Falcon e79 with xbr/freeboot, boots xell/original fine

[Grim187]

the farthest ive gotten it to boot was the 3rd green light and it started the on screen animation then cut to e79 with xbr, freeboot just go's directly to e79, xell boots fine and so dose the original nand.

ive been trying to get it to work for about a week now and im just completely out of ideas.

any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Arakon]

I'll assume you tried manually moving the block it mentioned?
Also make sure you have no USB devices plugged in.

[Grim187]

I'll assume you tried manually moving the block it mentioned?
Also make sure you have no USB devices plugged in.

ya i tried moving it, same thing.

the only things plugged in are the psu, vga cable and rf board.

[Grim187]

bump, is there anything else to consider?...maybe something im missing?

[bidomo]

How are you flashing?

I recommend USB SPI in your case...

One of my Xenons was doing some crazy $#!t.

Dumped original like 10 times till I got 4 identical dumps, all contained the very same bad block.
When flashing through Flash360 or xellous, I don't get anything about a bad block, so the flash stops in 3DE or something like that.
Freeboot was working 2 in every 5 attempts and sometimes it just RROD, flashing with USB with properly remapped bad blocks did the job

[Grim187]

ya i tried flashing with xellous via updflash.bin in usb, same thing.

ya im using a usb spi...ive tried 3 (just in case).

[Grim187]

last bump.

[thon0925]

You could boot Gentoo from XELL and try XBR-Flash, just a shot in the dark, though.

[ReverseAffect]

have you tried without moving that bad block?
and you said that it boots the orig?
and did you change the date back to what it was?
I had a few that E79 because of just the date in the start of the nand...
if you want can you pass me your info in a pm orig with key so i can look at it?

[Grim187]

@thon0925 i haven't tried lflash yet but i figure thats not gonna be any different result then flashing with xell.

@ReverseAffect im me on msn, aim or yim (sn's in my profile).

[Grim187]

i just got done swapping the tsop48, original booted fine so i flashed xbr and it booted fine.

so it must have been some corruption on the nand that was static (same corrupted data every read) so it wasent showing up when i compared dumps, thats my best guess.

anyways, thanks for the help guys.

[morenomdz]

i just got done swapping the tsop48, original booted fine so i flashed xbr and it booted fine.

so it must have been some corruption on the nand that was static (same corrupted data every read) so it wasent showing up when i compared dumps, thats my best guess.

anyways, thanks for the help guys.

Hello there, might to explain a lil bit how you got it working?

I have a falcon here doing basicaly the same, have 3 good dumps, xell boots fine, xbr goes to black screen and stays and freeboot starts the logo animation and goes to E79 right after.

All the dumps/writes give me e202 on specific blocks, 4E and 25C, I tried to make the freeboot image using three different ways, even tried an older freeboot 0.30 and still same, E79 but xell working fine.

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[midnight_shadow]

i just got done swapping the tsop48, original booted fine so i flashed xbr and it booted fine.

so it must have been some corruption on the nand that was static (same corrupted data every read) so it wasent showing up when i compared dumps, thats my best guess.

Hello there, might to explain a lil bit how you got it working?

I have a falcon here doing basicaly the same, have 3 good dumps, xell boots fine, xbr goes to black screen and stays and freeboot starts the logo animation and goes to E79 right after.

All the dumps/writes give me e202 on specific blocks, 4E and 25C, I tried to make the freeboot image using three different ways, even tried an older freeboot 0.30 and still same, E79 but xell working fine.

Grim187 physically removed the NAND from the motherboard and replaced it with another NAND prolly from a donor board. He mentions that there was "static corrpution," real bad sections of the NAND that were fouling up the writing to the NAND.

[morenomdz]

i just got done swapping the tsop48, original booted fine so i flashed xbr and it booted fine.

so it must have been some corruption on the nand that was static (same corrupted data every read) so it wasent showing up when i compared dumps, thats my best guess.

Hello there, might to explain a lil bit how you got it working?

I have a falcon here doing basicaly the same, have 3 good dumps, xell boots fine, xbr goes to black screen and stays and freeboot starts the logo animation and goes to E79 right after.

All the dumps/writes give me e202 on specific blocks, 4E and 25C, I tried to make the freeboot image using three different ways, even tried an older freeboot 0.30 and still same, E79 but xell working fine.

Grim187 physically removed the NAND from the motherboard and replaced it with another NAND prolly from a donor board. He mentions that there was "static corrpution," real bad sections of the NAND that were fouling up the writing to the NAND.

Yep. I got a nand here ready to swap in but im not sure if the client wants to so, waiting for him to decide and I will post the results.

Thanks!