How to flash a BenQ Xbox 360

**Venomous Fire** · 02-23-2008, 07:18 PM

You port is E800....you are trying to use port ECD0....

OHB0Y2K4 · 02-23-2008, 07:25 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by Venomous fire

You port is E800....you are trying to use port ECD0....

How can i change this when the app loads and defaults to ecdo. In XP

I tried the e800 in manual mode and nothing happens.

**Venomous Fire** · 02-23-2008, 08:00 PM

so dont use DosFlash32....use 16

OHB0Y2K4 · 02-23-2008, 10:19 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by Venomous fire

so dont use DosFlash32....use 16

Please read what i type...
As i stated... i did try it in manual more (dos) and it still did not work at e800 or ecdo

Any ideas??

findme · 02-24-2008, 01:20 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by OHB0Y2K4

Please read what i type...
As i stated... i did try it in manual more (dos) and it still did not work at e800 or ecdo

Any ideas??

im still stuck on trying to find my stupid.... port. then when i think i found my port i try to do it manually and it still fails.. this is lame. if only someone was on 24/7.... id pay them 20 bucks to fix this for me right now lol.

**Venomous Fire** · 02-24-2008, 01:43 AM

0HB0Y...dont know what to tell you, make sure you are plugged into port 1

Outside of comp ...................port 1 is on this side
......................--------------
.....................|~~~~~~~~|
.....................|~~~~~~~~|
.....................|~~~~~~~~|
.....................--------------

****ty diagram I know..basically, Port 1 is exact opposite the part of the PCI slot that faces the outside at all times

findme:

Go to Run and type msinfo and expand to find the Sata card by going
Components > Storage > SCSI

OHB0Y2K4 · 02-24-2008, 03:04 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by Venomous fire

0HB0Y...dont know what to tell you, make sure you are plugged into port 1

Outside of comp ...................port 1 is on this side
......................--------------
.....................|~~~~~~~~|
.....................|~~~~~~~~|
.....................|~~~~~~~~|
.....................--------------

****ty diagram I know..basically, Port 1 is exact opposite the part of the PCI slot that faces the outside at all times

findme:

Go to Run and type msinfo and expand to find the Sata card by going
Components > Storage > SCSI

Then thats the problem .. my port 1 snapped off on the sata card while the cable was attached. Can this be run from port 2?? Otherwise i will have to get another card.. i assume?? What do ya think?

DeadOhio · 02-24-2008, 04:30 AM

Try using the Textbook 2008 tutorial. I think you will find that it takes out some steps and is easier to follow. A link to it is in my last reply. Its by far the best tutorial on how to mod any xbox 360 including the elite. Includes pictures and working links where to download everything you need. Also make sure the drivers you use for your sata card are up to date. There is a link to the latest via chipset drivers in the textbook tutorial. I had to update my drivers before I could get it to see the Benq drive. Just because its worked before does not mean it WORKS NOW!!! I went with Iprep which for a noob like myself is very easy to use. Once I got my sata card working everything was cake. Hope that helps you.

I am not sure if this is right or not but if you use Iprep to prepare your usb thumb drive or floopy I do not think it matters what port you go with. I am pretty sure I used the second port when I did my mod. I have 3 on the card and i used the one in the middle if I am not mistaken. I would atleast try using Iprep since it does the same thing as dos32 and 16.

Just make sure to unplug everything else so you do not flash something you did not want to!

**Venomous Fire** · 02-24-2008, 12:31 PM

I say use Port 1 because that port is VERY easy to find, you can use the other ports if you get their number

And dont say my tut doesnt work anymore, I use it all the time myself and it works wonderfully EVERY time, I dont know why you guys are having trouble with it.

iPrep is a horrible program for BenQs in my opinion, its great for other drives and I recommend it for other programs, but I have flashed 10+ BenQ drives in my area for friends and friends of friends and have yet to have ANY issue at all with DosFlash16. Hate to sound like an ***, but right now Im not in the best of moods, if you are having trouble with this tutorial, its kinda your own fault, its a user error, not a tut or program error.

