to know what version motherboards you want flashed and what brand TSOP chip they have. also, if possible you would need to ship the boards in anti-static bags to make sure they dont get zapped by static electricity from the packaging. You dont necessarily have to use anti-static bags but it would really suck if they didnt make it through the mail
thewheelman282 - Two are v1.0 with Hynix and the other I believe is just like the one you did here with a Winbound. All boards, I've taken off the Time capacitor & cleaned everything. I've also replaced the thermal paste on them. Just need the shipping address. I will definitely see if I can antistatic material for them. That's a good call.
What's the benifits of a unlocked Hdd on an xbox and clock check? How do you change the founder and animation on a tsop?...I have a 2tb Xbox that I had missed for me and the IGR used to work(sorta) but it would restart the Xbox... skip the animation flubber and then error 7....I know what it is it's not my Hdd or my adapter it's thinking out before it the bios can read off the Hdd. I'm going to use EVTool to edit my m8+ and flash it back to see if I can fix it.
-unlocked HDD means less pain in the ass if you want to upgrade the HDD or need to fix the filesystem on a PC -changing the TSOP boot animations depends on the bios thats flashed. the newest one create a .ini file on the E drive where you can make changes to the flubber animation. the bios reads this file during bootup
Hello me again. I just bought a new Xbox instead cause I figured the time and money spent repairing a dead Xbox is better spent just getting a new one. Question, I have a eeprom reader/writer, could I just read both xboxes and replace hdd key on new one? Thanks
Thanks, but now I have received the new xbox (1.0 btw). The only catch is that after replacing eeprom and hdd, it will boot startup screen, then a black screen. I put the old eeprom and hdd in and boots retail. When I try to softmod it it loads the game, but when I load the SID5.1 with Splinter Cell, it black screens again. I have tried both composite and component cables, but both do the same. Please help :(
how are you replacing the eeprom? like flashing it with an eeprom reader? that method is kind of hit and miss. ive tried the same thing myself and havent had success. some v1.0 xbox's with really early kernels dont show error messages at bootup like the newer versions do so that could explain the blank screen, possibly. you wont be able to put your new HDD in the xbox unless its locked with the eeprom/HDD password thats programmed in the new xbox
I have just opened up an old xbox I had in the loft and it doesn't have any of those. What it does have is Samsung ram, Focus chip, tsop chip Atmel at49f002a 55ti 0424
thewheelman282 thank you :) oh I was wondering 2 more things. 1 do you have any mod chips you would be willing to part with? An is it possible to reverse the tsop?
i dont have any chips to sell. However, you can go here to buy them: assemblergames.com/l/threads/zer0-2k11s-mod-chip-and-installation-shop.43131/ Technically yes its possible to flash the original BIOS back to the TSOP if you did want to go back but you would have to place that BIOS manually on the Hexen image before you burn it
I downloaded the link for hexen,onto my phone(took 45 minutes).How do I change the format so that I can put it onto the modded xbox?Please help,been trying to get a copy of it for over a week.
well you will need a PC first. you need to copy the hexen downloaded file (.zip i think) to your PC so you can extract it. Then you need to burn the .iso file to a cd/dvd to put in the xbox
can you do a video on how to use a sd card as a hard drive? they sell Ide to sd adaptors on amazon and someone on youtube said that it is possible to do that. thank you.
everything copies over but the system doesn't go into gentoox. i can power off/on and it loads back into softmod. only difference is xbmc no longer works, unleashx skin reset to default
update: something weird happened. I accidentally went into the file cleanup menu, I hit B to back out but the process happened anyway. rebooted and I was stock again. I used my ndure disc with eeprom to unlock hdd. I wanted to make sure it worked so I figured xbox wouldn't boot if unlocked. Guess what? It boots unlocked. Strange thing is no IND BIOS screen shows when I power on the console. This is just weird.
Sorry about all the posts. I finally got it working. I tired again and it just worked - got Gentoox for the first time and everything went fine. Maybe a bad solder joint - I have no idea? Thanks for all your Xbox info, I followed your thermal paste and battery guides too. Think I'm going to do a 80mm fan mod :-)
Wheelmn282 taken from this threat. assemblergames.com/threads/xbox-winbond-question.64114/ "Winbond and Sharp 1mb tsops need to use raincoat or gentoox with the correct size bios to flash correctly raincoat and gentoox not resize bios, it erase the tsop by block erasing and not like Evox. Evox flasher can flash the other brands of tsops and can resize a 256k bios bin or 512k bios bin to fill a 1mb tsop or 256k non winbond, it erase the tsop by chip erase."
hello, so I was trying to tsop my xbox 1.0 with a ST Chip, I already have a softmod but because I didnt have a spare dvd-r disc I decided to try it without using a disk. I searched for a HeXEn version for HDD and found one on theisozone, downloaded that and ftp'd it to my xbox. Did everything like in this video and chose the "evox m8 plus F and G" option (in 256k). So it installed everything successfully and once I rebooted the xbox problems started occurring, now I get the evo logo on the top left corner but then I get this black screen and cant seem to do anything. I can still play games though and go into the msdash. So Im thinking my only options are to find a disc and burn the HeXEn disc and try it again? I would greatly appreciate a response.
its probably your softmod interfering with the boot process of the new bios you flashed. thats kinda normal actually. you need to run the option in hexen to remove your softmod from the hdd. you might have to burn hexen to a cd or dvd man. btw, you can burn hexen to a cd. a dvd is not required
thewheelman282 thank you very much for your response! I managed to fix it by burning Hexen to a disc and then reinstalling the softmod from there. My next question would be, what's the most up to date bios for my chip (ST)? Note, I want to install a 1TB hdd later down the road.
the bios's on hexen are already the most up to date so you already flashed the lastest version of evox m8 plus. (xbox custom bios's are no longer in development)
ok, thanks for the info.I'm having a hard time over here hehe, now that I got this xbox working I tsoped another xbox, version 1.2 with a Hynix Chip. I think I might have bricked it, damn. I bridged the points and in hexen when flashing the bios it freezed on me on the "erasing" part about 30% in on the bar. I sorta got stuck and I didnt know what to do. After half an hour I decided, fuck it and shut down the xbox. Now when I boot the xbox up it goes off 2 times (meaning fans go out and hdd) and get on again and then nothing on the screen, just green and red light is blinking constantly. I know it's fixable but how? is there a way without a modchip?
