Topic: The 100% Correct Way To Flash A Ms28 (Read 621 times)

Nexi · « **Reply #165 on:** February 06, 2007, 12:54:00 PM »

Interesting, very interesting.

dtgorm · « **Reply #166 on:** February 12, 2007, 07:46:00 AM »

Ya, the link for the http://www.xbox-expert.com/viamtk.rar no longer works... anyone have it?

ExiZ · « **Reply #167 on:** February 12, 2007, 08:58:00 AM »

personally i would use textbooks tutorial, its simpler than this one but its up to you, it doesnt require perfect timings and messing about with.

http://www.360mods.n...al/Textbook.pdf

Nexi · « **Reply #168 on:** February 12, 2007, 10:24:00 AM »

QUOTE(Textbook @ Nov 25 2006, 10:37 PM)

Have you tried the other way first? The bad-flash recovery method or "ten-second method" as some people call it? I really don't see why anybody would rely on this method as it focuses more on getting the perfect timing, when I've used the bad flash method on about 20 drives with no problem. No offense, but this is really just another method that does the same thing as the bad-flash, just a little more difficult to do. I've done about 20 drives with my VIA and have never had to do anything like this. If anything needs to be pinned, it's the thread that xboxto started, which explains how to do flash via the VCC method, and later posts, by using the bad-flash method.

I must agree. There are definitely threads that should have pinning priority over this. Like Textbook said, this is a more difficult method to use.

enimatek · « **Reply #169 on:** February 22, 2007, 11:08:00 AM »

xboxepert,i just wanna say thank you very much.your tutorial is flawless.
thanks again

ash3z · « **Reply #170 on:** February 23, 2007, 05:00:00 AM »

do you still have to remove the resistor and wire a switch to either side to get this to work?if so how hard is it to do,is there a link to show what to solder

cwindsor2003 · « **Reply #171 on:** February 23, 2007, 05:08:00 AM »

Just for Numbers....

used the guide and after 10 times or so I got it to flash....

Thanks!

This is the card I used...

This SATA Raid Controller PCI Card. It features the VIA VT6421L chipset and supports two Serial ATA drives and two UDMA/133 drives.

Card was made by SYBA from Newegg... They no longer list it?

patrpell · « **Reply #172 on:** February 25, 2007, 04:31:00 AM »

Hey Guys,
I too have the bs ms28 drive and id prefer not to remove that resistor. However when i try this method i get a few slight problems.

QUOTE

Now that you waited your 5 second timeout period I want you to go ahead and hit enter on the keyboard. I want you to take NOTICE that it says detecting drives for a second and then proceeds. If you did so you should see it freeze while trying to find the drive in the 360...this is NORMAL since this is just a TEST. Hit ESC on the keyboard and you should get a Status 51 Should be 80. If you got this error we are okay to proceed

1) I get Status 51 should be 70 or something along the lines of 70, what could be causing this?
2) If i turn the xbox on with the sata cable in bay 0 (primary drive) msdos claims there is a stack error and freezes.
I have a gigabyte motherboard (ga-7vt600) with the via kt600 chipset and this SATA chipset apparently is compatible with the ms28 drive. What the hell do i do? if there were any pics still i would have removed the resistor by now as it seems like a more easier yet dangerous option. Any help is much appreciated, i am a complete noob and i am starting to hate my 360 by the minute.

Patrick.

ash3z · « **Reply #173 on:** February 25, 2007, 01:50:00 PM »

do you still have to remove the resistor and do the vcc trick or just follow this without having to do the resistor and vcc trick

QUOTE(xboxexpert @ Nov 15 2006, 02:05 PM)

Before anything I'd like to thank Grim187 from our XS Forums. With that being said enjoy the tutorial!

First off I'll start by saying what you need for this to work.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v205/xboxexpert/DSC02576.jpg (I have heard of VT6421A's to work but this is what I'm using so this is what I have to recommend!)

Xbox 360 System (OPEN) and Xbox 360 Power supply.

A Computer with either a BOOTABLE USB Memory stick or a BOOTABLE floppy disk (I DON'T RECOMMEND USING A FLOPPY). My bootable partition was FAT32 and it was booting to Windows ME DOS Prompt

On the BOOTABLE floppy/USB drive you must put Xtrem42b.bin, X360SAM.exe and an edited MTKFLASH.EXE & MTKFLASH.TYP which can be found (http://www.xbox-expert.com/viamtk.rar)
Now that I got the items out of the way you need to boot to BIOS and DISABLE every single IDE/SATA Device you have (This is the easy way and bypass's the need to enter the computer with your hands and start pulling out IDE and SATA cables)

Now that you have the bios stuff disabled I'd like you to shut off the PC completely. Bring the Xbox 360 over to the PC and plug it into a AC outlet so it can get power. I'd like you now to unplug the SATA connector on the Samsung DVD Drive in the 360 leaving the Power connector plugged in. Plug a SATA Cable into the 2nd SATA Connector on the PCI Card (the connector furthest from the back of the computer) long enough to reach the 360 Samsung Drive. DO NOT PLUG IN THE PCI CARD SATA TO THE XBOX SATA....YET

Boot the Computer to the Floppy/USB drive. When your presented with A:\ type "mtkflash r /m orig.bin" (without the quotes of course) DO NOT HIT ENTER!!!

