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[thezidane]

i've been looking around for the past 2 days trying to find a good tutorial on how to flash the benq drive.
i finally managed to find the ixtreme firmware for the benq drive and found this website:
http://cvirtuoso.wordpress.com/2007/10/31/...-w-via-chipset/
i am using the blaster360. i created a bootable usb drive for DOS and plugged my blaster360 into the primary SATA port on my asus motherboard. i checked out the msinfo32.exe and thought i got the correct sata port range? when i put in the first line in DOS "dosflash r 'sata port' 1 a0 1 4 a:\orig.bin 0" it gives me an error about MTK can't find the port and if i want to try until a port responds but it ends up just sitting there...any help on this or a better benq tutorial? much thanks in advance.

[XboxHazE]

Best Way I have found to flash a Benq


- First you will need Benq.iXtreme.v1.4 and DOSFlash3.2 installed on your PC.  I have WindowsXP. Never tried on Vista cause I don't have it yet.
- With the PC off, connect the Benq to your PCs sata or Sata card make sure it is compatable. Leave the Benq connected to the 360s power supply.
- Turn PC on and boot to Windows XP
- Turn on the 360.
- Start DosFlash3.2
- DosFlash3.2 will ask you if you wanna resend the mtk vendor intro cmd, press Yes
- Turn off the 360 and wait 2 or so seconds the turn the 360 back on.
- You should notice the green power led on the 360 is flashing.  This means the Benq is in modeb.
- DosFlash3.2 will pop up and show the info of the Benq drive.
- Press the Read button and save the firmware as "orig" in the Benq.iXtreme.v1.4 folder you wish. I used 8x  
- Now run "Make iXtreme firmware" from that folder.  You will see a new bin file called "ix14"
- The ix14 bin file is the hacked firmware you are going to flash your drive with.
- Now go back to the DosFlash3.2 window and from the drop down window choose "write"
- Now press the "write" button and choose the hacked file you created ix14.bin
- DosFlash32 will show progress of erasing and then writing the banks.
- You are  now done.


Supported Chipsets

**VIA cards
    - all VIA cards with a 6420 chipset
**IDE Controllers
    - NVIDIA nForce 2 IDE Controller
    - NVIDIA nForce 4 IDE Controller
    - Intel ICH9
    - Intel ICH (i810,i815,i840)
    - Intel ICH0
    - Intel ICH2M
    - Intel ICH2 (i810E2,i845,850,860)
    - Intel C-ICH (i810E2)
    - Intel ICH3M
    - Intel ICH3 (E7500/1)
    - Intel ICH4 (i845GV,i845E,i852,i855)
    - Intel ICH5
    - Intel ESB (855GME/875P + 6300ESB)
    - Intel ICH6 (and 6) (i915)
    - Intel ICH7/7-R (i945, i975)
    - Intel PIIX3 for the 430HX etc
    - Intel PIIX4
    - Intel PIIX4 for the 430TX/440BX/MX chipset
    - Intel PIIX
**SATA Controllers
    - NVIDIA nForce 4 SATA Controller
    - NVIDIA nForce 2 SATA Controller
    - NVIDIA nForce 3 SATA Controller
    - NVIDIA nForce MCP04 SATA Controller
    - NVIDIA nForce MCP51 SATA Controller
    - NVIDIA nForce MCP55 SATA Controller
    - NVIDIA nForce MCP61 SATA Controller
    - Intel 82801EB (ICH5)
    - Intel 6300ESB (ICH5)
    - Intel 82801FB/FW (ICH6/ICH6W)
    - Intel 82801FR/FRW (ICH6R/ICH6RW)
    - Intel 82801FBM ICH6M
    - Intel Enterprise Southbridge 2 (631xESB/632xESB)
    - Intel 82801GB/GR/GH (ICH7, identical to ICH6)
    - Intel 2801GBM/GHM (ICH7M, identical to ICH6M)
    - Intel SATA Controller IDE (ICH8)
    - Intel Mobile SATA Controller IDE (ICH8M)
    - Intel SATA Controller IDE (ICH9)
    - Intel SATA Controller IDE (ICH9M)

This post has been edited by XboxHazE: Dec 17 2007, 09:11 PM