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[bob_barker]

So.. how long until we see a US reseller for Maximus' 79 passkey?

[kt3x]

i updated my 78fk with this and all game load inclued non stealth ist normal or no thanks.


i reflash with toolbox 4 and all game load. help me please for xbox live thanks.

[Knasen]

QUOTE(kt3x @ Jul 11 2007, 04:13 PM)

i updated my 78fk with this and all game load inclued non stealth ist normal or no thanks.
i reflash with toolbox 4 and all game load. help me please for xbox live thanks.

If your hitachi still loads non stealth games after flashinq then you did something wrong. I did a flash yesturday for a friend owning a hitachi and one of his backups refused to start due to not being 100% stealth. I suggest you reflash it and do it step by step following the tutorial in the readme.

[Lush]

After flashing my 78...only properly stealthed games are loading....  I put a non-stealthed game in the drive and it doesn't boot....  the same non-stealthed game was previously working when i flashed using toolbox 3.0...  Toolbox 4.0 is working great...

[DCP]

ok i finally got it done had to flash back to orig.bin still had E64  
i then flashed with fw toolbox 3.0 drive now worked with backups  
i then flashed back to orig.bin drive working now with original fw  
flashed with new fw toolbox 4.0 and all is fine  

Big thanks to all involved with the new Toolbox

DCP

[Iriez]

QUOTE(DCP @ Jul 11 2007, 01:02 PM)

ok i finally got it done had to flash back to orig.bin still had E64  
i then flashed with fw toolbox 3.0 drive now worked with backups  
i then flashed back to orig.bin drive working now with original fw  
flashed with new fw toolbox 4.0 and all is fine  

Big thanks to all involved with the new Toolbox

DCP

lol Sounds complicated. Glad you got it working though.

[goexplodex4]

THIS BRICKED MY DRIVE.  I plugged in my v78 did a diff with the recovered original firmware.  It said "there are a lot of differences....continue?"  I did cause I thought that was normal and it froze halfway through.

Guess im ordering me a v47 on ebay.

[Iriez]

QUOTE(goexplodex4 @ Jul 11 2007, 09:48 PM)

THIS BRICKED MY DRIVE.  I plugged in my v78 did a diff with the recovered original firmware.  It said "there are a lot of differences....continue?"  I did cause I thought that was normal and it froze halfway through.

Guess im ordering me a v47 on ebay.

There are many many many posts on every thread for every single hitachi fw that has been released that states warnings for powering off your drive after a unsucessful flash. If you have to restart the program, and flash, or restore again, then do so. But never turn it off.

[war-nerve]

QUOTE(Iriez @ Jul 11 2007, 09:56 PM)

There are many many many posts on every thread for every single hitachi fw that has been released that states warnings for powering off your drive after a unsucessful flash. If you have to restart the program, and flash, or restore again, then do so. But never turn it off.

Long story short - My computer froze 3 times when I was applying the hacked firmware to my Hitachi 78fk.  I never turned off my console, but obviously had to restart my computer.  I did restore my firmware back to the original (which would work like a charm every time) before flashing it to the hacked firmware which would freeze my computer up.  It eventually flashed successfully thank goodness, so now I'm at iXtreme 1.2 and all my back-ups and originals work.  Is it because I didn't switch off my console that I didn't brick my 78fk drive?  Or am I just freakin' lucky?  Please shed some light on this matter because I've been trying to search the internet for this answer and no luck... Thank you.

Click HERE if you'd like to read the full story of what I just mentioned ^

P.S.  How do I check that this new firmware is working as it's supposed to (like not booting unstealthed copies) if all the games I have made backups of have been ripped with my Kreon drive?  Besides getting a copy of an unstealthed game or removing the ss/dmi/pfi sectors from the ISO (DL discs aren't cheap - well, not yet). (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

[Iriez]

QUOTE(war-nerve @ Jul 12 2007, 04:16 AM)

Long story short - My computer froze 3 times when I was applying the hacked firmware to my Hitachi 78fk.  I never turned off my console, but obviously had to restart my computer.  I did restore my firmware back to the original (which would work like a charm every time) before flashing it to the hacked firmware which would freeze my computer up.  It eventually flashed successfully thank goodness, so now I'm at iXtreme 1.2 and all my back-ups and originals work.  Is it because I didn't switch off my console that I didn't brick my 78fk drive?  Or am I just freakin' lucky?  Please shed some light on this matter because I've been trying to search the internet for this answer and no luck... Thank you.

