Xecuter2 Bios 4979

XECUTER2 BIOS 4979

>> Team Xecuter released their new Xbox BIOS.
What's new/fixed (Changes 4978.03 - 4979):

- Added Focus Video Encoder Support
- Embedded OzPaulb's LBA48 Hack
- Added MS Dash clock check skip
- Removed embedded FTP (was simply a proof of concept anyway)
- Resized and optimized back to 256k
- Clean up of code and some general bug fixes
- 4979.06 = LBA48 6
- 4979.67 = LBA48 6+7

More news from the readme:

Well folks it's been a long time in the making but we finally cracked it. As most of you know the new v1.4 and v1.5 Xbox had a new FOCUS video encoder (FS454) which replaced the old Conexant version (CX25871) and video output could no longer be generated.

Evox implemented their old hacks to the new 5101 kernel and that all worked fine, however Xecuter doesn't patch the MS kernel, we use source code to develop our advanced patches and hacks, but without the source code for the Focus encoder we were pretty much stuffed. After many weeks of hardcore low level hacking we have successfully developed the Focus source code from scratch and are pleased to announce a fully working X2 bios with Focus support embedded for your enjoyment. Now you can use all the extra features you've all come to expect from Xecuter

Another couple of features include the skipping of the MS Dash clock check which has been requested many times. This enables you to boot from DVD correctly when setting up a new hard disk without any problems or errors. This gets rid of Error 16 problems.

We have also intergrated OzPaulb's fantastic LBA48 hack which we had to painstaiknigly convert from Assembly to C source. This is now embedded into our X2 source so you can use two versions of our bios.
One for LBA48 6 and one for LBA 48 6+7 (LBA48 6 is one large F partition - recommened for new HD installs, and LBA48 6+7 is for those who want to extend your current F drive to its larger size without losing any data). For those who dont know you were previousley limited to a 137GB drive - now you can have up to 2 TB (2199023255040 bytes) or 2000 Gb for the *ahem* uninformed.

We've also added a "fix" section in this nfo that solves many crashing problems that some of you maybe experiencing with your games / apps - check it out.

X2 4979 will most likely be the last bios in the X2 series, as well as the X2.3 hardware design (with new power adapter). We thank you all for your generous support over the last 2 years and we will be seeing you soon with the feature packed X3 hardware and software.

HAVE A GREAT CHRISTMAS - SEE YOU IN 2004 !!!!


Notes
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You should be made aware of some issues that we discovered and has probably had some of you tearing your hair out.
If you have games like GTA, GTA Vice City and Fifa 2004 etc and they are crashing during the game then you will find they operate and AUTOSAVE check which uses your system clock. Now if your system clock is corrupt then it will crash a number of titles which use AUTOSAVE. One clock we found corrupt had a date/time setting of 15/11/8097. The second the clock was fixed in the MS Dash all the games that crashed worked just fine with no problems whatsoever.
You should also be aware that some apps especially FlashX(info) v1.2 are also crashing - this is down to the EVOX IGR. You should disable all EVOX IGR and this will get things moving nicely.
If you have any questions / bug reports / success reports please post in this thread.