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Have you tried launching the game(s) from the UnleashX file manager. I have never tried it on an Original Xbox though. Should I try tweaking the potmeter? I have tried this on multiple different systems in the past and it never solved any problems for me. My best guess is that the laser of the DVD drive is wearing out. (Black screen and it goes back to UnleashX) I could copy the game to HDD with "dvd2xbox" but the same thing happens when I try to launch it from there. UnleashX even says which game it is (for example "Splinter Cell"). The funny thing is that it recognizes the game. (Some kind of crash?) I was hoping for an error message or something. It goes to a black screen and I am returned to UnleashX shortly after that. I have changed the video mode to "PAL" (I have previously set it to "NTSC" to have acces to higher resolution modes) but unfortunately it still cannot boot any original game I have. Surprisingly the MS dashboard does not give any clues why. I assumed that it only allowed more freedom when compared to a softmod. I did not know that a hardmoded Xbox needs to be treated so differently. I did a new HDD install with Hexen and I can now launch the MS dashboard without any problems. You were totally right regarding the MS dashboard! Maybe this is something that has to do with the (Duo X2) modchip installed on this motherboard? I would assume that not able to launch original games might have to do something with the (Samsung) DVD drive but the missing MS dashboard clearly should have nothing to do with this. The Xbox booted up just fine but there is still no sound in UnleashX and no option to launch the MS dashboard. I went ahead and installed UnleashX and the MS dashboard from the extras disc again. It worked however I got the same black screen after the boot animation as the HeXeN disc. I had an original Xbox HDD which had a proper softmod installed using only Rocky5's Softmodding Tools and the HDD key nulled out so I thought I could simply clone this HDD with Chimp (by setting the Maxtor drive to slave). I had one final thing that came to my mind: Maybe mixing the HeXeN install with Rocky5's extras disc was a bad idea. I had an idea that maybe the custom BIOS was too old or something (It had Evox M8+ 1.6 137+ according to the dashboard) so I have even updated the BIOS from the HeXen disc to a 256K evoX but it changed nothing. By this time I have also noticed that there was no sound when scrolling through the menus of UnleashX even though I have also installed audio from the extras disc. I am sure that I have installed the MS dashboard from Rocky5's extras disc but I've re-installed it just to be sure but still there was no option to launch the MS dashboard. I thought maybe I could see some kind of error message if I launch the game from the MS Dashboard (which could maybe indicate a DVD drive issue) however the "Xbox Dashboard" item is missing from the "Application" menu. I have tried 3 different, original games and all are recognized however as soon as I want to launch them it gives a black screen and returns to the dashboard. Right when I thought I am done ressurecting this Xbox, I had noticed something: It could only play burned copies of games. I have used Rocky5's "Xbox Softmodding Tool Extras Disc" (1.1.7) to install the UnleashX dashboard, MS dashboard and some tools and it was finally booting up as normal. (The Evox logo showed up on the upper left corner though) The Xbox no longer gave me an error code however there was only a black screen after the boot animation. After putting in the the HeXeN 2019 disc, it recognized the new HDD and I was able to format it and install a dashboard. I've grabbed a 80GB (IDE) maxtor HDD I had and replaced the HDD. I know that HDDs are married to the motherboard so it made sense to me that this motherboard will not work with the original HDD of another Xbox. Surprisingly, the Xbox powered on without any issues after that but it now gave me an error code. I have never tried this motherboard before and it has (a fake?) Duo X2 modchip soldered in. After narrowing down the issue to the motherboard itself (I have unplugged both the HDD and the DVD drive and tried another power supply), I decided to just replace the motherboard with another 1.6 I had for spare.
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Of course none of this was true The Xbox could not even start: after pressing the power button, it turned on and then immediately off and repeated this 3 times.and then it seemed to stay on but the LED was just blinking red and there was no picture. The seller said that it works just fine but he can't get the disc tray to open and that there is a game inside. A week ago I've picked up an Original Xbox from a flea market.