Dash installation killed my xbox :(

rose on Mar 12th 2010 02:11 pm edit

  • Sorry for the lack of introduction, but I'm in a tough spot here...
    I replaced my old XBMC (don't know which version) with the 8-22-06 version, and it worked fine when booting with EvoX as my dashboard. But no, that wasn't good enough for me, so I went to the wiki that was in the instructions and tried to set XBMC as the dashboard, and now the thing will only boot if I start it with a game inside - so I can only actually play xbox games on it, and nothing else. When I start up without a disc, I get the evox logo/xbox logo screen, but also the silver "openxdh" lettering from xbmc right below it. Either way, game or not, I can no longer FTP into it, so I can't just replace the files I changed and get it back to the way it was. Any ideas? Thanks!


  • You can lead horses to water.....


  • Thanks for the info guys - I did find a "rescue disc" of sorts and was able to get the hard drive up to a point where I could FTP in again, and XBMC is now running like a charm. It still isn't the dash, but I'm willing to spend an extra second on startup to avoid another potential disaster.


  • if you can boot a game from dvd.

    you can just as easily boot a dash from dvd. just burn the dash of your choice to a dvd, boot it up and ftp in and clean up the mess.


  • Thanks for the info guys - I did find a "rescue disc" of sorts and was able to get the hard drive up to a point where I could FTP in again, and XBMC is now running like a charm. It still isn't the dash, but I'm willing to spend an extra second on startup to avoid another potential disaster.

    I m facing the same prob with u. d/led v2.0.1 and the default.xbe is nt under the root dir.. Causing my xbox to hang @ the xbmc screen. (guess it loads using the old default.xbe)
    I found out tt the default.xbe file is in the folder "xbe shortcut".

    Can tell me where can i find info on the "rescue disc". I really need it to boot up my xbox(soft-modded) as i cant FTP anything now. Thx.


  • You didnt follow the installation instruction on the wiki... You need to delete the current installation you did as some files where incorrectly written and upload fresh files to where your bios is set to boot from (for me its E:/XBMC/default.xbe so the Bios is set to look in that folder for default). I did the exact same thing one day after I got my xbox chipped.

    Just follow Spiff`s post and have the default.xbe in the root folder on the dvd, then you can "clean up the mess"







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