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[FlexiPack]

Hi all,

I'm just about ready to flash the BenQ. Just got a quick Q...

Is the process any different to the tut in post #2 when using Dosflash 1.6?

Cheers

[cammacd]

hey guys, fyi successfully unlocked the VAD6038 with DOSFlash32 1.6 and a SiS 964 Sata chipset on a Gigabyte 8S661FXMP-RZ motherboard. I had no luck on the SATA0 but it unlocked and read/wrote on SATA1 at 0xB400 and 0x00 (strangley enough).  I set the SATA port to IDE legacy mode through the bios.

[cammacd]

QUOTE(FlexiPack @ Oct 28 2008, 10:54 PM)

Hi all,

I'm just about ready to flash the BenQ. Just got a quick Q...

Is the process any different to the tut in post #2 when using Dosflash 1.6?

Cheers

i used dosflash 1.6 to unlock my benq with great results.  I have a gigabyte mainboard with a Sis694 Sata chipset.  It found the 6038 on Sata1, it found nothing on Sata0. I put the sata in legacy mode by selecting IDE (legacy mode) through the bios.

When dosflash 1.6 picked up the drive it asked me if I wanted to send Magic command to unlock the drive, I said yes.  This let me skip down to step 9 in post #2 from podger's original quote. Step 11 is a very important step -save - save - save!!

[deshwasi]

How long does the "erasing.. flashing.." take? everything was going smoothly but i am stuck at "erasing..." for good 5-10 minutes now. not sure if anything is happening.. pls advice as to how long should i be waiting for this and what to do afterwards. thanks

edit: ok, after reading elsewhere i found it should only take seconds. so i killed "DosFlash32" and restarted and redid the write and it seems to have successfully completed it in seconds. now, i do not have any backup to test (dont have any DVD+R DL yet). is there any other way to verify that its actually done right.

This post has been edited by deshwasi: Oct 31 2008, 11:45 PM

[son of man]

Just as thanks for the help on this board, I'm providing a step by step'er of my experience. This is using a P965-DS3 with an ICH8.  
For this method, all I needed was dosflash v1.6 and ixtreme 1.41, both from xbins.  v1.6 has the benq unlock integrated.  I wanted to clear up any confusion, since tools are being updated all the time, and some tutorials are outdated now.

1. disable any secondary SATA/IDE controller in bios and make sure primary sata(ports 0-1) are set to legacy (NOT native). Unplug any drives or devices from your sata/ide except your primary C: drive (just in case!)  All this is to make sure dosflash32 can only see your Benq to make things simpler.
2. plug in your benq to Sata-0
3. unzip the dosflash32 folder. Also have the ixtreme 1.41 folder of your choice unzipped and handy ( I opted for 12x)
4. Turn on your 360, wait 5 seconds.....then double click dosflash32.exe.  If you start dosflash too quickly, you wont get the unlock option.  If everything is fine between your drive and dosflash, it will shoot you a "MTK Vendor Intro failed....because there seems to be a BenQ VAD6038 drive connected....do you want to send the magic28 command"
5. Click YES.  dosflash will pause briefly and shoot you a "MTK Vendor Intro failed...Do you want to resend command until drive responds?"
6. Click NO.  At this point the drive will have been detected, unlocked, and available for read/write. Make sure the Manu and Device ID have values other than 0x00. Mine showed as 0xC2 and 0x11.
7. Click the "read flash" button and name the file "orig.bin"
8. Copy "orig.bin" to ..\Benq iXtreme v1.41\12x or the folder that corresponds to the speed you chose and double click Make iXtreme firmware.cmd in that folder to create the hacked ix14.bin.
9. back in dosflash, change flashing task to write and click the "write flash" button.  Point it to your "ix14.bin"
10. It will erase banks 1.2.3.4 then write banks 1.2.3.4. the whole operation takes around 8 seconds.  After you see "success" wait a moment and turn off the 360.
11. restart system and reenable anything you switched off in the bios and plug your drives back in if you followed step 1.

[run187]

QUOTE(georgc @ Oct 19 2008, 11:10 PM)

Is there an option to have a dual boot with this? I would also like to play my originals on live. Is there a chip that would support the benq?

You could just make a offline and a online live account that would be easier than dual boot ..

[shalomii]

I was wondering if someone could please help me out. I followed the instructions of the poster 2 posts above me, and am having some trouble now. everything seemed to go smoothly, but now my 360 doesnt read original games,  so far ive tried a music cd, and will try and find a dvd to test also. The only problem that seemed to occur during any of this process, was with creating the iXtreme firmware, said the program or feature is not compatible with 64 bit windows vista or something like that, but the ix14 bin file was still created and the window ended up saying it created successfully, so i thought it was just a vista glitch or something. I hope someone knows of this issue and can help me out. Thanks

This post has been edited by shalomii: Nov 9 2008, 03:11 AM

[son of man]

QUOTE(shalomii @ Nov 8 2008, 06:10 PM)