OHB0Y2K4 · 02-24-2008, 06:18 PM

Obviously i have a conflict somewhere. I am also using an older P3 that has been fine, but it dose not support usb boot. I do have another pc that has an over heat problem which i am in the process of fixing... that is a P4 with the usb support. I'll drop the sata card in that and give it a go.

I believe that the tut from Venomous Fire is fine and would propably work fine if i can ever get a read on the damn drive!

Anyway... thanks for all the help and insight... we keep you posted on the success.

xl All Pro lx · 02-26-2008, 06:43 AM

hey venomous my chipset and av cables are going to be here today. u still think u can give me a hand later in flashing it? if not today tomorrow?

OHB0Y2K4 · 02-26-2008, 09:01 PM

ok... well i guess all the posts i have read on the various forums whether i use this tut or the textbook 2008... they reference port 1 on the sata card. I can only assume that you cannot use port 2.
The status i get when i try to do a read with dosflash 16 or using the iprep is x07f, and i cycle the 360 several times and nothing. anyone know what that is?? also, when i try it via onboard sata on port 1 i get the x51 to xD1 and as soon as i power on the 360 it stops at x80 and then returns back to x51 and xD1 when i poser off. Tried this several times with no luck. All this is done from port 2 on my via6421 pci sata card.

Since my port 1 snapped off, i ordered a new rosewell pci sata and will try this again.

Has anyone experienced this before? I tried new sata cables, new machine, new os, updated to latest drivers for the sata card... I am completely at a loss here.. all i can say is hopefully with the new sata card all will be ok on port 1!

findme · 02-27-2008, 02:54 AM

same here ohboy2k4!!! i follow the tutorial to the T and when i get to the part turning the xbox 360 on the numbers dont even move!!!

1st time i try to turn it off the numbers dont move...
2nd time i try to turn it on the number move but they dont move fast
3rd time i try it numbers dont move at all... as for the 4th and 5th and 6th time that happens...
7th time i restart my pc and try it over again. it then gets to the part where the card supposely writes the data to the disk... it gets stuck on bank 0 for a long long time... after 8 hours i shut it off because it pissed me off. ( kept it on all night to see what it would do)

8th time i wake up restart pc and it repeats step 2 then repeats step 4,5,6 after i try to turn it off and on because the number doesnt move after 15 minutes...

maybe some xbox 360's are not meant to get modded...

i have also tried new sata cables, new pc, new os and everything like that. i even did textbooks tutorial and the same things happens on the same part.

after doing this so much i know my serial number, and the dosflash r 6c00 1 a0 1 4 c:\orig.bin 0 ( i even tried 1 sometimes and still doesnt work.) ( i have about 3 computers i tried it on and i know all of the ports on each of them!)

"Prop your 360 faceplate like it was on the 360, and turn on the 360 for 5 seconds, if it doesn’t begin reading, turn it off for 5 seconds, then turn it on and repeat until it reads the firmware, might take 5+ tries"

does it suppose to take 26+ tries? i have been doing this for 2 hours straight... pressing the button.. pressing off button... pressing on button... reset pc when takes over 15 mins.... turn off button... heck, i even placed a game in the 360... after that didnt work i placed a movie... placing a move got me to step 2 ( the number moved to another number and stays there forever no matter how many times i turn off or on the 360)

OHB0Y2K4 · 02-27-2008, 10:21 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by findme

same here ohboy2k4!!! i follow the tutorial to the T and when i get to the part turning the xbox 360 on the numbers dont even move!!!

1st time i try to turn it off the numbers dont move...
2nd time i try to turn it on the number move but they dont move fast
3rd time i try it numbers dont move at all... as for the 4th and 5th and 6th time that happens...
7th time i restart my pc and try it over again. it then gets to the part where the card supposely writes the data to the disk... it gets stuck on bank 0 for a long long time... after 8 hours i shut it off because it pissed me off. ( kept it on all night to see what it would do)

8th time i wake up restart pc and it repeats step 2 then repeats step 4,5,6 after i try to turn it off and on because the number doesnt move after 15 minutes...

maybe some xbox 360's are not meant to get modded...

i have also tried new sata cables, new pc, new os and everything like that. i even did textbooks tutorial and the same things happens on the same part.

after doing this so much i know my serial number, and the dosflash r 6c00 1 a0 1 4 c:orig.bin 0 ( i even tried 1 sometimes and still doesnt work.) ( i have about 3 computers i tried it on and i know all of the ports on each of them!)

