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[snaf]

arg i dont know what i did but i flashed the drive with an nforce2 board and now i got an e65 error after i started it up to test

[manny416]

If you get E65

If you are using dosflash16, erase the current firmware then try to write the hacked firmware again. Worked perfectly for me.

erase command: dosflash e 8400 1 a0 1 4 d8 0  

of course you replace 8400 with your number.

Cheers
Manny

[Zod5000]

Been wait to buy another 360... first one with with sammy got banned (oops!), then hdmi came out.... and now those arcade packs aren't to expensive.. probably buy one and stick my hard drive on it.

BTW I hope theres nothing on my old hard drive that would get me banned on a new console.  I heard they leave stuff in a log file.

[TerminatR]

So what are the best bundles to get a BenQ drive?

I bought a premium and an arcade pack from Futureshop/Canada..... both Hitachi  

[Iriez]

QUOTE(manny416 @ Oct 28 2007, 12:38 AM)

If you get E65

If you are using dosflash16, erase the current firmware then try to write the hacked firmware again. Worked perfectly for me.

erase command: dosflash e 8400 1 a0 1 4 d8 0  

of course you replace 8400 with your number.

Cheers
Manny

Nforce users should not have to do a manual erase, because they should be able to use dosflash auto mode, which automatically erases before write. But eh, worth a shot i guess.

QUOTE(TerminatR @ Oct 28 2007, 01:16 AM)

So what are the best bundles to get a BenQ drive?

I bought a premium and an arcade pack from Futureshop/Canada..... both Hitachi  

LOT 731 and higher should mainly be Benq drives.

[admiraljdn]

Flashed with DosFlash (dos mode) but I had to ERASE the original flash or else it came up with write errors (kind of scary).  But after erasing the original it put the patched firmware just fine.  Booted up Rainbow Six Stealth just fine.

THANKS C4EVA!!!!

[raptaure]

I have a " Wrong drive status " ?

it's necessary erasing a orig.bin before of flash ?

thank you

[millio007]

QUOTE(manny416 @ Oct 28 2007, 06:38 AM)

If you get E65

If you are using dosflash16, erase the current firmware then try to write the hacked firmware again. Worked perfectly for me.

erase command: dosflash e 8400 1 a0 1 4 d8 0  

of course you replace 8400 with your number.

Cheers
Manny (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

GR8 advice I got the same error was about to shit my pants lol Anyway if you get WRITE errors when doing this on dos 16 You can be sure that you will get error 65 DISCONNECT all IDE AND SATA ports except for the 360 gave it the compatibilty that it needed I guess   anyway after this happens erase current reflash and reflash again no neeed to restart PC C4 ownz

[out4it]

OK figured it out. Somewhere down the line a Symantec(shit products) was installed on my pc. Went through the registry and deleted all refs of it. Still no help. Went to my wifes comp to make the fw,and 1,2,3. Then transferred back to my usb stick. Did the erase command, and reflashed. Worked like a charm. But one thing I did notice was after the erase,I just had to power the drive off the on and it flashed. Not 2x like the readme said. THIS WAS JUST AFTER THE ERASE. NOT for the first flash. Worked like a charm. Thanks to everyone especially Castor for trying to help. Although the intial error for when I tried to make the fw is a mystery worth looking into. I still get the error on my PC. Thanks to everyone who worked on this FW!!

ICH 7 chipset
Via 6421L
disabled all drives in device manager.

This post has been edited by out4it: Oct 28 2007, 07:33 AM

[BlackWar]

CONFIRMED FLASH

I just tried it myself and it worked. here are my following specs....

PC: HP Pavilion a1730n (Yes, I used the onboard raid controller)

bios: default settings

what I did (in detail):

PC: disconnected ALL drives! ( HD's, CD/DVD ROM, ect), and had a bootable "card" (XD 16 mb card made bootable....no, I dont remember the tut I followed for this, but google should prove some results).

before I shutdown winvista, I copied over all dosflash files (both 16 and 32 bit to be safe, started with 16, when asked to over-write when I copied over the 32 bit files, I said no.....not really needed, but I did it to be safe).