I try to flash my Xbox bios and I turn the game off before it complete. I try turn it on back an it flashing red and green light and the screen is blank I don't see anything. Can someone tell me how to fix that problem please? Can it be fix with the hexen disc?
David Grizzelle the modchip is bricked. You can remove the chip and repair the trace that was cut to make the Xbox boot again to the stock bios. Then boot hexen and go to the part where you would flash the modchip and then plug the modchip in and try to flash the chip again. Failing that, you could flash the chip with an external programmer or get a new chip
David Grizzelle , oh well you posted the same comment on both my videos so I wasnt sure. If it's a TSOP flash that broke, the Xbox is bricked. you have 3 options. 1) have a professional desolder the TSOP chip and program it manually with an external programmer. 2) get another Xbox. 3) install a modchip then boot hexen and go to the part where you flash a TSOP bios and before you flash, unplug the chip from the motherboard and then flash. Or you can just keep the chip in there and be done with it
I have a revision 1 or 1.1 Xbox that is getting an error code 07, which I think is a hard drive problem. To get it to run again, I need to install a new bios somehow and then use a new hard drive. Is it possible to flash the TSOP without being able to softmod it, or will a modchip solve this issue?
error 7 means it cant find the HDD. check the simple stuff first. is the HDD spinning? have the cables come loose? is the HDD jumper set to cable select? reseat the cables too. TSOP or modchip wont fix error 7 because the xbox is not seeing the HDD for some reason You can try installing any other HDD to see if you get a different error. if so, that points to something wrong with the HDD. if not, try another IDE cable
you can make a new HDD with XboxHDM (linux) if you have a backup of the eeprom.bin from the xbox or the old HDD password. if you dont have that backup, you will have to buy/build and eeprom reader and recover it manually from the xbox motherboard
its cool. no its not that. basically the HDD must be locked with a password so that it will work in the xbox. the xbox gives the HDD the password and unlocks it to use it. when it shuts down, the HDD locks again. XboxHDM can generate the password if you have the eeprom.bin file that is on the xbox if its softmodded. if you dont have the file, you have to use a tool called an eeprom reader and connect it to the xbox motherboard and recover the eeprom.bin file that way
+thewheelman282 do you absolutely have to have a softmodded xbox before disabling the write protection to the TSOP or can you do it before softmodding and be just fine?
Do we need to remove the solder bridges after the flash? (v1.1, ST TSOP) Edit: I flashed now my TSOP, with Xecuter 2 ( i belive mine is 1MB but i installed 256 to be safe) and it work's fine, thank you! But i need to make new Shortcut's to my Emulators :P But I'm scared that i can break something, if I leave the solder bridges. thank's for responding!
No? fine. Thank's! I never done that much to my Xbox, i just softmodded it before, upgraded the hard drive to 80gb added led stripe, painted it and removed the clock cap. so i was a little bit scared, if i can break something :D i got another question: i've got a tsop from st, and a "single-slot" power connector, so that mean's that i have 1mb tsop? and if i install multiple bios, can i load and switch them?(like holding the power button for 3 sek's switches from bios 1 to bios 2 etc.)
Hi, Bios Hynix HY29F002TT-900309A Motherboard 2003-06 1.3v Power supply double row... Know someone what kind of bios I have? 1mb? 500kb? 256kb? I am not sure which points I have to solder.... Greetings
Hi i have a Apple 5 chip in my xbox hardware mod. I use slayer in the past butt with New HDD 250 gig (old wone was 200 gb) bigger is not posible with my bios i want to update the bios so i can install bv. 2 tb max .or the new HDD 250 gig the xbox now see as a 200 gig mnnn. Witch i must select in de hexen 2017 dvd. For the good bios i dont now if i have a winbind sorry die bad English. Thx. Xbox is 1.2 versie i think
you will need to open your xbox to see which TSOP chip you have and you will also have to solder the 2 points if you havent already. dont attempt to flash the TSOP until you know what chip brand you have
Allows backups discs to played, allows unlocked hard drives making upgrades/replacements when faulty much easier than softmods and you can customise most bios startups on the tsop flashing using tools.
Thank you man!!! I now have a TSOP Modded Xbox. Was easier than expected. Hardest part was trying to see the solder points and get them bridged with my shaky hands..
You definitely earned yourself a subscriber!
thanks man i appreciate it!
Extremely well explained ! Thank you very much for both part 1 and part 2 videos. Once you've finished following the tutorial, boot your console and clear the cache directly from the dashboard if you have trouble launching games ;)
Thank you for this guide. I successfully tsop flashed my Xbox 1.0. You are definitely a good instructor, as well as technician.
Awesome job. Thanks so much to all of the original coders that figured this stuff out and created the tools, and to you for explaining everything so well. I've gone back to this several times, and it's so easy to get the info and do the work. Thanks again!!
I didn't realize how easy it is to do this. Way back when the Xbox was new I paid someone to TSOP flash my Xbox and I've always thought it was a complicated process. Now I think I might TSOP flash my other Xbox, not needing to lock hard drives makes this mod worth it over just softmodding imo. I have a 500GB drive that refused to lock in my softmodded Xbox, but my TSOP flashed Xbox doesn't care about locked drives so no problem using it there. Anyways, thanks for the video, this was super helpful
Thank you so much for these to videos. I have a 1.4 xbox and was trying to flash it and none of the TUTs told me about the types of TSOP and which one to use. This helped and I was about to flash the xbox. Thank you so much.
Magnus Hydra , you very welcome. Happy to help!
