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[davechann]

I dont get anything at all on screen mate I just get a black screen and I tried doing a manual patch on the xtreme 3 firmware but to no avail.

its doing my head in now I havent even had a game in the damn thing yet    

Dave

[boulie]

hi guys.
First of all i alredy flashed several samsung without any problems.
Yesterday a friend of mine came to me for his TS. I flashed it with the Xtreme 3.0.
When i reboot it, i keep getting the green lights blinking (the middle one). No way to eject the drive, in the dash
it's wrote "opening", but nothing happen. I tried to reflash with the original firmware but it hangs at same point.
If someone would have an idea any help would be appreciated Cheesy

[Andy Hewitt]

QUOTE(davechann @ Aug 14 2006, 06:15 PM)

I dont get anything at all on screen mate I just get a black screen and I tried doing a manual patch on the xtreme 3 firmware but to no avail.

its doing my head in now I havent even had a game in the damn thing yet    

Dave

Even with the DVD drive disconnected the console will still boot to the dashboard.
If it just shows a black screen and youve confirmed your video cable is in properly then its a dead console.
Take it back to the shop and get it swapped out.

QUOTE(boulie @ Aug 18 2006, 09:24 AM)

hi guys.
First of all i alredy flashed several samsung without any problems.
Yesterday a friend of mine came to me for his TS. I flashed it with the Xtreme 3.0.
When i reboot it, i keep getting the green lights blinking (the middle one). No way to eject the drive, in the dash
it's wrote "opening", but nothing happen. I tried to reflash with the original firmware but it hangs at same point.
If someone would have an idea any help would be appreciated Cheesy

Sounds like its a failed flash, its the same symptoms as one ......
Just confirm you have a proper key saved and rebuild the flash using another copy of the firmware.

Let me know how it goes.

[boulie]

QUOTE(Andy Hewitt @ Aug 19 2006, 12:12 AM)

Even with the DVD drive disconnected the console will still boot to the dashboard.
If it just shows a black screen and youve confirmed your video cable is in properly then its a dead console.
Take it back to the shop and get it swapped out.
Sounds like its a failed flash, its the same symptoms as one ......
Just confirm you have a proper key saved and rebuild the flash using another copy of the firmware.

Let me know how it goes.

hello, yes i have my proper firmware key, what do you mean by rebuilding ? thanks for the response.

[Andy Hewitt]

QUOTE(boulie @ Aug 19 2006, 06:02 AM)

hello, yes i have my proper firmware key, what do you mean by rebuilding ? thanks for the response.

Sorry, it was very late when I replied above. I'm a little more rested now.

If your getting a black screen, then sort that out first.
Your console will still boot to the dashboard WITHOUT a dvd drive and show on the Screen.
If your not getting any video signal theres no point in carrying on.

If you are getting a screen, then carry on trying to repair your drive.
Extract your key and replace it into another copy of the firmware as it sounds like your copy is corrupted and acting like a failed flash.

If in doubt, you can always flash the 0800 firmware from the xtreme1 release and test the drive in windows. That will confirm the hardware works fine. Once confirmed the hardware is fine then you can concentrate on your Key and firmware.

[boulie]

hi again, I tried to paste the key to MY origin.bin and then re-inject it, but i still have the same trouble,
always the green led blinking quickly...and i can't connect it to my pc as it hangs on directly at the boot sequence if you have any other idea it will be welcome
thanks again for your help Andy

[SicilianBoy]

hi,i also bricked a sammy drive tonight,i read this thread all the way through but i still cant revive my drive.

i tried all these commands:

mtkflash w /m original.bin
mtkflash w /b  original.bin
mtkflash w /sata /m original.bin
mtkflash w /sata /b original.bin

the drive does get recognized on port 2 but it always get stuck while flashing giving me errors like:

"erase chip failed" or "www 01 error" once it said: "updating" but it got stuck at 01% and so on...

i would like to understand if there is something im missing or if i should keep on trying until perhaps it will flash it succesfully or if its broken and i dont have any way to recover it

i am pretty confidend that original.bin is the right file and so i was hoping to revive it...

please any help perhaps?

thanks a lot in advance

later

[davbere]

Hello Andy,

I have a bricked samsung that after relashing to orig.bin(with the autoflasher 3.2) has quit ejecting and gives error 65 when installed in the 360.
 I have tried recovering using your guidelines but it just stays at  "port 9800, master/slave: a0
mY QUESTION TO YOU OR ANYONE IS WHICH VERSION OF MTKFLASH should I be using. The same one I used to flash with ? I am using a pci card with via chipset.

Thanks,

David.