I want you now to Plug in the SATA Connector from the PCI Card into the 360 Samsung Drive.

Remove the RF Cover so you can tap the small power button to turn on the 360....Turn it on.

Here is the IMPORTANT PART your 360 doesn't have the AV Cable plugged in so its flashing red...thats fine but you MUST REMEMBER that there is a 3 second timeout in which you CANT hit the power button to shut off the system cause its got lag. You must WAIT at least 5 seconds before you proceed after turning on the 360.

Now that you waited your 5 second timeout period I want you to go ahead and hit enter on the keyboard. I want you to take NOTICE that it says detecting drives for a second and then proceeds. If you did so you should see it freeze while trying to find the drive in the 360...this is NORMAL since this is just a TEST. Hit ESC on the keyboard and you should get a Status 51 Should be 80. If you got this error we are okay to proceed

I'd like you to again type "mtkflash r /m orig.bin" but this time which you see it say detecting drives shut off the 360 EXACTLY at that MOMENT! It should now be frozen where it was before but this time your 360 is off.

Heres the kicker! Turn the 360 back on and it will start to read the MS28.

Now that we have that out of the way we will now type "x360sam orig.bin xtrem42b.bin hacked.bin" (Duh...with out the quotes)

It will proceed to create a hacked.bin BIOS image. Now you will shut the PC and Xbox 360 off and Remove the SATA Connector from the 360 drive. Repeate the steps above again up until the part where you type "mtkflash r /m orig.bin" this time your going to type "mtkflash w /m hacked.bin" and do the same thing as before...shutting the 360 off right as its detecting the Samsung and turning it on after.

If all is done well you should have a Nicely hacked MS28 Drive with the newest (to date) Xtreme Firmware.

P.S - I'd also like to add that my finger once twitched and right when it started to flash I accidently shut the xbox off...woops to me! I turned the xbox 360 back on and typed the command again and it proceeded to flash the drive with out doing anything out of the ordinary.
Sidenote: This will not work with the Xecuter Connect Kit (You will always get Status 80 Should be 70)

I DO NOT TAKE RESPONSIBILITY IF THIS IN ANY WAY SCREWS UP OR BRICKS YOUR SAMSUNG DRIVE. THOUGH IT SHOULD NOT...STUPID STUFF SOMETIMES HAPPENS AND I WILL NOT BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THAT!

Grav87 · « **Reply #174 on:** February 25, 2007, 03:09:00 PM »

thats the no-solder method

ash3z · « **Reply #175 on:** February 25, 2007, 08:37:00 PM »

QUOTE(Grav87 @ Feb 25 2007, 04:16 PM)

thats the no-solder method

so just follow what he sayz and dont worry about the resistor vcc trick correct,im just wanting to make sure i dont want to brick this new 360..i wished it was as easy as the 1st 360 i had with the hitachi drive!!!

Grav87 · « **Reply #176 on:** February 26, 2007, 12:45:00 PM »

QUOTE(ash3z @ Feb 25 2007, 10:44 PM)

so just follow what he sayz and dont worry about the resistor vcc trick correct,im just wanting to make sure i dont want to brick this new 360..i wished it was as easy as the 1st 360 i had with the hitachi drive!!!

yeah my brother has one with hitachi, lucky jerk, but all will be well once i get my drive flashed when my sata card gets here tomorrow.

On a side note, why didn't microsoft just settle on ONE dvd-rom drive? why so many?

timewaster · « **Reply #177 on:** February 26, 2007, 03:04:00 PM »

QUOTE(Grav87 @ Feb 26 2007, 02:52 PM)

yeah my brother has one with hitachi, lucky jerk, but all will be well once i get my drive flashed when my sata card gets here tomorrow.

On a side note, why didn't microsoft just settle on ONE dvd-rom drive? why so many?

to aggravate modders and make it more difficult for us.

zerocool1981 · « **Reply #178 on:** February 27, 2007, 07:52:00 AM »

ok so i ve been reading this forum from the start of post and now iam finally trying to flash My ms28
drive but every time i try i get 1 of 2 things that happen
1. it starts up in dos i type command for samread and it starts and say Port 1FO, Master /Slave ao
and freezes so i hit escape and
2. i get this message "Status = 72 should be 70" err user break
can anyone help

And for reference i have the Via VT6421L pci sata card and iam doing the wire trick for ms28 drive

lfielder · « **Reply #179 on:** February 27, 2007, 09:25:00 AM »

QUOTE(cwindsor2003 @ Feb 23 2007, 01:15 PM)

Just for Numbers....

used the guide and after 10 times or so I got it to flash....
Thanks!

This is the card I used...

This SATA Raid Controller PCI Card. It features the VIA VT6421L chipset and supports two Serial ATA drives and two UDMA/133 drives.

Card was made by SYBA from Newegg... They no longer list it?

Is THIS it?
I just ordered one.

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