Thanks for the extremely clear and thorough videos on TSOP flashing.
Dude you are awesome and I want to send you a big hand shack that is to thank you. Good clear true knowledge with clear examples is all I saw and heard and I followed them with ease because of you and it worked. Thank you!
Thank you so much for this, Wheelman! You're my new favorite RUclipsr!
thanks for the support!
Awsome...AWSOME video, man! This is an amazing method for modding an Xbox, no need to install modchips especially since their not readily available plus the extra features like unlocking the hard drive. Just awesome :)
So glad I subbed you. All this info is priceless.
The first video and this second video where wonderful, very well done. Thank you! big SMILE :))
Hey which options do you use in the hexen boot disc to upgrade the hard drive on a TSOP xbox?
Hello, I would like to ask a question about the Original xbox v1.0. But it does not directly pertain to this video. Is there someway that I could contact you? Thanks.
best video ive seen on tsop ,thanks very much ,very informative.
+jason dowsett not a problem man. glad you liked it!
ive got 3 xboxs which are softmoded,but the hdds aren't locked .what would you suggest to do? can I tsop them .or will I have to hard mod them.
jason dowsett
if you have the eeprom.bin file or the password written down you can lock the HDD with XboxHDM on a PC. then install the HDD in your xbox so the softmod works and TSOP flash.
or you can buy/build an eeprom reader and manually recover the eeprom.bin file from the motherboard and then use XboxHDM.
or you can hardmod first, then install and lock the HDD, remove the chip, then TSOP flash
don't have the keys,ive got 4 mod chips coming, so ill hard mod them.thanks for all your help.oh by the way ive just managed to tsop 2 other xboxs,using electric paint.was very easy to do.
ive heard about that conductive ink. never used it myself though
*******Special Insturctions for Winbond Chips Only*********
When attempting to flash the bios on a Winbond chip and boot Gentoox (around 23:26 of the video) the screen may go black if using component cables =5 wire cables. The solution is to: either use composite cables =3 wire cables OR you can flash without a display, just carefully follow the video and count button moves and the selections. I was able to do it without a display just CAREFULLY follow selections.
Great video! I'm pretty happy with my softmod right now (and I don't know if I even can flash it) but very informative if I ever need to take the next step.
Best Tsop flashing Video!
Priceless Info, very well done!
+thewheelman282 the xbox 1.0 I just got looks like this was attempted and botched. The solder pads for R7D3 are gone with slight burn marks. Is this fixable? Or possible help with alternate solder points?
many thanks from italy for your perfect video instructions :-)
Very easy to follow video , thank you. Flashed my BIOS no problem.
+curt chauvin glad to hear it!
Hey, curious. What does the "clean up install" choice on the hexen menu do? I am timid as I have bricked an xbox by thinking I knew things I didn't. (future chip for that one)
Excellent tutorials man!you managed to explain everything I needed to know.I just softmodded my xbox and tried upgrading the HDD but i got error 07.The molex y splitters were cheap so I dont think they were supplying enough power.Have you ever had this issue?
Gave it a go today and well . . . even though I can solder pretty good, I almost messed it up completely. Managed to get everything re-soldered in it's right place and it still works, but wouldn't accept the command to flash. Going to leave well enough alone. Hadn't touched it for 6 months so I think caring about what BIOS I have is a little behind me. :)
The hexen disc is pretty cool. It will i.d. the version you have. I was attempting to do my first tsop flash and found out I have a v1.6. Oh well, I don't need to open it just for removing the clock cap so I will save it for later. As @Cartman122 said 1.6 :(
I have other versions and am excited for my 1st flash. Thanks Wheelman.
Im two years too late but just so you know, the clock cap does NOT need to be removed on a 1.6. That will actually brick the xbox
Great video I'm going to pull my old Xbox out of storage and attempt this. Do you have any recommendations or video links on how to softmod first and upgrade the HDD to a bigger drive after TSOP? Thanks will be checking out your other videos in the near future.
easiest method to softmod is to use the save game exploit with splinter cell or 007 AUF. then follow this video to perform the TSOP. you can upgrade the HDD later if you download Hexen 2017 from theisozone. it makes the upgrade process very easy
thewheelman282 thanks a bunch! I will check that out and see how it goes.
@23:30, funny you say that about 3rd party controllers. As I have been attempting to TSOP my 1.3 Winbond Xbox today after following another guide, pretty much the same as yours. Every time I get to the Gentoox Loader XBE v6.05 screen to move the Dpad to the right to get to Advanced I cannot for the life of me get the menu to move! It just hangs and tries to look for a boot disc after 5 seconds. I have a shitty Saitek pad pfft, I am going to borrow my friends controller S tonight so hopefully it will work ok?!
I will keep you guys updated :)
Thanks
Mike
+TheGoose81 yeah man, gentoox (including chimp) generally hates 3rd party controllers. you have to use official controllers almost every time
So I successfully managed to flash my 1.0 Xbox with the 512kb x2 bios. Everything works well, except for "xecuter2 config live loading" coming up whenever I boot. Just looks unappealing. Any suggestions on how to go about removing that, if I even can?
you cant unless you know how to edit the bios code to remove it
very easy doing this on revision xbox 1.0 ,
only need to solder 2 points for the 1.0 ,
points are close enough for just beaded solder,
actually , no room for wires really, just put the least amount of solder, when bridging the points.
and at least for me , didnt see any problem with the points staying soldered on my 1.0 ,
but thats me , and my 1.0 ,
others could be different. im sure i will try other bioses later also.
i love you xbox ver. 1.0
I think I have the same version as you. Mine has the GPU fan on the heat sink. So this version doesn't require a wire to supply extra power just solder the two points?
Your video helped me tsop my 1.2 Xbox thanks so much!
The Keeper , happy to help!
I still have my old 1,0 Xbox that still has an old xecuter lite+ solderless chip in it of course that thing always frags. Would love to fix it as it has a 1mb bios in it. But it still frags even without the chip. Luckily I had this 1.2 box :)
Just out of interest, what benefits does an unlocked hard drive have over a locked one?
