live updated my msxboxdash now what?

[iwillrace]

I was playing full spectrum warrior and decided to see if i could get it to play co-op on 2 xboxes instead of on xbox live. Which I cant get any way the xbox took a wrong turn and tried to update for live and I am pretty sure it wrote over my msxboxdash file . Now I cant play burned games so I tried to use my good old evox boot disk and it keeps telling me that it is dirty or damaged. Can someone tell me would the update have overwritten my chips bios or should i try somthing else? I have made 3 evox boot disks all different versions and still cannot get into the files with flash fxp because I cannot set up the ip please help me figure out what is wrong!!

Thanks,
Greg

[HANS_COBBO]

Originally Posted by iwillrace

I was playing full spectrum warrior and decided to see if i could get it to play co-op on 2 xboxes instead of on xbox live. Which I cant get any way the xbox took a wrong turn and tried to update for live and I am pretty sure it wrote over my msxboxdash file . Now I cant play burned games so I tried to use my good old evox boot disk and it keeps telling me that it is dirty or damaged. Can someone tell me would the update have overwritten my chips bios or should i try somthing else? I have made 3 evox boot disks all different versions and still cannot get into the files with flash fxp because I cannot set up the ip please help me figure out what is wrong!!

Thanks,
Greg

Hi,

My friend just ran into a simliar problem last night, as hit live by accident when he booted Rainbow 6. However, he could still boot Unleashx and other dashes, but not the original Microsoft dash. He took of Unleash and the other dashes so he could test the Microsoft original (MSxboxdash.xbe), renamed it back to Xboxdash.xbe, re-booted, and got the Error 21 message. Somehow it corrupted the dash and other files within the c:\ partition.

Lucky enough he had a backup of his C:\ partition, which he copied back over and everything was fine. Can you still access evox when you boot the xbox, etc?. The only suggestion is to try the Mapped drive procedure in Win XP if you have it and edit things that way if you cannot use your boot disc and flashfxp. That is if, you can still access evox to get the IP of your xbox. Here is the link, and it only takes a minute to do.

http://www.xbox-scene.com/articles/map-xp.php

By the way. it wouldnt have updated your bios when you hit live.

[iwillrace]

i tried the evox boot disk in like 3 different versions that i have to no avail i just get the microsoft dash when the xbox boots and it wont read any dvd-r it will just play all the origonal games i dont understand it is like my chip went bad the evox boot disk just gibes me the dirty or damaged error any other ideas out there?

Greg

[HANS_COBBO]

So basically, what your saying is, is that the machine will only boot to the original dash and boot original games only. mmm??? And you say it wont boot copied games or any unsigned code. Sounds like there is a possibilty of a defect in the chip. However, like i stated before, going live wouldn't mess up the chip or bios.

What mod do you have and bios version?

Furthermore, to regards to making a evox disc, add dummy files to the disc i.e. 600mb so the xbox has a better chance at reading the disc, yet if your machine wont boot any of your games you have tried previously then i'm not sure on what to do here. Other members of the forum may know.

[iwillrace]

the chip is the only thing i can think of but why now just after i tried to hook two xboxes up after the dashboard tried to update for live coincidence i dont think so but at this time ya never know as for the chip and bios it is an old matrix as for the bios i dont remember the version number right now th box has a 120 gig hard drive in it running the newest version of evox (i think) have had no other major problems to date as for the evox boot disk i know about the dummy space and yes i had it in all the boot disks i tried about th yank the chip maybe tonight thanks for the help

Greg

[HANS_COBBO]

If its a Matrix chip, then it might have come out of place. Check your connections.