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I have an xbox with X-ecuter 2 Multi bios X-killer chip installed.

Upgraded the original MS HDD with a Western Digital 120GB HDD with Slayer’s 2.5 Installer this went fine with no problems in fact I used this setup for about 2 years with no problems…..

Then I was forced to take the WD out to use as a PC drive I thought no big deal I could just put another 120GB HDD in latter…

So yesterday I installed another 120GB HDD (Maxtor DiamondMax 16) However I could not find my Slayer’s 2.5 Installer Disc so I tried the new SLAYER’s v2.6 Auto Installer.

I Burned the Slayer 2.6 to Ritek G04 Media that always worked perfect in my xbox….

I put the disc in and got ERROR 16 Red/Green Light… No matter what I do this is as far as I can get tried MANY different brands & types of media but all give the same results ERROR 16..???

The only info I can get on this issue is ….. “dashboard - Other files to do with dashboard / dashboard settings (specific dashboard error)” But no info for a FIX. Also slayer's FAQ has this as a clock issue.


CAN I USE MY PC CONNECTED TO THE XBOX TO SOLVE THE (Error 16 DASHBOARD ?) PROBLEM ?

Please if you can help in any way this would be VERY MUCH APPRICATED

Thanks For Your Time

Error 16 when it comes to modding, generaly means that the mod chips bios can't find the dashboard. Usually the bios is looking for a particular file name like c:\default.xbe or evox.xbe or something like that and the installer has named the dash to something that isn't on that list. Look in the Slayers package and see if you can find the name of the dash's xbe that was installed and if you can get access to modify your bios settings, change the name to match it, you should be good. You should be able to build a bootable evox cd-rw or dash or your choice and boot to that to get access by ftp to rename any files necessary.
Hope this helps

sadalius Thanks for the Support!

Please forgive me but this good advice is all a bit over my head...

If its not to much trouble could you break this down a bit?

The last Disc that worked was the Slayer's 2.5 Is this the Slayers package to find the name of the dash's xbe? Or the newer Slayer’s 2.6?

How do I get access to modify the bios settings?

Thanks Again for Your Time

Slayers 2.5 is still available. I just looked and it is at what I call the usual place. If you don't know where that is, do a search on xbox-scene's forum and you will find a tutorial there on how to access it. Download and make the disk and once you install it, you should be back in business. You would have to check with the maker of your mod chip to find out how to access it, if it is able to do that. Not really sure on mod chips. I just know that you can access some mod chips bios and change a few settings, the name and location of your dashboard being one of them. But I think using the previous version of Slayers will fix you right up.

Unfortunately that was not the case here as I located my Original Slayer’s 2.5 Install disc but still Error Code 16 persists.

I tried like 10 or 15 times but no go…..

Very good suggestion none the less Thanks

Will the xbox boot to the Slayers disk, and if so, when you run the install, does it report everything installed properly? Also, check to make sure your mod chip is turned on. And since you have used this hd in a pc, you would need to partition and format the drive for xbox use. Slayers can do that too, if you haven't already tried. If in fact you are caught in the clock loop, you would need to put the original hd back in with the original M$ dash to set the date and time, after that, slayers should run ok. If not, you probably would need to take your xbox to someone who knows how to flash the bios and upgrade the bios on the chip to a version that can handle the clock loop. I know this sounds pretty grim, but the last thing that it could possibly be is a bad hard drive, but I don't think that is the case.

This ailing XBOX Will Not boot to any Slayers disk or any boot disc that I have tried.

I don’t think it could be the HDD as I have tried 2 today with the exact same result.

I’m not sure I know what the Clock Loop is but it gets to the green xbox logo & then starts flashing red to green & displays the dreaded following screen. Always the same never anything different.



16 Oops! Something is wrong!
< Error Code

Dashboard files/ settings incorrect.



Could you recommend a mod-chip that might work or other solution?

