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[gordita37]

Been at this for over 10 hours. Checked over and over and over countless times. checked with a voltage meter, using 100ohm resistors, using the recommended diode. I've re soldered everything just in case. I've tried all 4 different options in bios for my LPT port. I'm still getting this horrible message "Could not detect a flash controller!" any ideas before I start kicking things?

[StrictPuppet]

Try a different computer?

[gordita37]

tried two different computers

[gordita37]

mines pretty short, a little over a foot, my 360 cant be much closer to my pc if I tried. I just tried lopping off the resistors, and that was also a no-go.

[Perplexer]

360 plugged into its power supply?  

No really, I ask because I had an issue with a known good cable, known good soldering, and known good PC and LPT port (I got a good read from this console earlier), and then all of a sudden kept getting "could not detect flash controller."  I checked everything many times over.

I finally looked closer at the power brick, and no, it wasn't unplugged, but the red light was lit.  Unplugged the connector from the 360, and it went amber again.  Plug in, red light.  Turns out the mobo flexed in a weird way where something was shorted out.  Pushed down on the mobo connector, and all was well, and I was able to read multiple times and write with no errors.

[gordita37]

I think that happened to an older one I tried, I just assumed it was dead cause whenever I plugged my powerbrick I would get the same red light. but no, right now its plugged in completely with an orange light.

[gordita37]

I tried another computer, Id rather not get a usb, but we'll see if it comes to that. does the IRQ have to be set to anything specific in the bios?

[thwack]

Try lesser value resistors - 68ohms.....

[gordita37]

Ive tested each point from LPT cable to the points on the 360 and each got a signal ive checked and rechecked for hours. As of the resistors, ive tried both with and without. the nearest store is about 30 miles away, I just have a feeling that isnt the problem if it wont work without any resistors.

[StrictPuppet]

Can you link to the diagram that you used.

[gordita37]

Ive seen a lot of diagrams, but they are all the same.



Here is one of them. Also, just tried another computer.

[StrictPuppet]

You may have misunderstood this, or not, but the db25(LPT port) connector is shown from the back side in that diagram.

[gordita37]

QUOTE(StrictPuppet @ Dec 16 2009, 12:17 AM)

You may have misunderstood this, or not, but the db25(LPT port) connector is shown from the back side in that diagram.

I hope thats the case, that would be awesome. Although my wiring looks like the diagram from what I can tell. I just took a pic even though its dark you can kinda tell where each wire is.

[thwack]

Desolder that lot! Open up the cable and solder to the correct tabs at the back of the plug. They're not soldered to the right pins (mirror image!), + the solder looks bad=poor connections

[StrictPuppet]

I am a little confused by your cable.  Are you using a complete printer type cable?  Assuming that pin 1 transposes to pin one on the opposite end of that cable (which you need to verify), then you have the whole thing mirrored.