Ok, so I recently decided to go fix up my long-broken Xbox from back in the day. A while ago I softmodded it, then tried to unsoftmod it, and ended up removing some crucial files or something along those lines. I'm not really sure what happened, because as I said it was a while ago. Anyways, the problem is my xbox will not boot any kind of dashboard, will not play games, etc. Also, I cannot FTP to it. I tried reading the un-softmodding tutorial in the sticky, but it wasn't very clear. Maybe someone can provide some better instructions?
You will need to hotswap to fix your xbox. Check out these tutorials http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/332766 http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/548462 If you have any questions ask them here or pm me.