+TheGoose81 easier troubleshooting /upgrading mostly. if you want to upgrade the HDD or rebuild file system for whatever reason, you dont have to bother with locking and unlocking it. and if you dont have access to tools to perform the locking/unlocking, it can be a huge pain to troubleshoot
Hello I’ve Softmoded my Xbox then done a tsop now he’s the problem I can get it to show in hd/720p but when I got to play a backed up game ie xbox original game it loads up but I can not see it put the standard cable back in it work but with crap res so I go to settings it not pal bonus so go to ms dash it loads but now I can not see the standard dash now what is going on I’ve I tryed this every way I can please please help the only thing I can think that has changed is the tsop and uninstalling the softmod 🤯🤬
First, thanks for the great videos. I now can change thermal paste and light up my controller ports thanks to you. Couple questions because I’m just learning about this stuff. Can I do the TSOP if I’ve already upgraded my hard drive
Secondly, when you unlocked the hard drive does that mean I can now put any ide hard dive on my Xbox if the one I have ever fails? Thanks again.
1. Yes. I upgraded the HDD before the TSOP mod.
2. You should be able to put in any IDE drive. With an adapter, you can even put in an SATA drive. You will need to format the drive and build the partitions with a program like Xbox HD Maker.
Great video! I was lucky enough to have the exact same version and chip as yours haha.
I have a couple questions. I have access to a chip writer. and I think even some of those 1mb tsop chips. could I remove any 256k tsop and replace it with one one of the 1mb chips? also if they are intrupted during flashing on the xbox I assume that they are actually still flashable they would just have to be removed from the motherboard and put in a chip flashing machine like I have access too. I have a chipmax 2 with tsop adapter.
I am interested in the quad bios setup. or maybe just 2 bios. and which BIOS that may take advantage of ram upgrade. if you have any information on that?
The 1MB and 256K TSOP chips are different physical sizes and have different pin counts so you probably couldn't put a 1MB chip on v1.2+ motherboards. The chip is still writable if it's bricked so you would need an external programmer. Afaik all 3 of the newest custom bios's support the RAM upgrade so it y just your personal preference
I've got one question : is it possible to tsop an 1.4 Xbox with aladdin xt modchip soldered to the Mainboard? My goal is to have two bioses. One on the modchip an one on the xbox
Yes you can but you need the ability to turn the modchip off. otherwise the flashing process is the same
5:20 i have a single row but it doesnt have those extra gnd or 3.3v stb wires but it does have that orange 3.3v wire tho; does that matter? Or is it just the single row thats all that counts? P.S my softmodded xbox already says on screen i got a 1.0 version
its just the single row that matters
Thanks man, Great video, got my xbox TSOP now, 1st time i ever solder anything lols; now i gotta see how to fix stuck DVD drive and how to make it quite since the fan is loud on this 1.0 model.
Stuck dvd drive tap it ontop while pushing the button.. After you get it open clean the belt its easy job i used tweezers to remove and replace on all my xboxes lol. U can find vid on utube to clean belt.
oh my xbox was already open, but yea i use rubbing alcohol on the belt and it works again
stuck dvd drive is the rubber band in the drive.google it their are videos to fix it.its easy good luck.
Any chance you know what R7D9 and R7D2 actually are or what they do? After doing this with my Winbond chip I'm having trouble with my ethernet port. Prior to applying the new TSOP flash I noticed that my router showed no link light whatsoever when connected to my Xbox. After the flash I now get a blinking link light on the router end, but I can't quite tell if the Xbox end is blinking. In the network settings under UnleashX it shows "No Link". I'm curious if I may have damaged one of those two components when I was soldering so close to them, and if that could kill the ethernet port.
your not the first person this has happened to apparently. there have
been like 1 or 2 other people commenting that the ethernet port stopped
working. personally i have never heard of this until a long time after i
posted this video so im clueless
I fixed my problem, but the solution made absolutely no logical sense I can decipher.
Before doing the mod my Xbox connected to my network without any issues. After I soldered the points, without making any other changes (still running under the softmod at this point before flashing), I noticed in UnleashX I had no IP assigned, and according to the network settings it didn't detect a link. Without changing any settings I reconnected my ethernet cable several times at both ends, restarting the router and Xbox several times, but it refused to acknowledge any connection. I tried different ethernet cables as well with no luck. When I connected my laptop to the ethernet cable/router and used the same network settings, everything connected fine on the laptop.
I tried a different router and the Xbox actually connected with it just fine. If something had actually been damaged it shouldn't have been able to connect with any router. A settings issue either on the router or Xbox end shouldn't have been the problem because I hadn't changed anything on either end except making the solder connections for the TSOP. The router shouldn't be damaged because my laptop could connect with it.
Unless the Illuminati installed a specific feature on my one router that specifically blocks an original Xbox from 2002 connecting to it after modding, I can't figure out any logical explanation for why that fixed it. I tried everything else, but it now only connects with the new router.
Man, Best explanation ever!! believe me I have seen many before I TSOP my xbox. A quick question, I want to upgrade me ram from 64mb to 128mb do you know which bios support it?
I am struggling a little bit and is getting hard, I am good at soldering but clearly not so much in software!!
Thank you.
Any of the 3 BIOS's on hexen support 128mb ram
thewheelman282 not really!! I TSOP with evo x and no results at all, one xbox flashes green no video, the other one flashes orange and red but once i press the dvd button it turns off and starts back with green and red light!
Do you know what the R7D2 (Resistor?) does for the Xbox? I accidentally removed it and my console is still working but I'm not sure if I should replace because it might not be needed. I have the windbound V1.4 Board.
im not sure what its for and im not sure how important it is. if possible, you can measure the resistance of R7D2 from another xbox and get a resistor of the same value. it doesnt have to be SMD. you can use a standard resistor if you want to
thewheelman282 good idea. I might do that. I got a new soldering iron and didn't have a small enough tip and I was to impatient. Lol. Great idea!
