gonna sound daft this

[Yaka]

ive had me xbox chipped for some time now, exept i have never ever bothers doing anything due to lack of spare time. but last week i decided to have thechip upgraded to X3. now what does all the dip switches on the front of me xbox do? how do i go about installing a bigger hdd and media player/snes or megadrive emuslators and roms?

 

[nath]

Ordinarily I'd write a massive thing about what you need to do but for some reason apathy has a hold of me tonight. www.xbox-scene.com is good for what ailes ya.

If you want answers to specific questions though (excluding dip switch/bigger hdd questions) you can get me on quakenet. I'm on (eerily enough) as nath.

 

[Yaka]

ive had a look and read a bit of em there but i seriously dont understand much of it. shall give it another go once i have had a bit of sleep.

 

[Panda On Smack]

thats for choosing all the bios banks and stuff

i dont change mine

1 & 2 are on
3 - 5 are off

X3 is brilliant for doing new stuff coz of its built in ftp. All you gotta do is back up your xbox HD to your pc via the ftp then open the xbox up, take out the hd, pop the new one in and then format it in the bios

I think you have to unlock the HD before you remove it and then once the new one is in you lock it again.

once done just copy your backup over to the xbox again

 

[Yaka]

does it need conect stright to pc mobo ethernet port or can it be don whilst conected to my router?

 

[Panda On Smack]

my xbox is plugged into my LAN via my switch, just given it an local ip etc

ftp username/pass for Xecuter3 is 'X3'

 

[Yaka]

ok i finaly got round to getting the latest version of xmbc.

now slight problem ftping over to xbox, when ever i have xbox on and network cable attached my pc loses all conection to me router (netgear RP614) i have the latest firmware installed, and its been the case since i first got XBL when ever i played games on live pc would disconnect its never been a problem before as i wouldnt be using me pc at the time. onyl way for me to get the connection back is when i switch off the xbox and and unplug and re-plug the routers psu cord.

 

[nath]

IP conflict? Is your xbox set to the same IP as your router?

 

[Yaka]

as title of topic im a bit daft when it comes to networking stuff.

i know how to find out xbox ip, but how do i find out routers ip?

 

[babs]

Bring up a cmd prompt and try arp -a.

 

[Yaka]

right ive got it working now, thx babs and nath.

F partiton only has 40mb, and the latest XMBC i have is over 80mb how would i go about distributing space from the other partitons?

 

[Yaka]

sorted just banged in slayers evox installer cd, browsed about till i saw F partiton format and got2gb lying idel in me seagat 10gb hdd in to the F partion took all of 30seconds.

 

[Yaka]

right im abit bit confused.. i followed the tutorial on the Xbox scene XBMC guide to a tee, got rid of the XBMP installed the latest XBMC but how do i make the program run?

 

[Danya]

Depends what dash you're using - you need to point the dash to the xbmc directory, then it should pick it up and you can run it.

 

[Yaka]

ive got X3 Chip and EvoX installed. how do i point the ms dash towrds xbmc?

 

[Danya]

You don't, you point evox at it. There should be a config file somewhere (evox.ini in the root of c:\ if memory serves), which you can edit to tell it where your programs (such as xbmc) are installed.

 

[Yaka]

hmm odd evox.ini is in me F: dir

 

[Yaka]

well banged in the slayers installer disc again seleceted install apps/evox/xmbc

then copied the evox.ini , evodash, xmbc.xml to c drive and it workling now

oh and rather worringly evox says cpu heat is a 109 now :/

 

[Danya]

xbmc.xml should be in the same place as the xbmc exe, otherwise it won't get used.
Check temps in xbmc to see if that also suggests 109C.

 

[Yaka]

got it werking fine now thx guys for the help.

compared to xbmp , xbmc pic quality is much better . think its time to buy a remote for it now.

having said that i found that slayers installed a megadrive emu too so i spent the best part of the early hours today playing shadowrun.