Motherboard fragged so I bought a version 1.1 replacement with paired hard drive.
Board boots. Removed leaky clock cap, cleaned board.
Soft modded system with Rocky 5. Attempted TSOP, but the files wouldn’t copy. Worked fine with cables soldered in place, but eventually got error on boot. Removed TSOP wires, boots normally.
Eventually get Chimp installed and working with composite cables. Won’t boot into the modern interface even though I’m using the latest release. It’s some antiquated Linux version. After some frustration, I’m able to figure it out.
Chimp reads both drives correctly, both stock and 240GB SSD via a Startech IDE to SATA Adapter verified working with my original 1.0 motherboard. Do a quick clone, clone C and E only, lock to motherboard. Set jumper to master. Will not boot with the new drive, black screen after Xbox logo. Start the procedure over, this time Chimp decides to do a slow clone. Completes overnight, lock drive to motherboard. Shut down system.
Come back hours later. Error 7 on boot. Xbox logo, no Microsoft logo, then error screen. Reset all IDE and power connections multiple times, same issue. Order a new 80 pin IDE cable, same exact issue. Try booting with SSD, Xbox logo, Microsoft logo, then black screen. Try booting with safe mode, get an error 9 with the SSD, but only once or twice.
Have the EEPROM and HD key so I’m able to mount and browse the cloned SSD on PC with FatXplorer. Appreciate any help here, this is driving me nuts.
Original Xbox won’t boot after chimp clone
Re: Original Xbox won’t boot after chimp clone
Fixed! Created a new Xbox HDD with a 2.5” mechanical SATA drive and FatXplorer on Windows. Works great. Tried the exact same process with the SSD, but it FRAGs and error 9 on boot. My best guess right now is the SSD is incompatible and the slow clone killed the original drive.