Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 12:56 am Post subject: newbie needs help saving games and broken hdd
ok i just bought an xbox and i know nothing about it. the guy i bought it from said the hard drive was bad according to over the phone support from microsoft. i thought i could just throw another hdd in it and call it good but by reading up i dont think i can do that. what i want to know what would be best for me to do? i want to be able to store games to the hdd and play them from there how do i do that?-the cheapest and easiest way! thanks for your help
Burner6999 Xbox-Hq Genius
Joined: Aug 15, 2006 Posts: 1426 Location: Colorado
Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 3:46 am Post subject:
What error does it give you when you start the Xbox.
mattwin7 Xbox-HQ Newbie
Joined: Dec 31, 2006 Posts: 8
Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 5:47 pm Post subject:
the enblem just flashes red and nothing comes on. what could be wrong with it?
TheRealHypnotiX Moderator
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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 6:58 pm Post subject:
Well if you want to put in a new hdd ur gonna need a modchip or the eeprom file.a modchip is the easiest way to go. as for nothing comming on screen i believe it could be a corrupted bios but dont quote me on that a chip should fix if that is the problem tho. _________________
TheRealHypnotiX Moderator
Joined: Feb 01, 2006 Posts: 2508 Location: Pensacola, FL
ive never soldered on like boards and things of that nature just copper piping for plumbing and car amp wires. what chip should i buy?
stud_man50 Xbox-HQ Freak Xbox Version: 1.4 Modded: Xecuter3CE
Joined: Feb 20, 2006 Posts: 808 Location: MI, USA
Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 6:45 pm Post subject:
How much are you willing to spend, for about $70 you can get a Xecuter3ce, and a solderless adapter, thats about the best chip out there, and about the easiest to use.. but also you get get others for a little cheaper if you can afford that..
mattwin7 Xbox-HQ Newbie Xbox Version: 1.4 Modded: Xecuter3CE
Joined: Dec 31, 2006 Posts: 8
Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 5:45 pm Post subject:
well i didnt really want to spend much more than $100-$150 on the entire set up and i need a bigger hdd- whats a good hdd to get? size? whats a good site to order this stuff from? thanks again for your help guys
mattwin7 Xbox-HQ Newbie Xbox Version: 1.4 Modded: Xecuter3CE
Joined: Dec 31, 2006 Posts: 8
Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 6:02 pm Post subject:
wow hdd r more expensive than i thought- whats a good size to get if lets just u want to save 20 dvds and and about 50 games
robzzombie Moderator
Joined: Jul 15, 2006 Posts: 521 Location: Lockport, Illinois, USA
Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 8:07 pm Post subject:
WOW. Ummm for your DVDs your gonna want to rip them and encode them with divx or xvid and 20 DVDs will take up approximatly 14GB On average dvdrips are 700MB give or take a little bit. Now 50 Games would be alot on average they take up 4GB a piece so thats 200GB. So id suggest a 250GB HDD. Also for a decent chip id suggest the Duo X2 thats the chip that im using and it hasnt broke on me at all. they cost on average 15$ its the best cheap chip you can find. _________________
pezzar V.I.P. Lifetime Xbox Version: V1.6 Modded: Xenium Gold OS v2.3.1
Joined: May 12, 2005 Posts: 976 Location: Seaside, England
Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 4:08 pm Post subject:
mattwin7 wrote:
the enblem just flashes red and nothing comes on. what could be wrong with it?
flashing red led is normally corrupt eeprom. depending how bad the corruption is a modchip will still boot the xbox.
if you have a screwed TSOP (maybe a bad flash) then thats a little more severe. Generally a modchip will not boot an xbox with a screwed TSOP
mattwin7 Xbox-HQ Newbie Xbox Version: V1.6 Modded: Xenium Gold OS v2.3.1
Joined: Dec 31, 2006 Posts: 8
Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 5:42 am Post subject:
so if the TSOP is screwed so am i-right? whats a reliable site to get cheap hardware?
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