"Prop your 360 faceplate like it was on the 360, and turn on the 360 for 5 seconds, if it doesn’t begin reading, turn it off for 5 seconds, then turn it on and repeat until it reads the firmware, might take 5+ tries"

does it suppose to take 26+ tries? i have been doing this for 2 hours straight... pressing the button.. pressing off button... pressing on button... reset pc when takes over 15 mins.... turn off button... heck, i even placed a game in the 360... after that didnt work i placed a movie... placing a move got me to step 2 ( the number moved to another number and stays there forever no matter how many times i turn off or on the 360)

I DID IT!!!!!!
ok .. here it goes... I am throughly convinced now that ipep and dosflash16 utilize port 1 ONLY!
Got my new pci sata from newegg the rosewill rc-212 and left the jumpers at factory.
Removed my other sata card completely from windows booting into safe mode.
Then rebooted the machine.
Did a shut down and installed the new sata card.
Started the machine and let xp do it's thing. Then it prompted me to reboot because of the new hard ware install. (winxp installed drivers at this point)
After rebooting i checked the driver (ver. 5.1.6000.562) I let it go and tried it.
I re-booted from the usb, i used iprep to make it, and followed the textbook 2008 example.
The cable was plugged into the port 1 of the sata card and as soon as i ran the command (dben 0536313 75007) and hit the enter key and followed the prompts... it did exactly that.. it read, erased, and wrote the firmware back and fully tested with Devil May Cry 4.

Sorry Venomous, but i already had the usb key made... but i truly believe that your tut would have worked perfectly as well.

This has been a very interesting problem and it did really piss me off at times, but that is in the past now

Good Luck out there!

**Venomous Fire** · 02-27-2008, 11:10 PM

Textbook 2008 is a great tut if you cannot get DosFlash to work. I have never had issues with DosFlash, and Ive never heard of people having issues until this thread.

But yea, glad you finally got it working..Im almost 100% convinced people who are having trouble with it are not plugging in their 360 into Port 1, which apparently was your problem as well.

But anwhoo

is still there on the tut as a whole

findme · 02-28-2008, 02:18 AM

i have been in port 1 for the longest.... trying it about 1 1/2 hours straight last night... i then wake up this morning and it works... wtf?

oh well im just happy it works and plays backup games... makes no sense!!!!

i guess god said let there be modding for me LOL

worked for me and now playing call of duty 4 online

**Venomous Fire** · 02-28-2008, 11:00 AM

Odds are you were skipping a step somewhere when you were trying multiple times and you didnt realize it. When you got a fresh start you did the step you skipped or fixed the typo without knowing, glad you got it fixed

BxMods · 03-24-2008, 08:01 PM

im confused on which sata card to get from tigerdirect.com

can someone point me in a direction

thnk you in advance!

**Venomous Fire** · 03-24-2008, 09:20 PM

VIA VT6421 SATA Serial ATA RAID PCI Card For PC Xbox360 - eBay (item 360034987318 end time Mar-24-08 19:45:00 PDT)

I searched Tigerdirect and didnt find one. Ebay works fine and that one ends in 1.5 hours

**combatburt** · 03-24-2008, 10:02 PM

Hey does the benq only have one version of firmware so far? Or have they updated it?

02-23-2008, 07:25 PM	#42
OHB0Y2K4 Novice	Quote: Originally Posted by Venomous fire You port is E800....you are trying to use port ECD0.... How can i change this when the app loads and defaults to ecdo. In XP I tried the e800 in manual mode and nothing happens. Last edited by OHB0Y2K4; 02-23-2008 at 07:26 PM.

