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I keep getting unknown flash chip after typing "dosflash" and selecting my drive as well.  Any idea what I should do to get it working?

Also, I was typing dosflash r XXXX 1 a0 1 4 orig.bin without the 0 at the end - is the 0 needed, and what does it do?  Using a VIA 6421 card.

[detonate]

After flashing the BenQ to another firmware, what precautions do you have to take when playing XBox live? Such as an update for the XBox, an update to play the game? Does the original firmware have to be flashed back into the BenQ to install a Microsoft update? Thanks.

And has anyone used the Blaster 360 or Xeno Top Gear with a BenQ?

[orbital517]

QUOTE(BALLIN5 @ Oct 30 2007, 02:50 AM)

I hate to be a bearer of bad news but i believe you didn't make a backup up your firmware!!!! I hope you did because it seems like your flash was bad!!! You need to re-vert back to original firmware!!!!

Your going to need to re-do the ixtreme firmware by using your original creating a brand new fresh benq-ix.bin file and re-trace your steps to flash again!!!!

The good thing is that you followed the tut to get drive recognized, i just hope you did a back-up of original firmware!!!!

No, I didn't backup my original firmware unfortunately.  So is there any hope left for my xbox, or am I SOL?  Can I retrieve my original firmware somehow?  Please help me someone!

[caster420]

QUOTE(orbital517 @ Oct 30 2007, 10:45 AM)

No, I didn't backup my original firmware unfortunately. So is there any hope left for my xbox, or am I SOL? Can I retrieve my original firmware somehow? Please help me someone!

 

Go buy a new xbox. Since you overwrote your only copy of the original firmware, there is no retrieving it now.   Your 360 will not play 360 media without the drive key.

 

Caster.

[DoWork805]

im confused after i type in cd dosflash and hit enter i turn on my 360 then i type dosflash.exe
a list of drives show up and at the bottom it says NO ATAPI DEVICES PRESENT
someone help

[budhapalm]

QUOTE(DoWork805 @ Oct 30 2007, 04:11 PM)

im confused after i type in cd dosflash and hit enter i turn on my 360 then i type dosflash.exe
a list of drives show up and at the bottom it says NO ATAPI DEVICES PRESENT
someone help

I HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM...

[DoWork805]

QUOTE(pikah @ Oct 30 2007, 12:26 AM)

Flashed my Benq yesterday (my first flash ever), seems to be pretty easy.

I had some problems on my own motherboard (Nforce4), couldn't get the dosflash tool to read the original firmware.  So I went to a friend of mine (who has a VIA chipset --> We did need to set his SATA to disable BOOTROM in BIOS).

Was pretty easy, just boot with bootdisk, run dosflash.exe with the appropriate arguments and it worked like a charm.

The things I did.

1. Create bootdisk and put dosflash v1.3 on it.
2. Booted PC and Booted XBOX360 (XBOX360 with his own psu)
3. Then I started dosflash.exe
4. Pressed 'Yes'
4. I had to turn of my XBOX360 for about 2 seconds and put it back on.
5. Dosflash started to read my firmware (took about 2 minutes I guess)
6. Rebooted to Windows
7. Made 4 backups of my original firmware :-P
8. Then I copied my firmware in the Xtreme package which just came out. (named orig.bin, need for batchfiles)
9. I ran the .bat script in the package.
10. Copied the benq-ix.bin from the same directory to my floppy.
11. I rebooted my computer and the XBOX360 again.
12. Ran dosflash.exe with the ERASE!! option
13. Ran dosflash.exe with the WRITE optoin
14. Pressed 'Yes'
15. I had to turn of my XBOX360 for about 2 seconds and put it back on.
16. Dosflash.exe started to write on 4 banks.

The reason I say that you FIRST need to erase it, is because you will probably get an error if you try to overwrite it (that's what happened to me).

After you erased the current firmware and after that write the iXtreme firmware you should be fine.
Took about an hour for me to open/flash/close the XBOX360.

Commands used.

