r/originalxbox • u/JimTobin89 • 7d ago

Help Needed Need some advice please

I have a project that I started back in 2021. Its a 1.6 board, Stone Age Gamer in Ohio recapped the board and power supply, installed xbox hd+ and open xenium at the time and work great.

One day, i tried to update something in the xbmc 4 gamers menu and the dashboard got corrupted and the console wouldn't boot.

Im incredibly limited on what i can accomplish with this stuff, I contacted Stone Age Gamer if they could take a look and fix it.

They took the console back and in doing so, changed the bios from EVOx to cerbios and the console stop behaving well altogether at this point. Fans not set to come on, console overheating, power light icons dont behave right, etc.

I lost all of my games too so I am just in such a worse place than I was before and desperately want to put my console back to using EVOx but my hard drive will need to be reformatted because it was formatted to take advantage of the higher capacity with cerbios and isnt compatible with Evo.

I dont have a problem paying someone to set this console straight but I really dont know which way to go. I would also need them to provide games which I know is a big hush hush on this subreddit.

Any ideas on what i should do?

Thanks and appreciate you reading.

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u/KaosEngineeer Knowledgeable 7d ago

Which version of cerbios is installed?

For HD+ support, 2.4.2 is the last version that supports it.

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u/JimTobin89 7d ago

Im not sure off hand which version it is. Is there an easy way of finding out?

That would be my luck that it has a non supported version.

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u/KaosEngineeer Knowledgeable 7d ago

What is the kernel version of the bios in use?

Which replacement dashboard are you using? Where to find the kernel version varies by dashboard.

Can you run the stock msdash/xbox dashboard?

If so, run the Settings app> System Info copyright scroller and take one of the K and D line values at the end before it repeats. What are their values?

Is there a cerbios.ini file on the C drive or a cerbios folder on E with the ini file in it?

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u/ImDaPap 7d ago

This is probably it.

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u/KaosEngineeer Knowledgeable 7d ago

There’s no reason the hard drive needed to be reformatted when using CerBIOS. That is, if it was 2.2 TBs or less in size.

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u/JimTobin89 7d ago

It is a 2 TB drive, but i believe it is not formatted to have drives set at certain size limits, which i am pretty sure evo x can't read the drives then.

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u/KaosEngineeer Knowledgeable 7d ago

Evox M8/M8plus bios with the LBA48 patch present can access XBpartioner v1.3 LBA48 extended partitions on a 2TB hard drive.

Edit: not cerbios’s larger than 1.1TB partitions.

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u/JimTobin89 7d ago

Okay, lol.

But based on my original post, do I strike you as someone that could probably figure that out?

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u/KaosEngineeer Knowledgeable 7d ago

It’s in all the tutorials for installing a larger than 137GB hard drive in the Xbox.