Does my xbox have to already be tsoped to read hexen 2017? I copied the file to a disc and put it in my softmoded console and it kept saying that the tray was empty. I am using a Memorex cd-rw that I formatted in windows 10. Should I have not formatted the disc? I check the disc and the hexen 2017 is on it. Do I need to install an image burner?
probably the xbox cant read your disc for some reason. either it wasnt burned correctly or the disc drive cant read cd-rw's. use the PC program imgburn to burn discs just to be safe
that moment when you have a 1.6 xbox :(
me too man and i have a harddrive that doesnt support lock
Cartman122 just look at local second hand store. You can find new versions there all the time.
i never seen a 1.6 :D i got abouot 6 xbox''s in my life, and all was v1.0, v1.1 and v1.4 :D
how many xbox version 1.6 does it take to mod your bios,
exactly none , lol ,
i feel you , had a few 1.6 , microsoft basically hosed all those people buying the 1.6,
thanks again microsoft.
dj don bentley With 1.6 the only option is a modchip or softmod, but you could still have custom BIOS with the modchip. Exact same benefits of a TSOP really.
Do you knows alternatif points to soldering?
i performed this correcly but i can't run game backups or extract them and FTP them to the console, it just boots me back to UnleashX. Anyone knows whats going on? my main purpose was to make a slim xbox but without being able to play backups its not feasible
I may want to do this in the future and this is a very good video for it. I am new to soldering and I have never done it before but since the points are so close to each other, couldn't you use a very small wire and use some sort of glue? I know I sound like a complete noob, because I am one, but let me know if I could use this method.
Lars Kuck , not glue but your close. You could use conductive ink. It's used for making temporary connections
Ok, I'll have to try and practice some soldering, doesn't look that hard, and get an original Xbox without a Sharp EEPROM to make it easier. I would want the connection to be somewhat permanent so I think that I would just learn to solder for when the time comes. :)
Does the connection needs to be permanent or does it only have to hold on during the flashing part? I'm also thinking about using conductive paint because I have no soldering skills yet.
hi again,just wondering have you come across any winbound that wont flash,as I'm having difficulty get 2 to flash.keeps failing.
+jason dowsett i never have. check your soldering on the write protection disable points again to make sure they are connected. if one is not making a good connection, then write protection is still enabled
ok cheers,i managed to do one but the others being a sod lol.cheers for help.
Great video just one thing do i remove the solder joints after it's been tsop or do i leave them on
it doesnt matter. if you removed the joints i guess it could act as a layer of security if someone were to try to flash the TSOP without your knowing but thats all
thank's for the info think i will remove them just to be safe, would just like to say thank you for the great you tube video's :)
Wow, this is easier than I thought. I have 3 Xbox consoles (only two are currently soft-modded, but doing the 3rd one is easy). I may try this with my Halo Edition Xbox if its not a 1.6 (is there any way to tell what version it is w/o opening up the console? Like a date code or serial number code or anything?)
+DvdXploitr sure is:
www.theisozone.com/tutorials/xbox/general/manufacturing-mfg-dates-for-the-xbox/
I decided against modding the Halo one....don't worry
+DvdXploitr you do need to remove the clock cap if its a version lower then 1.6 it will preserve the motherboard.
would you use the hexen cd to upgrade a hard drive? maybe you can make a video on how to upgrade the hard drive. thanks for the great video
yeah its actually my preferred way to upgrade hard drives. i could probably make a video about that in the future. ill add it to my list
thanks alot! great videos detailed and easy to follow..hope to see more videos
Late comment here but you can just throw a new drive in and hexen has an option to set it all up
Awsome guide!!
Thank you!
Really well done thanks mate.
Hi when you solder two points on motherboard what temp you put 300-400 or less ?
Between 550-600 F or 290-315 C
@@thewheelman282 Thanks Have a nice day by the way you have a new Subscriber 😁😁😁
did a second tsop today and it worked flawlessly. forgot what a pain ndure xboxhdm hotswap method is tho. once softmodded rest was a breeze. used evox m8+ this time on hynix. time for some lan play!! :-)
LAN play like a boss! very underated
Hello, I have a question.
I have an original Xbox system but with a broken DVD-R and it's not softmodded. Can doing this TSOP mod help me bypass the DVD drive if the system isn't softmodded? I'm also wanting to replace the HDD.
if your saying you want to remove the DVD drive completely, then yes, a TSOP mod will allow you to run the xbox without a DVD drive attached. A TSOP mod will also allow you to run your games from the hard drive so you dont have to use the DVD drive
That sounds good. So the Hexen disc part isn't required then? If I'm looking to replace the hard drive, is there a way to use HeXen without the DVD drive?
strictly speaking, using hexen from the dvd drive is not required. you
can run hexen from the hard drive if you want to (i think its called
hexen4hdd). but you will have to softmod first to get FTP capability to
get hexen copied to the hard drive
problem is you need a working dvd drive to first run the bios flash ,
and usually you need to first already be softmodded.
after the tsop , i wonder if you can use a standard pc dvd drive
for most games,
i know u cant before it.
i can verify that after a succesful bios flash , the unit does boot , and work much smoother than with the
softmod. same dashboards , more capabilities , basically the bios cant lock u out or give you most error codes
that stop unit from booting.
1.0 xbox was extremely easy to tsop,
still have my soldered points connected, no problem,
but dont know about others except my 1.0 unit.
im glad i dont have a sharp bios chip.
I cant run hexen from dvd (green, orange, red flashing lights). I tried using hexen form hdd to flash a 1.4 xbox with winbond, but it wont start gentoox. What else can I try?
hmm, all different revisions of the original xbox have different drives that have different success rates with all types of discs. I tried a dvd-r and it flopped, then a cd-r that didn't work. But then a cd-rw seemed to do the trick for me. Its all about trial and error. and yeah, the hdd hexen sucks, i tried it and got no success. Good luck!
