Print

[Andrewbacca]

right after leaving the disc in the xbox dvd drive for about 5 mins it finally loaded the audio file so I let it play once and then clicked play and pause straight after (using VLC player)

then I when to the dos prompt and di 79unlock h and got the "done!" message but when I go teh Firmware toolbox I get "Cannot read from drive"

If its not one thing its another :@

[adamsmith]

Dang!

Finally decided to flash the Elite, only to finding out it was a Hitachi 0079.

But after reading this tutorial and the 360mods.net video walkthrough this was done in 30minutes !

Thanks!!!

[punk rocker]

I am having issues with the 79fl drive and with this tut. i have followed it to the T and i still can not get the drive to flash. i can get it in b mode in slax 2.1 and after i run the audio file twice one full one play/pause and 79 unlock will give me errors. any idea on what i am doing wrong? any help would be greatfull. i have been at this for a week now and still no progress.

[calloused labia]

QUOTE(punk rocker @ Nov 26 2008, 08:19 PM)

I am having issues with the 79fl drive and with this tut. i have followed it to the T and i still can not get the drive to flash. i can get it in b mode in slax 2.1 and after i run the audio file twice one full one play/pause and 79 unlock will give me errors. any idea on what i am doing wrong? any help would be greatfull. i have been at this for a week now and still no progress.

Well, make sure you are playing the "audio file" from the Hitachi.
Then make sure to eject the disk before you run the unlock.

[cjsketchy]

Thanks all for your tips and tricks.  And podger of course for developing the tool and the tutorial.  Just thought I'd add my experience - I tried for hours to do this on my P35 chipset mobo, tried slax and the windows tool to get the drive into mode b, with no success.  Slax didn't find the drive, no matter what port I used, at what point I turned the xbox on, or whatever combination of devices I had connected.  Using the windows mode_b tool would just reboot the comp.  As soon as I switched the whole setup over to an nForce4 based comp, slax got it into mode b right away.  From there it was easy, just followed the video tutorial on 360mods.net.  Tested out a few backups and it worked perfectly.

[rmriggin]

I am getting the same problem with the drive refusing to read the 79 audio unlock cd. DVDs read completely fine and I am positive that drive is in mode B. I have tried buring discs at 2x 4x 8x and 16x in TAO and DAO modes and still no dice.

[KINGBRIMSTONE]

QUOTE(podger @ Aug 2 2008, 08:52 PM)

Good News!!!!!
   Not quiet a soft unlock but close enough

http://rs117.rapidsh...1/79_Unlock.rar

Turorial:
1. Unrar the file
2. Burn the CD Image (use the .CUE File), I used ImgBurn....

3. Put 79 in Mode B With Slax 2.1
3. Insert the CD in the 79 and play the track, wait for it to finish...
4. Then press play again and straight away pause it, you should hear some noise
5. Eject the disk, using the eject button not the PC ( it does something different)
6. Run the the command in a command window
      79Unlock h  
                       // where h is the drive letter of the 79
                             
7. If all went well bit 4 of (0x5BD) should be set and the drive should be unlocked
8. Drive will dump and flash with Toolbox...

This is a tempory unlock,  (0x5BD) is in RAM and would need to be done each time you power the drive, although I've posted how to by pass this with the drive unlocked with a passkey.....

Has not been extensively tested but worked on 6 drives to day so far...

Thanks to OggyUK, mp3boy, Antman1 with the testing.... Also RKO Pheonix needs a mention as he unwittingly leant his 360 to Oggy today.... and Seventhson for the help early on and his fabulous blog

..............Details to follow... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

WHATS UP ALL? IM A NOOB CAN SOMEONE HELP ME UNDER STAND HOW TO DO THIS I GOT MY XBX360 OPEN AND I HAVE THE OO79 DRIVE AT THAT POINT IM LOST ON THE NEXT STEPS PLUS DO I HAVE WHAT I NEED ON MY PC. THX FOR THE TIME AND HELP

[torios]

Hi there!

Okay, first of all: thanks for all the work that all of you put into this (GO PODGER! ), building this stuff and helping folks afterwards. /bows

And im here with a problem (who woulda guessed..). Oh, i did succeed in fashing a benq before so this is not that new to me but im kinda stuck with the FL one :/


Ive read the WHOLE thread (swear!), either my problem is pretty unique or i fucked up somewhere bigtime. about 20 times (i kinda doubtit..!?)

Im quite sure the issue i have is purely driver related so any hints as to what drivers i should use wuold be greatly appreciadet, but I want to post the whole problem just to be sure..


