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[Achtung]

I'm trying to flash a benq and have created a bootable usb stick with iprep choosing my ICH9 controller.

I have now booted my pc with the usb stick and can not get the status of the drive to change from Ox7F to D1 by turning the drive on and off it just sits at 0x7f no matter what.

Anyone flash a benq using iprep with a Intel ICH9 controller? or does this pretty much mean the ICH9 controller isnt compatible.

[VanydotK]

Ya know.. with somebody with as many posts as you I'd think you would know better and would search.

[ZprivateZ]

You cant softflash a benq with ich9, the only way to softflash a benq is with either a via or nforce sata chipset.

[Shod]

Ive been tryin with the ICH9 and so far no joy. Ive searched everywhere and no-one seems to have this chipset, apart from us (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) Nowhere does it say that it ISNT compatible, just that no-one seems to have tried it yet. In the Dosflash NFO file you`ll see that ICH5,6,7, & 8 chipsets are compatible, so I can only assume it should be OK.

As ZprivateZ points out, can`t do a softmod - has to be one of the soldering tricks, else you get the problem you already have. Try googling the "textbook" method for a tutorial if you aint already.

Ive taken my drive apart and cut the 2 tracks, now im jus waiting to get chance to try it again (its a friends comp as mine doesnt have any SATA).

Other than soldering, you can softflash by buying a SATA PCI card with a VIA or NFORCE4 chipset and selecting that in Iprep.

Don't know how much of that you already knew, but there it is anyway.

If you get chance to do it before me, let us know how you get on. Ill do the same.

Best of luck!

[Achtung]

QUOTE(VanydotK @ Feb 16 2008, 10:34 PM)

Ya know.. with somebody with as many posts as you I'd think you would know better and would search.

You know.. with someone with such a small amount of posts I can only hope they weren’t as completely retarded as this one, but I know better.

As I searched and couldn't find a clear answer I did something unheard of and asked for others opinions on the matter, and as you have seen by my amount of posts this is something I have done for others. That is what a forum is.

If you plan on contributing retarded posts like the one above you are not only a complete waste of an account for this forum but also a burden to the rest of us when we do a search on a topic and have to route through useless posts like yours.

QUOTE(Shod @ Feb 16 2008, 10:55 PM)

Ive been tryin with the ICH9 and so far no joy. Ive searched everywhere and no-one seems to have this chipset, apart from us (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) Nowhere does it say that it ISNT compatible, just that no-one seems to have tried it yet. In the Dosflash NFO file you`ll see that ICH5,6,7, & 8 chipsets are compatible, so I can only assume it should be OK.

As ZprivateZ points out, can`t do a softmod - has to be one of the soldering tricks, else you get the problem you already have. Try googling the "textbook" method for a tutorial if you aint already.

Ive taken my drive apart and cut the 2 tracks, now im jus waiting to get chance to try it again (its a friends comp as mine doesnt have any SATA).

Other than soldering, you can softflash by buying a SATA PCI card with a VIA or NFORCE4 chipset and selecting that in Iprep.

Don't know how much of that you already knew, but there it is anyway.

If you get chance to do it before me, let us know how you get on. Ill do the same.

Best of luck!

Yeah thats exactly what I was doing , all the documentation stops at ICH8.

 I just did a hitachi 78 drive which also only lists up to ICH8 with my ICH9 without any issues eventually.

So I was just trying to get a clear answer or any possible tricks you might have to do as there were a couple I had to do for the 78 drive to work.

Now I can purchase the VIA controller knowing its completely nessary, thanks for your input.

[Shod]

No worries mate, I was trying to search for a clear answer for a while with no joy. Like I say, no-one seems to have ICH9 so no-one knows for sure!

Buying a VIA card would definately make things a hell of a lot easier, especially considering how little they cost.

Ive already cut the tracks so might as well give it a shot to see if it can be done or not.

Take it easy.... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[milamber]

Anyone bother to read the DosFlash ReadMe.txt??

