Did I brick my Xbox?

[Hieronymous]

Hi, all.

I was updating my XBMC installation (following the instructions in the wiki), copying the folders into E:\XBMC one at a time. At some point an ftp login screen started popping up for each file transferred, and I had to click on the cancel button for each file (they transferred fine whether I clicked ok or cancel). I had successfully copied the credits, language, and media folders over when I got tired of clicking, so I tried rebooting my PC to clear the problem.

After that, I wasn't able to connect to the Xbox anymore. I restarted the Xbox and it gives a black screen after the startup sequence. I tried clearing userdata (both thumbsticks down), but that made no difference, and I tried booting while holding white+Y and it does nothing.

Have I destroyed my ability to fix XBMC? I don't know much about this system (I got it from someone else), but I think it's a softmodded Xbox. I would post more about the version, etc., but I don't know how to find that out.

Thanks very much for any help you can give me.

[tstraub]

try booting into a disc with unleashx, evox, slayer's or AID basicly anything with ftp. then reinstall xbmc

[Hieronymous]

Thanks, tstraub.

Are those programs part of the XMBC distribution? How would I go about getting a disc like that?

[tstraub]

not part of xbmc search they are not hard to find

[Hieronymous]

No luck -- I built a Slayer's EvoX boot DVD and was able to get it to boot on the xbox, but I can't ftp from the PC to the xbox. It makes a connection, but I can't dir the xbox. I tried a few different ftp clients.

[Hieronymous]

I was able to get the FTP disc to work eventually. I had trouble with FTP because of ZoneAlarm, so I disabled ZA and finally installed the new XBMC build I had just gotten. It didn't work, so I restored my backed up copy of XBMC and I'm back in business.

Thanks for all the help.

[mebby]

It's a pain in the *ss to learn that process for the first time. I just went through it so I know where you're coming from. Glad you got it working again. The hardest part for me was finding the dashboard...

But once you've got a boot disk you're in good shape going forward no matter what happens (well - almost)