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

sikolymester · « **Reply #45 on:** December 28, 2007, 08:03:00 AM »

QUOTE(Naifas @ Dec 26 2007, 03:10 AM)

Do I need the key from the dvd drive or can i flash straight ahead?

You definitely need to retrieve first the key of your dvd drive. Which means, that you have to save your original dvd firmware and flash your drive with the help of that. It is recommended to have the original firmware bin at a very safe place. It's best to keep a backup on a couple of places (mail it to yourself + burn it on disc, etc) , because without that you wont be able to flash your drive in the future again.

sikolymester · « **Reply #46 on:** January 02, 2008, 05:20:00 PM »

I have flashed my Benq Vad6038 using an Nforce 4 chipset motherboard without any problems. Only thing is: I didnt quiet follow this tutorial.

finger11 · « **Reply #47 on:** January 03, 2008, 09:01:00 AM »

Can anyone comment to how good this tutorial is? It seems even easier than the one posted in the first post of the topic. I'm going to be flashing my benq soon with a Nforce4 chipset... Thanks all

benq iprep006 tutorial.pdf

Here is another tutorial I found but it looks to be an older version of the one above:
benq-manual-tutorial

aclark20 · « **Reply #48 on:** January 03, 2008, 11:07:00 AM »

I read an older tutorial about adding a switch to the board to trip the drive into recovery mode or something like that, that was required before flashing. Is this no longer the case?? Seems to easy to just be able to plug it in, flash it, and be good to go.

sikolymester · « **Reply #49 on:** January 03, 2008, 05:06:00 PM »

If you have Nforce4 motherboard and Benq Vad6038 drive, then use this guide: http://href.hu/x/4bim Worked for me flawlessly.

nathanknight · « **Reply #50 on:** January 04, 2008, 12:53:00 AM »

I have an nForce3 motherboard (Nvidia nForce3 250 SATA controller)...will the onboard SATA controller work to flash the BenQ drive?

Thanks

sikolymester · « **Reply #51 on:** January 04, 2008, 06:24:00 AM »

QUOTE(nathanknight @ Jan 4 2008, 08:53 AM)

I have an nForce3 motherboard (Nvidia nForce3 250 SATA controller)...will the onboard SATA controller work to flash the BenQ drive?

Thanks

Well, according to the dosflash readme it says:
"the following chipset support is added
- SATA Controllers
- NVIDIA nForce 4 SATA Controller
- NVIDIA nForce 2 SATA Controller
- NVIDIA nForce 3 SATA Controller"

So you should give it a try.

cypher21 · « **Reply #52 on:** January 04, 2008, 06:26:00 AM »

QUOTE(sikolymester @ Jan 4 2008, 02:00 PM)

Well, according to the dosflash readme it says:
"the following chipset support is added
- SATA Controllers
- NVIDIA nForce 4 SATA Controller
- NVIDIA nForce 2 SATA Controller
- NVIDIA nForce 3 SATA Controller"

So you should give it a try.

good answer

finally someone who READS

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finger11 · « **Reply #53 on:** January 04, 2008, 08:18:00 AM »

QUOTE(sikolymester @ Jan 4 2008, 01:42 AM)

If you have Nforce4 motherboard and Benq Vad6038 drive, then use this guide: http://href.hu/x/4bim Worked for me flawlessly.

The requested URL /benqvad6038fwhack.pdf was not found on this server.

sikolymester · « **Reply #54 on:** January 04, 2008, 09:00:00 AM »

QUOTE(finger11 @ Jan 4 2008, 04:54 PM)

The requested URL /benqvad6038fwhack.pdf was not found on this server.

Sorry , server is under maintenance.
http://web.axelero.h...d6038fwhack.pdf
This should realy work.

finger11 · « **Reply #55 on:** January 09, 2008, 09:17:00 AM »

QUOTE(sikolymester @ Jan 4 2008, 05:36 PM)

Sorry , server is under maintenance.
http://web.axelero.h...d6038fwhack.pdf
This should realy work.

Gonna try this over the weekend probably -- anyone else use this tutorial? I have found others that have used the iprep one... I'm going to be using a USB bootdisk.

aclark20 · « **Reply #56 on:** January 09, 2008, 11:11:00 AM »

I followed the iPrep tutorial last night, worked great!. I'd recommend trying the iPrep first, because its more automated. This will do the same thing, but requires a bit more user input (rebooting into windows, patching your firmware manually), whereas the iprep will do that all within the same dos boot.

They only problem with automated methods is if they don't work, it's not easy to debug. My suggestion, try the iPrep way first. if it doesn't work, come back and try dos flash.

MoorePower · « **Reply #57 on:** January 09, 2008, 01:26:00 PM »

Make sure your usb flash drive is under 512mb...... anything lager will not load

finger11 · « **Reply #58 on:** January 09, 2008, 02:11:00 PM »

QUOTE(MoorePower @ Jan 9 2008, 09:26 PM)

Make sure your usb flash drive is under 512mb...... anything lager will not load

Are you serious?? Shit, I just bought a 2gb just for this purpose bc I lost my 32mb one =P Oh well, $2 lost.

Edit: I can't find anything on Google that says 512mb is the limit, where do you see that?

brightshadow525 · « **Reply #59 on:** January 09, 2008, 03:29:00 PM »

This guide isn't that great... No offense... But there is another tutorial. It uses Iprep, it's so much simpler. I got the Iprep to work on my first try while I spent two days with this tutorial. Just buy the PCI card. You can't really substitute that, unless you have an Nforce. IPrep is like the best thing ever in ever. It's so easy. You don't have to type anything long in DOS except for your serial number. All of the steps are in dos, and you don't have to keep switching back and forth between DOS and loading your OS. IPrep makes the boot USB too, with all the files; you don't have to move any files after IPrep does anything.

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