Many Thanks for all the help :tup:

only other thing that I could think of would be to download and make an Ltools linux disk. This will allow you to create an xbox disk from scratch, if you have a backup copy of your c drive. You would have to put the hd that you are trying to use in your xbox into your computer with no other hard drives and boot to the cd and follow the instructions that came with the package. If you don't have your c drive backed up you can download the original msdash 4920 by searching for it and use that for your backup. You will probably have to lock the hard drive but not for sure, that depends on your mod chip I think. But once you have your xbox booting again, you should then be able to run Slayers again to reinstall your dashboard and apps. A friend of mine that has did a few mod chips says that he really likes the xecutor 3 chip. One more thing that I just thought of, make sure that your hard drive that your trying to use in your xbox is jumpered for cable select. It should work ok if it is jumpered for master, but I have ran into a couple of problems with it set to master, but it wasn't this error though.

Not much luck finding the recommended Ltools Program.

Found a Tutorial on another site using a program called xboxhdm have by any chance you ever heard of this method?

Problem is I'm not sure if either will work in my (new drive no original) case.

Some people claim there stock or special replacement drives will solve this problem (Error Code 16)

Anyone know if this is fact?

Ltools and Xboxhdm is the same program. Xboxhdm is a script that is on the Ltools disk that allows you to do many things with a hard drive. It should work ok, if your computer can boot it. I have one computer that won't, but luckily I have a couple more and they will. I would recommend looking around for the ms dash that I posted about earlier to use as the base for building the drive from scratch.

Thanks for the continued contact & support sadalius!

Not sure if I can locate my eeprom.bin for that program without access to my xbox?

That is why I asked about the Original or replacement drives for sale on auction sites.

If we can solve this I’m sure it will help many people with the same problem not just me

You might not need it, not to sure though with your mod chip, some mod chips don't require you to lock your hard drive, some do. I would at least try xboxhdm, most it would do is not work. I have done a little research on your mod chip. Before I spend the money on a hd from one of those auction sites, I would upgrade my mod chip. While it's not a bad chip, it does not support some features. As compared to the xecutor 3 chip. I have seen this chip at different sites ranging in price from about 50-60 bucks US. It has built in ftp server that was you always have ftp access to your xbox and you can change the bios settings through ftp as well, and a bunch of other stuff that your current one doesn't have. Plus, it don't care if your hd is locked or not

Ok sounds like good advice

I have one other option (Maybe) I have another Xbox modded with 120GB & Apple 5 chip. Could I use Slayer’s 2.5 or 2.6 to unlock this Hard drive to use on the error 16 xbox somehow? Then build a new drive for the Apple 5 xbox?

Or would this just net 2 Error 16 Xbox’s? This of course would leave me with No Xbox @ all.

In that case, I would take the drive that your trying to get going and put it in the good xbox, (stash the good hard drive so nothing bad can happen to it, lol) and try running slayers on that xbox. Might save some time and headache.

Ok but the fear is if I put the new blank formatted drive in the working Apple 5 chiped system then I may get Error 16 from that one as well? Then I would have 2 bad xbox's?

My idea was to put the Apple xbox drive in the system thats not working. If that works then put the New drive in the Apple 5 system using slayer's 2.6 or 5.

The reasoning behind this was if I dont change the Apple 5 system by trying to install a new HDD then if the Apple HDD dose not help the Error 16 system then maybe I could just re-install it in the Good (Apple5)system with no issues since its the exact same drive?

Sorry if that is confusing but I'm a bit confused @ this point...

Thanks Again

It's not the system thats not working, it's the contents thats on the drive. If you take out the hard drive from the working xbox and don't do anything else to it, and then put it back in, it should work ok. However, if you take the working hard drive and put it into the xbox that isn't working and use slayers on it, it would then stand the chance of not working. When you run slayers on the hard drive that is currently having problems, don't choose to flash the bios, just to format the drive and install the dashboard stuff. The whole reason your getting error 16 is because error 16 is dashboard related and the dashboard is on the hard drive.

