How to flash a BenQ Xbox 360

[Crazy Brit]

Quote: Originally Posted by Venomous Fire

I do it for a small fee

And I really need the money right now lol

Are you in the UK?

[Venomous Fire]

Im in USA

Ill still do it for the same price, but shipping would be insane lol

[Zarthelas]

Yes heres something you can try. Seems to me you are having trouble finding your SATA port numbers. Easy way to do this is go back into the DOS menu. But only type this in.
dosflash
and then enter the command you should get a list with all your port numbers.

[theoriginalspinny]

Hi, I followed this tutorial and got to the point in DosFlash where the digits are flashing but then it won't read the firmware. It just flashes until I turn the 360 off then if I turn it back on the digits start flashing again, it won't go any further. Please help, thanks!

[brandt77]

i would like to start off by thanking you soo much for this, so far, this is the clearest i have seen!
now... you probably explained step 5 as well as you could have, but it made little scence to me.. could you please help?
im trying to get this all down before my xbox arrives
thanks alot man

[Venomous Fire]

Umm, you will get Orig.bin

You put that in the folder that has the speed you want for firmware

you hit the .bat file

you get your new firmware

[thenakedpirate]

First great TUT by far the clearest I've found.
I've read through this forum and many others but have not come accross and answer to my delema. I'm able to dump the firmware with no problem but I can't get it to 256k I've tried many, many times and it always comes out to be the same size of 219. What can I do about this. Stuck for days. At first I had the same problem others have encountered with firmware dump stopping after pressing y. I have the via chipset (vt8237) onboard, and the only way it would work for me was to put it on the #1 sata port, would see the drive on the #2 port but would stop every time so some of the people with that issue should give that a try, maybe it just has to be #1. Anyway if some could help me with my size issue,that would be great

[tahjman]

Quote: Originally Posted by thenakedpirate

First great TUT by far the clearest I've found.
I've read through this forum and many others but have not come accross and answer to my delema. I'm able to dump the firmware with no problem but I can't get it to 256k I've tried many, many times and it always comes out to be the same size of 219. What can I do about this. Stuck for days. At first I had the same problem others have encountered with firmware dump stopping after pressing y. I have the via chipset (vt8237) onboard, and the only way it would work for me was to put it on the #1 sata port, would see the drive on the #2 port but would stop every time so some of the people with that issue should give that a try, maybe it just has to be #1. Anyway if some could help me with my size issue,that would be great

My guess is you need to get the PCI card, obviously it isn't picking up some of the drive data.

[jjstunts]

I flashed my benq with onboard sata with nforce chipset, had no probs at all, used dosflash to find drive letters. the tut on sins are great!

[theoriginalspinny]

On step 4 I type the command then press 'y' to the "MTK vendor intro failed..." message but no matter how many times I try turning the 360 on and off and with different timings, it won't read the firmware it just stays on "Status: 0xD1" with the 'D' flashing when the 360 is on.
Any ideas? Help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[spartanwarninja]

If i have a laptop instead of a desktop would any of this work?

[rubbed]

I have a GA-P35C-DS3R motherboard, with Intel sata 3.0gbs built in. will it work?

[ManBearPig06]

Quote: Originally Posted by rubbed

I have a GA-P35C-DS3R motherboard, with Intel sata 3.0gbs built in. will it work?

The motherboard doesn't matter, it's the SATA that does. What is the exact name of your intel? VF posted a more complete list of compatible chipsets Here.

Hope that helps.

Venomous Fire, the only flash drive I have is filled with stuff, and is about 160gb, is there a way to boot from a partition?

[rubbed]

Intel ICH9.

it looks supported

also, i cant figure out my port number on the sata in device manager? is it a 4 digit one or just simply "port 1" "port 2". is there any way the dos menu can detect it itself?

heres a pic. ImageShack - Hosting :: portbq9.jpg

the values are for the first intel sata 2 port entry.

they are

1/0 range: e700 - e707
1/0 range: e800 - e803
1/0 range: e900 - e907
1/0 range: ea00 - ea03
1/0 range: eb00 - eb0f
IRQ - 19

so what should i entry in the dos for the port?

[billy0319]

Quote: Originally Posted by rubbed

Intel ICH9.

it looks supported

also, i cant figure out my port number on the sata in device manager? is it a 4 digit one or just simply "port 1" "port 2". is there any way the dos menu can detect it itself?

heres a pic. ImageShack - Hosting :: portbq9.jpg

the values are for the first intel sata 2 port entry.

they are

1/0 range: e700 - e707
1/0 range: e800 - e803
1/0 range: e900 - e907
1/0 range: ea00 - ea03
1/0 range: eb00 - eb0f
IRQ - 19

so what should i entry in the dos for the port?

port1 = e700
port2= e800
port3= e900
and so on...

whichever port you have your cable plugged into, i.e. port 1, you would use e700 as your port number, port 2 would be e800, figure out which port your plugged into and type in the corresponding number

[rubbed]

got the port.. i think.

problem is when i type in the flashdos command and answer Y to the question.. i turn on my 360 and the status:

status: 0x7f
when i turn the 360 power on it changes too

status: 0xd1

then it changes between d1 and 51 continously non stop like this every half second:
status: 0xd1
status: 0x51
status: 0xd1
status: 0x51
status: 0xd1
status: 0x51
status: 0xd1
status: 0x51

etc


and ideas?

[Venomous Fire]

Quote: Originally Posted by spartanwarninja

If i have a laptop instead of a desktop would any of this work?

No

Quote: Originally Posted by ManBearPig06

The motherboard doesn't matter, it's the SATA that does. What is the exact name of your intel? VF posted a more complete list of compatible chipsets Here.

Hope that helps.

Venomous Fire, the only flash drive I have is filled with stuff, and is about 160gb, is there a way to boot from a partition?

Not ALL of those chips work, just get the VIA, and 160gb.... that isnt a flash drive, thats a freaking Hard Drive

Quote: Originally Posted by rubbed

got the port.. i think.

problem is when i type in the flashdos command and answer Y to the question.. i turn on my 360 and the status:

status: 0x7f
when i turn the 360 power on it changes too

status: 0xd1

then it changes between d1 and 51 continously non stop like this every half second:
status: 0xd1
status: 0x51
status: 0xd1
status: 0x51
status: 0xd1
status: 0x51
status: 0xd1
status: 0x51

etc


and ideas?

Turn it on and off again

Make sure you have the right chipset

[rubbed]

yep, keep turning it off and on (tried 12 time in a row). same thing, toggles between 0xd1 and 0x51.

got the correct chipset too (onboard intel ich9)

ah i didnt unplug all the ide cables, will try again and update you

[Venomous Fire]

Get a VIA

[rubbed]

yea, goin to get one now, it still didnt work.

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