Error 07 HDD problem

[Quall999]

do you have any cathode lights in your box?

[TylerDurden]

Originally Posted by Quall999

do you have any cathode lights in your box?

Im curious, what does that have to do with his problem?



Tyler!

[sevi]

Is your hard drive the original one that came with your xbox or did you put a larger one in?

[Quall999]

Originally Posted by TylerDurden

Im curious, what does that have to do with his problem?
Tyler!

Well, infedelity and I both had this problem. Mine was pretty rescent though. Anyways, I turned on my xbox with the cathode flicked on, and my hdd wasn't booting. I then clicked the cathode off and rebooted, but for some reason the HDD still wasn't booting properly. I ended up removing the cathode and it worked just fine after that. I put it back in, but never have it on ever anymore...unless Im showing off.

David, do you hear the HDD spinning at all? Or feal it vibrating (very lightly).

[TylerDurden]

Originally Posted by Quall999

Well, infedelity and I both had this problem. Mine was pretty rescent though. Anyways, I turned on my xbox with the cathode flicked on, and my hdd wasn't booting. I then clicked the cathode off and rebooted, but for some reason the HDD still wasn't booting properly. I ended up removing the cathode and it worked just fine after that. I put it back in, but never have it on ever anymore...unless Im showing off.

Interesting, but Ive never had a prob. I have a cathode runnin and never had a prob with my hdd. But mainly the reason I asked is because I was concerned for my own system. I will be keepin an eye on it.



Tyler!

[Quall999]

Yah, I first thought that infedelity had a defective cathode until it happened to me. I guess some might steal too much power when booting.

When cathodes are turned on, a large spike of voltage is needed to get that gas started. The xbox booted with that error, but the HDD seemed to be running. My guess is that when the cathode first booted, it took too much power, which caused the HDD to boot less than a second too late, at least late enouph for the bios to read no HDD. Was bad timing, that's all.

[TylerDurden]

Thats a very interesting theory. In my case, I actually have my cathode dialed down a bit. I didnt like it when it was maxed out. Maybe thats a better idea when using cathodes.




Tyler!

[David88]

Thanks Quall,
So I simply plug in the new Harddrive, andwith the modchip on run slayers auto install off a CD and it will set everything up for me? Is there anything I have to look out for when buying a new Harddrive?
All help is greatly appreciated.