xbox flashing red/green

Before you go buy another box, have a friend who knows what they are doing look at it.... just to make sure you didn't miss anything.

 

I dont know anyone else with the expertise to further dive into the board itself if its damaged. It would be less hassle to just buy another. That XBOX would be nice to continue research as far as troubleshooting, but I cant be productive with my primary focus swirling around this issue. So thanks for the help and assistance everyone. Ill continue to post

 

Does anyone elses DVD-drive not open as well? It would suck to have to buy a new v1.2 xbox and my modchip would be worthless, so if anyone thinks they have comes up with a solution just post.

 

My DVD/ROM wont open either.

 

before you go and buy a new box check all your connections. I managed to fix my box by replacing that large grey cord going from the hard to the dvd to the motherboard. chances are you've snapped a wire in either that or the the power lead trying swapping each of them with one out of your computer and see and what happens it worked for me hopefully it will help you's out too.

 

Thanx 1800gumby,

Ive been busy last few days, and have not found the time to jump on it, but Ill do that later today.

 

I had a simelar problem with my xbox, did not start up, green light flashing, did not open my dvd drive, all what I read before in this post.

My xbox is modded with a xcuter 2 and a 80 GB HD so first I took my mod chip out and it started up with a mesage that it needs repair, this is I think normal because of the not standart HD.
I changed my mod chip and it started direct and is working like before.

I hope that this can bring some light for others who has these problems.

Greetings Hagar

 

I kept messing around with my xbox and if you take out the dvd drive completely and remove the IDE cable from everything, it boots up as normal...I'm not sure what this can mean, but it may show some hope that it can still work.

 

if removing your IDE cable from your dvd fixes the porblem then you've either damaged your IDE or your dvd try using a diffrent IDE and check that you haven't bent a connection at the back of your dvd where it plugs in. If these don't work can you borrow an xbox dvd drive from someone and see if that fixes the problem

 

I went out and bought a new IDE cable, so that can't be the problem, but I will check to see if everything is working on the dvd drive, thanks. Also, my friend has a multi-meter to check to see if the power is getting to where it is supposed to.

 

Hey Everyone, Just spent 3 hours trying to work out why box flashed green and orange, turned out I didn't have the video out attached!!!

Hope its useful! for all those he are installing away from the TV.

 

i have a version 1.1, i got a matrix chip, installed it would only work if u were practically forcing all your weight onto it i then soldered the holes up to make better contact used a larger screw and it was rock solid wouldnt budge booted up everytime with executer bios no probs.
i installed the evo dash to the harddrive and it was working great UNTIL i burnt my first backup on dvdr booted from reset i had the red and green flashing and the xbox needs service screen i viewed forums everyone was saying its an allignment issue right ok xbox turned upside down and shook switched back on and yep sure enough everything was ok again i kept bootin it and it kept working next day i booted the xbox again still no probs several times,i then put the back up dvdr in again and its just gone straight to the xbox needs service screen and red and green flashing even now when you remove the chip it still flashes red and green and u get the same screen how can it be an allignment problem or bad bios when the bios is stored on the matrix ??? its now totally messed up any ideas or inputs would be welcome !
cheers

 

wongies right !! it is an alignment issue like he said u rename the dashboard exe file so when the chip is not present or correctly aligned the standard xbox bios looks for the original dashboard file, cant find it because its been renamed so thats the reason for the error message in my case i screwed the chip down hard until it gave a short flash or green in the alignment both switches up mode still gave error screen but when u switch the first to 1 it boots no probs !

 

Welp, Im off today to get another BOX to implant my chip to. Im still interested in troubleshooting the original box I have , but any tips on the new BIOS upgrade that anyone can give me before I crack this one open.

I would like just a good suite of tools that are bundled and not just across websites.

Faithful Modders, holla at me

XiX

 

Ok im back with another BOX and preparing to install the chip once again.

 

oh yea,

Do I really have 2 use the washer? I have a longer normal screw that im going to use to tighten the chip.

 

i think you need a slightly wider screw, not longer. And remember to clean the contact points on the BOX and the D0 point, i got a few "xbox needs service message" when they were all covered with dirt, i think it messes up the connection.

 

Ive got the v. 1.2 now and know it wont work with tht board, so Im going to trade it with someone else I know so I can obtain that 1.1 or below.

This sux

 

you can check the BOX version on the back of the xbox case. Thats only if you can return the v1.2 and search for another one again.