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niai

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« on: January 05, 2010, 02:47:00 PM »
seen as you have a jasper i would go for usb seen as its going to cost just a bit more then a ltp port and will chang the speed form 8 houres read and write to bout 20 mins

there are people selling usb flasher on this site if you look

i hope to be sell some soon to just waiting for every thing in the post
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AZImmortal

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« Reply #1 on: January 05, 2010, 04:44:00 PM »
I've read that PCI cards and USB adapters won't work for this.  If you have to flash via LPT, then you'll have to find a computer with an LPT port.
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Ranger72

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« Reply #2 on: January 05, 2010, 05:11:00 PM »
QUOTE(AZImmortal @ Jan 5 2010, 06:44 PM) View Post

I've read that PCI cards and USB adapters won't work for this.  If you have to flash via LPT, then you'll have to find a computer with an LPT port.



Indeed that be the truth of it.
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« Reply #3 on: January 06, 2010, 12:07:00 PM »
According to the release notes, Nandpro does not natively support LPT adapter cards...

If I were you, I would build this USB flasher but involves some technical know-how & soldering:
http://www.xboxhacke...p?topic=12306.0

parts are pretty cheap... you might even be able to request the PIC18F microcontroller as a sample from microchip.com and get it sent to you for free... but that could take a while.  I'd go for a small proto-board rather than the breadboard since the connections will be much more reliable.  Just check which color wires are soldered to which pins of the LPT cable, then get a cat5 cable (I'm guessing the port on your 360 is patch cable similar to here) and match the color wires to the signals from the micro.

Other option is to wait for lflash.c to be updated with support to write Big NAND... I believe right now it will only read.  I would still use lflash to read the original NAND if you don't already have a backup... it's much faster than USB/LPT.

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If you are building the USB SPI Flasher, you will need a device to program the PIC microcontroller as well.  I think the cheapest official programmer is the PICkit2 also available on microchip.com (Part Number : PG164120) or you can try to find instructions on how to build your own if you search google.
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« Reply #4 on: January 06, 2010, 01:18:00 PM »
Build(or buy) a USB Flasher or just use lflash. You don't need an lpt port and if anything its going to slow down your progress and set you up for disaster.
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niai

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« Reply #5 on: January 06, 2010, 01:23:00 PM »
you can use a usb flasher with the way its set up on your xbox this guy here will sell it with a Ethernet cable attached


i am shore if you let him know how you have yours wired he will wire it the same for you
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