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[dvp95]

Alright so I figured it out.  I couldnt get it to work the way you did.  I had to create a bootdisk on a floppy using iprep, then I put Dosflash16 v1.2 and ixtreme 1.1 on the disk.  I didnt do any of the commands such as dosflash r xxxx  1 a0 1 4 orig.bin 0 cause I just couldnt get it to work.  I ended up just going to dosflash.exe from the floppy then going to read, orig.bin then going back to windows and creating the new bin file.  Then going back to dos and erasing and writing with the new bin.

[Hoodedsoldier]

QUOTE(daddy69 @ Oct 30 2007, 02:00 AM)

Manhunt, I apologize if im being off topic but if you could answer my question to the holiday bundle that you just purchased does it come with a HDMI port?

If you talking about the one that comes with marvel and forza then yes i can confirm it comes with the hdmi port.

[WarezRat]

QUOTE(shawndezy115 @ Oct 29 2007, 05:06 PM)

wow noooooobbbbbbinsh.
anybody who has already extracted their firmware should be able to flash their drive. seing that reading the firmware is the "hard part" lololololololololol.
I love noobs.

And you were what at one time? Someone who did not need help? GMAFB
MANHUNT- excellant tut, works like a charm. This place needs more of you and less of of the people who cant help whatso ever...........I cant say any more or else I will get another holiday. LOL
THX  (IMG:style_emoticons/default/pop.gif) :beers:

[jambi227]

I wanted to ask one question.

I'm a complete noob, I think this is my first post actually.  I have modded my Nintendo Wii which is an entirely different matter from updating firmware on an Xbox for modding purposes.

My simple question is, does this topic contain everything needed to mod my Xbox minus the taking apart the console?  Or do I need to use additional resources such as The Textbook that I have seen for more trivial steps that I wouldn't know about outside of the scope of this topic?

Thanks for your help!  Very clearly-written tutorial.

[DoWork805]

so i get to where i have to type cd DOSFLASH and after i type it all i get is CHDIR failed for dosflash

can anyone help me how do i do it via usb
do i just put the dosflash contents on to it
any help will be hugely appreciated

[BALLIN5]

QUOTE(DoWork805 @ Oct 29 2007, 10:10 PM)

so i get to where i have to type cd DOSFLASH and after i type it all i get is CHDIR failed for dosflash

can anyone help me how do i do it via usb
do i just put the dosflash contents on to it
any help will be hugely appreciated

I noticed that for some reason while in ntfsdos that the order of the hard drives are not the same as they are while in windows!! Just pay attention while in the program because it shows what drives are scanned with their limit size!!! I say this because i have 2 hard drives and 3 assigned drive letters even showing the recovery drive off of drive C: (you know for recovery disk that's assigned).

I can't get my drive recognized while in dosflash but i haven't disabled all sata and ide through bios which i believe was recommended!

[DoWork805]

yea you were right instead of c: i tried d: and i didnt get the error but insted it went to
D:/DOSFLASH
so after that i turned on my 360 and then what? i didnt see any instructions pop up like the tut says

edit: it would be nice if anyone could help me via IM

This post has been edited by DoWork805: Oct 30 2007, 07:14 AM

[orbital517]

QUOTE(DoWork805 @ Oct 30 2007, 01:11 AM)

yea you were right instead of c: i tried d: and i didnt get the error but insted it went to
D:/DOSFLASH
so after that i turned on my 360 and then what? i didnt see any instructions pop up like the tut says

edit: it would be nice if anyone could help me via IM

I'm EXACTLY

QUOTE(DoWork805 @ Oct 30 2007, 01:11 AM)

yea you were right instead of c: i tried d: and i didnt get the error but insted it went to
D:/DOSFLASH
so after that i turned on my 360 and then what? i didnt see any instructions pop up like the tut says

edit: it would be nice if anyone could help me via IM

I'm EXACTLY where you are at too.  Once I turn on my Xbox, nothing happens.  Can someone help?

QUOTE(MANHUNT @ Oct 29 2007, 02:36 PM)

If you are experiencing errors it is because you are suppose to re-send MTK and then shut off your 360 then turn it back on.

Also once again I will be updating this its just hard cause I already modded my BenQ.

After typing in dosflash.exe

I turn off my xbox, turn it back on, then choose my xbox drive (#4 for me).  It then asks me if I want to read, write, or erase.  I choose write, and it ask me what the file name is.  What do I do from there?  Am I on the right track?

[orbital517]

Well, I hope I didn't mess up my drive.  Below is EXACTLY what I did:

After all the steps above, I typed in dosflash.exe
Then it asked to resend, so I typed yes then hit enter.
Turned off my xbox and turned it back on after 5 seconds.
It then has a list of things, I chose my drive (#4) and hit enter.
It then asks me if I want to (w) for write, ® for read, or (e) for erase.
I type in (w) for write, and this it asks me for the file name.
I type in c:\dosflash\benq\fw\benq-ixA.bin 1
It then erases really fast, followed by writing bank 1,2,3......followed my "OK" next to each bank
It then stops and brings me back to the original prompt.............C:DOSFLASH and stays like that for about 15 seconds.

I turn off my computer, then turn off my xbox thinking it's all done.  I try to put in a backup disk burned with Verbatim DL disks (I have used these same disks before in my older Xbox360 and they work fine) but I get a white screen saying please insert a 360 disk.  I even tried to put an original (non-backup disk) and I get the same white screen saying please insert a 360 disk.  Now nothing works.  What did I do wrong and how do I fix it?

