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Title: Benq Won't Play Games After Flash
Post by: Iam74Gibson on January 29, 2008, 02:01:00 AM

Hi everyone. I am trying to replace my Hitachi 79fk with a Benq 6038. I used Textbooks awesome noob guide. I dumped the firmware using the floppy method, took the floppy to another PC, and used FW toolbox 4.6 to insert my hitachi key, and spoof as a 79. I then took the floppy back to the original pc and flashed.

Everything seemed to go perfectly, no errors. The only thing that was a little different was I did not get the "good drive status 0x73" exactly like in the tutorial. My number was different, but everything still worked. Everything read, erased and wrote with no errors.

I put my xbox together (not completely), fired it up to the dashboard...so far so good...but then I tried to read a backup and get "put this into an xbox 360 error" ...tried an original game....same thing.

I would think if the flash was unsucessful, the XBOX would not come up at all with a foreign drive.

The only other thing is...I did not use the serial number on the back of the XBOX like in the tutorial. I have painted over mine , so I used 1234567 22222. Is that important?

Any Ideas?

Title: Benq Won't Play Games After Flash
Post by: slimgrip on January 29, 2008, 03:11:00 AM

The serial number is insignificant, its just a means of identification if your flashing a few 360s (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

The message "to play this game blah blah" usually means your key is wrong!

Title: Benq Won't Play Games After Flash
Post by: Iam74Gibson on January 29, 2008, 03:40:00 AM

QUOTE(slimgrip @ Jan 29 2008, 11:11 AM)

The serial number is insignificant, its just a means of identification if your flashing a few 360s (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

The message "to play this game blah blah" usually means your key is wrong!

I had my chip pulled and read on the 79fk. Unless there was a typo when the guy sent it to me, I copied and pasted into FW toolbox.

It seems I read somewhere that you have to hexedit if replacing an Hitachi to adjust the key. I read this a while back and cannot find it now. Do you know if that is necessary? Maybe I missed a step?
Thanx!

Title: Benq Won't Play Games After Flash
Post by: Iam74Gibson on January 29, 2008, 03:55:00 AM

QUOTE(Iam74Gibson @ Jan 29 2008, 11:40 AM)

I had my chip pulled and read on the 79fk. Unless there was a typo when the guy sent it to me, I copied and pasted into FW toolbox.

It seems I read somewhere that you have to hexedit if replacing an Hitachi to adjust the key. I read this a while back and cannot find it now. Do you know if that is necessary? Maybe I missed a step?
Thanx!

A couple of other thoughts...in FW toolbox, I just used the default "Master Checksum" when spoofing as an Hitachi...Maybe I was supposed to use the "calculated checksum" ?

Also, I used the 8x firmware instead of the 12x. Will that matter? Could the MOBO be detecting the speed difference?

Please advise

Title: Benq Won't Play Games After Flash
Post by: slimgrip on January 29, 2008, 04:02:00 AM

As long as you received your correct key no hex editing is required.

open up the 79 firmware dump you received in fwtoolbox4.6 & copy the displayed key to notepad
Then open up the benq firmware in fwtoolbox4.6 & paste the key into fwtoolbox & click replace key
Then click tools>spoof firmware select Hitachi79 from the list & click apply spoof.

Then flash the benq with the firmware file you just spoofed & replaced the key.

If that doesnt work i would get back onto whoever dumped the firmware from your 79

Title: Benq Won't Play Games After Flash
Post by: caster420 on January 29, 2008, 05:47:00 AM

QUOTE(Iam74Gibson @ Jan 29 2008, 05:55 AM)

A couple of other thoughts...in FW toolbox, I just used the default "Master Checksum" when spoofing as an Hitachi...Maybe I was supposed to use the "calculated checksum" ?

 

That is only for hitachi drives.  Ignore it when spoofing samsung/benq firmware.

 

Caster.

Title: Benq Won't Play Games After Flash
Post by: Iam74Gibson on January 30, 2008, 01:35:00 AM

well, I got it working...not quite sure how....the only thing I can figure was the BENQ-CFW.bin file in the backup directory was not key inserted or spoofed. only the one in the CFW directory was. Didn't think it would matter being in the backup directory, but I copied the one from the CFW directory and overwrote the one in the backup directory and now it works. Maybe this is the reason or maybe I just got lucky.

Forgot to mention...THANKS EVERYONE!

Title: Benq Won't Play Games After Flash
Post by: aclark20 on January 30, 2008, 09:04:00 AM

This is a situation where iPrep hurts more than it helps. If you have a specific prepared firmware you want to flash, your better off just using the DOSFLASH manual commands.

Keep that in mind for next time... congrats though.