problem with Epox

[sawdust]

hi i am new to the xbox seen (mainly do ps2s) any way chipped a v1 xbox with a X-Ecuter 2.1 Lite chip loaded the bios and all working well put the epox disk i made in and loaded the software. now the problem xbox boots up fine and loads all games including back ups with no problem. but when i connect it to a network i can only view/mod the c drive as D comes up as empty despite having a game loaded? and F cant be acessed. plus when i turn off the chip i get an error screen telling me to send my xbox to be fixed but when booted with the chip on the epox dashboard comes up
another thing is that i cant access the ms dashboard from the epox dash
i have followed instructions from the web site
what i did,
loaded the disk and draged the files from it to C drive on the xbox(after backing up C drive on my pc and copying the xboxdashboard file)
renaimed the xboxdash file that was on my computer to ms xbox dashboard file that i had on the pc and reloaded it on to the xbox drive

any ideas of what happened and why the network is not picking up D drive
i have tried both cross over cable to pc and pluging in to my LAN network though a swich and both give me the same result?
what i am useing is EvolutionX Build 3935
thanks

[kosmiq]

The thing that makes you unable to boot the original MSDash with the chip off is the fact that you renamed "xboxdash" to something else. The original BIOS looks for xboxdash to boot.

The thing with that you can't access other drives on the xbox is a little strange but could be because it was not properly formatted.

Here is the simplest way to install another dashboard on the xbox:
Get SlaYers AutoInstaller or Auto Installer Deluxe 2.11 (latest I know of atleast), burn to a DVD-r and boot in your xbox (with the chip on). Run the installation procedure on them and your xbox will be formatted, everything installed and ready to be used. As it will format the xbox drive all your savegames and similar will be lost.
If you did that, do it again but make sure you choose "complete install" so that everything gets removed and installed again.

[Quall999]

The problem is with booting the dash off a disk. I would do the above and just install it on your HDD, you won't have this problem.

If you really MUST boot from a disk, then you have to make sure the "auto boot" for games in the ini is set to no. After you boot to evox, switch disks. Then, ftp to the xbox AFTER the disk was loaded and read as a game.