Functionality of Xbox : Hardrive Issue

[kosmiq]

Ypi can indeed boot an xbox without an hdd but you will not get far. You will get an error code after the flubber animation (the one that starts as something and becomes an X :P).

The beep between each flash is kinda strange as I have never heard of that before. Green/red flashing is called "frag" and can occur for different reasons.
And as you say it occurs when the HDD is plugged in. That should make the HDD faulty yes.

The fact that it does boot and then frags can be seen as uhhhm... Good or something... Because then the PSU is working to power it up atleast.
On the other hand some recistor could have gone bust in the 'cloud' and therefore making a hard time for the PSU.

Your friend talks about and mushroom cloud at the moment he plugged it in? Thats kinda strange actually. But what you can do is open up your xbox and take a look at the PSU. Check for a brand there and report back..

Frag is most often caused by bad chip or something similar. Any chip is not the problem right now as the chip has been moved. The D0 might have been damaged upon chip removal or similar though.

You say the xbox wont boot at all know when you have moved the chip. Then your old xbox is most likely to suffer from "console coma".
It is unknown why this happens but the eeprom get busted for no reason at all. I would say that it happened long before the cloud thing and that the chip kept you from noticing.

Please describe the "wont boot at all" thing a little more specific so I know what you mean... It is like "I press the power button nothing at all happen", "I press the power button it turns on, then off, then on again 3 times and then starts to frag" or something else?

[vodanh]

Power box is a foxlink and i have read about how faulty they are, but i checked the smoldering on the pins and they seem ok.

when i push power there is no video response, nor audio, i only hear the xbox start up and the hardrive start to make the noises, the power button flahes green 3 times and then frags. Now that yo mentioned it you're probably right that i's in a coma now.. aroudn the time before all this happened the xbox was having problems booting up the xchip bios, i had to try to flash it again a few times and check the D0 pin but the xchip was operating fine. The D0 slot is not damaged im very careful with my hardware. I was hoping the problem was small so i could fix it i didn't want the whole xbox to go to waste. i was just about to buy a convertor for the 20 pin power boxes to 12 pin that the version 1 uses to try and revive it but since u said that it should boot without a hardrive anyways it is probably dead, thanks for the correspondance. Hardrive is definately busted though.
-_- At the time I really didn't know what the best mod chips were and I got the x-chip and i must say it works well so far when the xbox is operating normally. Its running quite well on the new xbox even after being in a burnt one, but yeah Xecuter next time ?

[kosmiq]

IMO the chip does not matter THAT much as some wants you to think...
I have an Aladdin Advance 32 in my xbox and it does its work great... Got it installed before the clone rush though... So aladdin is no good choice today...
DuoX 2 has gotten real popular as the #1 cheapmod today.

But if you want to be on the safe side and make sure that you get a good chip that works I would recommend Xenium or xecuter...

I think that the xbox could be revived if you would have some expert take a look at it or something... But that could cost some money and may not be worth it.