[Andy Hewitt]

QUOTE(SicilianBoy @ Sep 6 2006, 12:29 AM)

hi,i also bricked a sammy drive tonight,i read this thread all the way through but i still cant revive my drive.

i tried all these commands:

mtkflash w /m original.bin
mtkflash w /b  original.bin
mtkflash w /sata /m original.bin
mtkflash w /sata /b original.bin

the drive does get recognized on port 2 but it always get stuck while flashing giving me errors like:

"erase chip failed" or "www 01 error" once it said: "updating" but it got stuck at 01% and so on...

i would like to understand if there is something im missing or if i should keep on trying until perhaps it will flash it succesfully or if its broken and i dont have any way to recover it

i am pretty confidend that original.bin is the right file and so i was hoping to revive it...

please any help perhaps?

thanks a lot in advance

later

I've added you to my MSN, we'll have a chat there.

QUOTE(davbere @ Sep 6 2006, 04:21 AM)

Hello Andy,

I have a bricked samsung that after relashing to orig.bin(with the autoflasher 3.2) has quit ejecting and gives error 65 when installed in the 360.
 I have tried recovering using your guidelines but it just stays at  "port 9800, master/slave: a0
mY QUESTION TO YOU OR ANYONE IS WHICH VERSION OF MTKFLASH should I be using. The same one I used to flash with ? I am using a pci card with via chipset.

Thanks,

David.

if its detecting the sata interfaces, your using the correct version.

Sounds like a failed flash, just keep trying until you got the orig.bin reinstalled.

Have you confirmed the orig.bin is actually good ?

[jakeboy]

I created a MS-DOS boot floppy disk and placed MTKFLASH and Original.bin files on it - Booted PC and at the A prompt I typed MTKFLASH W /SATA /M Original.bin and I get this:

MTKFLASH by Joseph , MTK 1998 (ver 1.83c)
Port : 170, Master/Slave: aO

Then I turn of 360 and wait a sec and turn back on and Hit key 1 and nothing happens.  So I turn it off/on again and hit key 1 and nothing happens and so forth until I get this:


An internal stack overflow has caused this session to be halted.  Change the STACKS setting in your CONFIG.SYS file, and then try again.

I have a PCI controller with this driver - Adaptec Serial ATA 1205SA Host Controller - Also, its a SiI 3112A SataLink.

Any suggestions on how to get this to work on my Hitachi 47DJ?

[tvanzant12]

I just have a few questions regarding the bricked samsung drive. When I boot up with my sata hard drive hooked up I get a stack error, so when i unhook the hard drive i hook the sata cable from the samsung to the motherboard where I just unhooked the hard drive. I then boot up and get 3 choices, primary master, secondary master and secondary slave. Im going to assume the samsung drive is option 1. My 2 questions are, when you say "Turn off power to the DVD drive" do you mean power off your xbox, or manually pull the 12v plug out of the DVD drive itself. The second question is when you say "If it is waiting for more than a few seconds hit escape twice to stop the attempt and power off the drive again and keep trying the last part again. It will work after a few attempts" Is keep trying the last part mean, just powering off, then powering back up? Thanks in advance,

[jakeboy]

I was able to get MTKFLASH to indicate this:
Please wait...
Drive Scaned:
1: IDE Sec Master
2: Si3112 Pri Master
3: Si3112 Sec Master
choose one drive:

I pressed 2 because that is my SataLink and I get this error:

Port: a000, Master/Slave: a0
SiI3112 do not support IDE flash

Does this mean that MTKFLASH will not work at all???

[lankyadz]

Please Help, i flashed my friends samsung using xtreme 3.0 but it kept saying unrecognized disc.

I then flashed the drive back with orig.bin and now i get a black screen with white writing sayin e65.

what do i do, the drive will not recognize on pc at all now


HELP HELP HELP

[lankyadz]

QUOTE(lankyadz @ Sep 7 2006, 11:29 PM)

Please Help, i flashed my friends samsung using xtreme 3.0 but it kept saying unrecognized disc.

I then flashed the drive back with orig.bin and now i get a black screen with white writing sayin e65.

what do i do, the drive will not recognize on pc at all now
HELP HELP HELP

ok so now i have managed to flash with the hacked version that i made by hotswapping the drive. when i pt an original game in it says "put this disc in an xbox 360 to play" if i put a copy on it says "unrecognized disc."

anyone got any ideas?

[MHD5113]

Andy thanks to your tutorial I saved my dead Toshiba-Samsung DVD-ROM. But I've got a serious prob with another XBOX 360. It has a Hitachi LG 47 with a bad flashed firmware. MTKFlash stops responding when I press 1 or 2 in choosing the SATA interface. The drive is recognized in BIOS Setup but not in windows. XBOX 360 LED flashes (like the eject times), but the tray is locked in its place. When I disconnect it from PC and let it boot by itself the south-east LED (out of 4) blinks RED and an ERROR message appears on TV.

Andy and all xperts, save my Hitachi. I'm really really disappointed for that : ((