Setup:
Nforce4 (Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 (rls v1.0, Firmware F8)
XP 32bit SP3 "clean" install just for this because i had some strange phenomena with my fucked gaming-install  
360Drive powered by the xbox, connected to sata port 0, video cable IS connect
###Yeah, lot of story and too few drivernames/versions, I know, Ill insert these when im home###


All the steps work (slax-ModeB-AudiCD) but when it comes to the 79unlock..

A.
before i reinstalled XP,
I allways, no matter what, got the 112-Error (not the 5something one, never), then the done! and the drive  just locked up - it didnt respond to the drives eject-button, forcing it closed manually didnt help either, windows-explorer crashes when directed to the drive, system freezes after some time.


Then I read the only other post with a similar problem and the suggested soution seemed to be to install windows to an IDE drive (used a sata one before) and boot from that to flash the drive.
So I did.


B.
Clean install with SP3,
network drivers installed, latest nvidia chipset drivers installed, these screwed something over with the network driver, got that to work in the end somehow (install/reinstall/uninstall drivershi!t) and I could perform a successful 79Unlock with the 500something error!
4.6 Toolbox stuttered (froze/unfroze) the whole system for a bit with the orig DVD in drive, got a "unable to read from drive" when dumping the firmware.

B1.
Thougt this ("unable [...]") was related to pausing the audiofile at a wrong moment so i rebooted the pc, reset the 360drive (powercycle), when through the slax thing again,[...], when windows came up AGAIN something happended to the installed devices (re-detected some hardware, autoinstalled drivers, all seemed fine), played the audio and paused thefile at a different moment than before aaaand...
got the 112-Error again in stead of the 5XX, drive froze up like it did when running windows from the sata hdd.


C.
This wonderful experience brougth me to believe 3 things:

1. the 112-Error does not seem to neccessarily be related to booting from a sata drive as suggested, as i got this error when booting from an IDE drive as well.

2. I need help installing drivers, this is f*ing embarrasing.
Will someone please post me the order in which i should install which drivers? Network first, chipset first, whatever second/third?
And would someone please post me known-to-work nforce4-driverversions?

I'll only use this XP install for flashing a friends drive, so a "just install this chipset driver, f*ck the rest" will be perfectly allright too, the system doesnt need to perform, it just needs to work for this one $&!*'## task. Which I have sunk about 30hrs into allready (OMFG, embarrasing entry Nr. 2).

3. Ive lost about an hour of the year 2008 to the dosbox. on my homepc. /sits in a corner, weeping


Please, to the GODS of this game: Helpz please!

[torios]

QUOTE(KINGBRIMSTONE @ Dec 10 2008, 06:14 AM)

WHATS UP ALL? IM A NOOB CAN SOMEONE HELP ME UNDER STAND HOW TO DO THIS I GOT MY XBX360 OPEN AND I HAVE THE OO79 DRIVE AT THAT POINT IM LOST ON THE NEXT STEPS PLUS DO I HAVE WHAT I NEED ON MY PC. THX FOR THE TIME AND HELP

Uhm.. when you read this thread max 10 pages in you will have found two different video tutorials and links to one or two pdfs explaining the whole process in quite some datail (go for the pdf to understand what you are doing).. I got all the information which i used to flash my BenQ from this thread.

Or google "360 textbook pdf" or "360 podger pdf". Its a bit like this forums search option, ya know?

[StrictPuppet]

Thanks for this, Podger.  Made a 79 a very easy task today.  

[yosomono99]

ok, so i get it to mode B via the Slax disc, but when i get into windows the xbox shuts down before it reads the audio disc

Any ideas.....

Edit:

Vista 32-bit
via controller

[yosomono99]

OK, figured out my previous issue, i forgot to plug in the damn video cables (duh!).

But now i keep getting "Cannot read from Drive" in firmware toolbox.

Any help

[Ranger72]

QUOTE(yosomono99 @ Jan 3 2009, 02:31 AM)

OK, figured out my previous issue, i forgot to plug in the damn video cables (duh!).

But now i keep getting "Cannot read from Drive" in firmware toolbox.

Any help

Are you putting a game disk or DVD movie in the drive when you are trying to read the firmware?

[yosomono99]

QUOTE(Ranger72 @ Jan 2 2009, 08:37 PM)

Are you putting a game disk or DVD movie in the drive when you are trying to read the firmware?

yup, tried a 360 original and a DVD movie, both give same result.  When i the "raw dump" button, computer sits there for about a minute or two, then comes back saying "Can't read from drive".  If i click on "Classic Dump" it prompts me for a name and location of file, it "OK", then i get the "Can't read from drive" errror.

[Ranger72]

Are you going to command prompt and using the 79unlock app?