xbox freezes

i haven't played my xbox in about a month, then when i started it up it went through the green flubber screen then froze at the orange XBOX screen. any ideas?

 

any error code? I got no clue.

 

yeah tell me the error code ill tell ya what it means!

 

i don't get an error code. it just freezes with the xbox logo. no code, no dashboard, no nothing.

 

Something fucked up. Maybe the hdd died.

 

would it be worth the trouble to download an auto installer and give it a try, or are you pretty sure that it's the hdd

 

Is it modded or regular

 

it's hard modded

 

Why dont you say it at the begining? I though your xbox is a virgin one.
Did you turn off the modchip?

 

sorry guys, i just assumed that you'ld think it was modded. i didn't mod it myself, but i've was there when it was done. but, i didn't know that you could turn it off. do i disconect it?

 

when you turn the xbox, do you see modchip light on? Look at the side of the xbox, you see the chip sitting on motherboard.

 

yea that'll fix the prob!

 

the light on the chip comes on. Do i take the chip out? and if so, do i need a new chip or is that just to get the code?

 

THE LIGHT SHOULD INDICATE ON OR OFF!

 

THERE SHOULD BE A SWITCH!

 

unless i'm retarded, which is possible, i don't have a switch. I'm lookin at it right now, it's the Apple X-III chip. it has a light that comes on, but like i said ... no switch

 

look like the chip is ok. When the xbox boot up, it read the chip then dvd drive and hdd. So try to boot the xbox with a game in the dvd drive to see if the game play.

 

i booted it with a dvd, a game, and an auto installer boot disk, but nothing happens. if it was the hard drive then the dvd-rom should still work, right? But if the problem is the dvd-rom would the hdd still boot?

 

Maybe not. Maybe the hdd problem in this case. If the hdd does not spin at all, xbox may freeze before it read the dvd drive.

 

do you hear the hdd spins?