Ring of death Error 16 Help Please.

[Bvaker]

My son recently pulled my xbox off the shelf while it was on and now it wont work. the ring at the front flashes green & red and i get an error message on screen saying 'your xbox requires service' with the number 16 to the top left of the screen. i opened it up & a wire has come off the chip ( dont know what kind of chip it is, one of the early ones ), the dashboard is the standard xbox dash.

Thanks in advance for any help or advice on how to solve this.

[Freaky]

well the first thing id do m8 is open it up and find out what chip it is, then you can get the diagram and see where to solder the wire back to.

if u dont know the chip is it poss to take a pic of it and post it here and someone will tell you what it is

[shadowdancer]

heres the explanation of error 16

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. Well read on please!

So you have an error 16 huh? Don't worry "nothing" is broken!

You have an xbox hdd that is locked. And normally you can boot in original and modded mode. Retail or upgraded doesn't matter. You start playing around with xboxdash.xbe etc. using ftp programs. While doing this you "accidently" remove your MS dashboard and also your alternate dashboard (Evox, etc.) so there is no dash anymore on the xbox hdd.

You end the ftp session and after that you shut off your xbox. Normally when you would start up again it gives you an error 13/14 ( no dashboard found). No worries with a slayer Evox cd (and a hardmod), all is ok. BUT this is only WITHIN 3 hours or so.

This is because the internal clock of the xbox will only be kept alive by the capacitors for only 3 or 4 hours. So when you leave your xbox unplugged from electricity for over 5 hours after you have played with the .xbe's AND you have removed your (ms and evo-x) dash from your xbox than you are fux0red. Why do you ask?

Why can't I boot from disc?

Its as follows Xbox starts booting==> (almost 1st thing a xbox does is) searches for internal clock==> doesnt find internal clock because there hasn't been any electricity on the xbox for 5 hours so battery that kept clock alive is empty and clock is gone==> searches for the proper dashboard menu to set clock with ==> doesnt find msdashboard or evo-x dashboard menu becuz you have removed it from the hdd for whatever reasons you had==> xbox gives error 16: cannot set clock.

So what do you do about it? Two options!

1. There are some bios'es around that allow the chip to boot past the clocksetting. (do a search!). So how do you get that bios on your chip because you cant boot to a flash program or something? Well you need to have an external flasher.

It seems the m8 bios will take care for you of booting past the clocksetting. Or use the latest Xecutor bios


2. This is the more easy and newbie friendly strategy
-Get a friend with a modded xbox.
-Unlock his hdd with eeprom management from a slayer evo-x cd.
-Than, place his hdd in your xbox.
-Boot with your chip on.
-Now the xbox DOES find a dashboard when you boot in original mode and you can set the time in the msdashboard clock settings.
-Shut off xbox and remove your friends hdd
-PLace his hdd back in his xbox and lock it again
-Install your hdd
-(clock has been set) So boot up with slayer cd.
-Install normally whatever you wanna install
-lock hdd

If you get an error 13 after this, please read up on the error 13 explanation!

[Freaky]

did u get this sorted m8

[Bvaker]

Ive given it to a mate who can do all the fancy flashing etc, he recons he can sort it with a new dashboard, evo x i think, hope it works... he's pretty confident he can sort it one way or another. He has all the stuff to do it.

Thanks a lot for your help & comments fella's.

I'll keep you updated.

[ffrr]

If it's an xecuter I'd say that sounds like the d0 wire has come off as the 2 ways of connecting it are pretty sturdy. Seen it loads of times.

hope you get it sorted!

[Bvaker]

Just got my xbox back, all sorted. The guy did what shadowdancer said & jobs a good-un.
In fact im glad my lad broke it because its better than ever now! All the latest stuff on it, dashboard is awesome, loads of emulators etc, well chuffed.

Thanks again for your help & advice.