Topic: Total Noob Tutorial For Flashing Benq Vad6038 (Read 383 times)

lachyzee · « **Reply #15 on:** November 01, 2007, 04:48:00 AM »

The disk formatting tool keeps giving me blank drives with no boot files, can anyone help?

cypher21 · « **Reply #16 on:** November 01, 2007, 04:59:00 AM »

QUOTE(lachyzee @ Nov 1 2007, 11:48 AM)

The disk formatting tool keeps giving me blank drives with no boot files, can anyone help?

are you using vista 64 bit?
If so, the tool doesn't work on vista 64 bit! you need xp or vista 32 bit for using the HP format tool

ow, my usb drive couldn't be formatted in xp too (for samsung flashing). It worked when i used iprep for this (then you need to load samsung firmware first offcourse)

This post has been edited by cypher21: Nov 1 2007, 12:04 PM

eqjunkie · « **Reply #17 on:** November 03, 2007, 01:17:00 AM »

Yep Bootfiles not copying across to USB with the HP Tool for me also using xp pro. Seems dodgy

SNAAAKE · « **Reply #18 on:** November 03, 2007, 01:34:00 AM »

do you have to physically disconnect all drives before dumping the benq firmware ?? thought I red somewhere that I can just disable all drives from bios. can someone clear that for me. thanks and great tutorial !

PaddyPat · « **Reply #19 on:** November 03, 2007, 02:19:00 AM »

Do you really need to boot back into Windows to write your hacked firmware? Can't you just put Firmtool and the /fw directory onto your boot disk? I think you should be able to just run them from your boot disk.
Maybe I'm wrong?

chewyy01 · « **Reply #20 on:** November 07, 2007, 04:22:00 PM »

Can I use via 6421a sata card. Or is it only 6421 thats compatible. Are any other chipset compatible?
Thanks Great guide

cypher21 · « **Reply #21 on:** November 07, 2007, 04:26:00 PM »

QUOTE(chewyy01 @ Nov 8 2007, 12:22 AM)

Can I use via 6421a sata card. Or is it only 6421 thats compatible. Are any other chipset compatible?
Thanks Great guide

yes you can

this question is asked a million times, so if you use this (IMG:http://images.xbox-scene.com/forums/style_images/oldx/search.gif) next time you can find it yourself

xriderbc · « **Reply #22 on:** November 07, 2007, 10:58:00 PM »

QUOTE(cypher21 @ Nov 1 2007, 11:18 AM)

why ask the same question in different threats!
the questions are answered by Iriez already!

1. NO (not without soldering that is
2. same as 1
3. create new hacked with old original bin, then erase the benq and flash the new created one
and it's thanKs

Ha ha ha.... cracking up!

All of these posts of his I thought he just ended every one with 'Alot of thangs' because he askes so many darn questions.... I never thought he might be saying 'alot of thanks' wrong......

smokedribs · « **Reply #23 on:** November 08, 2007, 03:20:00 PM »

Your guide has way too many steps you don't have to do in order to flash a benq.

1. you dont have to make a usb boot drive with the hp tool, just use iprep.
2. no need to get the number of your drive with msinfo, dosflash does it for you, tells you how in the readme file in dos.

Here is the easy way to do it.

1. make boot drive with iprep, put dosflash16 on it, put the benq i-extreme , whatever speed you want to use folder on it
2. reboot with the usb drive, dont disable your sata drives, make sure your benq drive is powered off.
3. after booting turn on the benq drive
4. type dosflash, hit yes, it tells you what to do next, mainly power off and power on the dvd drive
5. select your option that dosflash presents, read write erase.
6. then just run the bat file inside the i-ixtreme directory to create your hacked firmware, repeat the dosflash instructions above to write.

All those extra steps in the manual are a waste. Also the readme file in dosflash pretty much describes the above method..

MaHeSLO · « **Reply #24 on:** November 08, 2007, 03:29:00 PM »

Thanks for the great tutorial! Probably couldn't manage without it.

Anyways, the USB format tool didn't copy the boot files for me either, but when you format it, you can move them manually and it still works like a charm.

cypher21 · « **Reply #25 on:** November 08, 2007, 03:48:00 PM »

QUOTE(smokedribs @ Nov 8 2007, 11:20 PM)

Your guide has way too many steps you don't have to do in order to flash a benq.

1. you dont have to make a usb boot drive with the hp tool, just use iprep.
2. no need to get the number of your drive with msinfo, dosflash does it for you, tells you how in the readme file in dos.

Here is the easy way to do it.

1. make boot drive with iprep, put dosflash16 on it, put the benq i-extreme , whatever speed you want to use folder on it
2. reboot with the usb drive, dont disable your sata drives, make sure your benq drive is powered off.
3. after booting turn on the benq drive
4. type dosflash, hit yes, it tells you what to do next, mainly power off and power on the dvd drive
5. select your option that dosflash presents, read write erase.
6. then just run the bat file inside the i-ixtreme directory to create your hacked firmware, repeat the dosflash instructions above to write.

All those extra steps in the manual are a waste. Also the readme file in dosflash pretty much describes the above method..

i think for real noobs his tutorial is way better then the way you describe it!

a.d.r · « **Reply #26 on:** November 12, 2007, 04:33:00 PM »

The HP tool didn't move the boot files over to my USB flash drive either, does it work if you manually move them? If so, do I move everything in the folder to my flash drive or what?

nttypearljam · « **Reply #27 on:** November 12, 2007, 05:11:00 PM »

QUOTE(soundifound @ Oct 31 2007, 10:29 PM)

enjoy

http://www.zshare.net/download/45829924e78175/

First off thanks for the tutorial it is well done and I was able to follow it without too many issues. My initial problems were booting off of USB but after playing around with my bios settings I was finally able to. My main problem is that everytime I run dosflash16 I get stuck are reading bank 0. I've used different variations I've seen here on the scene such as running the command manually and also using the dosflash command itself and still get stuck at reading bank 0. It seems that it's not having a problem seeing the flash but just hangs on extracting it to my USB. I mean even when using the dosflash command (not manual) it displays the benq model, port & even the flash file name & size. Any help would be greatly appreciated as I have been working on this on & off for a week now with no success. I've used the following combinations via6421 pci sata w/ ECS mobo....ASUS mobo....Emachines T3990 mobo & my Shuttle NForce 2 mobo and all get stuck at reading bank 0. Is there something I'm missing?

traedupart · « **Reply #28 on:** November 14, 2007, 08:06:00 PM »

Ok so I understand everything so far. But if I'm using Vista and not XP what do I do differently?

cypher21 · « **Reply #29 on:** November 15, 2007, 01:33:00 AM »

QUOTE(traedupart @ Nov 15 2007, 03:06 AM)

Ok so I understand everything so far. But if I'm using Vista and not XP what do I do differently?

have you tried the steps?? Guess not, because you would have found out you can run iprep in windows and look for the DevIO

after that boot into dos.

only thing in vista is that the HP tool (or iprep) to create the bootable usbdrive won't work well

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