Re: Gonna buy a Jasper - And got me CK3 - what else do i need? Cool Runner Etc
Evening all,
it's been a while since I posted, but as Jasper's were mentioned, I thought I'd chip in,
Got meself a nand-x and coolrunner delivered on Wednesday and yesterday I decided have a go at me Elite (Jasper 16mb)
Nand-x is the updated one (New V3 Code), so all was OK there.
Never had a cable to program the CoolRunner, so one was temporarily bodged - will probably get a proper one when they become available.
Nand-x was installed using the QSB method.
I followed
this video tutorial and all went surprisingly well.
Booting times were anything upto around 2-3 minutes, so after a spot of googling, I found I should try a 68nF or 0.068uF ceramic cap soldered to points A and GND on the CoolRunner, went to local Maplins today and they didn't have any, the fellar behind the counter say's to try a lower one, he sell's me a 0.047uF, I solder this to the 2 points and it starts to boot everytime within 5 seconds.
So with xbox booting fine I then learn how to install games to hdd, then I read about dashlaunch and freestyledash, manage to get these installed and get it booting straight to freestyledash, only to find that xbox is freezing just after booting into freestyledash.
Only thing I can think of is the capacitor is not the recommended one, so I snip one of the legs and long boot times re-occur, so on next boot up, I hold the snipped leg together and turn on xbox, as it boots quickly, I then let go of the leg and all runs smoothly, no freezing.
Now that is most probably not the way to do it, but it works for me until I can get the recommended cap.