CODE

dosflash.exe r b400 1 a0 1 4 a:\orig.bin
dosflash.exe e b400 1 a0 1 4 D8
dosflash.exe w b400 1 a0 1 4 a:\benq-ix.bin

c000 was primary SATA
b400 was secondary SATA
Hope this helps for some of you...
Cheers,
-pikah

EDIT: Afaik you can only play stealthed backups.

could you show us how to creater the bootdisk and put dosflash in it plz

[J_star]

To make a bootdisk:

1. Take a Floppy disk (if you dont have a usb pen(usb is much faster but i used a floppy).
2. Put it in your pc.
3. Go to your computer.
4. Right press A:\
5. Select format.
6. Select make MS-Dos startup diskette.
7. Press start
---
The Bootdisk is done
---
8. Copy dosflash16 files 2 of them in the floppy drive.
---
9. Check if you have enough room for 256KB for the orgin.bin file

This post has been edited by J_star: Oct 30 2007, 07:41 PM

[DoWork805]

QUOTE(J_star @ Oct 30 2007, 11:39 AM)

To make a bootdisk:

1. Take a Floppy disk (if you dont have a usb pen(usb is much faster but i used a floppy).
2. Put it in your pc.
3. Go to your computer.
4. Right press A:\
5. Select format.
6. Select make MS-Dos startup diskette.
7. Press start
---
The Bootdisk is done
---
8. Copy dosflash16 files 2 of them in the floppy drive.
---
9. Check if you have enough room for 256KB for the orgin.bin file

thnx for the info but when i right click and format all format options are dimmed out except for quick format
i tried it with 5 different usb pens/drives even an sd card with no luck

eidit: can someone upload the files in the bootdisk and gimme a link that would be nice

This post has been edited by DoWork805: Oct 30 2007, 08:51 PM

[just4747]

^good question..

-also do you think the VIA PCI card I ordered (one from Newegg that many people use) will work with my Dell Dimension 2350 older PC...it has the retail motherboard with the Intel 82845G/GL/PE/GV/E chipset it says in Device Mgr.

[dvandriesen]

thanks this worked great just got done modding my first benq went real well as long as you do the right typing your good thanks

[Jie]

Hey. Im quite new to this flashing. Been flashing my old hitachi v47 many times using a xeno topgear. I was wondering how this drive go to mode-b or it even needs to? I have to use a connectivity kit to connect the drive to my computer? Im a little confused. Sorry.

[eternitykh]

Jie,

no it doesn't have to go into mode b (that's for the hitachi's)
just get a bootdisk with dosflash, the firmware, and firmtool on it, and you are golden.

the hard part is to have your computer read/write to the drive without interference.

and that all depends on what kind of chipset and sata/ide controllers you have.

i have a ICH8 and a via 6421a card, and i didn't have to disable any on-board sata/ide.
while most other people with other chipsets do, and people with nforce can do it with their onboard!

so it really depends on what you have to work with.

and you will need a power source for that benq drive that is not connected with your computer (unless you have a switch?) as you will need to power on/off the benq, most people just use the xbox360 to power it.

[Signo]

I got my drive flashed after quit a while. I posted a page back that my drive would not respond after i gave it the read command it dosflash16, so I didnt want send the erase command to it and mess it up. I was using a via 6421a pci card on an old asus a7n8x MB, after seeing all the success people were having with dosflash32 I decided to turn off all my drives on my a8nsli deluxe board and use its onboard sata. The only thing i left enabled was the sil raid setup for my os drives.

I booted into Vista ran dosflash32 as administrator, dosflash said it was disabling something but i cant remember the exact message ( i believe it has to do with disabling any other drives so it doesn't mess with the flash process). I then asked it i wanted to retry until the drive responded, i selected yes, powered the drive on waited a few seconds, powered it off then back on and the dosflash window popped up and allowed me to read the flash, i compared the key it gave me to the key i got from dosflash16 last night and the keys were the same so i felt I had a good read.

 I already had the new firmware made per the instructions that it came with. I then selected the write option and browsed to my new firmware, dosflash erased the firmware and then flashed the new. I then tested it and everything seems good, i played it for a few hours.

All this from one boot of the 360 and the pc, which i could not do in dosflash with the via card, my old nforce4 never fails me, I should of used it from the start.

I know there are others who can read there drive but can not issue more commands after the first read, I read all day but could not find out if this was normal.

Does anyone knows, if i would have sent the erase command in manual dosflash16 and then could not send the write command would the drive have been bricked?

This post has been edited by Signo: Oct 31 2007, 01:12 AM

[WarezRat]

QUOTE(detonate @ Oct 30 2007, 02:37 PM)

After flashing the BenQ to another firmware, what precautions do you have to take when playing XBox live? Such as an update for the XBox, an update to play the game? Does the original firmware have to be flashed back into the BenQ to install a Microsoft update? Thanks.

And has anyone used the Blaster 360 or Xeno Top Gear with a BenQ?

Yes, I used a 360 Blaster with Hitachi fix(not NE) and was able to read my firmware.

This post has been edited by WarezRat: Oct 31 2007, 01:42 AM