Thank you very much for this tutorial! Did my Winbond without any issues, neat :) My another XBOX is v1.6, can't be modded this way :)
Hello. I have a Xbox with st chip. One row power connector to motherboard so that menns that it's a 1.0 or 1.1? Problem is when I make a solder a bridge on R7D3 and R7R4, i put it back together and Hexen disc is not working. I have used the disc on other Xbox's and know its working. Do i need to softmod before using hexen?
yes because your xbox is not modded yet. Soldering the 2 points only disables write protection the TSOP so you can flash it later. it does not mod your xbox
thewheelman282 Thanks for the answer, and I figured it out. My problem is that I thought that when you disabled write protection you could use hexen disc to softmod. I missunderstod the whole thing. I got it softmodded and tsop now!
Thanks for your help! Would be difficult to call Microsoft to ask for help😎
glad you got it working!
Just did it. Works great!
I'm pretty sure I have a version 1.0 or 1.1. I have a fan on the GPU so 1.0? Does my xbox require to run a wire at all or can I just bridge the two areas that need to be bridged?
You don't have to run any wires for that model. Just bridge the connections
@@thewheelman282 awesome thanks man!
My XBOX has a Xecuter2 modchip installed, right now i can load hexen, use XBMC and load backup games, but when i try to chage the dashboard, for example, hexen tells me that it cant detect a modchip (or something like that). Do i need to upgrade the BIOS on the modchip itself? In that case, i would proceed like whit the Hynix/Hyunday/ST chips?
you could try updating the bios to the latest version unless its already the latest version. Most chips can be flashed using evox like in the video but some require other software. depends on the chip
Thanks for answering! I kept digging after my question (actualy pulled an all-nighter, LOL), but i ended up flashing a EvoX BIOS, installing a 320GB HDD, and all that good stuff. Really in love with my XBOX now! (i mean, even more so than before, hehe).
I have a question: I have a modchipped Xbox, but it's working only from chip. If I disable chip it won't boot (red led only). Is it a corrupted data in tsop? And how can it be repaired.
could be corrupted tsop but that would normally cause the led to flash red and green. but it could be. also depends on the chip and how its installed. different chips have different install methods so the xbox not booting without a chip could be a side effect of the chip being used. but thats just a guess. i know for a fact that v1.6 xbox's wont boot without a chip due to having to cut a trace on the motherboard so thats a possibility
It's a 1.4 version. The chip looks like Alladin XT. I've tried to desolder it, but the effect was exactly the same (instant red led).
thank you very much was easy to do I did it right away after watching video
+Joseph Luce thanks man. happy modding!
how tsoped my xbox without Heimdalls engeneering disc i ftp evox an my bios to tsop that way
Would it be possible to send you a few boards to get TSOP done on them, for pay? I can't pay a lot. But, I don't have a microscope or soldering iron of anything. These points are so small.
sure i can if you want. heck ill do it for free man. i mean theres no real work involved. just a little time. but you will have to pay shipping both ways. let me know
Really??? Wow thank you! So, can I just send the motherboards to save money? Not sure if you were gonna flash the BIOS on them also. If not, my friend might be able to burn HeXen, on a disc for me. I just need an address. Might take a week or do to get them out. Just depends on shipping price.
yeah i can flash it too. it only takes a few mins. i need to know what version motherboards you want flashed and what brand TSOP chip they have. also, if possible you would need to ship the boards in anti-static bags to make sure they dont get zapped by static electricity from the packaging. You dont necessarily have to use anti-static bags but it would really suck if they didnt make it through the mail
thewheelman282 - Two are v1.0 with Hynix and the other I believe is just like the one you did here with a Winbound. All boards, I've taken off the Time capacitor & cleaned everything. I've also replaced the thermal paste on them. Just need the shipping address. I will definitely see if I can antistatic material for them. That's a good call.
so when you tsop it automatically disables to boot with locked harddisk? great video :)
yes it does. and thanks
thank you too, i have a hynix :)
What's the benifits of a unlocked Hdd on an xbox and clock check? How do you change the founder and animation on a tsop?...I have a 2tb Xbox that I had missed for me and the IGR used to work(sorta) but it would restart the Xbox... skip the animation flubber and then error 7....I know what it is it's not my Hdd or my adapter it's thinking out before it the bios can read off the Hdd. I'm going to use EVTool to edit my m8+ and flash it back to see if I can fix it.
-unlocked HDD means less pain in the ass if you want to upgrade the HDD or need to fix the filesystem on a PC
-changing the TSOP boot animations depends on the bios thats flashed. the newest one create a .ini file on the E drive where you can make changes to the flubber animation. the bios reads this file during bootup
+thewheelman282 where do I put the .bin file if I want to flash my tsop 1.0 with evox?
+thewheelman282 sorry I meant after I edit it (.bin) with evtool to where on xbox to where the evox can flash it?
i think its c:\bios but i cant remember for sure. it could just be c:\
Oh that's why I've been trying to put it in the evox\bios folder
Hello me again. I just bought a new Xbox instead cause I figured the time and money spent repairing a dead Xbox is better spent just getting a new one. Question, I have a eeprom reader/writer, could I just read both xboxes and replace hdd key on new one? Thanks
in theory, yes that would work
Nice. I knew that thing would come in handy.
Thanks, but now I have received the new xbox (1.0 btw). The only catch is that after replacing eeprom and hdd, it will boot startup screen, then a black screen. I put the old eeprom and hdd in and boots retail. When I try to softmod it it loads the game, but when I load the SID5.1 with Splinter Cell, it black screens again. I have tried both composite and component cables, but both do the same. Please help :(
how are you replacing the eeprom? like flashing it with an eeprom reader? that method is kind of hit and miss. ive tried the same thing myself and havent had success. some v1.0 xbox's with really early kernels dont show error messages at bootup like the newer versions do so that could explain the blank screen, possibly. you wont be able to put your new HDD in the xbox unless its locked with the eeprom/HDD password thats programmed in the new xbox
Ok. I did get the old one back on and can boot to retail dashboard. I still cannot run the softmod installer though. It also displays a black screen.