02-24-2008, 01:43 AM	#46
Venomous Fire Novice	0HB0Y...dont know what to tell you, make sure you are plugged into port 1 Outside of comp ...................port 1 is on this side ......................-------------- .....................\|~~~~~~~~\| .....................\|~~~~~~~~\| .....................\|~~~~~~~~\| .....................-------------- ***ty diagram I know..basically, Port 1 is exact opposite the part of the PCI slot that faces the outside at all times findme: Go to Run and type msinfo and expand to find the Sata card by going Components > Storage > SCSI Last edited by Venomous Fire; 02-24-2008 at 01:47 AM. Reason: stupid diagram*

02-24-2008, 04:30 AM	#48
DeadOhio Novice	Try using the Textbook 2008 tutorial. I think you will find that it takes out some steps and is easier to follow. A link to it is in my last reply. Its by far the best tutorial on how to mod any xbox 360 including the elite. Includes pictures and working links where to download everything you need. Also make sure the drivers you use for your sata card are up to date. There is a link to the latest via chipset drivers in the textbook tutorial. I had to update my drivers before I could get it to see the Benq drive. Just because its worked before does not mean it WORKS NOW!!! I went with Iprep which for a noob like myself is very easy to use. Once I got my sata card working everything was cake. Hope that helps you. I am not sure if this is right or not but if you use Iprep to prepare your usb thumb drive or floopy I do not think it matters what port you go with. I am pretty sure I used the second port when I did my mod. I have 3 on the card and i used the one in the middle if I am not mistaken. I would atleast try using Iprep since it does the same thing as dos32 and 16. Just make sure to unplug everything else so you do not flash something you did not want to! Last edited by DeadOhio; 02-24-2008 at 04:30 AM. Reason: Automerged Doublepost

02-27-2008, 02:54 AM	#53
findme Novice	same here ohboy2k4!!! i follow the tutorial to the T and when i get to the part turning the xbox 360 on the numbers dont even move!!! 1st time i try to turn it off the numbers dont move... 2nd time i try to turn it on the number move but they dont move fast 3rd time i try it numbers dont move at all... as for the 4th and 5th and 6th time that happens... 7th time i restart my pc and try it over again. it then gets to the part where the card supposely writes the data to the disk... it gets stuck on bank 0 for a long long time... after 8 hours i shut it off because it pissed me off. ( kept it on all night to see what it would do) 8th time i wake up restart pc and it repeats step 2 then repeats step 4,5,6 after i try to turn it off and on because the number doesnt move after 15 minutes... maybe some xbox 360's are not meant to get modded... i have also tried new sata cables, new pc, new os and everything like that. i even did textbooks tutorial and the same things happens on the same part. after doing this so much i know my serial number, and the dosflash r 6c00 1 a0 1 4 c:\orig.bin 0 ( i even tried 1 sometimes and still doesnt work.) ( i have about 3 computers i tried it on and i know all of the ports on each of them!) "Prop your 360 faceplate like it was on the 360, and turn on the 360 for 5 seconds, if it doesn’t begin reading, turn it off for 5 seconds, then turn it on and repeat until it reads the firmware, might take 5+ tries" does it suppose to take 26+ tries? i have been doing this for 2 hours straight... pressing the button.. pressing off button... pressing on button... reset pc when takes over 15 mins.... turn off button... heck, i even placed a game in the 360... after that didnt work i placed a movie... placing a move got me to step 2 ( the number moved to another number and stays there forever no matter how many times i turn off or on the 360) Last edited by findme; 02-27-2008 at 03:01 AM.

02-28-2008, 02:18 AM	#56
findme Novice	i have been in port 1 for the longest.... trying it about 1 1/2 hours straight last night... i then wake up this morning and it works... wtf? oh well im just happy it works and plays backup games... makes no sense!!!! i guess god said let there be modding for me LOL worked for me and now playing call of duty 4 online Last edited by findme; 02-28-2008 at 02:19 AM.

		Se7enSins Forums > Xbox 360 Gaming > Xbox 360 Tutorials > Firmware Hack Tutorials
How to flash a BenQ Xbox 360

02-23-2008, 07:18 PM	#41
Venomous Fire Novice	You port is E800....you are trying to use port ECD0....

