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[geebee]

QUOTE(£iquid-!ce @ Jun 16 2006, 08:44 AM)

Why dont you set it to boot the floppy first instead?
Or most computers if you keep pressing the escape key when it starts will bring up a boot menu so you can choose what to boot first.

just eject the 360 drive tray and it will carry on booting.

[icanstillcu]

I need to retract my statement that I made on the TDK disc working as it may of been premature at that time the furthest I had gotten was Incorrect Region. Now that I have tried with Far Cry NTSC/U it says disc is unreadable and tells me how to fix it IE clean the disc Im using the v1.1 anyone have any ideas as to it being the Disc type or what i might be doing wrong?

[fille84]

I get errors when Im trying to flash the drive. It says: DeviceIOControl<>failedO Failed to stop the disc.
I know that you should try and flash it again and again without turning off the xbox. But I have tried three times here and get errors all the way....Pls help..
And by the way it's not a disc in the xbox.

This post has been edited by fille84: Jun 16 2006, 11:53 AM

[trigga71]

QUOTE(vandalisthero @ Jun 15 2006, 04:03 PM)

Quick question that I couldn't find the answer to anywhere else... how do you go about resetting when all you have is a power switch? For some reason, I get the feeling that turning it on and off really quick isn't going to do it... anyone?

If you look where the power button and L.E.D's plug in to the mother board there MIGHT be reset pins around there. then just use a jumper (or something metal) to touch just those 2 pin together. Some PC's have them some dont.

[FV-Swarm]

QUOTE(fille84 @ Jun 16 2006, 11:23 AM)

I get errors when Im trying to flash the drive. It says: DeviceIOControl<>failedO Failed to stop the disc.
I know that you should try and flash it again and again without turning off the xbox. But I have tried three times here and get errors all the way....Pls help..
And by the way it's not a disc in the xbox.

I had same problem.  Exact same results on 2 different mboards both with Intel ICH5.  Interestingly enough I was successful in using slax to modeb and reading the original firmware and extracting the keys with both mboards but both boards gave the exact same failed to stop disc error on all 5 of the write sessions in the batch file.  I took new full firmware reads between attempts and compared with a binary comparison tool (winmerge) to the original and every time they were exact same no updates had applied at all.  I will try tonight on a ICH7 on a newer board and see if I get better results.  Ohh the good news.  I did turn the both the computer and xbox off several times during all of this using slax to get back to modeb everytime and in the end I put my 360 back together and all was still well everything worked fine.  The varations I tried were no disc in drive, movie in drive with drive spinning, movie in drive with drive not spinning and tray out.  some of these options did not result in the failed to stop disc but instead just hung on the 1st write attempt requiring me to force the batch write closed manually. (every single time the drive showed up in windows and when the movie was in I could see in in explorer and every time the read worked just the writes failed)  I think it might help if someone would start a thread where people could post working sata controller for the hitachi because I think the working sata controller list in the pdf doc thats out was really for the tos/sammy.

This post has been edited by FV-Swarm: Jun 16 2006, 03:04 PM

[djbase]

Can you use a SS.BIN from a samsung drive to burn our backups for the hitachi-lg drive ? (as long as the region of the SS.BIN is the same the users region, one for a PAL xbox and a NTSC xbox)

Or is there no difference in PAL SS.BIN and NTSC SS.BIN files ? (Security Sectors)

Or how do you extract the secuirty sectors  from your hitachi drive ?

Thanks!

[PJthePlayer]

Haha sorry I hadn't launched that kiosk demo in forever, I didn't know they had actually fixed that.  Has anyone tried what it said to do in the tutorial about removing the HDD and loading the game on startup?

[zerosignal0]

QUOTE(djbase @ Jun 16 2006, 04:02 PM)

Can you use a SS.BIN from a samsung drive to burn our backups for the hitachi-lg drive ? (as long as the region of the SS.BIN is the same the users region, one for a PAL xbox and a NTSC xbox)

Or is there no difference in PAL SS.BIN and NTSC SS.BIN files ? (Security Sectors)

Or how do you extract the secuirty sectors  from your hitachi drive ?

Thanks!

Yea I really want to know this as well! Can anyone confirm?  Like for example If I have a patch for a game that was created for the samsung can I use this patch for a game to use the firmware hack on the hatachi?

[THE CRAZY SHADOW]

Hey, maybe you guys could help me out here. I successfully got the flash to work which is great, used slax and everything (i dont understand why your lights flash in b mode, mine didnt and windows saw it). After it all was working i tested it with a retail game and it worked. Now, i hooked it back up to my computer, and to my understanding it would of saw it in windows right away with the new firmware, but it didnt. So i tried to rip a game but i guess you cant do it in mode b cause, i put a large dvd in, its spins up then ejects..

Is there a reason windows doesnt see it without going into b mode.

Commodore4eva Xtreme Firmware for Hitachi-LG GDR-3120L 47D v1.1

[PJthePlayer]

The HDTV trick worked wonders for getting the Hitachi to boot a backup.  Load a game into the 360, turn it off, turn it back on, and wait for the LED sequence to finish, and then switch the button on the video cable either over to HDTV or to normal, depending on where it was to start with. (sorry I guess this only works for people with the high definition AV cable)

[lhys09915]

only backup done on my pioneer 111d writer will work.but instead of doing the hdtv cable trick they work also by powering on with disk in the drive.

ridisk and datasafe.

[PJthePlayer]

Yeah by some strange chance I just got a Pioneer 111 burner as a graduation present like a week ago, and I can confirm that the one backup I made with it works.  I'll try others soon.  I actually did manage to get a backup to boot without doing the HDTV trick today as well.

[Soluble]

Backups burnt using the SS from your region for your backups will work. Problem is UK Pal SS bins don't work for Aussie games, and SS files from JAPAN NTSC won't work for US games and vice versa etc. But sammy and hitachi won't make a difference to the SS file

[cammy1011]

I just stuck two pins in the two holes or two small needles then touched the two pins with a paper clip to complete the circuit then released the paper clip after it started up,works like a charm every time.

[Flocool]

QUOTE(bar-code @ Jun 19 2006, 02:59 PM)

To the ppl having problems I stronglly suggest doing the 2 wire trick it works like a charm, and no you can't brick your xbox that easy. Soon as the power light comes on your xbox360 you will hear the drive make a noise then release the 2 wires. It all happens in a split second really. After the 2 wires have been released power up pc it will detect the drive and bobs your uncle.

For me it only worked when I startet the xbox (with the 2 wire trick) while Windows is already running. Just for a few people who have problems with windows recognizing the drive.