After shutdown I disconnecting all drives, hooked up the 360 drive, and booted off of card. Here is where I followed the tut to a "point". When drive not found, I hit "y" to resend the command, re-cycled the power to the xbox360 (I used the 360 as the alt. power supply) and then it found the drive (as per the instrustions). Did a read of the benq firmware and saved it as benq3068.bin.

Now, after the read, I shutdown the PC and the 360, hooked up everything in the PC and booted into vista. Made 2 backups of the origional fw (one can never be to safe) and use the batch tool provided by c4e to copy the key/info into the modded fw. BE SURE TO RENAME THE ORIGIONAL FIRMARE TO ORG.BIN BEFORE RUNNING THE BAT FILE!!! Then I copied the new fw to the xd card (NOTE: the new fw should be labeled as benq-ix.bin!).

Now, I shutdown everything, unhooked all drives in the PC, hooked up the dvdrom drive of the xbox360, and booted off of the xd card. followed the tut until I got to the read/write/erase option, and chose write the new fw to the drive (as per instructions and labeling of the new fw). BE SURE TO TYPE THE CORRECT FIRMWARE NAME!!!! (benq-ix.bin)

Put everything back together, and put in halo 3 (origional) into xbox360 and it booted fine. I have yet to make a backup disk to check but if the hacked fw works with origionals, I consider it a sucess (considering I used the onboard sata controller!!!!!).

I hope others find this somewhat usefull!

Hope this helps yall...... BW out!

This post has been edited by BlackWar: Oct 28 2007, 07:36 AM

[m3kal]

Ive read the original fw fine, made the ixtreme, i can erase the drive ok, but when trying to write, it says cant read binary file im using via6421 card, after erasing do i turnoff 360? any ideas. Thanks  

[PaddyPat]

QUOTE(out4it @ Oct 28 2007, 01:07 AM)

OK figured it out. Somewhere down the line a Symantec(shit products) was installed on my pc. Went through the registry and deleted all refs of it. Still no help. Went to my wifes comp to make the fw,and 1,2,3. Then transferred back to my usb stick. Did the erase command, and reflashed. Worked like a charm. But one thing I did notice was after the erase,I just had to power the drive off the on and it flashed. Not 2x like the readme said. THIS WAS JUST AFTER THE ERASE. NOT for the first flash. Worked like a charm. Thanks to everyone especially Castor for trying to help. Although the intial error for when I tried to make the fw is a mystery worth looking into. I still get the error on my PC. Thanks to everyone who worked on this FW!!

ICH 7 chipset
Via 6421L
disabled all drives in device manager.

So it worked on your ICH7 board with a VIA 6421L SATA card installed? I thought it wouldn't detect the drive on this chipset.





nm....I guess this was updated yesterday to include ICH chipsets

This post has been edited by PaddyPat: Oct 28 2007, 09:06 AM

[Slaytanic]

i use DosFlash32 and i dont get any problem....when i read the fw and create the ixtreme and use DosFlash32 for write the program automatic erase and write without erase before.....i dont get any problem and see this method more easy a use DosFlash16 for read and write....i use nForce4 and Via6421 chipset

[straps]

Flash Confirmed working

First i created a bootable usb stick with dosflash 16 on it, then turned off my sata and ide controllers in bios
I used via6421 card with dosflash16 in automatic mode.
When making the i-xtreme firmware the bat file wouldnt work. It came up with "the system cannot execute the specific program"
To get around this I used firmware toolbox 4.5 to copy the key from my orig firmware to the i-xtreme one.
I reflashed the drive with i-xtreme with dosflash 16 in automatic mode
Drive boots up backups successfully

I read on casters post that firmware toolbox should not be used. Should i reflash with a firmware made using firmtool?

By the way if anyone else has problem "the system cannot execute the specific program" when making firmware using the .bat  you can run cmd and use firmtool manually. Just copy the i-xtreme firmware benq-ixA.bin and put it in the same folder as firmtool and orig.bin. Now open a command window in the same directory and type "firmtool orig.bin benq-ixA.bin" and it will do it manually

[pu1se]

c4e thanks!  This is awesome!  Going to start thinking about picking up an elite now, just hope I don't get a hitachi...