I was given two XBOX today with the same weird problem.

The video is black and white and has a tracking problem, there sound and everything just the video messed up.

I added a 29 wire homebrew and it still does the same thing. Has anyone expirenced this?

Are you in the UK?

Could it be it is outputting ntsc and not pal.

What if it was outputting PAL and not NTSC...??

Is there a way to fix this?

Just a thought, are you sure its not your tv?

Two Xboxes giving same results is a bit of a coincidence!!

b&w seems to me you are running ntsc on a pal tv either without the advanced rgb cable or through a tv that doesn't have a rgb scart- i may be wrong about that- thats what happened with my dreamcast- the scart cable wasn't rgb

could be the eeprom messed up as well, and have heard a few bits of soft can give these symptoms, i.e avalaunch / xbmp/c, try first enigmah video mode selector, and change to pal, see if that fixs it, if not, could need a new eeprom flashing, could be wrong though...................

eeprom error would probably cause the bios not to boot at all- unless using the cromwell bios or possibly x2 4978 (apparently)- accompanied by the dreaded flashing red light.

i think the eeprom is fine- it's more likely to be the tv/av kit you are using or the tv itself

Wow... feels great to know that this board is still pumping out the help....

Its not my TV or my cables, since I used mine- which, my XBOX works fine.

It's not the EEPROM, I had that trouble before..... pain in the ***. It was like staring at the XBOX logo all day.

I think they went in there and messed with a video mode selector or something. I'll try that before anything...