I have just opened up an old xbox I had in the loft and it doesn't have any of those.
What it does have is Samsung ram, Focus chip, tsop chip Atmel at49f002a 55ti 0424
I thought samsung ram and focus was 1.6?
What speed is that DVD?
Is it necessary to Keep the Wires soldered in that Disabled the Write Protection after I Flashed the TSOP ?
not necessary. if you want to desolder the 2 connections, you can. it doesnt matter
thewheelman282 thank you :) oh I was wondering 2 more things. 1 do you have any mod chips you would be willing to part with? An is it possible to reverse the tsop?
i dont have any chips to sell. However, you can go here to buy them: assemblergames.com/l/threads/zer0-2k11s-mod-chip-and-installation-shop.43131/
Technically yes its possible to flash the original BIOS back to the TSOP if you did want to go back but you would have to place that BIOS manually on the Hexen image before you burn it
I downloaded the link for hexen,onto my phone(took 45 minutes).How do I change the format so that I can put it onto the modded xbox?Please help,been trying to get a copy of it for over a week.
well you will need a PC first. you need to copy the hexen downloaded file (.zip i think) to your PC so you can extract it. Then you need to burn the .iso file to a cd/dvd to put in the xbox
Thanks for taking the time to answer my question.I might see if I can get one from somebody at isozone.com or something.Thanks again.
can you do a video on how to use a sd card as a hard drive? they sell Ide to sd adaptors on amazon and someone on youtube said that it is possible to do that. thank you.
I could probably do that once I get back to making videos again
cool, that would be great, I have had too many hard drives break on me, an sd card would be the best option. thank you.
I have 1.2 winbond. after hexen reboots disc ejects with flashing red light and black screen. any ideas?
honestly ive never heard of that. sounds like a bad flash to me but thats a shot in the dark. you can try flashing again if you have a modchip
everything copies over but the system doesn't go into gentoox. i can power off/on and it loads back into softmod. only difference is xbmc no longer works, unleashx skin reset to default
update: something weird happened. I accidentally went into the file cleanup menu, I hit B to back out but the process happened anyway. rebooted and I was stock again. I used my ndure disc with eeprom to unlock hdd. I wanted to make sure it worked so I figured xbox wouldn't boot if unlocked. Guess what? It boots unlocked. Strange thing is no IND BIOS screen shows when I power on the console. This is just weird.
Sorry about all the posts. I finally got it working. I tired again and it just worked - got Gentoox for the first time and everything went fine. Maybe a bad solder joint - I have no idea? Thanks for all your Xbox info, I followed your thermal paste and battery guides too. Think I'm going to do a 80mm fan mod :-)
glad to hear you got it sorted out man. thats pretty crazy
on 23:01 it says it's only for 256k bios, but I own a 1.1 winbond with 1mb since gentoox doesn't resize bios how can this be done?
I'm really not sure on that one. I wasn't aware that winbond chips existed in v1.1 xboxs
Wheelmn282 taken from this threat.
assemblergames.com/threads/xbox-winbond-question.64114/
"Winbond and Sharp 1mb tsops need to use raincoat or gentoox with the correct size bios to flash correctly raincoat and gentoox not resize bios, it erase the tsop by block erasing and not like Evox.
Evox flasher can flash the other brands of tsops and can resize a 256k bios bin or 512k bios bin to fill a 1mb tsop or 256k non winbond, it erase the tsop by chip erase."
hello, so I was trying to tsop my xbox 1.0 with a ST Chip, I already have a softmod but because I didnt have a spare dvd-r disc I decided to try it without using a disk. I searched for a HeXEn version for HDD and found one on theisozone, downloaded that and ftp'd it to my xbox. Did everything like in this video and chose the "evox m8 plus F and G" option (in 256k). So it installed everything successfully and once I rebooted the xbox problems started occurring, now I get the evo logo on the top left corner but then I get this black screen and cant seem to do anything. I can still play games though and go into the msdash. So Im thinking my only options are to find a disc and burn the HeXEn disc and try it again?
I would greatly appreciate a response.
its probably your softmod interfering with the boot process of the new bios you flashed. thats kinda normal actually. you need to run the option in hexen to remove your softmod from the hdd. you might have to burn hexen to a cd or dvd man. btw, you can burn hexen to a cd. a dvd is not required
thewheelman282 thank you very much for your response! I managed to fix it by burning Hexen to a disc and then reinstalling the softmod from there. My next question would be, what's the most up to date bios for my chip (ST)? Note, I want to install a 1TB hdd later down the road.
the bios's on hexen are already the most up to date so you already flashed the lastest version of evox m8 plus. (xbox custom bios's are no longer in development)
ok, thanks for the info.I'm having a hard time over here hehe, now that I got this xbox working I tsoped another xbox, version 1.2 with a Hynix Chip. I think I might have bricked it, damn. I bridged the points and in hexen when flashing the bios it freezed on me on the "erasing" part about 30% in on the bar. I sorta got stuck and I didnt know what to do. After half an hour I decided, fuck it and shut down the xbox. Now when I boot the xbox up it goes off 2 times (meaning fans go out and hdd) and get on again and then nothing on the screen, just green and red light is blinking constantly. I know it's fixable but how? is there a way without a modchip?
its only fixable with a modchip. xbox modchips are pretty cheap though. idk where you are in the world but i think eurasia.com sells alladin xt chips
i have a 1.4 xbox with a retail hdd that was locked on another xbox and now the 1.4 xbox has an error 06 the hdd is from the 1.4 xbox
I try to flash my Xbox bios and I turn the game off before it complete. I try turn it on back an it flashing red and green light and the screen is blank I don't see anything. Can someone tell me how to fix that problem please? Can it be fix with the hexen disc?
