I'm modding a friends xbox, and he has a v1.6 and I installed the 2.6 ce chip
Now, I did this by wire mod, not pin head mod. The bottom of the motherboard, I have the LAN/HDD/d0 all connected, and I have the additional 4 wires attached as well.
And also, before I tell you what happend, when I plug in the xbox, while it's off, the chip lights up. I don't know why this does this
Anyway, I turn the xbox on, and it went to the Flash Bios screen. I shut it off, and checked to see if the xbox booted with the chip turned off, (even though the light was still on) The xbox worked and booted fine with the chip off. So, I turned the chip back on, and begun to flash the chip with 4981.67 bios. It said it succesfully flashed the chip and it powered off. Now the xbox does that 3 boot time thing?!?!? The xbox still works with the chip off. Please help, this is for a buddy of mine, and I'm all out of ideas? I thank you for your replies. And please don't tell me to do pin header install, cause I threw the pin header away, along with that tiny thin board with pre-soldered points for the bottom of the motherboard. please help!!
EDIT - I tried doing a hot swap. I tested the chip in my xbox and it works. I put the chip back into my friends xbox, and it does the three boot and blink red/green. I have no idea what's going on?