Tutorial written by : Obscure Detour

Important: This document is outdated.
It is only kept online for historical reasons.

What is ybox/evox?

Ybox/Evox is a modified version of the Evolution-X bios. Originally the EvoX team set up their bios to boot to xboxdash.xbe. Well with Xbox Live updates this resorted to some problems. With ybox/evox, users are able to boot their Xbox up to yboxdash.xbe/evoxdash.xbe. Basically ybox lets us boot to our dashboard while we leave Microsoft’s dashboard untouched. That way Xbox Live can update it all it want and we are prepared for Xbox Live.

What you need:

· Modified EvoX bios (ybox) (1.8.2594 - 1.8.2812 or later)
· You obviously need a modified Xbox. All modchips work with EvoX. If unsure about modchips check out the modchip page here.
· You need an EvoX iso. If you downloaded an already made iso then you're fine. If you want to assign your Xbox its own IP address then you must edit the evox.ini. You can simply extract the EvoX iso and use default.xbe but you must edit the evox.ini file. If you don’t know how to make an iso or extract an iso check out the tutorials. To burn an iso with Nero or PrimoDVD check their respected tutorials.
· FTP Client for PC to be able to connect to Xbox. (I use FlashFXP but you can use whatever you’d like) For networking help go here.

Step 1

You should already have your modchip flashed with the ‘hacked’ bios with the ybox/evox hack and it should already be installed. (Obviously it won’t boot because you don’t have yboxdash.xbe/evoxdash.xbe on your hard drive yet) Make an iso with EvoX’s default.xbe and evox.ini unless already have that iso.

Step 2

If unsure on networking settings please get help here. If you follow that tutorial you can easily just edit your own evox.ini and make it a lot easier on yourself.
If you want to assign your Xbox its own IP address then you must edit the evox.ini file in order to do so. If doing so I would assign it a private IP address. Example 192.168.xxx.xxx. I did mine in correlation to my computer. My computer's IP is 192.168.1.3, my server being 192.168.1.4, I picked 192.168.1.5 for my Xbox.
When setting up your evox.ini file you want to make sure network settings are correct. If they aren't correct could result in time being wasted. Here is an example of my evox.ini networking settings.

[Misc]
AutoLaunchGames = No
AutoLaunchDVD = No
DVDPlayer = "f:\applications\dvdx\default.xbe"
AutoLaunchAudio = Yes
#AudioPlayer = "c:\xboxdash.xbe"
MSDashBoard = "c:\xboxdash.xbe"
UseFDrive = Yes
SkinName = XMatriX

[Network]
SetupNetwork = Yes
StaticIP = Yes
Ip = 192.168.1.005
Subnetmask = 255.255.255.0
Defaultgateway = 192.168.1.1
DNS1 = 0.0.0.0
DNS2 = 0.0.0.0

Once you have evox.ini configured and then made both files into an iso burn them. Pop the CDRW/DVDRW into your Xbox and boot it up. It should boot to EvoX dash. If it didn’t boot to EvoX dash you either:

* Made the iso wrong
* Your media is bad
* Bad burn (burn as slow as possible)
* mod chip isn't enabled or not adjusted correctly
* You just plain suck :P

Step 3

Once booted with the EvoX CDRW/DVDRW, connect to your Xbox via FTP.

In the quick connect menu simply type in the IP you provided in the evox.ini or the Xbox provided in the network settings in EvoX (DHCP Server only).
(Remember username and password are both Xbox)

You should get something that looks like this on the right side.

Now on the left side you'll want to specify where you want to save your backup C and E.
Then select C and E by holding down the CTRL key and right click on C or E while both are selected and click transfer.
Then you will see partitions C and E successfully copied.

click image for full view

From there click on the C drive on the Xbox hard drive (right side of the screen).
It should look like this.

Select your default.xbe and evox.ini from the iso you made earlier or extract from the iso you already had and right click and select "Transfer As" to your C:\ partition on your Xbox.

click image for full view

Another window will appear like this. Type yboxdash.xbe or evoxdash.xbe according to which ever bios you have and click ok.
Another window will pop up for evox.ini just click ok for this one.
(If you had a previous configuration of EvoX rename msxboxdash.xbe back to xboxdash.xbe)

Remove CDRW/DVDRW and reboot your Xbox. It should boot to EvoX dashboard if not then repeat steps.
Once that is completed you now have ybox successfully setup on your Xbox.