Originally posted by WJ99: I have the CK3 Pro and Probe, on order. I have SATA ports on my machine, and it's more than likely able to do what I need.
Obviously obtain the key and flash it. I have all the manuals about flashing the drive. Looked through them but don't have the VIA card
Here is my chipset. Please help!
I've posted this on Xbox-scene, and no one has helped. This is the only part I don't get?
Not quite for sure if ICH9 will be able to flash or not. Your best bet is to get the VIA 6421 sata card. They are cheap and they get the job done. Looks like from other topics of this same question, most drives don't work with your chipset.
You can flash the drive with any chipset... I did mine with Nforce 6.
As long as you can dump the key by USB or Serial using the CK3 with Probe, you will be able to flash it as long as the chipset is SATA.
I'm sure i've seen people doing it. Problem is i'm following the step by step guide. It's the 'Noob one to flash a Lite-on drive with a Via card' or something like that.
on there it says about removing drivers and installing others for the sata card? So i'm really fudged. Is there another guide around for the CK3 Pro and Probe, without the SATA card?
most any sata will work these days. there was a time when only the via would flash sammy's. worst case scenario is just try it. I have had mixed results. My via 8237 motherboard gave me fits, installed a sata 6521a (or whatever its called_)pci card and still gave me fits. I then built a "nForce" based 730 chipset computer and have had much success. it still locks sometimes with hitachi's or with jungle flasher but works much better than the via shit. The "remove native sata drivers" may be a phenomenom. I have the same success rate with or without them. In my particular case if you try to use Iprep as a back out plan and you don't have native sata drivers you are fucked unless you use dosflash in "manual mode".Gets tricky. My suggestion is first try without native sata drivers and only portio32 installed (must have usb drivers though). If that doesn't work then try with native sata installed. Beware, some versions of the "self installer" for portio32 are wrong. Probally not by design but from getting slinged all over the web. I used a checksum utility and found 3 different versions of portio32.exe. Goodluck.
Originally posted by bd911: most any sata will work these days. there was a time when only the via would flash sammy's. worst case scenario is just try it. I have had mixed results. My via 8237 motherboard gave me fits, installed a sata 6521a (or whatever its called_)pci card and still gave me fits. I then built a "nForce" based 730 chipset computer and have had much success. it still locks sometimes with hitachi's or with jungle flasher but works much better than the via shit. The "remove native sata drivers" may be a phenomenom. I have the same success rate with or without them. In my particular case if you try to use Iprep as a back out plan and you don't have native sata drivers you are fucked unless you use dosflash in "manual mode".Gets tricky. My suggestion is first try without native sata drivers and only portio32 installed (must have usb drivers though). If that doesn't work then try with native sata installed. Beware, some versions of the "self installer" for portio32 are wrong. Probally not by design but from getting slinged all over the web. I used a checksum utility and found 3 different versions of portio32.exe. Goodluck.
lovely stuff. I'm going to just remove the sata drivers I have in place, and follow the Team Xecuter tutorial word for word. Whats the bit that most people get wrong?
