Tutorial written by : johnbox
Last edited: September 20, 2003

Ok, now before anyone thinks i'm a stud for figuring this out, don't! cause i've just applied several things that i've learned from other tutorials and for all i know there might be another tutorial out there that's exactly like this one
As always, i'm not responsible for you totally F%#@ing up your xbox, but if you follow these directions exactly it should work for you

okay, here goes

This tutorial will explain how to install evolution-x with a large hard drive and xbox live funtionality without use of any mod chip
Warning, this mod will only work on xboxes with 1mb bioses (1.0/1.1)

Tools Needed:
1-radio shack switch model #275-712
2-007 auf
3-soldering iron
4-solder
5-wire
6-electrical tape
7-a drill (for installing the switch)
8-xbox action replay/mem card

Okay here goes

Step 1
Crack open the xbox and take the motherboard out

Step 2
Install The Switch
Drill a hole on the back for the switch and install it there inbetween the network adapter and the a/v plug. Orient the switch so that the "on" side of the switch is facing the network adapter
you should have plenty of room to mount the switch, i drilled a 11/2 in hole, and then mount it with 2 part apoxy.
You might wonder why do this step now, it's because now is the easiest time to do it

Step 3
Join the tsop jumpers
You will locate the two jumpers for enabling tsop flashing
(for pics on the location of the two jumpers go here http://www.xbox-scene.com/articles/tsop-images.php)

Step 4
Wiring the switch (this can be a little tricky, but don't get discouraged, it'll be worth it)
First take three lengths of wire, 2 about 8 inches, the other about 12-14 inches
Take the longer strand of wire, and solder one end of it to the A-19 point on the bottom of the xbox motherboard

Use electrical tape to secure the wire and run it to the middle point on your switch

Second, wire one of the smaller wires to the VCC 3.3 point shown here

Run this wire to the power point on the switch (if you mounted the switch correctly, this point should be on the right-hand side of the xbox when looking straight down)

Third, solder a wire to a metal point on the chassis of the xbox itself and run this wire to the ground point on the switch.

VERY IMPORTANT: Make sure you use plenty of electrical tape around the switch, and securing the wires, I fried two xboxes because i wasn't being careful

Step 5
Flashing The Tsop

If you are installing a large hard drive leave the case open, if you are going to keep the 8/10gig drive, close the case up

First, on your pc you will need to make a bios image that's 512k (most distributed bioses are 1mb or 256k) To do this take a 256k bios from xbins (i use xecuter 4977) and open it in
bios tool (can be found on #xbins) Make sure you choose a color like blue so that you can tell which is which when you start it up. there is an option in the program to save the bios as 256, 512 or 1mb, choose 512 and pick a name for it like "512kbios"
also, remember where you saved the file

Second, you need to get the files on to your xbox, so you can either use the 007 hack and then ftp them to the "bios" folder in your gamesaves directory, or you can build your own mem card save and put the file in yourself (that's what I did) To do it this way, download the 007 exploit with evox from #xbins. Open up the save and get the evox directory, there you should see a bios folder, put it in there and delete the linux one that should be in one of the folders (basically delete everything that you don't need since you have to get the file small enough to fit on a mem card) To accomplish this I just delete all the skins.

Third, Once you get this save on your hard drive, fire up 007 and load the save. Once in evox, go the flash bios option, you should see your "512kbios" sitting there.
Before you flash, make sure that the switch is on (it should be lit up when on) if the light on the switch will not light then you have wired it incorrectly. If you don't have the switch on the correct side you will probably destroy your xbox.
If you have it switched and lit up, then choose flash bios. If everything goes correctly, it will flash and shut off. Turn it back on and your x should be blue (or whatever color you chose). Now turn the xbox off, flip the switch and turn it on again, it should be green. I know this will be very exiting for you, but settle down, there's more work to do

Step 6
If you are using the 8/10 gig hard drive, install evox now (either using slayers or any other method you prefer)

If you are using a larger hard drive install it now, and i would recommend using slayers to set it up.
Make sure you use the option of making it xbox live ready (basically renaming msxboxdash.xbe to xboxdash.xbe, you can do this manually but using slayer's make you feel cool)

Start up with the smaller hard drive again and use the 007 trick to load evox. Choose the backup option so that you can save your eeprom settings
Pull those backup files off your xbox onto your computer

Put the large hard drive back in, load up config magic (you can find this on #xbins) make sure you've sent your eeprom from your computer to the big hard drive on the xbox. Choose "load eeprom from bin file" in config magic and load the one you just sent to the xbox. Update the eeprom, then make sure that you lock the hard drive (failure to do either one of these will result in getting your ass kicked off xblive)

Once everything is done, turn it off, switch over to you regular dashboard (green load screen) then start it up. If the msdash loads then you've done everything correctly. Insert a xbox live game, update the dashboard, connect to xbox live. Viola! isn't that great?



Now don't e-mail me saying that you can't use your backups on xblive (duh!) or that you got banner using a regular game (this will happen if you have the switch on)

anyway, have fun with this one

Tutorial written by : johnbox