I also ran across this information as well so try this before anything else. Try booting your xbox with an original game disk of some kind, if it boots to the game, then its just the dashboard files thats messed up and you can try Xboxhdm or the hard drive switch that we were talking about earlier. If it gives you error 16 again, you mod chip needs reflashed or has gone bad. I hope that it will still boot to a game disk.

It wil not boot to Original game disc.

But its hard for me to believe that the mod chip just happend to go bad with the HDD change...

But of course I'm not positive either way @ this point.

I've been reading on several different forums and thats what they are all saying. I even asked my friend about it and he said that was why he bought the new X3 chip was because of this very situation. He says that if your chip is capable of being taken out and flashed from a computer, it may work unless the chip is really bad. Other than that, you might ask around in the modchip install help section and see if anyone has any advice in there. At this point, I'm all outta ideas.

burnit, did you resolve this problem?...if not, and if it is a clock loop problem, try having your xbox connected to youe network when you boot off slayer's disc to rebuild your large hdd, or, look at the last post in this thread, it describes how you can make a little gizmo from an old network cable to help you bypass the clock loop thing, dunno if it'll work though, but it's gotta be worth a try...

http://www.cdromguide.com/forums/showthread.phpt=266168&highlight=clock+loop

hth
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arthur

burnit, did you resolve this problem?...if not, and if it is a clock loop problem, try having your xbox connected to youe network when you boot off slayer's disc to rebuild your large hdd, or, look at the last post in this thread, it describes how you can make a little gizmo from an old network cable to help you bypass the clock loop thing, dunno if it'll work though, but it's gotta be worth a try...

http://www.cdromguide.com/forums/showthread.phpt=266168&highlight=clock+loop

hth
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arthur
hey guys! i softmod my bro xbox wid SOFTMOD INSTALLER DELUXE v2.0 wid da MechAssault Install, den when im done every thing i kinda delete some of da file and reboot my xbox it gaves me on error 16. can somebody help me, pls thanks for da help!!

hey guys! i softmod my bro xbox wid SOFTMOD INSTALLER DELUXE v2.0 wid da MechAssault Install, den when im done every thing i kinda delete some of da file and reboot my xbox it gaves me on error 16. can somebody help me, pls thanks for da help!!

I am having the exact same problem... did the exact same thing too, I used to have a fine working xbox with a maxtor 120gb hdd in it, but don't have my original drive anymore... I took the 120gb out temporarily and was working fine before hand, b/c I needed to put it in my pc for more space... now that I have decided to play xbox again figured I would just put another hdd in... well, no luck, I have tried two different drives, one goes to the error 16 (that is on a brand new seagate baracuda) out of the box. the other is a 40gb seagate.

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I also first used slayers 2.5, it won't go to a slayers screen, just flashes red and green with the errors.

maybe if there was an iso of an original ms drive to download and partition it on a hdd?

I have seen the original older ms dashboard out there for download, you'll have to hunt around for it, but it is there. If you have your hd unlock key, you could use xbox hdm to rebuild the drive and mod it all at once.

you have to keep in mind that if your running a softmodded xbox the bios loader is ran off the hard drive forcing the original bios to unload to load the new bios. So if your getting errors on boot, you would not be able to run any unsigned code so using slayers or other similar disk would be usless because the xbox is still using the origianl ms bios.

For those who have their hd locking key, I would give xbox hdm a look. For those that don't, you will probably have to use the hotswap method, maybe??

i think i am just going to try to get an original xbox hdd and hot swap it, set the time, then put the other one in. i do not have the means to flash the modchip myself and would probably be cheaper just getting a hard drive.

hot swap need

hot swap need to

I used a Verbatim Coloured CD-RW with SlaYers 2.6..Purple Coloured if that helps ;)..booted first time..