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[sernul]

Alright got a new 83850c jasper and I followed all the steps using Jungleflasher.  When I get to the step where I erase my liteon drive.   This is what happens

It goes into vender mode or no device detected and the flash chip properties are unknown...  Someone help please I'm 1 step away from flashing.

[sernul]

If you were in windows and using Jungle Flasher and you have successfully got your key and created your firmware from your dummy.bin or even have got as far as getting your key, inquiry, and identify.bin files, then you should be ok, just make a dummy.bin and then make your liteon firmware!

So your pc froze? You were erasing your liteon and then when you did the power cycle, your PC froze? Well you are in luck. As long as your key, inquiry, and identify.bin files were correct, then you can save your drive. What will happen at this point is your drive will no longer eject, so you think oh no bricked drive. This can be fixed. Make sure you can boot to DOS by floppy or USB drive and have the proper files on it.

You will need L-O-Eras.exe, latest dosflash16, and your hacked firmware file. Well what you do, restart your PC with your liteon connected, but not powered on, boot to DOS. Once you get to DOS restore power to your liteon drive. Go to where your files are.

Type L-O-Eras SATAPORT <-- put in your sata port that your drive is connected too. If you don't know your sata port, you can do dosflash really fast and figure out which port has the liteon drive on it. So after you do L-O-Eras SATAPORT you should return status FF72 I believe. I haven't had to do this way for awhile so if I made a mistake on the status please PM me so I can fix this. After you do this, go type DOSFLASH, then enter the proper # for the port that has the liteon drive on it. Then type W for write. Then enter your hacked firmware file, usually lite_cfw.bin then it will erase and write the firmware to your drive. After it is done, turn the power off on your drive, then turn it back on and press eject and if it does, problem solved!


Alright thats my problem but could someone put this is retard format for me please, I got a nforce 3 mobo with WIN XP.

[ToBbErT]

could someone put this is retard format for me please?


What?!!?

[OggyUK]

Power cycle, intro.

Works better for me, sorry cant retard format that either.

[dougiegillam1357]

What Oggys trying to say is do it in Junglesflasher by power cycling the drive and pressing the intro button under the MTK Flash 32 tab.

[brain27]

That happened to me a couple of times when i was flashing my 83850c but i somehow got lucky and the chip properties showed up and i flashed it.

I kept doing something wrong at that point and i would get satus 0x51 failed shit thing but somehow it worked for me.

After clicking lteon erase and the dots start appearing in the box, remove the power cable and wait for a second before putting it back in. If it deosnt work try waiting 2 seconds. Kepp trying and you'll get 0x72
and good flash properties. Or just go DOS flash it.



This post has been edited by brain27: Sep 12 2009, 04:44 PM

[Fire_Ridge]

If you're making it to the point where you click Lite-On Erase, and then power cycle the drive, and are having the Flash Chip Properties say Vendor ID:  Unknown, etc....At that point try clicking on Intro / Device ID under Flashing Tasks, and see if it fills in the Flash Chip Properties section then.  I've run into a similar situation with 2 73850c drives, and that's all that I needed to do.

Good luck!

[sernul]

yea my drive no longer no longer opens or closes, and I did once get the drive properties to show up just once. and I clicked right it made 1 dot and froze....  and I haven't been able to get them again and oh always get x80 everytime. but in the vender properties it says I get x72 ?

and if I was going to dosflash it, I would need A LOT of help and a really good guide with all the files needed to get the job done.  Very much appreciated

This post has been edited by sernul: Sep 12 2009, 09:23 PM

[Kurt Hectic]

Don't worry. (yet )

I got something like this when flashing Liteon 74...

Solution?

- Trying


Just that. I tried different approaches. And finally all went OK.

what did I tried:
- powering Liteon in different time, in different ways (xbox power switch or pulling the plug from the mainboard and/or trying it in "half-open" state (pulling the cable out of the mainboard, manually pulling the disc tray(tackle? -not sure which word) to half-open and then plugging the liteon power back to the mainboard (with a quick move).
- l-o-erase.exe
- running dosflash and trying to eiher (actually- both) flash or erase (there are two options).
etc.
different time of powering the PC and Liteon + any combination of the above.

Finally it worked.

I've also seen a situation, when Liteon had no firmware data (type, version etc.) - just blank, nothing, and it worked after a few tries.
There are also 2 ways of flashing.
1. using l-o-eras
2. just using "erase" from the dosflash selection menu
3. just flashing without even erasing before (dosflash erases before writing anyway)

toss in some reboots (a few times liteon,  a few times PC) and I think I served you EVERY posibility. Just try, if you're not afraid of the DOS.

[sernul]

i tried dosflash and it says no apci devices found? and where do you get the sata port #? is it he 0e096  that shows in jungle flasher?  On my board its plugged to sata port 1.  Jeez these drives are so much harder then BENQ, I miss my old dead falcon.

also I'm the maximus power adapter so the drive is hooked to my pc psu

[sernul]

Also is it normal for your pc to run dirt slow?   After I erased the drive, and power it on my pc just turns dirt slow...

I got the vender properties to show up and clicked WRITE and it shows 1 dot a freezes?  any suggestions?

[Kurt Hectic]

Hmm.. Won't help here much since I've flashed just once using PC mainboard's SATA port. (samsung, loong ago).

I'm using VIA 6421A PCI card for flashing. It costs 10$/7euro, it's takes no genius to figure out what method is better: Loosing 10 bucks or riskinng wasting a lot of time.
so I bought as many here suggested. And there is no way it won't work. There are some bugs with windows drivers/ioport in jungleflasher, but none under the DOS.

Try on such card and if you don't want to - search for a friend with a VIA equipped chipset that works for this (google for necessary information or search here, on X-S )
If I remeber well, Asus based on KT600 was OK, but you would have to search for 100% reliable info.

[sernul]

i got a nforce 3 which should work fine.

Okay STRANGE...  I got some questions.

How do you know if a drive is flashed? because this is what happened.

I got the vender setting I clicked WRITE, its froze with 1 dot and the hard drive was making funky noises "so was it flashing?" After that I just let it run for a while 10 mins or so closed the froze jungleflasher and now my pc isn't freezing anymore.  I reopened jf and click vender/info and all the chip setting came up.  So I dunno what to do now... :|  with JF

[sernul]

help anybody please

[hardie]

Try reading some tutorials  
Theres one in the jungleflasher program  SHEESH

http://360mods.net/i...d...ails&id=100

http://www.junglefla.../downloads.html