How to flash a BenQ Xbox 360

[Venomous Fire]

This process works on samsung I believe..... but use different tuts for those

[billy0319]

yea its almost the exact same process, the one i saw used a different program to make the boot disk though. im actually about to flash a friends samsung drive within the next week.

[Soapy]

You mean iPrep.

[billy0319]

yea, it was iprep

[OMGIZZLEZ]

Hi, first off thank you for the tutorial.

My device manager shows that I have a "Intel(R) ICH8R/ICH9R SATA RAID Controller.

Would this be compatable to flash the benq xbox360?

Thanks.

[tahjman]

im new to xbox360 modding but this tut looks really easy i have a xbox made in 3-21-2008 lot 0812 it has the benq drive tomorrow after i go to radio shack to get the tools i will try to mod it. I'm just looking to play backups, some on live and off. From what i have been reading this is a pretty evasive flash? very slim MS can detect this? I realize it's never 100% but some feedback from someone who has Backed up their games and played on live for a while would be cool. thanks guys!


For the PCI card which one of these will work

http://cgi.ebay.com/IDE-PCI-SATA-Ser...QQcmdZViewItem

or the one that has xbox360 in the title
http://cgi.ebay.com/VIA-VT6421-SATA-...QQcmdZViewItem

Both are in hong kong and shipping might take forever >_<

Bought the bottom one, figured i could be patient for it to come /pray.

[billy0319]

either one. this is where i got mine here and it worked very well:
VIA VT6421A IDE & SATA RAID PCI Controller Card

[Zarthelas]

Hey guys I was reading 2-5 pages of threads and started to get a headache..lol so i have a few questions

#1- My chipset is.. where heres all the info
NVIDIA-MCP61 taken from CPU-Z
nForce 410 or 430
Do I need to buy a PCI-SATA card or will my mobo read my BENQ drive?

#2- I only have 2 SATA ports and 1 is for the DVD drive and 2nd is for my hard drive.
Can I unplug one of them so I can plug in my BENQ? If so Hard disk or DVD or either?

I will be driving around town tomorrow picking up the tools and stuff so I'm probably doing this tomorrow.

Thanks for your help
UPDATE:10/24/2008
Well I guess I can answer Both my questions.
since it worked perfectly for me, no need to buy the SATA-PCI card but I will probably buy it in the future for further PC upgrades.
Found out my Motherboard SATA port numbers by doing these steps.
Remember to disconnect all HDD and DVD/CD drives you have connected
#1- Go into the dos mode like if you already knew the port number.
BUT instead of doing the first read command type this
dosflash
then its going to list all the ports including IDE (if any)
SATA port 0 (printed on MOBO)= SATA PORT PRIM
SATA PORT 1 (printed on MOBO)= SATA PORT SEC something like that.
And there you have your port numbers. Then you can proceed with the installation

[tahjman]

Quote: Originally Posted by Zarthelas

Hey guys I was reading 2-5 pages of threads and started to get a headache..lol so i have a few questions

#1- My chipset is.. where heres all the info
NVIDIA-MCP61 taken from CPU-Z
nForce 410 or 430
Do I need to buy a PCI-SATA card or will my mobo read my BENQ drive?

#2- I only have 2 SATA ports and 1 is for the DVD drive and 2nd is for my hard drive.
Can I unplug one of them so I can plug in my BENQ? If so Hard disk or DVD or either?

I will be driving around town tomorrow picking up the tools and stuff so I'm probably doing this tomorrow.

Thanks for your help
UPDATE:10/24/2008
Well I guess I can answer Both my questions.
since it worked perfectly for me, no need to buy the SATA-PCI card but I will probably buy it in the future for further PC upgrades.
Found out my Motherboard SATA port numbers by doing these steps.
Remember to disconnect all HDD and DVD/CD drives you have connected
#1- Go into the dos mode like if you already knew the port number.
BUT instead of doing the first read command type this
dosflash
then its going to list all the ports including IDE (if any)
SATA port 0 (printed on MOBO)= SATA PORT PRIM
SATA PORT 1 (printed on MOBO)= SATA PORT SEC something like that.
And there you have your port numbers. Then you can proceed with the installation

ordered my via off ebay from hong kong 14 days shipping time

but i got my xbox tools sent out today from ebay guy lives in the same state as me, so i will try my sata ports, tuesday too hopefully i will have the same luck.

