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Recovery Mode
  • Every version of CrystalChip has a built-in Recovery Mode which may be enabled at any time to allow you to recover from corrupted firmware. Thanks to an internal checksum, CC will automatically detect corrupted firmware and boot in Recovery Mode. In the event that CC fails to automatically detect corrupted firmware, you may force "Recovery Mode" by pressing reset 3 times on startup.

Hardware Sleep Mode
  • Crystal Chip has a "Hardware Sleep Mode" (aka HSM) which allows you to disable your Crystal Chip. Unlike "Software Sleep Mode", HSM does not require any patching to be done in order to get software running which will disable the chip. This is quite useful if you get no video on startup and suspect that your CC may not be working correctly. You may use HSM to disable the chip and see if your PS2 then starts up. If not, it's very likely that the cause is your wiring/etc rather than the chip.

    Hardware Sleep Mode may be entered by pressing reset 6 times on startup. Your CC will remain in sleep mode until you power off the console or put it into standby mode, to prevent you from accidentally enabling the chip.

Installation LED
  • Starting with CrystalChip v1.1, all Crystal Chips have a small LED on their PCBs to allow some first installation diagnosis. The following lines show the basic modes:

    LED glows for only 1 second on system startup and discs boot = All is fine :)
    LED glows all the time and won't go off = Wrong installation of the bios wires
    LED goes off and discs won't boot = Wrong installation of the CD/DVD controller wires

    Since the LED can be controlled by the Crystal Chip firmware we can add/change modes.


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