Topic: C4E's iXtreme Burner MAX v1.0 and iXtreme LTplus v2.01 Samsung (Read 4021 times)

DMagic1 · « **Reply #105 on:** October 23, 2011, 05:05:00 PM »

QUOTE(Modify_inc @ Oct 23 2011, 04:00 PM)

OK I'm baffled! I have a brand new Liteon iHAS224B Drive and it is listed under My Computer and is correctly listed under Device Manager in W7 x64. ImageBurn even shows it listed also and the drive functions correctly.

When I open EEPROM Utility and/or the Flash Utility, they say "NO CDRW/DVD DRIVES WERE FOUND!"

I have rebooted and still not luck. Can anyone explain this?

Try a different port.

filletofish · « **Reply #106 on:** October 23, 2011, 05:06:00 PM »

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coilz · « **Reply #107 on:** October 23, 2011, 05:32:00 PM »

QUOTE(bucky006 @ Oct 23 2011, 01:36 PM)

Switched Smartburn back on and still getting a good burn, must be todo with hypertuning.

Either way I don't care, its working which is all i'm worried about.

Hope its working for others

Just tried with the settings bucky used on some Memorex DL. Verified to 100% I had both Forced and Onlinehypertuning on. Burned at 4X

alanewake · « **Reply #108 on:** October 23, 2011, 05:43:00 PM »

QUOTE(bucky006 @ Oct 23 2011, 05:38 PM)

Well I was getting everything fail at 50% verification, using iHAS124B.

Crossflashed to iHAS524B still failing at 50%.

Went into Drive advanced setting on imageburn and changed ForceHyperTuning on, OnlineHyperTuning on and Smartburn off, and have no idea what these settings do!!!

Anyway now my discs are burning and verifying 100%, No idea if its because I changed these setting or not, but I'm now happy.

Using AonePLUS DL's, very cheap.

Thank you so much, thanks to you I finally got my liteon iHAS 124 to burn a correct full XGD3 without Verbatims !!

I confirm, it's working when we modify those settings into ImgBurn

decapitado · « **Reply #109 on:** October 23, 2011, 05:49:00 PM »

QUOTE(alanewake @ Oct 24 2011, 12:43 AM)

Thank you so much, thanks to you I finally got my liteon iHAS 124 to burn a correct full XGD3 without Verbatims !!

I confirm, it's working when we modify those settings into ImgBurn

Same here, I burnt BF3 in Ridisc discs with those settings at 4x and verified 100%.

Thanks Bucky006!!!

So, in resume:
ForcedHypertuning + OnlineHypertuning + Smartburn = profit with all discs

Modify_inc · « **Reply #110 on:** October 23, 2011, 06:02:00 PM »

QUOTE(DMagic1 @ Oct 24 2011, 12:05 AM)

Try a different port.

Tried different sata port as thought did not make any difference.

This is very strange, as the drive works great and is identified by most everything correctly on the PC except for the eeprom and flash utility. Curious how other apps, and Windows 7 recognizes the drive, but these two programs are clueless it even exist on the computer.

And without those I can't backup or flash the drive.

I guess I can do or try it from another PC, but this still baffles the mind.

killhappy · « **Reply #111 on:** October 23, 2011, 07:03:00 PM »

Modify_inc: I had the same problem in Windows 7 also. I had to run both the eeprom utility and the flash tool as administrator and it worked great.

lrod2344 · « **Reply #112 on:** October 23, 2011, 07:04:00 PM »

QUOTE(DMagic1 @ Oct 23 2011, 11:48 PM)

Everyone getting these failures did remember to update the drive to the latest included firmware 1st then flash with the custom firmware 2nd?

Well I didnt need to as my drives were all already up to date.... however I did reboot after flashing and have had ZERO problems with:

Verbatim MKM-001
OPC off
2.4x Speeds
iHAS124-04 B
Win7 64bit
6gb Memory
Intel ICH10 Chipset (dont know if I have AHCI on or off yet will check in a few after I finish burning my 9th Disc)
DMA=Enabled (Advanced Settings for IDE/ATAPI Controllers in Device Manager)
ImgBurn 2.5.6.0

pitabread · « **Reply #113 on:** October 23, 2011, 07:06:00 PM »

QUOTE(DMagic1 @ Oct 23 2011, 03:26 PM)

Thats the same media code I was thinking about changing. I have some TDK with that.