02-23-2008, 08:00 PM	#43
Venomous Fire Novice	so dont use DosFlash32....use 16

02-23-2008, 10:19 PM	#44
OHB0Y2K4 Novice	Quote: Originally Posted by Venomous fire so dont use DosFlash32....use 16 Please read what i type... As i stated... i did try it in manual more (dos) and it still did not work at e800 or ecdo Any ideas??

02-24-2008, 01:20 AM	#45
findme Novice	Quote: Originally Posted by OHB0Y2K4 Please read what i type... As i stated... i did try it in manual more (dos) and it still did not work at e800 or ecdo Any ideas?? im still stuck on trying to find my stupid.... port. then when i think i found my port i try to do it manually and it still fails.. this is lame. if only someone was on 24/7.... id pay them 20 bucks to fix this for me right now lol.

02-24-2008, 03:04 AM	#47
OHB0Y2K4 Novice	Quote: Originally Posted by Venomous fire 0HB0Y...dont know what to tell you, make sure you are plugged into port 1 Outside of comp ...................port 1 is on this side ......................-------------- .....................\|~~~~~~~~\| .....................\|~~~~~~~~\| .....................\|~~~~~~~~\| .....................-------------- ****ty diagram I know..basically, Port 1 is exact opposite the part of the PCI slot that faces the outside at all times findme: Go to Run and type msinfo and expand to find the Sata card by going Components > Storage > SCSI Then thats the problem .. my port 1 snapped off on the sata card while the cable was attached. Can this be run from port 2?? Otherwise i will have to get another card.. i assume?? What do ya think?

02-24-2008, 12:31 PM	#49
Venomous Fire Novice	I say use Port 1 because that port is VERY easy to find, you can use the other ports if you get their number And dont say my tut doesnt work anymore, I use it all the time myself and it works wonderfully EVERY time, I dont know why you guys are having trouble with it. iPrep is a horrible program for BenQs in my opinion, its great for other drives and I recommend it for other programs, but I have flashed 10+ BenQ drives in my area for friends and friends of friends and have yet to have ANY issue at all with DosFlash16. Hate to sound like an ***, but right now Im not in the best of moods, if you are having trouble with this tutorial, its kinda your own fault, its a user error, not a tut or program error.

02-24-2008, 06:18 PM	#50
OHB0Y2K4 Novice	Obviously i have a conflict somewhere. I am also using an older P3 that has been fine, but it dose not support usb boot. I do have another pc that has an over heat problem which i am in the process of fixing... that is a P4 with the usb support. I'll drop the sata card in that and give it a go. I believe that the tut from Venomous Fire is fine and would propably work fine if i can ever get a read on the damn drive! Anyway... thanks for all the help and insight... we keep you posted on the success.

02-26-2008, 06:43 AM	#51
xl All Pro lx 7S Addict	hey venomous my chipset and av cables are going to be here today. u still think u can give me a hand later in flashing it? if not today tomorrow?

02-26-2008, 09:01 PM	#52
OHB0Y2K4 Novice	ok... well i guess all the posts i have read on the various forums whether i use this tut or the textbook 2008... they reference port 1 on the sata card. I can only assume that you cannot use port 2. The status i get when i try to do a read with dosflash 16 or using the iprep is x07f, and i cycle the 360 several times and nothing. anyone know what that is?? also, when i try it via onboard sata on port 1 i get the x51 to xD1 and as soon as i power on the 360 it stops at x80 and then returns back to x51 and xD1 when i poser off. Tried this several times with no luck. All this is done from port 2 on my via6421 pci sata card. Since my port 1 snapped off, i ordered a new rosewell pci sata and will try this again. Has anyone experienced this before? I tried new sata cables, new machine, new os, updated to latest drivers for the sata card... I am completely at a loss here.. all i can say is hopefully with the new sata card all will be ok on port 1!

