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[linbl]

When I flash the xtreme.bin (modified with my key), floppy disk error happened. I should use HD instead of FD.
So I got bad firmware flash, the DVD is dead - can't eject, can't detect in the PC bios.
The machine will have RED led flashing when I connect the DVD drive back to the 360.
The PC BIOS doesn't find the DVD. I can't flash the orignal firmware or xtreme.bin.
I had my orig.bin backup. I do have the original firmware backup so I should be able to re-flash my DVD drive.
Please help.... anyone....
I did some search on the forum and someone said that I can hot swap the good DVD drive and my bad DVD drive. Then  will be able to re-flash the firmware. Is that true? If so, I will need to find another DVD drive to get my DVD back to work.

[mksoftware]

Yes, to flash the drive you need to hot swap it... You need to find another drive, let in recognize it and quickly after that hotswap the thing and you got your Xbox 360 back again

[linbl]

Will it work if I hot-swap the Hitachi-LG dvd drive, which my friend has, with my dead Toshiba-Samsung dvd drive??

[pure3d2]

Actually, when I flash my firmware, I don't power on the xbox 360 until I'm at the command prompt (DOS boot disc).

Have you tried it this way?  The MTKFLASH program doesn't actually scan for the drive, it just scans the SATA bus and you choose it.  If it finds the correct device, it will begin to flash the drive, if not, it will just hang there.

I hope that helps.  Or you could try the hotswap trick using someone else's dvd rom drive.  Good luck.

[linbl]

Thank you! Thank you!
I just came back home and try your method without borrowing another DVD drive for hot-swap.
First few times, it doesn't work. Until I shutdown and power-on the DVD drive, the pc stay in DOS mode and type the command.
Boom....... It works. My dead DVD-rom come back to live.

[pure3d2]

QUOTE(deakphreak @ May 20 2006, 11:22 PM)

My oblivion copy did not seem to work. I backed up my other games and they all worked though,

DOA4
Condemned
PD0
COD2

I may try oblivion again, but i dont wanna waist another dual layer And i dont wanna risk damaging my original, specially of that game. Anyone had luck with oblivion?

The reason I made that suggestion is because the MTKFLASH program doesn't depend on the BIOS to detect it.  If it did, it would work on basically any chipset.  I believe the author coded a special version for nForce4 motherboards because the program knows exactly which memory address SATA port 1 is located.  It's a straight "write if device found" kind of thing.

Anyways, I'm glad it worked!

[Dr2006]

QUOTE(mksoftware @ May 20 2006, 06:36 AM)

Yes, to flash the drive you need to hot swap it... You need to find another drive, let in recognize it and quickly after that hotswap the thing and you got your Xbox 360 back again

You can actually use your xbox360 HD if you remove it from the fancy little case with a small ass torx screwdriver.

The hotswap needs to be quick and it may take mutiple try's.  Don't give up and keep trying and it will eventually work.  

Floppy drives suck, I would recommend a usb drive or HD.

[mahalt]

I ran into the same problem. Flashed from floppy. It wrote two passes successfully, then encountered CRC errors with pass three. The result - DVD drive is currently dead. (Dumb move running from floppy, but I wish mtkflash loaded the full file to memory and did CRC check before committing to firmware. It would make this much safer.)

Anyhow, now I get flashing green light on Xbox and E65 when I power it up fully-connected.

Someone mentioned hot-swapping with the hard drive. I can't see how this is possible, seeing that the power interfaces are different.

Anyone have any thoughts? Fortunately, I have a good copy of the DVD key stored away.

[thecheekymonkey]

QUOTE(linbl @ May 20 2006, 11:33 AM)

When I flash the xtreme.bin (modified with my key), floppy disk error happened. I should use HD instead of FD.
So I got bad firmware flash, the DVD is dead - can't eject, can't detect in the PC bios.
The machine will have RED led flashing when I connect the DVD drive back to the 360.
The PC BIOS doesn't find the DVD. I can't flash the orignal firmware or xtreme.bin.
I had my orig.bin backup. I do have the original firmware backup so I should be able to re-flash my DVD drive.
Please help.... anyone....
I did some search on the forum and someone said that I can hot swap the good DVD drive and my bad DVD drive. Then  will be able to re-flash the firmware. Is that true? If so, I will need to find another DVD drive to get my DVD back to work.

out of interest, did it have an error onscreen, for instance E65  ??


cheers and glad you sorted

[lucho]

A few post back someone hopswapped with a sata drive.  There back in the game now.  Worked for them.  It is worth a shot.  Does no hurt to try.

Lucho

[mahalt]

Right, but Dr2006 suggests using the 360 HD. I'm trying to figure out what he means by that.

[geebee]

QUOTE(mahalt @ May 23 2006, 07:42 PM)

Right, but Dr2006 suggests using the 360 HD. I'm trying to figure out what he means by that.

the 360 HD is a sata drive. Take it out of the case and do a hotswap between that and the DVDROM

so boot to dos, start mtkflash and then do a quick swap

[bosx2]

floppy disk read error... sucks man

[geebee]

QUOTE(bosx2 @ May 23 2006, 07:49 PM)

floppy disk read error... sucks man

use a USB stick (bootable).

[mahalt]

QUOTE(geebee @ May 23 2006, 02:48 PM)

the 360 HD is a sata drive. Take it out of the case and do a hotswap between that and the DVDROM

so boot to dos, start mtkflash and then do a quick swap

But the 360 HD wouldn't have power, so how would the hotswap work? When I try, I get "No Drive Detected".