with the power button, always do with my other softmodded xbox, and the dashboard comes up, or somtimes i just put game in and using eject button, but both ways work fine!
okay, the same then, since i use same softmodd program with all xboxes i have done, splinter cell and so on!
okay, it booted up, no error message, have my dashboard on there now and i put a back up game in, my favourite one, land of the dead, wow, its working again!
so correct me if i am wrong, but all this chip basically did was let me ftp into the hard drive to replace the missing files it needed to boot up!
Here read the advantages of modchip that I wrote http://my.afterdawn.com/thereturn/blog_entry.cfm/457/theadvantagesofmodchips tell me what do you think.
i have another question for you though, if i back this hard drive up, and make a bootable disc using xboxhdm v1.9 with this back up, i should be able to put in a bigger hard drive then right! without the use of a chip!