Please help anyone!!!

This post has been edited by orbital517: Oct 30 2007, 08:26 AM

[pikah]

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.

This post has been edited by pikah: Oct 30 2007, 08:31 AM

[Signo]

I been modding consoles for years, and have done a few of the samsung and Hitachi, I just need some clarification on what to do after I dump the firmware. The 360 is still flashing and I have to redo the whole on off sequence to do anything else. I just need to know if this is normal or should i just be able to go right back into dosflash and erase and write. I am ready to flash the drive but since i have to erase the flash first I am afraid that when i have to power cycle the drive again to write the new firmware it wont come back ( if a have too, or does the erase not make the 360 flash).

I see no mention of having to redo the power cycle sequence each time you do something to the drive. I am using dosflash16 on a via pci card.

If anyone who has done a drive can tell me if their 360 was flashing after the read or if they had to redo the on off sequence, and if after the erase they could just write the firmware without having to do the on off thing agian.

[BALLIN5]

QUOTE(orbital517 @ Oct 30 2007, 12:25 AM)

Well, I hope I didn't mess up my drive.  Below is EXACTLY what I did:

After all the steps above, I typed in dosflash.exe
Then it asked to resend, so I typed yes then hit enter.
Turned off my xbox and turned it back on after 5 seconds.
It then has a list of things, I chose my drive (#4) and hit enter.
It then asks me if I want to (w) for write, ® for read, or (e) for erase.
I type in (w) for write, and this it asks me for the file name.
I type in c:\dosflash\benq\fw\benq-ixA.bin 1
It then erases really fast, followed by writing bank 1,2,3......followed my "OK" next to each bank
It then stops and brings me back to the original prompt.............C:DOSFLASH and stays like that for about 15 seconds.

I turn off my computer, then turn off my xbox thinking it's all done.  I try to put in a backup disk burned with Verbatim DL disks (I have used these same disks before in my older Xbox360 and they work fine) but I get a white screen saying please insert a 360 disk.  I even tried to put an original (non-backup disk) and I get the same white screen saying please insert a 360 disk.  Now nothing works.  What did I do wrong and how do I fix it?

Please help anyone!!!

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!!!!

[pikah]

I just got some questions about the turning on and off of the XBOX360 in my experience.


-> Between the ERASE and the WRITE, I did not have to turn of the power, I just ran the commands after each    other without rebooting the console OR PC.

QUOTE(Signo @ Oct 30 2007, 08:43 AM)

I been modding consoles for years, and have done a few of the samsung and Hitachi, I just need some clarification on what to do after I dump the firmware. The 360 is still flashing and I have to redo the whole on off sequence to do anything else. I just need to know if this is normal or should i just be able to go right back into dosflash and erase and write. I am ready to flash the drive but since i have to erase the flash first I am afraid that when i have to power cycle the drive again to write the new firmware it wont come back ( if a have too, or does the erase not make the 360 flash).

I see no mention of having to redo the power cycle sequence each time you do something to the drive. I am using dosflash16 on a via pci card.

If anyone who has done a drive can tell me if their 360 was flashing after the read or if they had to redo the on off sequence, and if after the erase they could just write the firmware without having to do the on off thing agian.

You do not have to reboot if you use this tutorial.

But my harddrive is SATA too, and I did not want to have any hardware connected to my SATA, so that's why I needed to create a bootdisk, go back to windows, to copy the key to the 'iXtreme firmware' and then reboot and go back to DOS.

So the only reason I rebooted was because I had to copy the key to the 'hacked' firmware.


@BALLIN5
I hope you created a backup first? ('r' in dosflash.exe)
Else I think you might have a problem. You need the original firmware to get the key, so the XBOX360 hardware knows that you dvd-drive is 'legit'
These are very important steps which MUST be done to proceed:
1. Backup original firmware
2. Copy key from original to 'hacked' firmware
3. Write 'hacked' firmware.

This post has been edited by pikah: Oct 30 2007, 09:10 AM

[smakusdod]

i have a dell dimention 3100, onboard sata disabled.

I have the VIA SATA VT 6421L card, with my HD on one channel, and the benq on the other. I boot using IDE cd rom with an NTFS for DOS boot cd. the benq drive is off to begin with, otherwise it wont get past the sata boot screen.

once booted up, type YES at NTFS prompt, then navigate to Dosflash, run dosflash with this:

dosflash r d870 1 a0 1 4 c:\backup.bin 0

It promtps me to resend the command, i hit Y, then i turn on the benq drive. it starts swticing between D1 and 51, i power down benq, then power up benq again, and it goes to x73, and says:

Reading Bank 0....

then it sits there eternally.

Anybody have any clue? im going insane, and i've tried many things over a span of 6 hours now. If i boot into winxp, i can get the same thing to happen with dosflash32, but it hangs on reading bank 0.

I know I'm using the right address hex, it is the specific hex of that port on the via card.

any thoughts?

[pikah]

QUOTE(smakusdod @ Oct 30 2007, 09:54 AM)

I know I'm using the right address hex, it is the specific hex of that port on the via card.
any thoughts?

I'm not sure if it works, but I should try to connect the Benq ONLY to your SATA controller, so you have to create a bootdisk and not use the NTFSDOS CD-ROM. I have had problems while the HDD was still connected to the other SATA port.

Are you sure you disabled BOOTROM for SATA in BIOS, sometimes you need to do this for the VIA chipset?

This post has been edited by pikah: Oct 30 2007, 10:53 AM