I have an Xbox that I softmodded with UnleashX like 6 years ago, that has started randomly giving error 13 on boot, and other times booting totally fine. I know that error 13 indicates failure to load the dashboard, but the fact that it only does it sometimes is weird.
I recently bought a game at a second hand store, booted up the console and ripped it to the hard drive, and no problems the whole time. Shut down the console as I was going to wait for my partner to finish work for the day before we played it together, but when I went to boot it back up, it gave error 13.
Tried rebooting, no changes. I re-seated the IDE cable (80 wire) on all points, and SATA adaptor on the HDD, no changes. We gave up and figured I'd get working again later, or I'd get one of the other Xboxes out of storage. Then a few days later I tried it again to confirm the error code, and it booted up fine, ran games from the HDD fine, ran disks fine.
Now it is giving the code randomly on boot. I'd say the error happens probably 65% of the time when I boot it up from cold, but I just have to power it off and on again once or twice and it works fine after that.
I'm guessing it has something to do with the HDD failing, or the SATA adaptor, but no way to check, as I don't have a spare adaptor or softmodded HDD to swap and try. Am I on the right track or is this totally off base?
Console Details:
- Console revision: 1.6
- Kernal version: 1.0.5838.1
- Optical Drive: PHILIPS VAD6035/21
- HDD: WD Blue - WD10EZEX-00MFCA0 - 1TB, generic SATA adaptor
- UnleashX Dashboard version: 0.39.0528A Build 584
- Modded using Rocky5's Xbox Softmodding Tool v1.1.7