New Xbox Version (v1.6b) causing crashes

[Mechaman]

Hi all,

It seems there is a new Xbox that is crashing randomly when booting to the dashboard. This box has been labelled as v1.6B the manufacture date of these was 13/9/2004 to 19/9/2004 Dashboard version is 5960 and the kernel version is 5838

These Xboxes have Hynix RAM instead of Samsung.

Why did MS do this?
1: to use RAM from different vendors (cheaper)
2: to use more buggy RAM

Before a solution is found please check the manufacture date of your Xbox sets and avoid buying these

Hope this helps ;D

[Mechaman]

Hi all,

A solution has been found, basically a newer version of bios has been coded to take care of the ram timing issues

So right now all version upto v1.6b can be modded

Mechaman said:

Hi all,

It seems there is a new Xbox that is crashing randomly when booting to the dashboard. This box has been labelled as v1.6B the manufacture date of these was 13/9/2004 to 19/9/2004 Dashboard version is 5960 and the kernel version is 5838

These Xboxes have Hynix RAM instead of Samsung.

Why did MS do this?
1: to use RAM from different vendors (cheaper)
2: to use more buggy RAM

Before a solution is found please check the manufacture date of your Xbox sets and avoid buying these

Hope this helps