I'm trying to get the xbins etc and everytime i try to use the program provided or try it on IRC i get #xbins unable to join channel (invite only)

Tried again today and it works fine connecting so no problem now.

[Zarthelas]

yeah man let us know how it goes.. I will be checking this site regularly to help out where I can
And BTW tried my first back-up today and worked like a charm!!!

[DBlackbeard]

Hi, i've got two questions i'd like answered if possible?

Q1: I'd like to know how you can tell apart the Philips/BenQ and Philips/LiteOn drives without taking the console apart?

Q2: Is the flashing method the same for these drives, I'm looking to flash a Liteon drive? I've already flashed a BenQ drive using this forum, great instructions!

Thanks!

[Venomous Fire]

Quote: Originally Posted by DBlackbeard

Hi, i've got two questions i'd like answered if possible?

Q1: I'd like to know how you can tell apart the Philips/BenQ and Philips/LiteOn drives without taking the console apart?

Q2: Is the flashing method the same for these drives, I'm looking to flash a Liteon drive? I've already flashed a BenQ drive using this forum, great instructions!

Thanks!

1. Where you look for the wires in the hole, if the wire is yellow it is a lite-on

2. You cant flash a Lite-On yet

[SR4801]

Hi... Thanks Venomous for the tutorial, it is the clearest one I found
well I checked the hole on the xbox 360 and saw 2 white wires...is that okay

also I have a nvidia force 4 sata but I prefer to be on the safe side so which one will work the best or should I get?

Newegg.com - Rosewill RC-212 VIA PCI SATA 1.5G / IDE ATA 133 Controller Card / Supports Raid 0, 1, 0+1, JBOD, non-RAID mode - Controllers / RAID Cards

or

http://tekgems.com/Products/la-pci22-vt6421a.htm

or

Newegg.com - Rosewill RC-215 VIA PCI SATA 1.5G x2/ ATA 133 (IDE) x1 HDD Controller Card Supports Raid 0, 1, 0+1, JBOD, un-RAID mode - Controllers / RAID Cards

thanks

[waffle11]

Tut = amazing, worked perfectly after I wrestled with constant errors and weird anomalies my computer decided to throw at me. At numerous times I had to ask Venomous personally for help and he made anything confusing me completely clear and understandable (if you dont know me I am an idiot like 90% of the time).


Great Tut

[WTFMaNg]

hmph

[Crazy Brit]

When ever I think about attempting this I **** bricks.

[Soapy]

Quote: Originally Posted by Crazy Brit

When ever I think about attempting this I **** bricks.

If you cant then get a professional to do it.

[Venomous Fire]

I do it for a small fee

And I really need the money right now lol

[pecis5]

HI, Im newbie

In device manager i cant see any sata cards, but opening my pc there is "SATA II"
will it work with it? and where can i see the ports for it then?
Thank you

[blk]

Hi, noob here. I have a Benq and having trouble flashing it. I purchased and installed the VIA 6421 card. I no problem booting the PC with my USB stick. Pressed Dosflash16 and got a complete "No ATAPI found" down the line. I tried using both SATA ports on the 6421 card, but got the same results.
When I look at the "Scsi and Raid controllers" in my device manage . The card shows up. I looked at my port number in the "Property--->Resources and it show the port as 8000(that might be the problem).
I then tried it using the Dosflash32 way of doing it thinking it was a Dos thing , but it still was unable to find the port. Got the same old 8000 error.
Can anybody suggest a solution. Thanks for your time.


BK