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360 flashing with a via 6421 sata card and a ms28 rom need help if possible!!!!!
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resifreak
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14. November 2007 @ 06:44 |
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hello ive got a oldish prem with a ms28 dvd drive the 360 is open on my floor and im tryin to flash it and im sorry if these questions have been answered elsewhere just ive tryed the main guide thats sticked and im having trouble with the part where u have to boot into dos and then open the drive up for flashing.
im following the 10 second rule and im using 5.2 extreme firmware A if that helps but i cant get past this little problem and i was wondering if i was doing anything wrong im booting the 360 when i switch my pc on and im switching it off when i think im supposed to and im using a via 6421A that i got so any ideas what im doing wrong im gettin the xtreme firmware option in mtkflash but its doing my head in any direct answer would be appriated cus im losing the will lol but thanks guys any help would be nice and sorry if i annoy anyone by postin g yet another firmware flashing problem :(
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14. November 2007 @ 14:28 |
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These were the steps that I made:
Turn on both PC and 360 on at same time (have SATA Plugged in the SATA Card, NOT THE 360 yet)
When booting into DOS, you can then plug the SATA into the back of the 360!
get to the Directory where IPREP is, and do idump 123456 12345 (where 123456 12345 is the Serial Number on your 360)
It should bring up your Drives that are connected and one should say Xtreme (that is the 360!)!
Turn off your 360 Now, and then press the number that is next to the Xtreme Drive!
Wait 10 Seconds...
Turn on after 10 seconds and it should start dumping your Firmware! When it's done it should say to Reboot the PC!
You have successfully dumped the Original Firmware!
Now to Flash the Drive with the Hacked Firmware, you do the same process, only when you get to where you type in iDump, you type in iFlash instead!
Follow the same process and it should Flash it!
Hope this helps!
This was using the iXtreme Firmware, which is what I recommend you use! The newest one for the ms28 is the iXtreme Firmware 1.3
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 14. November 2007 @ 14:29
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resifreak
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14. November 2007 @ 15:04 |
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ok i will try that but ive been using xtreme firmware dumper cus ive tryed iprep but all it does is say there is no firmware select im really confused my psp wasnt this hard lol but ill try that as soon as i get chance and let u know would u recommend me using iprep then? why cant any of this be done in windows ......
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14. November 2007 @ 15:07 |
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http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/464269
Follow this tutorial. Don't worry about the unspported fw message. After you format your bootdisk, delete everything on it except for te mtkflash.exe and the mtkflash.typ files
Then follow the rest of the tutorial.
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resifreak
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14. November 2007 @ 15:17 |
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ok ill try that to been on it allday just annoying me now but all i keep gettin is a device 400/ a0 in dos thats it after ive select the devide i want to use is that normal?
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resifreak
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14. November 2007 @ 16:32 |
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thanks for the imput guys but im still stuck everything i do just ends up with the same problem :( any ideas what im doing wrong?
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Bonovox40
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14. November 2007 @ 17:15 |
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If it's compatible with your mobo and drive (not sure with the ms28), try using dosflash16 from the 1.3 beta version. It identifies, reads/erases/writes and does all the dirty work pretty much automatically. Worked for me after I made a proper win98 boot disk with the dosflash files on it.
I had the 360 plugged into a sata port at all times and it worked. I'd be kinda careful about hot plugging anything in while the PC is turned on, seems kinda risky. I did disconnect all the IDE devices and sata hard drive power cables just so the PC would only detect the 360 drive when I was ready to read/flash. Worked fine and didn't take long at all.
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resifreak
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14. November 2007 @ 18:03 |
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col ill try that tomorrow sorry about all the questions but thansk for the replys just never done anything like this b4
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varnull
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14. November 2007 @ 18:19 |
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I'm waiting for parts but.. the timing on the 10 second trick is variable.. anywhere between 4-20 seconds.
From what I have been reading any firmware later than 5.0 is locked, and on a samsung with ms28 the idump and iflash apparently won't work.. it must be mtkflash..
The issue I have is a drive that is giving all the bad flash symptoms after reading the firmware !! that shouldn't happen, so if using the 0800 mode disk watch out.
I would advise if possible booting from a usb drive rather than unreliable floppies.
Should have more info later in the week when the required parts finally arrive.
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resifreak
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14. November 2007 @ 18:54 |
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im still stuck ive tryed mtkflash with a floppy and a 128 mb usb stick and i still dont get any further :( only half the time iu get the drive to pick up in DOS ive tryed using dosflash i think ive tryed everything and its probley the timing method thats stoppin it from working but i sat there for 2 hours trying it and it just sits at 400 instead of counting up to 400, ive read all the tuts as well and im doing what they say i just cant do it :(
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14. November 2007 @ 19:25 |
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Look man, boot to DOS with the 360 turned on and the SATA cable plugged into the first SATA port on the 6421. This port is the one that's the furthest away from the holder plate.
When you boot into dos type
mtkflash r /m /sata orig.bin
Hit Enter and when you see xtreme primary turn the 360 off. Select "xtreme primary" and count to ten then turn the 360 back on. It will then read the firmware.
You do the same with reflashing except the command is
mtkflash w /m /sata *hacked.bin*
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14. November 2007 @ 19:43 |
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Originally posted by PS2Menace:
Look man, boot to DOS with the 360 turned on and the SATA cable plugged into the first SATA port on the 6421. This port is the one that's the furthest away from the holder plate.
When you boot into dos type
mtkflash r /m /sata orig.bin
Hit Enter and when you see xtreme primary turn the 360 off. Select "xtreme primary" and count to ten then turn the 360 back on. It will then read the firmware.
You do the same with reflashing except the command is
mtkflash w /m /sata *hacked.bin*
Couldnt get much easier than that!! works for me everytime.
xX Shinnster Xx
ub5crew
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ryanmcf
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14. November 2007 @ 23:39 |
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heres my prob. 1st time flashing a samsung ms28. I used IPREP did the idump part (10sec) everything checked out ok. i rebooted pc then did the iflash (10sec) everything said ok then i turned off 360 and rebooted. I hooked 360 back up and put in retail copy of over g flighters. tried to load for a bit then said OPEN TRAY. So i tried a backed up copy of a game it also got OPEN TRAY. Any ideas whats wrong? heres the card i used
http://tekgems.com/Products/la-pci22-vt6421a.htm
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