RGH Help

[MikeTheKnight2016]

I have a MW3 RGH that worked amazing! I put it away for about 2 years, and just got it out to play again.

The issue I have is that when I press the power button the center green light on the Xbox stays green. No display.

If I look in the side of the xbox I see a solid red light and every 2 - 3 seconds a green light flash.

I've tried booting with and w/o a hard drive and it makes no difference.

I've let it sit with the green center light it for 20 minutes and it never "glitches" and boots up FSD for me.

What do I need to do next?

 

[godreborn]

I have a MW3 RGH that worked amazing! I put it away for about 2 years, and just got it out to play again.

The issue I have is that when I press the power button the center green light on the Xbox stays green. No display.

If I look in the side of the xbox I see a solid red light and every 2 - 3 seconds a green light flash.

I've tried booting with and w/o a hard drive and it makes no difference.

I've let it sit with the green center light it for 20 minutes and it never "glitches" and boots up FSD for me.

What do I need to do next?

Something has probably lost connection with the rgh. That would be my guess as to what's happening. The system is probably fine, it's just the rgh.

 

[MikeTheKnight2016]

oh no!

Best solution to find someone who still works on them?

Or are the parts even made for an RGH anymore? Or is there a better method around now-a-days?

 

[terrha]

the best thing was to install retail and turn it on without unlocking it because there may be a secondary error there, like 100 or 101

 

[godreborn]

oh no!

Best solution to find someone who still works on them?

Or are the parts even made for an RGH anymore? Or is there a better method around now-a-days?

@brickmii82 or @Donnie-Burger might do it.

 

[MikeTheKnight2016]

the best thing was to install retail and turn it on without unlocking it because there may be a secondary error there, like 100 or 101

any tutorial on how?

 

[MikeTheKnight2016]

@brickmii82 or @Donnie-Burger might do it.

Awesome! I'll see if they see the ping and gladly let them

 

[godreborn]

any tutorial on how?

Iirc, you can only get a secondary error code if it rrod.

 

[terrha]

It's kind of complicated because you first climb the shell and as your device doesn't have the screen you have to reprogram it manually and then remove the unlock, specifically the GND and VCC wire, you don't need to remove everything.

 

[MikeTheKnight2016]

ugh, i've never done it before but am pretty technical sans soldering skills, haha

 

[terrha]

so you better take it to someone, some technician who knows how to unlock it because in short you have to lock it again to see if it will give someone a secondary error that unlocks it doesn't let you see.

 

[brickmii82]

Have you tried using the eject button to boot up to go into Xell? If you can get into Xell, try resetting your video settings. Turn on the console. As the console starts, press and hold the Y button while pulling the right trigger on the controller. The display settings are reset to the default settings, and then the console automatically restarts. Also verify it's a good HDMI if you're using HDMI

 

[Donnie-Burger]

Most rgh images wont show a rrod and infinite glitch

If you can flash stock back to it then you can test (If it boots make a new rgh image and flash that)

If xell loads you can do this with USB and should work on most xbox mobos just make sure if you have a Corona to check model

Can be a timing file issue but if you didnt mess with that then I doubt it

Ive seen rghs from other modders with 10-20 min boot times

 

[MikeTheKnight2016]

Have you tried using the eject button to boot up to go into Xell? If you can get into Xell, try resetting your video settings. Turn on the console. As the console starts, press and hold the Y button while pulling the right trigger on the controller. The display settings are reset to the default settings, and then the console automatically restarts. Also verify it's a good HDMI if you're using HDMI

Do I press the eject button and it will power on the rgh?

Or do I need to press eject button and power button?

 

[MikeTheKnight2016]

Most rgh images wont show a rrod and infinite glitch

If you can flash stock back to it then you can test (If it boots make a new rgh image and flash that)

If xell loads you can do this with USB and should work on most xbox mobos just make sure if you have a Corona to check model

Can be a timing file issue but if you didnt mess with that then I doubt it

Ive seen rghs from other modders with 10-20 min boot times

I know previously it would boot in < 10 seconds...

Are you saying I should just press the power button and walk away to see if it actually boots into FSD?

 

[brickmii82]

Just the eject button.

 

[MikeTheKnight2016]

Pressing the eject button, ejects the cd tray, and powers on with blue screen and writing....

image is to large to upload here....

 

[brickmii82]

That's good. It means it is successfully glitching and there is either an issue with the RGH nand programming(flash) or you have a video issue keeping it from booting. When the console goes to boot up, it looks for the HDMI "handshake" and if it can't be completed, the boot sequence will stall until the handshake is completed. That's why I suggested to try resetting your video settings, and to check the HDMI cord. If you are getting that blue screen over HDMI, obviously the cord is OK and you can try doing the video reset. If you have any component cable hookups, you can try using those also. If that doesn't work, you may have a flash issue for whatever reason.

Xell bypasses the handshake and is in a separate part of the flash which is why it will boot that way.

 

[MikeTheKnight2016]

I pressed the power button on the xbox and held r trigger and y for 30 seconds and it never booted, and I turned on the xbox by the controller and held r trigger and y for 30 seconds and never booted to fsd.

 

[brickmii82]

Yeah you might have a flash issue then. You can try a clean launch.ini file on a USB stick but I doubt it'll work. Look for the latest Dashlaunch download and it'll have a launch.ini config file included in it.