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[cloudspear]

1. install the via card into a pci slot in your pc and disconnect all sata cable and ide cable to all your extra hdd and dvd burner, dvd rom, only keep one cable going into which ever is your main hdd with winxp on it.
2. connect the sata cable to your benq drive in the xbox360 to your sata port on your via card.
3. turn on your pc and press f2 at startup to go into your bios and turn off all sata port in your computer except for the sata port that is connected to your main hdd with winxp in it
4. turn off your pc and turn it on again, once winxp is finish booting up turn on your xbox 360.
5. start dosflash32 and it will ask you a question, choose yes and turn off your xbox360, now count to 5 and turn your xbox360 on again and the dosflash32 gui will pop up.
6. choose read for flash task and click read flash and it will ask you where to save your firmware. save it either to your ixtreme fast or quiet folder and name the file orig.bin. dosflash32 should finish ripping u the orignal firmware. it should be 256kb. after it finish getting the orignal firmware turn off your xbox360
7. now go into either your fast or quiet folder and click the make ixtreme firmware.cmd and now you should have a new file in the folder called benq-ix.bin
8. turn on your xbox360, open up dosflash32 and it will ask you a question, choose yes, turn off your 360, count to 5 and turn it on and the dosflash32 gui should pop up now. choose write in the flash task. click read flash and go to where your benq-ix.bin and choose it. it will started flashing the hacked ixtreme.


**note** i did not install any via card driver. if winxp tell you it found new hardware and you need to install driver just click cancel

i hope this help some of you. enjoy

This post has been edited by cloudspear: Oct 28 2007, 09:08 PM

[MANHUNT]

Alright I have installed firmware on more than one Samsung drive with my VIA6421 card although what do I do differently to get it on the BenQ.

Also I never had SATA until the PCI card was put it and I only use that for 360 modifications. Why should I disconnect my PC DVD drive?

If I just have the computer on can I do all this without disabling anything?

[dan321]

Worked perfect for me thanx.

How do I know if it actually flashed?

It boots up fine but how do I check it.

None of my ISO's seem to work

[swampy1111]

ive already installed my via sata card driver a while back, what can i do about that

[Lemonbarley]

just go to device manager and uninstall the driver from there...

[massivattak]

I get all the way to the read flash part then it just sits there reading bank 0 and dont move any ideas.

[Drexon]

Ehm, should you erase the flash too..?  (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif) Using dosflash32 I had to erase it before being able to flash that segment anyway.

[sirocc0]

thanks but where do u confirm ur drive key (enter it) inthe iXtreme firmware? i dont see a step for entering it in FW Toolbox or is that assumed?

[warlock110]

QUOTE(sirocc0 @ Oct 29 2007, 02:33 AM)

thanks but where do u confirm ur drive key (enter it) inthe iXtreme firmware? i dont see a step for entering it in FW Toolbox or is that assumed?

bump, i need to know this too.

[Carlitosbaby]

QUOTE(warlock110 @ Oct 30 2007, 12:25 PM)

bump, i need to know this too.

did you download the benq firmware? its in the nfo how to do this.

[Games for Windows]

so you are saying if i buy this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16815124022 i can flash the xbox 360 ben q in vista with ICH7.

[smakusdod]

QUOTE(massivattak @ Oct 28 2007, 11:17 PM)

I get all the way to the read flash part then it just sits there reading bank 0 and dont move any ideas.

Many of you are experiencing the same problems i faced... below is a link to my solution that worked for me:

http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?sho...p;#entry4142174