DosFlash and DosFlash32 V1.3 Beta
-----------------------------------
- BenQ optimization in unlocking the flash chip, it should now be possible to read/write/erase
  the flash without any soldering or wire tricks, the drive is polled for the correct mtk
  unlocking status after power on, this only works for VIA cards and NForce boards atm
- DosFlash32 has one additional parameter, if you start it with the parameter "EnableDrives"
  all the DVD-ROMs are enabled in device manager after flashing, this could give BSOD on some
  systems, therefor you need to create a DosFlash32 link and add that parameter manual to use it
- DosFlash16 has one additional parameter "Send ATAPI Device Reset" in manual mode, this could
  give better chances for soft flashing on some VIA - motherboard combinations
- better support of Intel chipsets, drives can now be flashed if the controller is not set to
  native mode in the BIOS
- the following controller list includes vendor and device IDs that are hardcoded to identify
  the controller type (IDE or SATA), this is needed if the BIOS uses IDE ports like 0x01F0 or
  0x0170 as SATA and not as IDE channels, this list is NOT related to soft flashing
- the following chipset support is added
  - VIA cards
    - all VIA cards with a 6420 chipset
  - IDE Controllers
    - NVIDIA nForce 2 IDE Controller
    - NVIDIA nForce 4 IDE Controller
    - Intel ICH9
    - Intel ICH (i810,i815,i840)
    - Intel ICH0
    - Intel ICH2M
    - Intel ICH2 (i810E2,i845,850,860)
    - Intel C-ICH (i810E2)
    - Intel ICH3M
    - Intel ICH3 (E7500/1)
    - Intel ICH4 (i845GV,i845E,i852,i855)
    - Intel ICH5
    - Intel ESB (855GME/875P + 6300ESB)
    - Intel ICH6 (and 6) (i915)
    - Intel ICH7/7-R (i945, i975)
    - Intel PIIX3 for the 430HX etc
    - Intel PIIX4
    - Intel PIIX4 for the 430TX/440BX/MX chipset
    - Intel PIIX
  - SATA Controllers
    - NVIDIA nForce 4 SATA Controller
    - NVIDIA nForce 2 SATA Controller
    - NVIDIA nForce 3 SATA Controller
    - NVIDIA nForce MCP04 SATA Controller
    - NVIDIA nForce MCP51 SATA Controller
    - NVIDIA nForce MCP55 SATA Controller
    - NVIDIA nForce MCP61 SATA Controller
    - Intel 82801EB (ICH5)
    - Intel 6300ESB (ICH5)
    - Intel 82801FB/FW (ICH6/ICH6W)
    - Intel 82801FR/FRW (ICH6R/ICH6RW)
    - Intel 82801FBM ICH6M
    - Intel Enterprise Southbridge 2 (631xESB/632xESB)
    - Intel 82801GB/GR/GH (ICH7, identical to ICH6)
    - Intel 2801GBM/GHM (ICH7M, identical to ICH6M)
    - Intel SATA Controller IDE (ICH8)
    - Intel Mobile SATA Controller IDE (ICH8M)
    - Intel SATA Controller IDE (ICH9)
    - Intel SATA Controller IDE (ICH9M)


The following only applies to a software flash on a locked flash. The methods have been tested
with the BenQ and the Sammy. The VCC trick will work on any motherboard, but you need to do
some soldering and cut traces.

[Achtung]

^^^Answering above

Yeah I saw that, but I would rather use iprep than dos flash on my current setup.

This post has been edited by Achtung: Feb 17 2008, 02:34 AM

[milamber]

iPrep uses DosFlash...

No wonder people have problems!

iPrep makes your disk bootable, copies the hacked firmware, creates an edited MTKFlash for Samsung and/or DosFlash for BenQ and makes batch files with the correct port info (dBen, fBen, etc) to automate the flashing process - iXtreme preparation, get it? It doesn't actually do any flashing or anything...

This post has been edited by milamber: Feb 17 2008, 03:08 AM

[Toddler]

Proving yet again that iPrep discourages people from understanding what they're doing.

[Achtung]

QUOTE(milamber @ Feb 17 2008, 03:29 AM)

iPrep uses DosFlash...

No wonder people have problems!

iPrep makes your disk bootable, copies the hacked firmware, creates an edited MTKFlash for Samsung and/or DosFlash for BenQ and makes batch files with the correct port info (dBen, fBen, etc) to automate the flashing process - iXtreme preparation, get it? It doesn't actually do any flashing or anything...

Yeah I realize is uses DosFlash,

I should of been more specific I meant I would rather use the iprep setup than bare bone dos flash on this rig.

Anyway I appreciate your posts but none of this has helped with the issue I’m having with it not switching to D1 when I turn on the drive with a ICH9 controller.

[ZprivateZ]

The only way to use your ich9 chipset to dump/flash your benq is to use the vcc trick buy cutting traces and soldering a switch. If you do not want to go that route and would like to softflash it then you have no choice at this point in time but to use either a via or nforce sata chipset they are the only chipsets that currently support softflashing a benq.
ZprivateZ

[Toddler]

QUOTE(Achtung @ Feb 17 2008, 01:23 PM)

none of this has helped with the issue I’m having with it not switching to D1 when I turn on the drive with a ICH9 controller

Just because DosFlash works with ICH9 doesn't mean ICH9 works with BenQ.  As has been said more than once, you either need a VIA chipset or be prepared to cut the BenQ traces.  I've done it both ways, only because I started doing it when cutting traces was the only option.

[Achtung]

QUOTE(ZprivateZ @ Feb 17 2008, 10:07 PM)

The only way to use your ich9 chipset to dump/flash your benq is to use the vcc trick buy cutting traces and soldering a switch. If you do not want to go that route and would like to softflash it then you have no choice at this point in time but to use either a via or nforce sata chipset they are the only chipsets that currently support softflashing a benq.
ZprivateZ

Thanks for your reply, that is exactly what I wanted to hear from someone.

QUOTE(Toddler @ Feb 17 2008, 10:38 PM)

Just because DosFlash works with ICH9 doesn't mean ICH9 works with BenQ.  As has been said more than once, you either need a VIA chipset or be prepared to cut the BenQ traces.  I've done it both ways, only because I started doing it when cutting traces was the only option.

This is what I was curious about because I could not find a clear answer about the ICH9 controller with the benq and I was even more confused when I saw it was supported by Dosflash and iprep uses it.

I now realize I interpreted the readme.txt wrong as I thought the controllers listed where being listed as compatible for flashing the benq and I assumed iprep should work because of that.

This post has been edited by Achtung: Today, 01:26 AM