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[just4747]

QUOTE(Iriez @ Nov 2 2007, 12:37 AM)

Like i said, use the autofix. It will make it so the ixtreme box is checked. I will not answer any more questions regarding this as it is outside the realm of this thread AND forum.

Not true, i did the autofix and the crc check and it said it fixed like one or two things but the iXtreme Compatible box is still not checked..and i burned it and said invalid disc or something on xbox eventually after trying to be read.

When i load it up in Mulleter under Batch Iso Operations though and do a stealth check there..it says ISO Not Stealthed!! I'm clueless, any ideas? The flash must have worked if i can still play originals right? I know the firmware is now different on it because now if i dump the FW on the drive and compare it to the original FW's hex values, they are different..but the current FW matches the hex values of the iXtreme FW I made!! So it must have been flashed correctly and like I said, it must have been a valid iXtreme FW with the correct key that was made if it still plays originals right?

[sportsgamer1984]

QUOTE(just4747 @ Nov 2 2007, 08:17 AM)

Not true, i did the autofix and the crc check and it said it fixed like one or two things but the iXtreme Compatible box is still not checked..and i burned it and said invalid disc or something on xbox eventually after trying to be read.

When i load it up in Mulleter under Batch Iso Operations though and do a stealth check there..it says ISO Not Stealthed!! I'm clueless, any ideas? The flash must have worked if i can still play originals right? I know the firmware is now different on it because now if i dump the FW on the drive and compare it to the original FW's hex values, they are different..but the current FW matches the hex values of the iXtreme FW I made!! So it must have been flashed correctly and like I said, it must have been a valid iXtreme FW with the correct key that was made if it still plays originals right?

Ixtreme will ONLY boot up backups that are stealthed so it's defnitely possible you flashed it correctly, especially if it will play originals.  If the box in dvdmulleter that says "ixtreme compatible" is not checked, it definitely wont boot up.

[Games for Windows]

i got my VIA 6424 card from newegg today and i had issue with dumping the orig.bin on the my pc but lucky my mom pc in the bios say SATA or IDE so i did both and load the usbflash and did what the paper say and bamm 256kb dump on my first try and ran the bat and make it into iXtreme Ben Q v1.1 then i flash it again and bamm pop in a backup disc and it work. now i going to enjoy playing orange box now   many thanks guys.

my story is of the ben q dump and flash was on a HP Pavilion Media Center TV m7334n and MB ASUS A8AE-LE / with VIA 150 driver install and the chip is 6424a.

[indycent]

This was one of the easiest fw updates I have ever done. I did not disconnect or disable any drives though like the tutorial said. I tried updating through the zeno top gear & failed. The status of the drive changed to 0X80 instead of what it was supposed to do. After connecting straight to the drive, it worked first try.

[Iriez]

QUOTE(indycent @ Nov 2 2007, 07:52 PM)

This was one of the easiest fw updates I have ever done. I did not disconnect or disable any drives though like the tutorial said. I tried updating through the zeno top gear & failed. The status of the drive changed to 0X80 instead of what it was supposed to do. After connecting straight to the drive, it worked first try.

Supposedly blaster supports benq (i will test mine tomorrow). Sorry to hear the xeno top gear does not.

[psxpirate1]

Can somebody post a screenshot or list of all the correct files to use with a Via motherboard? I'm looking for the easiest method to use. Either Dos OR Dos32. My pc keeps freezing when it comes time for me to turn off my 360 when using Dos32. I need the folder structure of files to complete a successful flash. just not sure where to put my firmware files and folders on the floppy. I'm finding the guides are a little vague for timing, and exactly when to turn off and on the 360. Here's hoping Xtreme Boot Maker gets an update asap. Been at this for hours guys. Thanks for any help you guys can give.

My 1st string of numbers for my onboard Via port is as follows:

I/O Port 0x0000FF00-0x0000FF07

This post has been edited by psxpirate1: Nov 3 2007, 05:40 AM

[indycent]

I would not recommend using the 32 bit app. As far as I have read, very few people have got it to work. The boot disk/boot thumb drive to dos & using the 16 bit app works easily.

This post has been edited by indycent: Nov 3 2007, 06:22 AM

[Albut35]

dosflash32 just froze up when I tryed to read the drive. so I tryed dosflash16 and it worked perfectly! if anyone needs help flashing their drive let me know, i'd be more than happy to help out!

[jrfitz0]

Amazing video tutorial!!  I have been off the scene for a while and had forgotten practically everything I once knew about flashing drives.  But alas something went wrong with my very old xbox and the 3rlod got me so i had to buy a new 360.  I didn't even know they started putting Benq drives in until I got one tonight.  I was hoping for a sammy since I had flashed those a long time ago.  I was pissed off until I got back to the scene and started reading.  What a great tutorial, i flashed my new benq in about 3hrs with no hiccups.  It took me 3hrs because I was being cautious but I could do it again in 30 minutes no prob.  

I used a via 6421 sata card and followed the read me in the dosflash and the video and BAMM!!!

Thank you very much xboxscene and the genius that is you.

[Bi99uy]

Im having some problems.  Regardless of what i flash i can only playback DVD movies. Orignals, iXtreme Backups och old non iXtreme backups all show up as DVD movies. Now i have searched around a bit and found that this happens because of the keys being different. Sure enough, when looking through TM Toolbox the patched firmware just reads as a bunch of sevens. However, the original firmware seems to have a legit key. The problem now comes to this, how the hell do i inject the key into the firmware? Trying to make a new copy just spitts out the same 77777 when using firmtool. Any ideas?

[gundamhr]

thanks C4E. read, written, erased using dosflash16. used firmtool to manually patch fast version. using verbatim dvd+r DL at 2.4x with clonecd. couldn't be more perfect. thanks.

[Bi99uy]

QUOTE(Bi99uy @ Nov 3 2007, 10:39 AM)

Im having some problems.  Regardless of what i flash i can only playback DVD movies. Orignals, iXtreme Backups och old non iXtreme backups all show up as DVD movies. Now i have searched around a bit and found that this happens because of the keys being different. Sure enough, when looking through TM Toolbox the patched firmware just reads as a bunch of sevens. However, the original firmware seems to have a legit key. The problem now comes to this, how the hell do i inject the key into the firmware? Trying to make a new copy just spitts out the same 77777 when using firmtool. Any ideas?

Well, i seemed to solve my problem. I simply had to open FM Toolbox, patch my key into the firmware that´s provided in the FM folder of the iXtreme flash and then run firmtool. So if anyone have the same problem, you know what to do.

[just4747]

Ok so like I previously described, I read and flashed my firmware just fine after a few tries using DosFlash16 on a Boot Disc floppy. It dumped a 256k fw file..i put it in the fast folder and ran the .bat to make the new iXtreme fw, and it made it and also had the same key and looks like it should. Then i put it on my floppy and booted into Dos, erased my fw, and wrote my new firmware using the described dosflash16 commands and methods. everything went fine for the whole process. So then I went and got a good backup of Skate for 360 (everything checked out in Mulleter and the iXtreme compatible box is checked with all the other boxes and the Data checked out so I know it's a good one. I burned the .ISO to a Memorex DVD+R D using DVD Decrypter and tried it in my Xbox (which still plays originals and movies just fine) and it just kept trying very hard to read it (i could tell by the freakin sound) but finally shows "Unplayable Disc."
Now I know it wrote the new FW I made to my Xbox successfully because when I dump it now, the HEX values in a HEX editor are the same ones as the new FW I had made, and not the same ones as the original firmware. And it still has the same key so everything seems perfect!!! But it won't play backups still!! And the backup I made must be good if Mulleter shows it as being good. I know I didn't use a Verbatim DL but do you think it really matters? As long as you do everything right, why wouldn't it still work on a Memorex one?? I'm out of ideas here and I don't know what else to try to be honest because I saw no errors in flashing so I wouldn't know where to look first. If you know you wrote the new firmware you made to your drive, and it still plays originals and movies, then how would it not be flashed correctly?? If it had been done wrong, wouldn't it not load up anything anymore because of a wrong key or something??? Thanks for your help if anyone can help, I'm dyin' here with all these success stories being posted!

This post has been edited by just4747: Nov 3 2007, 06:35 PM

[cypher21]

you said you burned the .iso
did you change the layerbreak in the preferences?? Otherwise it won't work. (or create a dvd file with mulleter, and use that one to burn!)

second, try other media memorex sucks

This post has been edited by cypher21: Nov 3 2007, 07:00 PM

[warlock110]

QUOTE(just4747 @ Nov 3 2007, 06:28 PM)

Ok so like I previously described, I read and flashed my firmware just fine after a few tries using DosFlash16 on a Boot Disc floppy. It dumped a 256k fw file..i put it in the fast folder and ran the .bat to make the new iXtreme fw, and it made it and also had the same key and looks like it should. Then i put it on my floppy and booted into Dos, erased my fw, and wrote my new firmware using the described dosflash16 commands and methods. everything went fine for the whole process. So then I went and got a good backup of Skate for 360 (everything checked out in Mulleter and the iXtreme compatible box is checked with all the other boxes and the Data checked out so I know it's a good one. I burned the .ISO to a Memorex DVD+R D using DVD Decrypter and tried it in my Xbox (which still plays originals and movies just fine) and it just kept trying very hard to read it (i could tell by the freakin sound) but finally shows "Unplayable Disc."
Now I know it wrote the new FW I made to my Xbox successfully because when I dump it now, the HEX values in a HEX editor are the same ones as the new FW I had made, and not the same ones as the original firmware. And it still has the same key so everything seems perfect!!! But it won't play backups still!! And the backup I made must be good if Mulleter shows it as being good. I know I didn't use a Verbatim DL but do you think it really matters? As long as you do everything right, why wouldn't it still work on a Memorex one?? I'm out of ideas here and I don't know what else to try to be honest because I saw no errors in flashing so I wouldn't know where to look first. If you know you wrote the new firmware you made to your drive, and it still plays originals and movies, then how would it not be flashed correctly?? If it had been done wrong, wouldn't it not load up anything anymore because of a wrong key or something??? Thanks for your help if anyone can help, I'm dyin' here with all these success stories being posted!

media + burner matters. dual layer media are VERY iffy when it comes to playback time, if you use bad media you better have a good matching burner, hell single layer DVD is still a bitch for play back, so YES media + burner matter.