David Grizzelle the modchip is bricked. You can remove the chip and repair the trace that was cut to make the Xbox boot again to the stock bios. Then boot hexen and go to the part where you would flash the modchip and then plug the modchip in and try to flash the chip again. Failing that, you could flash the chip with an external programmer or get a new chip
thewheelman282 the game don't have a mod chip in it. the game was mod but the chip was removed I think it was tsop flash
David Grizzelle , oh well you posted the same comment on both my videos so I wasnt sure. If it's a TSOP flash that broke, the Xbox is bricked. you have 3 options. 1) have a professional desolder the TSOP chip and program it manually with an external programmer. 2) get another Xbox. 3) install a modchip then boot hexen and go to the part where you flash a TSOP bios and before you flash, unplug the chip from the motherboard and then flash. Or you can just keep the chip in there and be done with it
I have a revision 1 or 1.1 Xbox that is getting an error code 07, which I think is a hard drive problem. To get it to run again, I need to install a new bios somehow and then use a new hard drive. Is it possible to flash the TSOP without being able to softmod it, or will a modchip solve this issue?
error 7 means it cant find the HDD. check the simple stuff first. is the HDD spinning? have the cables come loose? is the HDD jumper set to cable select? reseat the cables too.
TSOP or modchip wont fix error 7 because the xbox is not seeing the HDD for some reason
You can try installing any other HDD to see if you get a different error. if so, that points to something wrong with the HDD. if not, try another IDE cable
+thewheelman282 I'll look into it. but if the hard drive turns out to be dead, where do I go from there?
you can make a new HDD with XboxHDM (linux) if you have a backup of the eeprom.bin from the xbox or the old HDD password. if you dont have that backup, you will have to buy/build and eeprom reader and recover it manually from the xbox motherboard
+thewheelman282 there is a configuration code on the original hard drive itself, would that be the right code? sorry about all these questions
its cool. no its not that. basically the HDD must be locked with a password so that it will work in the xbox. the xbox gives the HDD the password and unlocks it to use it. when it shuts down, the HDD locks again. XboxHDM can generate the password if you have the eeprom.bin file that is on the xbox if its softmodded. if you dont have the file, you have to use a tool called an eeprom reader and connect it to the xbox motherboard and recover the eeprom.bin file that way
why and how is the bios on the hard drive and not on the hexen disc?
You'll have to explain your question. Not sure what you mean
in the video when you go to retrieve the bios you say that it is on the hard drive. 24:09 of the video.
if you could make a video on how to use an sd card as a hard drive that would be cool, cause hard drives brake down too much, and are heavy.
Oh I see. Hexen extracts gentoox onto the HDD temporarily and therefore the bios is too
Wonderful your video
+thewheelman282 do you absolutely have to have a softmodded xbox before disabling the write protection to the TSOP or can you do it before softmodding and be just fine?
Can you softmod a 1.6 xbox?
Yes
Do we need to remove the solder bridges after the flash? (v1.1, ST TSOP)
Edit: I flashed now my TSOP, with Xecuter 2 ( i belive mine is 1MB but i installed 256 to be safe) and it work's fine, thank you! But i need to make new Shortcut's to my Emulators :P But I'm scared that i can break something, if I leave the solder bridges. thank's for responding!
you dont have to remove them. it doesnt really matter though
No? fine. Thank's! I never done that much to my Xbox, i just softmodded it before, upgraded the hard drive to 80gb added led stripe, painted it and removed the clock cap. so i was a little bit scared, if i can break something :D i got another question: i've got a tsop from st, and a "single-slot" power connector, so that mean's that i have 1mb tsop? and if i install multiple bios, can i load and switch them?(like holding the power button for 3 sek's switches from bios 1 to bios 2 etc.)
its not possible to switch between bios's with the power button like that. some modchips *might* work like that but i cant think of one that does
and why should we install multiple bios's if only one can be used? sorry for all that questions.
You dont need to to install multiple bios's. you just need 1 bios. its just that its possible
Hi,
Bios Hynix HY29F002TT-900309A
Motherboard 2003-06 1.3v
Power supply double row...
Know someone what kind of bios I have? 1mb? 500kb? 256kb?
I am not sure which points I have to solder....
Greetings
Arek Stawczyk since you have a double row of PSU pins, you have a 256k BIOS. Unless it's a v1.6 Xbox
V1.6 ist different, as my motherboard, and I have Hynix TSOP, but double row of psu...
oh wait. derp. since you have a Hynix TSOP and double row PSU pins, you have a v1.2 - v1.5. not v1.0 - v1.1 or v1.6
thewheelman282 could you tell me please, or this tutorial is for my Xbox?
Arek Stawczyk yes
Hi i have a Apple 5 chip in my xbox hardware mod. I use slayer in the past butt with New HDD 250 gig (old wone was 200 gb) bigger is not posible with my bios i want to update the bios so i can install bv. 2 tb max .or the new HDD 250 gig the xbox now see as a 200 gig mnnn.
Witch i must select in de hexen 2017 dvd. For the good bios i dont now if i have a winbind sorry die bad English. Thx.
Xbox is 1.2 versie i think
you will need to open your xbox to see which TSOP chip you have and you will also have to solder the 2 points if you havent already. dont attempt to flash the TSOP until you know what chip brand you have
thewheelman282
Now i get it : now i need a new soldeer tool that is real small thx bro. :)
I have also winbond chip the same as you 256
Wy TSOP an XBOX, are there benefits?
Allows backups discs to played, allows unlocked hard drives making upgrades/replacements when faulty much easier than softmods and you can customise most bios startups on the tsop flashing using tools.
I have a Sharp TSOP that I can send you if you want to make a video on it.
Where is the shambles edit hexen in 2024
very excellent
Works! WooHoo!
very tiny bit of flux "Tips a pint of flux on"
3 people missed the solder points. 😂😂😂
Stick with EVoX
beaucoup de points alternatifs si les pastilles sont craquées...
www.ogxbox.com/forums/index.php?/topic/20-tsop-flash-guide/
Awesome tutorial! Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed!