Kosti

Hey All @scorp - sorry for the delay mate, I have been waiting on my caddy and HDD to get back and see what I need as hopefully this week I am finally getting my 1TB HDD to use in my caddy which also finally arrived from Flebay, infact it locks like a real MS one, LOL TBH I am not sure which unit I have fat or slim? or which Hack I will dig out the underneath picture and post it up for more clues Did not see any "chip" with wires, only the diodes and so I can only go on what you guys suggest..What is the impact of not knowing which type of hack is provided when upgrading? Once I get the HDD I will follow the Swizzy tips to install the new HDD and then proceed to update the kernel and dashboard. Should I just use Simple 360 NAND Flasher 1.2 or try the BETA one? Also as I have the Kinetic setup I will need to update both the Avator and Kinetic files too - Man I hope I don't brick it PEACE Kosti

Thanks again, Swizzy I managed to pull the caddy apart, and just sat it onto of my jtag xbox and ran xm360v2. It scanned the drive and found a whole bunch of files with the lock symbol but I didn't go any further as I am not sure what I am doing and wasn't sure how to move these to my PC to transport them later when I get my new HDD and Caddy, so for now, I've left them alone I stripped the xbox apart again and took some further picutres of the underneath and saw that it has another diode and I also cleaned and added new thermal paste since this will be on in the kids room a lot, so it must be RGH I can post a picture if u need Swizzy but for now I am going to wait until the caddy arrived so I can start the steps as you outlined prior. I am a little confused with all the terminology used and just trying to understand if I need to also have a upgrade to the new dashboard the MS just recently pused out and if doing so will update the DVD or should this not be a concern? I found some great video tuts on Utube by xmodderx if memory serves me right which I will use to go though the motions hopefully in a few weeks Cheers Kosti

I have a quick question in that with these new DB it mentioned at around Ver. 2.0.13146.0 that this update and any after will reflash your DVD Drive, is this a need for any concerns? I am still fumbling my way around here and my XBOX so pardon if its already been addressed PEACE Kosti

Thanks Swizzy, appreciate the effort you go to in helping out Will try this and get back to you. I did notice in some of the games it wanted to connect online Thanks Kosti

Just a brief update, I've yet to obtain my caddy off ebay, so while waiting I found in the local trader a 60GB HDD and plugged this into the xbox It popped up with a number of profiles obviously from previous owner and I can play some of the games, which I assume are trials of some sort, quick question before I wipe the drive out, can I tranfer the games onto my new HDD or are they linked to the profiles Thanks Kosti

Thanks Swizzy, I looked at the one u linked but I thought the tut link in xebuild may have been like a manual for xebuild, so thanks again, i've booked marked them as I've ordered my caddy, so I am not going to continue until this comes in, so a few weeks Appreciate you clearing it up once again - and thanks for taking the time to post Cheers Kosti

Cool, thanks so you are refering to the tutorial under the tab in xebuild right? This points me to http://xebuildtut.xeupd.com/ which fails to load and I get the following errors The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading. The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few moments. If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network connection. If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure that Firefox is permitted to access the Web. I'm using Firefox lastest build EDIT - ok i added www at the start and it redirect to homebrew...thanks, will read and build my nand EDIT 2 - Does this process update both the Kernel to the lastest & dashlaunch to 3.15. Is it important to update the freeBOOT to 0.032? Finaly does the tutorial cover the option.ini files and launch.ini files etc? Ta Cheers Kosti

Mr Swizzy, hats off mate, thanks for taking the painfull task to read my post and provide the helping hand! Apparently the seller told me its a RGH but I wasn't able to tell, so hence i went looking for more information. I had a look at xebuild after extracting my NAND via Xell and this is a snap shot using the GUI in Xebuild there are a lot of options to edit the NAND files with some added features under the download options. When I grabbed the MS Avatar update the MD5 check was ok, however the Kernel failed, so I assume I don'tsomething wrong. Also it appears I can add some settings under the options.ini file, should I be setting this up now or just follow the recommendation as provided? Should I be including dashlaunch and other parameters I will need to wait until i get the caddy from ebay, so this will take a few weeks to come from China, its always slow getting to me from there, so for now I will gather the tools and go through the tuts Again, thanks for the tools and guides its appreciated support is still provided after so long. PEACE Kosti

