Splinter Cell 2 play from HD problem

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I have backed up Splinter Cell 2: Pandora Tomorrow to my xbox hard-drive and I can start it good from evolutionx lauch menu, BUT after I watch the cool starter movie and choose single player the game just hangs when loading (I waited over 30 minutes, still nothing happened). Same happens if I use dvd2xbox to launch the offline.xbe from the Splinter Cell 2 folder (it doesn't show the movie but goes straight to the loading screen and hangs).
I have tried to patch the media check using dvd2xbox but it didn't help.

I have Apple-x Pro chip and Evolutionx 1.8.375 dashboard. Bios is unknown and quite old (I have never upgraded the bios, so it's at least one year old).
Could it be that I have too old bios to run the game? Or could I just patch those xbe's and run them with my curren bios?

Thought I can play other games from HD, for example Max Payne 2 plays good.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Th