Click HERE if you'd like to read the full story of what I just mentioned ^

P.S.  How do I check that this new firmware is working as it's supposed to (like not booting unstealthed copies) if all the games I have made backups of have been ripped with my Kreon drive?  Besides getting a copy of an unstealthed game or removing the ss/dmi/pfi sectors from the ISO (DL discs aren't cheap - well, not yet).

Light has been shed on this matter. It was shed quite vibrantly and straightforward in the post directly above yours. The answer is right there. You even quoted it. *confused look*

If you are really eager to test it, take a invalid pfi/dmi/video data, and patch it to the iso you've created with your kreon drive using xdvd mulleter. I cant post the site on the forums here, but you can reach it by visiting #fw on efnet, IRC.

Why you would want to waste a disc, when you are making the disc's yourself using the kreon method, beats me. Its pretty fully proof.

[tgrinch]

Flashed great under VISTA, no problem!  One question, however-- does this Firmware Toolbox v4 flash using the iXtreme v1.2 rev 2 that was released, or the original (rev 1 i suppose) of iXtreme 1.2?

[Iriez]

Anyone with a hitachi v46/47/59 that had sense errors with restoring or flashing, can you please try these updated batch files? It is intended to elimate such errors by eliminating any questionable varibles that dos sometimes has issues with.

The main difference is you'll notice it no longer automatically assignes a varible of your drive (%1). At the prompt it will first ask you what your drive letter is. Simply open up my computer to determine what drive letter your hitachi was assigned. If you cant figure that out, then I advise taking a basic computer class.

ixtreme 1.2 hitachi batch file updates

Drag these into your hitachi 1.2 rev 2 folder, therefore replacing the current bats with the ones contained within the archive.

Those who did not have problems, i would still greatly apreciate if you could help us test, to determine if any issues exist with this batch setup.

All credit for the batch updates go to Lahey. Thanks!

[goexplodex4]

QUOTE(Iriez @ Jul 11 2007, 10:56 PM)

There are many many many posts on every thread for every single hitachi fw that has been released that states warnings for powering off your drive after a unsucessful flash. If you have to restart the program, and flash, or restore again, then do so. But never turn it off.

Just so I dont look totally stupid here, my computer completely froze.  I did restart first and the drive was no longer recognizeable by windows, there was NOTHING i could do.

[ichigoxxx]

can i get the drive keys of a 79fk so i could spoof it with this toolbox??

[delahmed]

Just like to say thanks to Maximus and C4eva for toolbox 4.0. Great easy tool.

Ill give my quick story as it is one of good news.

I have PAL premium XBOX 360 which was bought in December 2006. I updated my Hitachi 78FK drive with toolbox 1.6 and backed up my original 360 games via my Kreon and Pioneer 111D drive, using XBC 2.3 and 2.4 (when it was released) and therfore all my games were 'stealthed'.

I do not play regularly online but do sign onto LIVE once a month or so and therfore my dashboard was updated quite regularly.

I updated to 1.7  jitter fix before i connected to update to the spring 07 dashboard, and was playing halo 3 beta for the first few days and then on the 18th of April 07 (I think) , ppl reported that there was bans for consoles which logged on to live whilst having unstealthed media in the 360. However i was not banned at that time but did not want to stay online to find out if i was next....

I did not connect to live at all and waited patiently for toolbox 4.0 and then updated to this fw last night. I then connected to XBL with no game in the DVD drive and i am pleased to say that i connected fine to MSN, updated my GS, etc..... i also checked to make sure i could still play both original and backed up versions of my originals offline too..... which leaves me to believe i was not banned at any time or wave of banning.

So it does look like M$ were detecting unstealthed media in the drive back in dec 06, recording the console ids, and then applied the banhammer a few months later. I was lucky to stealth all backups and believe this is what M$ were detecting.

Thanks for all the advice on this forum - hope this helps ppl in the same scenario as me who are too scared to check thier status online.