Ok,im one of the people who got a dead 360 cd rom drive it had xtreme firmware not sure wot version as i bought it with it in it.Im really confused on ALL the differant ways to flash my drive with recent firmware, i have a TS-H943 (MS28)i NEED a really good and easy guide to flash my 360 as this will be my first attempt at it.If anyone can get me in the right direction i would be grateful!
I had the same problem dude until i came across this. Hope it helps you too.
You will need to get a special tool though to unhook the back of the box. Some people make them, you can get one from this site http://www.modchipstore.com/Xbox-360-unl...ool-16343.html. I have used them and they deliver quite fast too.
Once the case is off then it is quite simple really, you need a spare sata port on your pc or have the executer connectivity kit. then it is just a case of hooking up the xbox drive to your pc (no other drives connected) and booting off a windows boot disk. On this disk you need to also save a program called mtk flash & the extreme firmware.
It takes about 2 mins to actually flash the firmware. The time consuming part is getting the case off.
Here's a more in depth look at things.
Things you need :
An xbox360 with a Toshiba/Samsung Drive :
A Torx 10 screwdriver
A PC with SATA connectors - but NOT the Silicon Image Sil3112 SATA chipset, these will not work (ATM?)
A Hex editor - he Firmware package
You will need a boot disk, so format a floppy disk ensuring the box that says "MS-DOS system disk" (or similar) is ticked, when this has formatted copy MTKFLASH.EXE and MTKFLASH.TYP from mtkflash183c.zip to this disk
Your xbox360 will need to be plugged in (but turned off) next to your PC
with it's DVD rom drive powered by the xbox, but connected to port 1 of the SATA on the PC
remove / disable all IDE channels except for the floppy disk and all SATA ports except port 1
make sure you have set the PC to boot from the floppy disk
turn on the PC, leave the 360 turned off for the time being, when you have a command prompt tuen the 360 on and type the following on the PC
mtkflash r backup.bin
press 1 to select SATA master
This will backup the original firmware to the disk - DO NOT LOSE OR MODIFY THIS IN ANY WAY, if you screw up you can easily restore the original firmware with this file and put the 360 back to factory
turn off the 360 and unplug the drive from the PC.
(You can use 2 different pc's to save keep disconnecting and dis connecting drives)
Plug the pc's drives back in / reenable all the applicable ide / sata channels and boot into windows
Part 3 - modifying the firmware
Each 360 DVD firmware has a unique key that marries your drive to your console, this HAS to match or the drive will not work, so we need to insert the key from your firmware into the modified firmware (which has no key).
Copy the backup.bin file from the floppy to your hard disk
Load the Hex editor then load backup.bin into it from your hard disk, the area containing your key is located at $4000-$4200 so press ctrl-G and type 4000 into the box, then click goto.
Using your mouse select everything from 4000-4200 (as pictured)
press ctrl-C
Load the file from the Xtreme_Package called xtreme.bin, press ctrl-G type 4000 into the box and click goto
Press ctrl-V this will copy your key from the backup firmware you created to the xtreme firmware ready for use on your drive
save the xtreme.bin file onto the floppy disk
Step 4 - The scary part
Connect up the 360 to the PC as before, unplug all the drives again, boot off the floppy disk and at the command prompt type
Thanx a million guys i'll give it a bash and see wot happens.If no good guess i'll be sending it back to the guy i bought it off to do it! trying to save money doin it myself... Once again thanx RM and SHINN :)
