Topic: Benq Unlock (Read 1039 times)

markyk1974 · « **Reply #120 on:** December 06, 2008, 05:29:00 PM »

QUOTE(markyk1974 @ Dec 6 2008, 05:39 AM)

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.

Anybody with any idea's why this happened or how i can rectify it. Thanks in advance

wutang138 · « **Reply #121 on:** December 10, 2008, 08:14:00 AM »

This method rocks! No more IPREP! Wooot!! I did a drive in less than 7min with this method! Who gets the donation?

kandiman · « **Reply #122 on:** December 22, 2008, 12:19:00 AM »

QUOTE(son of man @ Nov 9 2008, 02:55 AM)

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 I wanted to clear up any confusion, since tools are being updated all the time, and some tutorials are outdated now.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.

Thanks son of man, spent hours finding and trying different solutions this one worked flawlessly, i'm on ICH9/ICH9R controller mine showed the exact codes 0xC2 and 0x11 on sata port 2, i'm guessing ICH8 and ICH9 are identical

, set the sata to legacy used dosflash 32 and now have ixtreme 1.41 firmware

VERY EASY TUTORIAL AND THIS SHOULD BE STICKIED!!!

shalomii · « **Reply #123 on:** January 01, 2009, 04:51:00 PM »

Just wanted to say, I managed to use this method to successfully update to ixtreme 1.5

blackmh · « **Reply #124 on:** January 01, 2009, 05:46:00 PM »

Flashed my benQ in 2 minutes on Gigabyte EP45-DS3 with ICH10. If you can't get drive recognized,
be sure to turn off AHCI/RAID in BIOS and set SATA mode to disable (legacy).

Thanks!

InvidiousDemise · « **Reply #125 on:** January 01, 2009, 09:46:00 PM »

I used the quoted method above to successfully flash my benq using an ICH9® chipset on an Gigabyte EP35-DS3R motherboard. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Note: To get Dosflash32 to run in Windows Vista, I had to right click and run as Administrator. If I didn't run as administrator, I got an error about portio32.sys

Dan7712 · « **Reply #126 on:** January 02, 2009, 03:50:00 PM »

Tad stuck here, I have done what it says to do in the post quoted above.

Manu ID is 0xC2
Device ID 0x11

So I am guessing that bit is right. But when I click "Read flash" save it, and then it says at the bottem "Reading Bank 0" and then nothing. My PC crashs. It once got to reading Bank 3 but then crashed.

What am I doing wrong?

I am using:
DosFlash32 V1.7 BETA
Flashing BenQ
Windows XP
Wanting to flash 1.5

Any ideas?

Thanks

gizbug · « **Reply #127 on:** February 14, 2009, 05:13:00 PM »

So this method will work with the iEXTREME 1.5 firmware and BENq?
Also, it seems like you are doing all this inside windows? I've used the textbook pdf before, and never booted up into windows, but a USB stick with the files on it. We should leave our boot drive with windows hooked up to our SATA,and disconnect everything else, and plug in our benq drive?

gizbug · « **Reply #128 on:** February 14, 2009, 06:46:00 PM »

"" 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. ""

I do not see IXtreme firmware.cmd. I just downloaded the 1.5 bios, your guide mentions 1.4. Any ideas?

gizbug · « **Reply #129 on:** February 14, 2009, 07:25:00 PM »

Anyone got a command/port for ICH10?

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