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[heyman421]

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-My patched firmware gives me the "To play this game, put it in a xbox360" message with both backups and originals.

-My backup firmware gives me an error screen, and a red light.

-APPARENTLY something went wrong during ripping the original firmware.

-Is there ANYTHING i can do?  There's much more info in the full post.  But i was kind of rambling, because i'm literally sick to my stomache right now with stress.

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Oh man, this is turning into a nightmare.

I bought a brand new 360 premium. Zephyr mobo, benq drive.

Tried it first to see if it worked.  It did.

Promptly tore it apart, hooked it up to my nforce pc, dumped fw using dosflash32.

Made a backup copy of my original firmware.

Used the 'fast' firmware to make a modded firmware.

Used dosflash32 to flash the new firmware.  25-30 seconds later, done.

With the modded fast firmware, got the 'to play this game, put it in a xbox360 error' oh crap!

Flashed my backup stock firmware onto the drive... BRICKED!  Got the XBOX360 error screen and single red-light on boot!!!!  

Took me about 2-1/2 hours to get dosflash32 to reckognize the drive again after this.  I had to play around with plugging the drive in before the pc booted, after it booted, pluggin it in turned on, etc. etc. etc. and then i finally got it to show up again, but.....

Tried using my backup to create a new fast firmware, new quiet firmware, and both work once again, but give me the 'place this game in an xbox360' error.

Looks like something happened while ripping the firmware originally, and now all seems lost.

What happened?  What can i do?  What could i have done to be more safe?  There was nothing that happened during the firmware rip that would make me suspect a problem.  I had to do the power off/power on trick 2x to get dosflash32 to work, but then everything went perfectly.

I'm bumming out right now.  I have no good firmware.  Is there a way to manually extract my key from the fubarred firmware and manually patch a new one?  I'm getting sick to my stomache, i'm so stressed out right now.

I have years of cross-flashing and firmware modification experience, with relatively no problems thus far.  I can't believe i messed this up!

This post has been edited by heyman421: Nov 3 2007, 06:59 AM

[xlinkx]

Open the orig.bin with fw toolbox and see if it's corrupted.

[warlock110]

QUOTE(xlinkx @ Nov 3 2007, 07:05 AM)

Open the orig.bin with fw toolbox and see if it's corrupted.

if it is, he might be screwed, how do you know if it's corrupted or not?


BTW: nforce chipset aren't meant to be used with Dosflash32, it's not been confirm yet.

[xlinkx]

It should either pop up with error message (unsupported .bin file) or the key will have a bunch of 000 and FFF

[heyman421]

i originally did get an unsupported fw message, but i was using an old version of toolbox.

waiting for the new version to finish downloading right now.

tense...

[angry_rabbit]

QUOTE(warlock110 @ Nov 3 2007, 07:20 AM)

BTW: nforce chipset aren't meant to be used with Dosflash32, it's not been confirm yet.

wrong its ich5 NF3/4 mobos are the best!

[heyman421]

UG, nobody has fwtb 4.5, and 4.0 says it's an unsupported file.

maybe it's just corrupt.  does 4.0 support benq?

[xlinkx]

what's the size of the orig.bin?

[bojangles1988]

QUOTE(heyman421 @ Nov 2 2007, 11:38 PM)

UG, nobody has fwtb 4.5, and 4.0 says it's an unsupported file.

maybe it's just corrupt.  does 4.0 support benq?

what do you mean no one has it i dont know where you are looking but i got it a while back to check my key and 4.0 supports the older benqs i think not sher thow

[heyman421]

256k

i just got my xbox today, tho.  is it possible that i have a new unsupported fw that just came about?

the drive says

FW version: 64930C

This post has been edited by heyman421: Nov 3 2007, 07:49 AM

[bojangles1988]

its the right size get fwtb 4.5 then check again because 4.0 is not going to work

[heyman421]

GOOGLE to the rescue!!!

"The latest BenQ drive is not supported by the 360 Firmware Tool and can only be spoofed by manual editing the final firmware"


OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hahahahaha

could this be an answer?  I almost crapped my pants tonight.

I still don't know how to hex-edit, let alone get my 360 working again.


This post has been edited by heyman421: Nov 3 2007, 07:54 AM

[xlinkx]

Get fw toolbox 4.5 .  That should work.

[bojangles1988]

your not spoofing but get 4.5 because it works for me

[heyman421]

i've been trying to find it.  nobody hosts anything newer than 4.0