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Noob trying to flash xbox 360, just a couple of questions for you guys
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jaydee24
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11. September 2008 @ 00:04 |
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Okay how you guys doin, i'm new to the whole flashing thing and i really want this to work, now i have the samsung toshiba drive ts-h943, i have the firmware version m25. okay my question is can i flash the drive without actually booting in dos, or can i just boot up my computer as usual and just do the the flash with iprep 101, i'm confused i mean couldn't i just go into run and go to command prompt if i needed to use dos, and another thing i have a question on is my sata chipset, how do i know if my motherboard is compatible to do the flashing, i have a evga nforce 590 sli, and i have to hard drives connected via sata, i am going to disconnect my music and movie hard drive and connect my 360 drive when i get the sata cable tomorrow. one more thing i am confused about in iprep when you plug in your 360 will your computer pick it up and will it show in iprep? please help me out guys i just really want this to work, i can't afford these games and i would love to just burn them. please help me, thanks alot
Frank Dizzle
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11. September 2008 @ 08:23 |
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Download Textbook's pdf on how to flash the 360. Get it from http://www.360mods.net/
That will tell you what you need and how to do it.
Don't deviate from it, otherwise you'll brick it.
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jaydee24
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11. September 2008 @ 14:32 |
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Originally posted by guessswho:
Download Textbook's pdf on how to flash the 360. Get it from http://www.360mods.net/
That will tell you what you need and how to do it.
Don't deviate from it, otherwise you'll brick it.
Thats what i did, i'm not really understanding it too well. i got the textbook pdf but it is confusing
Frank Dizzle
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11. September 2008 @ 15:18 |
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Find the drive you're using in the guide. It covers every drive to date besides the new "unflashable" lite-on drive. From my brief glance at the Samsung section (I've flashed a Benq and Hitachi, never a Samsung) it appears you need to use the iPrep method which means the use of a thumb drive (do NOT use a floppy and the hard drive method is a pain in the neck) and yes, booting the thumb drive through dos. You sound like you haven't actually read the textbook so for god's sake save yourself a lot of money and read the damn book (at least the entire section on Samsung drives) once then start over and follow the instructions to the letter while you're flashing your drive. As for your motherboard, I think you'll be ok because the textbook does clear nforce chipsets as being compatible with flashing drives, however take my advice and use your #4 SATA port first and if that one doesn't work go to #3, #2, #1. It took my a long time on my first drive because only SATA port #4 would work for flashing my drive. You won't be a "noob" so much once you've read everything you need to read and if you do still feel like one, don't even try this because you'll probably just brick your drive and hate yourself for it.
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jaydee24
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11. September 2008 @ 16:22 |
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Originally posted by adambar:
Find the drive you're using in the guide. It covers every drive to date besides the new "unflashable" lite-on drive. From my brief glance at the Samsung section (I've flashed a Benq and Hitachi, never a Samsung) it appears you need to use the iPrep method which means the use of a thumb drive (do NOT use a floppy and the hard drive method is a pain in the neck) and yes, booting the thumb drive through dos. You sound like you haven't actually read the textbook so for god's sake save yourself a lot of money and read the damn book (at least the entire section on Samsung drives) once then start over and follow the instructions to the letter while you're flashing your drive. As for your motherboard, I think you'll be ok because the textbook does clear nforce chipsets as being compatible with flashing drives, however take my advice and use your #4 SATA port first and if that one doesn't work go to #3, #2, #1. It took my a long time on my first drive because only SATA port #4 would work for flashing my drive. You won't be a "noob" so much once you've read everything you need to read and if you do still feel like one, don't even try this because you'll probably just brick your drive and hate yourself for it.
okay i'm gonna just print this ish out and read it, so why shouldn't i use a floppy? i guess i got thumb drives i can use though.
Frank Dizzle
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12. September 2008 @ 02:30 |
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You don't use a floppy because of the error rate of floppies. Essentially, they have the highest error rate of any medium and that means your drive has the highest probability of being corrupted by a bad flash. Read the textbook, I'm pretty sure it has all that info in there.
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12. September 2008 @ 07:41 |
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when you plug your 360 into the sata port of your computer, it's not like there is some plug and play thing that will pop up. Follow the guide, it will tell you when you should plug it in, but the program will not give you any indication that it is in, until it starts attempting to read from it where the program would then either succeed or fail.
