Flash / Upgrade soft-modded xbox bios?

[cyo80rg101]

Hi Guys,

I've just bought a 250gig HD for my Xbox - understand the whole fitting and installation process.

I read on the wiki that for drives larger than 137gb, you need a later version of the bios.

I believe (let's assume it is for the moment! ;) ) that my xbox is actually soft-modded rather than chipped, is it possible to update the BIOS with a soft-modded box?

Second question:

a) Can someone tell me where to find the bios file?
b) Can someone tell me *how* to find the bios file - how do I know which version I need, what "names" are these things known by etc?
c) Can someone tell me how to do it?

and finally

d) How do I tell if the Xbox is softmodded or actually chipped - I recall the XBMC settings didnt report on any chipping version etc - or something simmilar that makes me think it's not actually chipped! (I'm at work now, rather than just thick ;) ).

Apologies for all the questions, but although I'm quite comfortable with XMBC etc, I have absolutely no idea about bios's on these things!

Thanks in advance

[matt_cyr]

You won't get much help on this forum about modding related questions.
This forums is strictly for xbmc related info.
I would suggest posting over at forums.xbox-scene.com with modding related questions.

[cyo80rg101]

Thanks Matt, I'll do that...

<Hangs head in shame... ;)>

[gzusrawx]

Do a search for tsop flashing in this forum you should find some help.

[HarshReality]

TSOP is a shakey process... get a chip or just softmod the thing and clone the disk to a larger drive

[gzusrawx]

Yah I've done it. You have to make sure you do all your homework about your specific chip before donig anything!!!

[gzusrawx]

TSOP is a shakey process... get a chip or just softmod the thing and clone the disk to a larger drive
umm cloning the disk will not solve the 137gig limitation it's an lba problem even windows had to be patched for it.

[HarshReality]

This is why there is an F & G drive

[gzusrawx]

I'm not sure if you're familiar with this particular limitation, But you can't get around the 137gig limmit without a new bios. It doesn't detect the space to even format another partition with. It thinks the drive only has 137gig.

[gzusrawx]

to enable more than 256gig in a single partition you then need to format the drive with 32bit clusters and have a bios that supports one large partition instead of 2.

[gzusrawx]

The only option in this case besides tsop flashing is putting in a modchip.

[gzusrawx]

Which then has to be flashed with a bios that follows the previously listed criteria.