Initial Setup on XBR after E79. Why?

[neonpolaris]

I've got a Falcon running XBR 3a.  I use a Cygnos v2, though I have XBR on the 360 NAND with !SWITCH disabled.

Generally it all runs very smoothly for me.  But I notice that whenever I do something that XBR or the JTAG setup doesn't like, I get an E79.  I'm not complaining about the E79, I have been tinkering with many things trying to better my understanding of it all.  But after each E79, I have to go through the initial setup again.  Then tell my console to auto log my profile in, don't auto-run discs, etc.

Why is this? Where are these preferences stored?

Again, it's not a dealbreaker or anything, but I wouldn't mind being able to prevent this.  Or at least get a better understanding as to why it happens.

[ReverseAffect]

you have a usb keyboard plugged in on boot?
just wondering ,because it does that to me to sometimes but only if i have the keyboard plugged in...

[neonpolaris]

No, I've never plugged in a usb keyboard.

The causes of the E79s were my own fault.  A couple times I tried to boot XBR on my original NAND while the stupid !SWITCH was still there (switching it to my cygnos NAND).  Also I switched the video cable from HD to SD while in XBR and it didn't handle it well.  And sometimes I perhaps I didn't wait long enough after powering down to start it back up (perhaps pull power first?).  I've read that changing my cygnos JTAG to be resistor-less should help that last one.

Anyhow, I'm not faulting XBR for the E79s.  I just don't know why I have to run through the initial setup each time it happens.  I've read a few other people mention this in passing on these forums.  Where is this information stored?

Edit - If I feel froggy tonight I'll dump my NAND, then boot and shutdown, dump, invoke an E79, dump, boot until the config screen and power off, dump, boot and set settings, dump, maybe boot again and dump, then boot and change more config settings.  Then compare.

[ChipD]

I have a Zephyr and I get random E79's every once and awhile.My soldering is very good, so at first i thought the diodes i used to jtag were crappy and not switching fast enough, but after changing them out for better quality diodes, it eventually ended up E79ing randomly again.For me its seems to E79 regardless if i plug a keyboard or usb hdd in.Sometimes i can power it on 10 times with a keyboard, or usb hdd in, and it never E79.

At this point im just giving up trying to pinpoint the culprit, and just dealing with it since its so random.Its just anoying when it makes me go through initial setup all over again.

[seanp2501]

usually i see this when there is like a patch for no disc on usb and another file somewhere maybe on hd for same game as with disc....i also saw this when i had an error with the 360 menu oxm disc hack