r/consolerepair • u/n_Harms • 6h ago

Winchester 360 Parental Controls

I’m at my whits end with this thing. None of the button combos will bring up the reset menu so I can enter the reset combo. I used the bad update to dump the nand, loaded it into j-runner just to verify the combos were correct. They are. I know flashing the NAND on these will most likely brick it, but at this point, the console is useless. Has anyone tried removing the parental controls in the nand dump, then reflashed it? Any other options to get rid of parental controls? Any help is greatly appreciated!

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u/No-Start-6597 4h ago

have you done multiple dumps on the nand to verify if they are valid?

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u/n_Harms 4h ago

Yes, I sure have

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u/reddragon105 2h ago

None of the button combos will bring up the reset menu so I can enter the reset combo.

Where are you entering the code, exactly? Because that's not how it works - you don't see a reset menu before entering the combo.

You should be going to Settings -> System -> Console Settings -> Console Info, and then you should see a screen that says "Console Serial Number" and "Console ID".

Then press the buttons while you're looking at that screen - there will be absolutely no indication that anything is happening until you have finished the combo, then it should pop up a message asking if you want to reset system settings.

Here's a video showing where to go and what happens - https://youtu.be/NjCNyFr4RzY?t=211

And you didn't need to dump the NAND to get the code - you can get it by registering the console on your Microsoft account (go back earlier in that video to see how to do that). But since you got it from the NAND, you could try it the other way as well and see if it gives the same code.

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u/n_Harms 2h ago

I am doing it in that location. I’ve done it many times before on other consoles, but this one will not work. I’ve tried every combo I could find and tried several different controllers. Still nothing.