u/DalcaConsoles

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I'm working on this 1.6 Xbox and I cannot get the Cerbios Logo OR the boot animation to come up when turning on the system. I've tested this on a CRT to make sure it's not my AV adapter acting up and the same thing happens there, too. The screen goes blank for 10 seconds and then it cuts into XBMC4Gamers.

My boot anim path goes as follows inside my Cerbion.ini file located on my E partition:

BootAnimPath = HDD0-E:\Cerbios\BootAnims\Xbox\bootanim.xbe

Yes I've made sure it's on the E Drive and not in C, I checked the spelling and everything looks correct. I just can't get it to work no matter how hard I try. I even went and opened the .xbe directly from XBMC4Gamers to see if it'll play it but I get nothing, just boots me out and back into XBMC. Can anyone help me?

I've never come across an issue like this. Does anyone know what the big deal is here? Of course a fix for this is to swap the drive with another one. But what could cause this?

I made sure it wasn't the IDE or power cable going into the drive, I swapped those with known good ones and I get the same result.

The drive is a Philips VAD6011, laser pickup won't shoot the laser nor can it slide down the rail to begin reading games. Spindle spins a little on startup but won't spin after that. Eject works just fine, too.

https://youtu.be/kqgft5QWpbU?si=8EvwHZYu2tsI9jH0

I made this video in hopes it can be used as reference if other people in this community want to make and install one of these. Hope this helps!

https://youtu.be/4gWJcJBWie8?si=fF4FRSYnnxlEhX-U

Big shout outs to user u/RoanPlayz on this subreddit for inspiring me to make this video!

Their written tutorial:

https://www.reddit.com/r/360hacks/comments/1iqcltd/front\_debug\_light\_led\_rol\_guide\_phatslim\_ace\_cr/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web3x&utm\_name=web3xcss&utm\_term=1&utm\_content=share\_button

I'm working on a Japanese Launch model PS1. It turns on but it doesn't quite act normal on startup.

While a Japanese game is spinning, the Sony Computer Entertainment Logo drags on for a long while. I thought the laser was busted, so I swapped it with a known working one that is shown in the video here, but I get the same results. Not only that, but I get the same results when I DON'T have a disc inserted, too. The SCE logo just...drags for a while.

That's not the weirdest part, the BIOS menu is sometimes unresponsive for seconds before it responds to my controller inputs. I swapped the controller ports and my own controller with known working ones and the issue persists. The BIOS looks like it freezes then unfreezes, even when a game is NOT inserted.

I took a look at the motherboard and everything looks perfectly fine, I even used my microscope to find imperfections and I couldn't find any, not even a leaking cap in sight...

I swapped PSU's just in case it would make a difference but no dice.

So I need some advice. Is this a BIOS issue, a CD control issue or a capacitor issue? I'm not entirely sure. If anyone can help me out here I'm all ears. I really don't want to dig myself in a miserable rabbit hole.