And yeah, use the thumb drive. You can't flash from within windows using iprep. Iprep is a program that prepares your flashdrive to be a bootable device that can flash the 360 drive. The flash drive is the best/easiest way, just go with that
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jaydee24
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12. September 2008 @ 16:32 |
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Originally posted by guessswho:
when you plug your 360 into the sata port of your computer, it's not like there is some plug and play thing that will pop up. Follow the guide, it will tell you when you should plug it in, but the program will not give you any indication that it is in, until it starts attempting to read from it where the program would then either succeed or fail.
And yeah, use the thumb drive. You can't flash from within windows using iprep. Iprep is a program that prepares your flashdrive to be a bootable device that can flash the 360 drive. The flash drive is the best/easiest way, just go with that
Okay i got alittle further, the iprep software i had was old thats why i was getting the errors, but is there some reason why mtk flash is not reading the sata ports its only picking up the ide primary master and slave? man this is hard as hell. how do you guys get this so easily
Frank Dizzle
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jaydee24
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12. September 2008 @ 22:27 |
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Name Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller
Manufacturer (Standard IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers)
Status OK
PNP Device ID PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_036E&SUBSYS_0D06105B&REV_A1\3&2411E6FE&0&60
I/O Port 0x0000F000-0x0000F00F
Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\pciide.sys (6.0.6000.16386, 13.10 KB (13,416 bytes), 11/2/2006 3:51 AM)
Name ATA Channel 0
Manufacturer (Standard IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers)
Status OK
PNP Device ID PCIIDE\IDECHANNEL\4&CFD58D9&0&0
I/O Port 0x000001F0-0x000001F7
I/O Port 0x000003F6-0x000003F6
IRQ Channel IRQ 14
Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\atapi.sys (6.0.6000.16386, 18.60 KB (19,048 bytes), 11/2/2006 3:51 AM)
Name ATA Channel 1
Manufacturer (Standard IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers)
Status OK
PNP Device ID PCIIDE\IDECHANNEL\4&CFD58D9&0&1
I/O Port 0x00000170-0x00000177
I/O Port 0x00000376-0x00000376
IRQ Channel IRQ 15
Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\atapi.sys (6.0.6000.16386, 18.60 KB (19,048 bytes), 11/2/2006 3:51 AM)
Name NVIDIA MCP55 Serial ATA Controller
Manufacturer NVIDIA Corporation
Status OK
PNP Device ID PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_037F&SUBSYS_0D06105B&REV_A2\3&2411E6FE&0&68
I/O Port 0x000009F0-0x000009F7
I/O Port 0x00000BF0-0x00000BF3
I/O Port 0x00000970-0x00000977
I/O Port 0x00000B70-0x00000B73
I/O Port 0x0000DC00-0x0000DC0F
Memory Address 0xDFFFD000-0xDFFFDFFF
IRQ Channel IRQ 21
Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\nvata.sys (5.10.2600.654, 97.50 KB (99,840 bytes), 9/8/2008 11:45 PM)
Name NVIDIA MCP55 Serial ATA Controller
Manufacturer NVIDIA Corporation
Status OK
PNP Device ID PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_037F&SUBSYS_0D06105B&REV_A2\3&2411E6FE&0&69
I/O Port 0x000009E0-0x000009E7
I/O Port 0x00000BE0-0x00000BE3
I/O Port 0x00000960-0x00000967
I/O Port 0x00000B60-0x00000B63
I/O Port 0x0000C800-0x0000C80F
Memory Address 0xDFFFC000-0xDFFFCFFF
IRQ Channel IRQ 22
Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\nvata.sys (5.10.2600.654, 97.50 KB (99,840 bytes), 9/8/2008 11:45 PM)
Name NVIDIA MCP55 Serial ATA Controller
Manufacturer NVIDIA Corporation
Status OK
PNP Device ID PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_037F&SUBSYS_0D06105B&REV_A2\3&2411E6FE&0&6A
I/O Port 0x0000C400-0x0000C407
I/O Port 0x0000C000-0x0000C003
I/O Port 0x0000BC00-0x0000BC07
I/O Port 0x0000B800-0x0000B803
I/O Port 0x0000B400-0x0000B40F
Memory Address 0xDFFFB000-0xDFFFBFFF
IRQ Channel IRQ 23
Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\nvata.sys (5.10.2600.654, 97.50 KB (99,840 bytes), 9/8/2008 11:45 PM)
so do i need to hex edit this, i heard thats what you have to do if the mtk flash doesn't acknowledge your sata ports
Frank Dizzle
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jaydee24
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14. September 2008 @ 15:19 |
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well i know people probably stopped checkin in here, i did get it flashed, i got an opportunity to talk to the guy textbook, he actually made that tutorial "flashing xbox 360 for noobs" turns out i needed dos flash instead of mtk flash. but its all good now.
Frank Dizzle
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