Gday Team! I apologize in advance if this has been covered, but I'm still not clear on a few things and feel my console is somewhat outdated. I will try and keep it short, but want to get it out in one post (flame suit on) Brief History Grabbed a X360 Arcade off ebay for the kids and it came with a external HDD and was said to be JTAGGED. Why am I here To understand the procudure or order required to update my console and add a internal HDD to replace the external so it keeps it simple for the kids & me My Journey Begins OK I started to poke around to understand how and what my XBOX was actually doing upon booting as it has an external HDD. I confirmed that its a Jasper console with a 512MB NAND by using Flash360, what I'm not clear on if its JTAG's or RGH or are they one of the same? Popping open the cover to see if there were any clues and found as the picture below? I power on the console with the eject button and it started Xell. Must be freebooted right and the external HDD is just there for the GAMES & APPS etc?? ok, so I then connect to XB/Xell via my browser and grabbed my CPU & DVD Keys and store them for safe keeping, while there I also reordered all of my fuse-sets and downloaded my Raw Flash as flashdump.bin & keyvault.bin files to use for future upgrades. Now that I have my original NAND dump, should I only be using Xell-Reloaded to update to the latest kernel or can I use others like Simple NAND 360 Flasher or NAND Flasher 360 for XBOX 360 v1.2.0? I understand that I need to Xebuild 2.096 to re-patch my original NAND file and get on the latest kernel, but must I update freeBOOT first?? I'm reading at a lot of information on the web some of the links are broken and most is outdated, hence my queries and I was hoping for someone to review and advise the path I should be taking to get a clean install and not have to use an external HDD using up a USB port. Is the external HDD required? Can I just get a xbox HDD caddy off ebay and install it ontop of the Xbox slot and use this HDD to boot the console and access other apps/files? My Dashboard system info I have the Kernel 2.0.14719.0, and look as to what the current version is it appears the current version is around the 2.0.17489.0 The EX/HDD has XEXmenu in the quick start and I can also see FSD2 but now I can see that Aurora to be the new dashboard which I like and want to move to this as my boot up dashboard, I grabbed this and also grabbed a lot of other files including stuff to get me going like dash launch 315, freeboot 332, hdd_compat_partition_fixer_v1, J-Runner v3 (5) Core Pack, 360_Content_Manager_3.0, USBXTAFGUI_v44, Xbox-Image-Browser-v2.9.0.345, xeBuild_GUI_2.096, xm360v2.0d, XDX Kit etc.. End Result What I would like to do and achieve is the following . Add a 1TB SSD and not use an external HDD - seems straight forward if I buy a shell off fleabay - can I boot off this straight to Aurora . Update to latest Kernel DB without breaking JTAG - I've grabbed the required files and method, just need to be sure its ok to proceed or do I need freeboot 0.032 first? . Use Aurora 0.5b as main dash board, no MS dashboard and not use FSDv3 at all due to no further updates . Would like to install the Angel0fDeaths MAME360 Setup to load the classic arcades and other emulators like SNES (is this what I need) . I've use Filezilla to access console - straight forward so will use this to FTP as required . Don't want to use actual DISCs so I assume i need understand NXE2GOD and other methods demo games and stuff . Need to get my head around DLC, XBLC and all the other goodies I can do Finally my humble apology for the long and maybe over the top 1st post, I'm like 10yrs too late to console but the kids are growing and ned some entertainment and to give us some piece and quiet, LOL As mentioned I am just not clear on what patch I have and what precautions I need to take in order to not break the patch/mod otherwise I am pretty confident I can stumble my what through once I know what I can break so just wanting a little few hints Please let me know if I need to address anything else and or if I need to supply any more details to my huge questions PEACE Kosti