Parental Control Password Bypass:
In the event you have set a parental control and have forgotten the password you can follow this procedure to rest the password.
- Open the dashboard and go to settings, from there continue to the parental lockout option
- Input the following when prompted for the password. X, Y, Left Trigger, X. This will bypass the parental lockout function!
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Xbox error codes and what they mean
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| 01 – Bootldr | Motherboard related error | ||
| 02 – Bootldr | Eeprom check failed | ||
| 03 – Bootldr | Unknown | ||
| 04 – Bootldr | RAM check failed | ||
| 05 – Kernal | HDD not locked (required to be locked by original bios) | ||
| 06 – Kernal | Cannot unlock HDD | ||
| 07 – Kernal | HDD Timeout (possible bad drive) | ||
| 08 – Kernal | HDD not found (bad or missing HDD) | ||
| 09 – Kernal | HDD parameters (PIO/DMA/or size{debug}, certain size minimum is required for debug | ||
| 10 – Kernal | DVD Timeout (possible bad DVD-Rom) | ||
| 11 – Kernal | No DVD found (bad or missing DVD-Rom) | ||
| 12 – Kernal | DVD parameters (PIO/DMA) | ||
| 13 – Kernal | Dashboard launch fail(due to missing/bad key, or anything else that would prevent it from running) and the dashboard didn’t specify why it failed | ||
| 14 -Dashboard | Error loading dashboard (dashboard generic error) | ||
| 16 -Dashboard | Other files to do with dashboard or dashboard settings (specific dashboard error) | ||
| 20 – Kernal | The dashboard attempted to load and failed; it was a cold boot, and the dashboard didn’t specify why it failed, but it (for some reason) needed to be noted that the DVD passed the challenge/response authentication | ||
| 21 – Kernal | This error says the machine was booted to display a error, basically someone told the machine to reboot (or launch .xbe) with this flag, and the error code just means its been rebooted by the flag | ||
Flashing Error Codes with Outer Ring (red ring of death)
This refers to the outer ring color that is displayed around the DVD eject button on the Xbox.
Note: this may not apply if your box has been ’Modded’ either with a chip or ’softmod’.
- Solid Red, indicates system is overheated or possible hardware failure.
- Flashing Green, bad bios load.
- Flashing Red-Orange, bad video output, could be damaged hardware.
- Flashing Red-Green, The MCPX chip is overheating or damaged. If the problem is intermittent, try placing a heatsink on the MCPX and cleaning out your Xbox (Note: the MCPX chip is the one with the nvidia logo on it.
- Flashing Orange, if you’ve modded it may be a solder splash or damaged trace also overheating.
- Flashing Orange-Green, no Audio/Video pack installed. check the cable for proper installation, if using the High definition pack revert to the standard cable.
- Solid Green with no audio or video, this is probably a problem with audio settings. try to reboot your Xbox with a standard A/V cable instead of the High Definition A/V cable.
- Xbox boots three times and displays a flashing Red-Green usually means your mod chip is installed incorrectly
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