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Flashing The Xbox’s TSOP (v0.6)

This tutorial will explain how to flash the xbox’s onboard tsop without removing it.

What you need :

Xbox with any modchip installed (you need a classic (29/11 wire modchip) , you can NOT flash the onboard modchip when you have a LPC modchip (openxbox , x-ecuter , xodus , ...) installed).
Evolution X Installed to the xbox’s harddrive
Soldering iron
2 SPST Switches

Allright the first thing you may ask why?
Well if you have a modchip currently installed, and want to use a bigger harddrive, your only option is to remove the mod, reflash the eeprom with the evo2.2 bios, then reinstall it.

Untill now,
This way will show you how to flash the xbox’s onboard tsop with the evo2.2 bios, allowing you to remove your mod completely.

First thing you need to do is open your xbox, and on the top of the board look for a area that looks like this. (ignore all other points and text on the pictures)

Where the arrow is pointing, there are 2 small squares of solder, you want to bridge the 2 squares together by dropping a small amount of solder between them.

Also notice the brand of chip above these points, as you can see the one in this picture is a ST chip.

Now do the same for the bottom of the board.

That will enable write access to the tsop.

Now you will need a way to disable the modchip while the xbox is running, my suggestion would be to install a switch to each wire listed below so that the modchip can be easily disabled.

For Xtender, install a switch on wires 10 & 19
For Enigmah install a switch on wires 15 & 21
For a homemade modchip, install a switch on wires 16, 32, and the wire you link to 32

Leave Both Switches Closed or “on” so the mod functions normally.

Now your ready to flash.

Load up evolutionx 1.8.2594.

Ftp to your xbox, and upload your bios .bin file into /C/Bios/ it must be a 1mb bin.

Restart your system, once evox has loaded, flip the switches or cut the wires to disable the modchip, then go to system utils, then Flash BIOS. You will be presented with a list of the .bin files in /C/Bios/ pick the one you want to flash with. Then you will see one of the following screens.

If you see the top one, your jumpers aren’t don’t correctly. Go back and recheck them. If you see the bottom one, your clear to go, hit Y, it will say erasing, that will take about 30 seconds, then it will show a progress bar, after that finishes it will say your xbox will now be shutdown. Once it shuts down leave the modchip off and turn on the xbox to verify it works.

If you followed everything you should have a xbox that will now play backups without a modchip installed.

And that all there is to it!

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Flash LPC mod via EvolutionX (v0.1)
What you need :
*A modchip that can be flashed via EvolutionX. Only Xodus/Matrix and X-ecuterII can be flashed via xbox software. All other LPC mods (X-ecuter , OpenXbox/PC-BioXX , Cheapmod) can NOT be flashed directly via evox.
*EvolutionX v1.8.2812 or later installed on your xbox HD
1/ Upload bios
Connect to your xbox (ftp) and go to drive "C".
Make a directory called "bios" (without the quotes) in the root. (c:/bios/)
Upload 1 or more bios/kernel versions into this directory. (max 256kb for Xodus/Matrix)
2/ Check mode (matrix/xodus)
If you have a matrix/xodus , make sure your modchip is NOT in mode4 (modchip is locked in this mode).
3/ Flash modchip
Restart your xbox.
In evox go to "System Utils" > "Flash BIOS" (standard location if you didn't change this in the evox.ini).
All bios versions uploaded in step1 will now be listed.
Select the bios you want and press "x".
It will flash to your new bios/kernel in less then 5secs

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