02-27-2008, 10:21 PM	#54
OHB0Y2K4 Novice	Quote: Originally Posted by findme same here ohboy2k4!!! i follow the tutorial to the T and when i get to the part turning the xbox 360 on the numbers dont even move!!! 1st time i try to turn it off the numbers dont move... 2nd time i try to turn it on the number move but they dont move fast 3rd time i try it numbers dont move at all... as for the 4th and 5th and 6th time that happens... 7th time i restart my pc and try it over again. it then gets to the part where the card supposely writes the data to the disk... it gets stuck on bank 0 for a long long time... after 8 hours i shut it off because it pissed me off. ( kept it on all night to see what it would do) 8th time i wake up restart pc and it repeats step 2 then repeats step 4,5,6 after i try to turn it off and on because the number doesnt move after 15 minutes... maybe some xbox 360's are not meant to get modded... i have also tried new sata cables, new pc, new os and everything like that. i even did textbooks tutorial and the same things happens on the same part. after doing this so much i know my serial number, and the dosflash r 6c00 1 a0 1 4 c:orig.bin 0 ( i even tried 1 sometimes and still doesnt work.) ( i have about 3 computers i tried it on and i know all of the ports on each of them!) "Prop your 360 faceplate like it was on the 360, and turn on the 360 for 5 seconds, if it doesn’t begin reading, turn it off for 5 seconds, then turn it on and repeat until it reads the firmware, might take 5+ tries" does it suppose to take 26+ tries? i have been doing this for 2 hours straight... pressing the button.. pressing off button... pressing on button... reset pc when takes over 15 mins.... turn off button... heck, i even placed a game in the 360... after that didnt work i placed a movie... placing a move got me to step 2 ( the number moved to another number and stays there forever no matter how many times i turn off or on the 360) I DID IT!!!!!! ok .. here it goes... I am throughly convinced now that ipep and dosflash16 utilize port 1 ONLY! Got my new pci sata from newegg the rosewill rc-212 and left the jumpers at factory. Removed my other sata card completely from windows booting into safe mode. Then rebooted the machine. Did a shut down and installed the new sata card. Started the machine and let xp do it's thing. Then it prompted me to reboot because of the new hard ware install. (winxp installed drivers at this point) After rebooting i checked the driver (ver. 5.1.6000.562) I let it go and tried it. I re-booted from the usb, i used iprep to make it, and followed the textbook 2008 example. The cable was plugged into the port 1 of the sata card and as soon as i ran the command (dben 0536313 75007) and hit the enter key and followed the prompts... it did exactly that.. it read, erased, and wrote the firmware back and fully tested with Devil May Cry 4. Sorry Venomous, but i already had the usb key made... but i truly believe that your tut would have worked perfectly as well. This has been a very interesting problem and it did really piss me off at times, but that is in the past now Good Luck out there!

02-27-2008, 11:10 PM	#55
Venomous Fire Novice	Textbook 2008 is a great tut if you cannot get DosFlash to work. I have never had issues with DosFlash, and Ive never heard of people having issues until this thread. But yea, glad you finally got it working..Im almost 100% convinced people who are having trouble with it are not plugging in their 360 into Port 1, which apparently was your problem as well. But anwhoo is still there on the tut as a whole

02-28-2008, 11:00 AM	#57
Venomous Fire Novice	Odds are you were skipping a step somewhere when you were trying multiple times and you didnt realize it. When you got a fresh start you did the step you skipped or fixed the typo without knowing, glad you got it fixed

03-24-2008, 08:01 PM	#58
BxMods 7S Enthusiast	im confused on which sata card to get from tigerdirect.com can someone point me in a direction thnk you in advance!

03-24-2008, 09:20 PM	#59
Venomous Fire Novice	VIA VT6421 SATA Serial ATA RAID PCI Card For PC Xbox360 - eBay (item 360034987318 end time Mar-24-08 19:45:00 PDT) I searched Tigerdirect and didnt find one. Ebay works fine and that one ends in 1.5 hours

03-24-2008, 10:02 PM	#60
combatburt Premium Member	Hey does the benq only have one version of firmware so far? Or have they updated it?

Thread Tools
Show Printable Version Email this Page
Display Modes
Linear Mode Switch to Hybrid Mode Switch to Threaded Mode

How to flash a BenQ Xbox 360

This is a discussion about How to flash a BenQ Xbox 360 within the Firmware Hack Tutorials section, where you will Learn how to mod your Xbox 360's firmware to play your burned back up games. Ask your questions here if you are having trouble.; You port is E800....you are trying to use port ECD0....