Didn't work out for me. I'm going to try verbatims to determine if it's the drive or the dvds.

comhen · « **Reply #114 on:** October 23, 2011, 07:06:00 PM »

QUOTE(funksoulbrother @ Oct 23 2011, 10:41 PM)

Yeah.

All of the models that start with an odd number are the same in terms of hardware. So are all the even numbered models. You can convert a 123/324 to a 524 and you can convert a 224/424 to a 624 to unlock the features of those models.

Thanks, have you tried SmartErase or LabelTag after cross-flashing from 224 to 624? Didi it work?

Can anyone else confirm that it will unlock features after cross-flashing?

heyman421 · « **Reply #115 on:** October 23, 2011, 07:16:00 PM »

QUOTE(comhen @ Oct 23 2011, 09:06 PM)

Thanks, have you tried SmartErase or LabelTag after cross-flashing from 224 to 624? Didi it work?

Can anyone else confirm that it will unlock features after cross-flashing?

My asus 24b1st can burn labelflash using c4eva's 524 firmware. Lite-on's bundled nero essentials is the only software I've found that will burn the labels, which is available on their website. There's no labelflash option in any retail copies of nero, unfortunately.

It's also 6 for 6 on amazon basics 8.5gb ($.50/each) media at full speed with imgburn and drive settings untouched, so I suspect some of you have misflashed your drives if you're coastering out with pricier media.

It's also worth noting that burning slower is not necessarily better. The dyes used in blank media are formulated very carefully to be written at a particular rate/power level. Sometimes the sweet spot is perhaps one step above or below the nominal rated speed, but the logic of just writing a disc as slowly as possible is flawed.

funksoulbrother · « **Reply #116 on:** October 23, 2011, 07:32:00 PM »

QUOTE(comhen @ Oct 24 2011, 02:06 AM)

Thanks, have you tried SmartErase or LabelTag after cross-flashing from 224 to 624? Didi it work?

Can anyone else confirm that it will unlock features after cross-flashing?

I haven't tried Smart Erase, but I did try LabelTag and it worked fine. If you don't want to install Nero 9 Essentials just to use LabelTag, you can use Lite-On's SmartPack utility which is available on their site. Just make sure you don't use it to update the drive's firmware though.

To use LabelTag with SmartPack you have to first burn data to your disc using your regular burning software, but don't finalise the disc. Then fire up SmartPack and you can tag the disc and finalise it. It looks good, but it uses up space on the disc and obviously the bigger the tag is, the more space it uses up.

64squares · « **Reply #117 on:** October 23, 2011, 07:35:00 PM »

burnt and verified on memorex dl @ 4x with these setting enabled ForcedHypertuning + OnlineHypertuning + Smartburn on a 324 b. Thanks to the people in this thread.

comhen · « **Reply #118 on:** October 23, 2011, 07:42:00 PM »

QUOTE(funksoulbrother @ Oct 24 2011, 11:32 AM)

I haven't tried Smart Erase, but I did try LabelTag and it worked fine. If you don't want to install Nero 9 Essentials just to use LabelTag, you can use Lite-On's SmartPack utility which is available on their site. Just make sure you don't use it to update the drive's firmware though.

To use LabelTag with SmartPack you have to first burn data to your disc using your regular burning software, but don't finalise the disc. Then fire up SmartPack and you can tag the disc and finalise it. It looks good, but it uses up space on the disc and obviously the bigger the tag is, the more space it uses up.

Great, I'm going to cross-flash my 324 to 524 to enable labelTag.
Is there anything I should take into consideration when cross-flashing or is it straight forward like below instructions?

Update drive firmware, backup Firmware and EPROM, Select 524 instead of 324 when flashing C4eva's Max burn firmware.

Modify_inc · « **Reply #119 on:** October 23, 2011, 07:56:00 PM »

QUOTE(killhappy @ Oct 24 2011, 02:03 AM)

Modify_inc: I had the same problem in Windows 7 also. I had to run both the eeprom utility and the flash tool as administrator and it worked great.

Thanks but I had tried that also, no luck.

I just put it in another PC and and had no problems. I saved and flashed the drive from it and put it back in the previous PC.

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