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[pyongftw]

This isn't the most important thing in the world, but just would be helpful, so help if you can, and tell me if it cannot be done (at this time atleast) to save me the trouble, and tell me quickly (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

Anyways, a little background first

So, my Xbox 360 Halo 3 Edition with a BenQ drive eventually stopped working properly, due to the motor stopping spinning at the beginning of reading the disc, so the laser would not properly detect the disc.
Eventually, due to costs and what would be done, a second Xbox 360 was bought, which then allowed me to open up the little sucker and see what I could do.
I found out that by manually spinning the disc with my finger when the disc would stop spinning on its own, that sometimes it would allow the disc to boot and work perfectly from then and onwards. So then its there, working all nice and dandy, but I decided since it really wasn't being used too much, to attempt to flash the firmware.
My motherboard is compatible with flashing the firmware of a BenQ drive, so then I had chosen to load custom firmware onto it using the current version of Jungleflasher, it was able to send the magic keys, then extract it, then erase, then it started to write to it, unfortunately, at bank 2, at least I think it was bank 2, my computer froze requiring me to restart it, which then obviously made the firmware brick. I had started another attempt to flash it again, but I was unable to get it to go into vendor mode, even after many times, which the magic keys worked each time. When the Xbox was started up with the sata wire connected, it would give me one red light on the 4th player area, with the green button in the middle flashing green, alongside no video on the screen. Oddly though, if I were to take out the sata wire, but leave the power wire still connected, the Xbox will power on and allow me to use it. I gave up attempting to flash the firmware for a while, and gave it a break. Unfortunately, my computer had succumb to the infamous Conficker virus, which had slowed my internet down to about 1kbps, thus making me virtually unable to do anything, which ended up with me formatting my C:\ drive.
Now, I am on windows running nice and smoothly, and I am currently wondering if there is any way to save this little bugger from its presumably inevitable death.

Thanks in advance everyone! =)

[flash360]

It might be worth trying to dump it with dosflash, as you say it only froze at bank 2, bank 1 went ok. I dont know which bank the key would be in but if you can dump something off it and have a look at the resulting firmware in a hex editor you might get lucky. The drive key for benq is usually at E030-E03F.

I doubt you will get it workin again though to be honest just thought I would offer some false hope

[pyongftw]

QUOTE(flash360 @ Apr 24 2009, 04:10 PM)

 The drive key for benq is usually at E030-E03F.

What do you mean by that? Does that mean if brute force was used, that would work?
Or is that the port no.?
Thanks for the information guys, lots of help
If anyone else has an idea, please tell

[flash360]

when you open a firmware file in a hex editor it looks like a really big page of  text, on the left  you will see each line starts with something like
aa00
aa10
...
ab00
ab10... Like I said its really big
so presuming you do get anything off the drive you need to scroll down that page til you get to E030 and find your key there. If this page turns to all 00 or all FF before you get there you are screwed

[flash360]

Good luck  let us know if you get it working

[hardie]

http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm

[pyongftw]

Thanks Hardie!
I also have found a way to run the Xbox 360 without a dvd drive connected!
Should I post a tutorial in this post, or in a new topic?