I was wondering if someone could please help me out. I followed the instructions of the poster 2 posts above me, and am having some trouble now. everything seemed to go smoothly, but now my 360 doesnt read original games,  so far ive tried a music cd, and will try and find a dvd to test also. The only problem that seemed to occur during any of this process, was with creating the iXtreme firmware, said the program or feature is not compatible with 64 bit windows vista or something like that, but the ix14 bin file was still created and the window ended up saying it created successfully, so i thought it was just a vista glitch or something. I hope someone knows of this issue and can help me out. Thanks

Before I heard about the benq unlock I used another comp with an nforce chipset running vista64. No luck.  iprep kept giving me errors.  I just tried an original game and a cd and both worked fine, so I would suggest trying the steps in xp.  I just hope your drive isn't borked

[shalomii]

QUOTE(son of man @ Nov 8 2008, 06:59 PM)

Before I heard about the benq unlock I used another comp with an nforce chipset running vista64. No luck.  iprep kept giving me errors.  I just tried an original game and a cd and both worked fine, so I would suggest trying the steps in xp.  I just hope your drive isn't borked

Dont worry about it man, I think i got it working.  I just did the ixtreme firmware creation process on an xp machine and tried the flashing again, my originals are playing fine, now i just gotta try and make a backup of one and see if it works. fingers crossed

[danillll]

Moderators, we need a sticky, below steps worked perfectly

Thanks

QUOTE(son of man @ Nov 8 2008, 04:55 PM)

Just as thanks for the help on this board, I'm providing a step by step'er of my experience. This is using a P965-DS3 with an ICH8.  
For this method, all I needed was dosflash v1.6 and ixtreme 1.41, both from xbins.  v1.6 has the benq unlock integrated.  I wanted to clear up any confusion, since tools are being updated all the time, and some tutorials are outdated now.

1. disable any secondary SATA/IDE controller in bios and make sure primary sata(ports 0-1) are set to legacy (NOT native). Unplug any drives or devices from your sata/ide except your primary C: drive (just in case!)  All this is to make sure dosflash32 can only see your Benq to make things simpler.
2. plug in your benq to Sata-0
3. unzip the dosflash32 folder. Also have the ixtreme 1.41 folder of your choice unzipped and handy ( I opted for 12x)
4. Turn on your 360, wait 5 seconds.....then double click dosflash32.exe.  If you start dosflash too quickly, you wont get the unlock option.  If everything is fine between your drive and dosflash, it will shoot you a "MTK Vendor Intro failed....because there seems to be a BenQ VAD6038 drive connected....do you want to send the magic28 command"
5. Click YES.  dosflash will pause briefly and shoot you a "MTK Vendor Intro failed...Do you want to resend command until drive responds?"
6. Click NO.  At this point the drive will have been detected, unlocked, and available for read/write. Make sure the Manu and Device ID have values other than 0x00. Mine showed as 0xC2 and 0x11.
7. Click the "read flash" button and name the file "orig.bin"
8. Copy "orig.bin" to ..\Benq iXtreme v1.41\12x or the folder that corresponds to the speed you chose and double click Make iXtreme firmware.cmd in that folder to create the hacked ix14.bin.
9. back in dosflash, change flashing task to write and click the "write flash" button.  Point it to your "ix14.bin"
10. It will erase banks 1.2.3.4 then write banks 1.2.3.4. the whole operation takes around 8 seconds.  After you see "success" wait a moment and turn off the 360.
11. restart system and reenable anything you switched off in the bios and plug your drives back in if you followed step 1.

[Teratani360]

This method workes on all 360 Benq until yesterday...A Benq in 360 Elite doesn't show me "send magic code..." but it show me apply geremia method..why?

[gastromagig]

Does anyone know if this will work with an ICH7 abit I79 Pro mobo.?
I heard something about not being able to recover the port numbers properly with this method with the intel chipset. Does anyone know the port numbers?

whops my bad,
read the forum in closer detail

[markyk1974]

QUOTE(shalomii @ Nov 9 2008, 04:10 AM)

I was wondering if someone could please help me out. I followed the instructions of the poster 2 posts above me, and am having some trouble now. everything seemed to go smoothly, but now my 360 doesnt read original games,  so far ive tried a music cd, and will try and find a dvd to test also. The only problem that seemed to occur during any of this process, was with creating the iXtreme firmware, said the program or feature is not compatible with 64 bit windows vista or something like that, but the ix14 bin file was still created and the window ended up saying it created successfully, so i thought it was just a vista glitch or something. I hope someone knows of this issue and can help me out. Thanks

ok so everything seemed to run smoothly for me also but now nothing will play for me either.  I try originals and it won't play, telling me to use and original xbox 360 disk.  Same for backups also.  anyhelp would be appreciated.  Hope the read of the original firmware was ok.  It is 256kb.

[SorryBasyard]

QUOTE(danillll @ Nov 12 2008, 11:04 AM)

Moderators, we need a sticky, below steps worked perfectly

Thanks

worked real well here...thanks :-)


This post has been edited by SorryBasyard: Dec 6 2008, 12:22 PM

[podger]

Teratani360:
 the magic keys only work for the 64930C, if DF32 detects as 62430C it will not offer the 28 key method... the Geremia method will work 100% with all... make sure you leave the tray half open....