Flashin BenQ HELP NEEDED!!!!!!

[Mi4_Hitman]

Okay, I'm following textbook's tutorial and I'm at the stage where you have to read the 360 firmware. It says to turn the 360 on and wait 2 seconds, and it should toggle between 0x51 n 0xD1, and then when you turn the 360 off, it should go to 0xD1 and stay. What happens to me is that it toggles between 0xD1 and 0x51, but when I turn my 360 off it goes to 0xD2 instead of 0xD1. Then, when I turn it on again it starts toggling between 0xD2 and 0x52, instead of going to 0x73, and the light on my 360 starts blinking, but is still green. I'm extremely confused, so can anyone help me?

[Venomous Fire]

Try using the tutorial I wrote in the firmware hacking section

[Abolfazl]

I was talking to textbook on irc::::
[19:23] <@Textbook> the last time I seen that, the person was using an Intel controller..
[19:23] <+Bijan> Solution?
[19:23] <@caster420> buy a via
[19:24] <@Textbook> why not get him in here instead of playing telephone?
[19:42] <@Textbook> if I had to guess from first glance though, that's what I would say .. he didn't notice that he needs VIA / NForce
[19:42] <@Textbook> and that tutorial in your forums (7S) is wrong
[19:43] <@Textbook> he listed all dosflash-compatible chipsets .. even though in the readme it says "the following are not related to soft-flashing"
[19:43] <@Textbook> those chipsets will work, but not without soldering (vcc method)
[19:43] <@caster420> yeah... Big misconception
[19:44] <@caster420> I think I have one to add to the list though, ULi

The Channel is #360mods.net on EFNet

[Mi4_Hitman]

Quote: Originally Posted by Venomous Fire

Try using the tutorial I wrote in the firmware hacking section

I used both tutorials and it does that same thing.

[Abolfazl]

Quote: Originally Posted by Mi4_Hitman

I used both tutorials and it does that same thing.

Did you look at my post? Flashin BenQ HELP NEEDED!!!!!!
That should answer it

[Mi4_Hitman]

Yeah, I did, and this is the chipset that I used: Customer Reviews Of SYBA SY-VIA-150 PCI SATA / IDE Combo Controller Card, Non Raid - Retail

If you go to about the 6th post someone tells that it's perfect for flashing BenQ.

[Abolfazl]

Go on #360mods.net and ask Textbook

[Venomous Fire]

I wish textbook would just read, or talk to me before bashing my tut based off one simple mistake.....

People whine and complain to me all the time because of not having the right chipset, so I jut copy/pasted out of the readme, and what do you know, I dont have people asking me anymore because een though the list is there, they get the VIA chipset.... Its sort of a round about way of saying "buy this one"

But if it makes him cry over it like that I guess Ill remove it and direct all the stupid questions I get straight to him


BTW, my tut is in no way wrong, my tut was first, and works 100% every time if followed perfect

Quote:

make sure to Turn RAID support OFF in your bios settings or DOS will freeze while turning the 360 on while in DOS... DO this by going to your BIOS Settings go to Controller Settings or something like that...All Bios's are different... then Go to SATA and change it From RAID to IDE if you have it...

and thats from the same review, make sure you did that

[DBlackbeard]

To any one that has the flashing 0x051 0xD1 problem, I believe its got to do with the chipset. Fortunitely theres an easy solution! Heres it is:

- connect a separate power supply unit to the BenQ, don't turn it on yet (can be XBOX360 or
Xecuter Connectivity Kit)
- don't use the Xecuter Kit to power the drive with the same psu as your computer, cause we
need to power the drive off and on during soft flashing
- cold reboot or reset the computer
- turn on the BenQ psu when you are in Windows XP
- start DosFlash32
- DosFlash32 will ask you if you wanna resend the mtk vendor intro cmd, press Yes
- turn off the BenQ psu and wait 2 or more seconds
- turn on the BenQ psu, the DosFlash32 dialog should show up
- the flash should be recognized by DosFlash32
- If it asks if you would like 'Magic 28', say yes.
- you can now read, write or erase the flash
- you should be able to do the flashing more than one time in Windows, only do the power
off/on trick again
- if the ports are scanned there is the possibility that you'll get the resend question for
other drives like a NEC, this is because the NEC has no MTK chip and returns a bad status,
if you know the NEC is at that port you should press No and press Yes only if the port of
the BenQ is shown or simply disconnect the NEC

Thanks to afterdawn