jreuse Xbox-HQ Newbie Xbox Version: v1.6 Modded: Xecuter 2.6 Lite CE
Joined: Oct 20, 2008 Posts: 4
Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 3:12 am Post subject: Xbox is having a spazz attack
About a year ago I put an Xecuter 2.6 Lite CE in my xbox. Its been workin fine and I got a 40GB HD to put in it. But for some reason lately, it has been acting up and having spazz attacks. I boot it up and it just gets stuck at the xecuter config live loading.... screen. The lights flash green and red the whole time and its just stuck at that screen. But if i keep pressing the power button on and off it will randomly boot right up normally like it should.
About a 3 weeks ago i took it apart because this problem was buggin my guts and i checked all connections, none of which were loose, and i put it all back together and it worked fine until now. Im half tempted to take it apart again....the insides are spotless as i take very good care of it. None of the cables are damaged which makes me come down to thinking it may be the HD i put in it. I got it from a computer at a church rummage sale and the computer was working fine. I have no clue what this could be. Any ideas?
Thanks
ruskalaka Xbox-HQ Member Xbox Version: 1.2 Modded: DUOX 2 cromwell
Joined: Sep 14, 2008 Posts: 71
Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 6:24 am Post subject:
Welcome to the HQ network
Have you tried the HDD in a PC after you put it in the xbox ?
Details about the xbox?
jreuse Xbox-HQ Newbie Xbox Version: v1.6 Modded: Xecuter 2.6 Lite CE
Joined: Oct 20, 2008 Posts: 4
Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 9:26 pm Post subject:
After I made the HDD work with my xbox, i never tried connecting it with a pc, no. What would that do exactly? anyways i got rid of my old PC haha. i got an iMac since i put that HDD in.
It could possibly be the that the HDD is failing...lol never thought of that. The reason i use the HDD is because my DVD drive is pretty much screwed and i need a new one. I can barely copy DVDs to the HDD, let alone play a game. eh, maybe i need to just break down and spend $60 on a new dvd drive. Haha i guess i will lose all my games i put on there then...oh well. If any of you are into TPB, check out this guy's channel: Titi26 Hes got a bunch of goodies
crackface47 Xbox-HQ Elite Member
Joined: Jan 30, 2007 Posts: 344 Location: GA, United States
Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 11:48 am Post subject:
getting a new dvd drive won't miss up ur game saves
wes213 Administrator
Joined: Feb 04, 2007 Posts: 10520 Location: Harrisonburg V.A.
Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 1:11 pm Post subject:
jreuse wrote:
It could possibly be the that the HDD is failing...lol never thought of that. The reason i use the HDD is because my DVD drive is pretty much screwed and i need a new one.
I would guess he is talking about the loss of games due to a failing hdd crackface not a failing DVD drive.
crackface47 Xbox-HQ Elite Member
Joined: Jan 30, 2007 Posts: 344 Location: GA, United States
Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 3:51 pm Post subject:
i know, i was just saying
scarface_ak4t7 Xbox-HQ Elite Member
Joined: Feb 04, 2008 Posts: 310
Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 4:06 pm Post subject:
u can still backup the failing harddrive its not rocket science. jus buy a kit to make ur ide hdd an external so it can b hooked up via usb to ur iMAC. oohh lordy, its rocket science :O haha. _________________ http://firestream.net/h4sigs/gen/BlAcKk%20MaGiiK_130515060912.jpg
crackface47 Xbox-HQ Elite Member
Joined: Jan 30, 2007 Posts: 344 Location: GA, United States
Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 4:10 pm Post subject:
but it's a fatx partition, so he'll have to use HDD explorer to view it, and idk, if they make mac versions of it
Joined: Jan 30, 2007 Posts: 344 Location: GA, United States
Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 4:19 pm Post subject:
that's a lot of work for one damn hard drive
jreuse Xbox-HQ Newbie Xbox Version: v1.6 Modded: Xecuter 2.6 Lite CE
Joined: Oct 20, 2008 Posts: 4
Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 11:08 pm Post subject:
haha okay. i figured it out. i was playing COD 3 the other day and my box just started squeaking. it was very faint, but i put my ear up to it and it was coming from right where the HDD was located. Then the game totally froze when it was loading a level and i couldn't get the xbox to start back up. LOL! i guess i need a new hard drive.
Hmm...does anyone know of a good site to buy new DVD drives? preferably the samsung one....but ill take anything at this point.
I was thinking of just buyin a regular old DVD drive and a power splitter and tryin to make it work that way...cuz a new xbox DVD drive is like $60. =/
Haha yea i prolly wont back up my game saves...its just not worth that much money time and effort.
Thanks for any and all help guys.
crackface47 Xbox-HQ Elite Member
Joined: Jan 30, 2007 Posts: 344 Location: GA, United States
Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 11:16 pm Post subject:
a regular dvd drive won't work, the xbox dvd lens uses a special decoding process to decrypt the security sectors from the game dvd's,
jreuse Xbox-HQ Newbie Xbox Version: v1.6 Modded: Xecuter 2.6 Lite CE
Im guessing it is possible, but not worthwhile because you would have to leave your xbox laying in pieces for you to play it. =/
okay, another question. i switched back to my old xbox HDD, the one it came with. I put in Half-Life 2 and it took like 3 years to read the fricken disc. THen i put the problematic HDD back in and the game loaded just fine. How can the type of HDD change the way the DVD drive reads the discs? does this make any sense at all? its makin me mad because now i need a new DVD drive and a new HDD.....oh well its worth it
crackface47 Xbox-HQ Elite Member
Joined: Jan 30, 2007 Posts: 344 Location: GA, United States
Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 2:14 am Post subject:
the stock xbox hdd is a 5400 rpm drive, ur new one is probably a 7200 rpm one, which will have a faster load time, and the game is probably cached on the new one, and not the old one, the cache gets replaced after a while with a new game, i think there's only like 4
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jus buy a kit to make ur ide hdd an external so it can b hooked up via usb to ur iMAC. oohh lordy, its rocket science :O haha.
