I was able to flash an 83850c that had a manufacturers date of August 09. It took my partner and I about 12 tries before we read the firmware. Then, with the Via drive UNINSTALLED the computer froze/hung when we tried to erase it.
I booted into DOS using the NTFS4DOS disc, loaded dosflash, used the l-o-eras command with my port number and it took about 5 tries until the drive was erased. We then used dosflash to flash the firmware we dumped and modified with Jungleflasher to the drive.
Are the August 09 drives the new liteons/liteon v2 drives? If so we just did one for a customer and it was a bitch to do. We flashed an original liteon with the probe that same day and one of the v1 83850c drives that same day as well without a hitch...
QUOTE(Ranger72 @ Oct 24 2009, 10:20 PM)

I posted pics of this same new heatsink layout over a month ago
HERE.
Of course back then we still had the good 83850c (V1) drive that could still be modded.
Basically old news now.


I did see this when you posted it. Now I wonder why some new systems don't have the old heat sink and some have the new heatsink. They may just be going through their supply of heatsinks though...