no mod travisty or Locked HDD blues?

[speedballnoto]

ok heres what happened....
ive got my xbox happily modded with a matrix flashed
to the m7 w/ ef so my buddy comes over and we try to
to do the mech audio exploit. bam it works and we load
evox with that but have trouble getting evox to just
straight boot I swear im gonna kill bert erine and snuffy
always black screening and running back through mech
so we can ftp into the box... ok so somehow we end up
screwing up the evox that loads from the save game
so even if i try to get to evox through mech assault it black
screens me eeeep I tried ripping out my matrix and putting
it in his box but after several hours i just couldnt get it to work
and even if it did look like it was working it wouldnt (3 reset ect)
i even ganked out his hdd and tried tossing it in mine but of
course its locked........
so any ideas as to what i can do?
or should i just cry myself to sleep again?