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Question: Am pretty new to the xbox, was told the xbox media center makes and excellent and highly versatie player, hence purchased an old one and was trying to get it up and running.

I downloaded SlaYers 2.7 and followed the SlaYers_EvoX_Auto-Installer_v2.6FINA guide's advice and selected 3b) New Install/ Full Rebuild - Retail Hd then and then selected 3b1) Full Install/New Rebuild HD - 5960. After which the guide indicates that we should reboot minus the slayers iso cd and the evox dashboard should start up on boot. However, I'm just getting an error in various languages that "Your Xbox requries service" and a 16 at the top left corner. Have since tried all options from installing evox dash on any hd to install/restore m$dash but nothing seems to work, not even formatting the hard drive.

At this point, I would just like a means to get my dashboard or any dashboard back. A proper noob guide to getting xbmc up and running on the xbox would just be a bonus. Any takers?

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Here is an explanation of the error you are getting

"Error 16 - dashboard - Clock cannot be set.

Basically it comes down to this. Error 16 has to do with not finding the menu setting with which you can set the clock of the hdd. This happens to a lot of people that erase their hdd (original/upgraded) or MS dashboard files and after that they don't immediatly install the hdd but leave the xbox without power longer than 5 hours.

It's all about the hdd can't find the menu with which it can set the clock. This is mostly because the xbox hdd is empty (you removed dashboard or fux0red it via ftp). The problem arises when xbox searches for menu to set clock with, can't find it and voila: error 16."

From what I gather you will NEED a modchip to continue on if you want to fix this error, as it seems your dashboard has been deleted.

"In order to fix this you need a number of things.

1. Xecutor 4979 bios - This skips the clock check and lets you boot from a CD
2. XBTool - To check the MD5 of the bios / resize the bios
3. Evolution-X or dashboard of choice - to boot from
4. Craxtion / Xiso or other program for creating an xbos ISO image
5. Nero or other burning software to burnt he image to CD
6. External method of flashing your chip.

There are a couple of possible scenarios here and I will try to list them all, I will not go into great detail hiwever as all the detailed information and links you need are elsewhere in this FAQ forum.

1. You have an external method of flashing your chip. Simply prepare the bios, flash the chip, boot off of the boot cd, ftp into the xbox and repair/replace the dashboard files.

2. You have a friends modded xbox and they have enough confidence in your abilities to let you play around with it.

A. (This was the way I went) You have a modchip (Xecuter 2.0 lite) Which will not boot your friends xbox (1.3) - Prepare the boot CD with the required setup to flash your friends modchip with the 4979 bios. Make damned sure you know what you are doing here as if you mess it up you may have just messed up your friends xbox. Assuming this first flash went ok, remove the chip from your friends xbox, insert it into your own and boot to the same CD. FTP into the xbox and repair/replace the dashboard files. Sometimes if you cannot get the dash to work, but you have a backup at another location it may get a little more complicated. (it did for me) In this case you need to be able to boot at another location but your friend will obviously not let you keep his modchip indefinitely. In this case after booting your PC with your friends modchip, you hotswap the chip with your own and flash your chip. Your chip will not boot your xbox from a CD.

B. Your modchip can boot your friends xbox. Insert your chip into friends PC, boot to CD, flash modchip. Insert modchip back into your xbox, boot to CD and FTP into the xbox to repair/replace the dashboard files. "

Recomended reading:
Important Guides/tutorials/faq's - Scenyx Entertainment Community
General Hardware Faq - Read! What Dvd Do You Have? - Scenyx Entertainment Community

I think xbox-scene.com is probably a better place to ask the question as well