Thanks for everyone who has contributed to this forum.
I went from never being able to mod any type of console, to performing a full dump/flash of my brand new Benq drive (Mfr date 8-07-07) and succesfully playing backups of the games I own. I got all my knowledge from this site, and using google. This goes to show you what you can do if you SEARCH!
My setup :
360 Pro with BENQ VAD6038 drive.
NEC 3550a ver 1.7 firmware DVD writer
Verbatim (Made in Singapore) DVD-DL discs
eVga 680i SLI motherboard with nForce SATA chipset
Windows XP
Dos Flash 1.3b BETA
iXtreme firmware (12x speed)
Imgburn
CloneCD
It was confusing at first, but this is basically what I did :
Disable any DVD/CDrom drives in system in your Device manager, to minimize confusion about which address the 360 drive is on.
Power down your machine, and hook up 360 drive to your motherboard. I used a 36" Sata cable I got locally from Tiger Direct for $10.00.
Connect alligator clips (buy them at radioshack for 6.99 for like a dozen) from the 360 chassis metal to metal on your computer chassis, to deal with the floating ground.
Turn on your system. When XP starts, power up xbox 360 then load dosflash32.
After you get the polling window asking to send the vendor info to device on 09F0 (or whatever yours may be), click OK and then power off the 360. Wait 2 seconds, power the 360 back on. Dosflash only ininitates after your have clicked "OK" and the device has been turned off/on again.
It will do one of two things : Complain that the vendor info wasn't sent again, if it does, hit CANCEL and dosflash should show up and display your BENQ 6038. If it doesn't, hit "OK" in the next polling window, power down the 360, and turn it on again.
You'll know if you got it right if the green light on your 360 starts flashing constantly. You may have to play with this for a little bit to get it to work right. Sometimes the first polling window that comes up is actually for other devices you have in your system. SATA hard drives, DVD drives, etc. You have to retry with the different device addresss until you get the hang of what works for you. This is why you disable other drives in your system, to mimimize the amount of addresses that dosflash polling windows ask you to resend the info for.
After you're in dosflash32, Read the flash until your Datasum (at the bottom of the dosflash window after a flash/write) is consistently the same value. COPY THIS NUMBER DOWN! This took me about 5-6 Reads until My datasum was the same 3 times in a row. After you're getting a consistent value, it's time to save that Read (name it orig.bin) and put it in your iXtreme folder.
In the iXtreme 12x folder, run the Make iXtreme firmware batch file to make the new firmware. This will create your new firmware as benq-ix.bin in the same folder. Note that it NEEDS an input file named orig.bin to work. It may also be a good idea for you to write down your Benq's drive key, that iXtreme displays when it makes your new flash file.
Go back to dosflash, select the Write option, then select your new benq-ix.bin file which iXtreme just created. This will Write the firmware to the drive. COPY DOWN THIS NEW DATASUM VALUE. You may want to flash the drive 2-3 times until you get the same datasum value. I only did this twice in a row, and received the same Datasum value on each write.
After the successful Write, select the Read option in dosflash to check the Datasum value. It should match your Write datasum value. If it does, you're successfully flashed a patch firmware. Power down the 360, unplug the Sata cable from the drive, and hook it back up to the 360's motherboard.
Pop in a backup, and try to play it.
This is what I did in a nutshell. Your results may be different, and I may have done stuff Incorrectly, but this is what worked for me. I did have to flash the drive again for some reason, due to me getting "insert this disc in to a 360" errors on my backups. I have no idea why it didn't take the first time, but after another flash it worked great. After burning three backups, and playing all of them, I can say that my Benq plays back-ups now, without an issue. I have also tried original games (Guitar hero 3, Halo 3) without fail.
Good luck! Thanks for everyones helpful posts in these forums. I wouldn't never figured this out without your help, and a big thanks goes out to the 360 dev community which keeps us going.
This post has been edited by sinner0423: Nov 11 2007, 09:54 PM
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