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My Bad BenQ Flash - 1 Red light - I think good Key. Can you help?
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bethere
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8. December 2008 @ 06:07 |
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I attempted my first Benq mod. I used Iprep 1.062 and an nforce motherboard. After lots of rebooting and replugging into 1-4 SATA slots, I got the iprep program to finally see the drive and start flashing numbers. I tried the on and off thing even thought it never got to d1 and it went through all the reading Bank stuff successfully. I have a Key that looks normal. I did the FBEN and it erased and then it never wrote a thing. Now when I boot the Drive is not recognized by my PC and the FBEN just sits there. The XBOX has 1 flashing red light and won't boot. To make it worse, I had two XBOXs opened both Elites and grabbed the wrong lid and used the wrong serial number. Am I totally screwed or do I have options?
I am using a floppy because my board won't boot from USB. I do have an VIA SATA motherboard, but iprep 1 and iprep 602 give me some nasty errors trying to write to a USB token. Funny part is that it boots just fine off the USB token I created from the nforce machine. However, I should add I always get an error on iprep building the USB token, hit try again, then it writes. I tell you this in case someone thinks I should try the VIA chipset for something. At some point I will try the new Beta 8 on the VIA system and make sure I hit update on the 502.
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8. December 2008 @ 07:20 |
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you have another post of same topic
I have lost all and any respect i had for this site!
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8. December 2008 @ 11:10 |
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Yes, sorry. I thought my post was going to be too buried in the other thread, so I created a new one and added a bunch of information. If I can, I will try to delete the post from the other thread.
Sorry.
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leerock
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8. December 2008 @ 12:40 |
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for starters if you prepare iprep on one machine and try and use it on a different machine this will not work 110 % . secondly i was having problems with it working for me and i had an nforce4 mobo. would not workany time so i bought this http://www.logictoyz.com/microsoft-xbox-...a-pci-card.html
and hey presto it work for me 1st time no errors and since then i have done about 10 360 's with benq drives with no errors or what not you can get these sata cards off ebay 2 hope this helps the sata card is your best bet cause its guaranteed to work
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8. December 2008 @ 19:36 |
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Thank you for the note on the SATA card, I will look into it.
I am not trying to use it on a different system. I accidentally used the wrong serial number because I swapped the lids at some point between two Elites. I need to know if by reading the KEY using the serial number of the other box causes a problem with the original BIN that was created by iPrep. If it is a problem, I need help trying to figure out how I fix this. The iPrep did the read and erase the eeprom, but died on the write. Since I used the wrong serial number to read it can I just some how get it to write that bin back and how do I get it to write the bin back if it erased the firmware? Will that SATA card see the DVD drive even though the firmware is erased? Is there a way of force writing the firmware?
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8. December 2008 @ 20:23 |
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Oops....I did not read well. You are saying don't take the iPrep disk prepped on the NVIDIA mobo and use it on my VIA mobo. Sorry I missed that, but I can set the iPrep for VIA while prepping it. I won't do this unless I get way too desperate.
Thank you for the response.
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leerock
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9. December 2008 @ 03:58 |
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sorry mate what lid are you refering to ? is it the case off the 360's that you are talking about ie the black covers ? if so what has this got to do with flashing your drive you dont need any serial off any case to flash your drive your best bet is to buy the sata card i told you its £7 mate and it will work trust me dont be scrouge this christmas and buy the sata card and use iprep version 100.6.2.
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9. December 2008 @ 05:50 |
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the serial number you entered just creates a folder and/or sub folder. the number is just the folder name and the motherboard or drive have no idea of it. inside the folder named backup is your ofw.bin cfw.bin. These are your original and hacked respectively. You can take them out and put in cany folder you wish but that is not neccessary. I personsally would try the fbenq 1234567 12345 command but it may not work because you mentioned you got it through the erase portion but then it failed. Therefore there may not be any significant firmware on your drive. You do have an option. If you still have the bin files i mentioned above you need to open them with firmware toolbox and look for a good key and see what toolbox identifies them as. Then you can replace the drive with a replacent and flash it OR you can send me your bricked drive and the key and I will remove the flash chip and install the firmware then reinstall the flash chip. It is vital that you still have the bin files mentioned above, most importantly is the ofw.bin file.
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9. December 2008 @ 07:26 |
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I still have both original and iExtreme. I have them on floppy, hard drive, and emailed them to my gmail account :) I keep hearing that I can try and force it through MTKflash, but any advice would be helpful. Also bd911, please PM with you contact information so we can talk about the drive.
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9. December 2008 @ 13:10 |
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Hey, leerock, BTW thanks for the link to the PCI card. I actually had that card sitting in my network server but not using it because I did not have a esata drive to test it with. I will see if it works any better with the drive, but I fear with the firmware wiped it is a job for someone else.
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10. December 2008 @ 13:45 |
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To restore the original firmware bin file you need to type rben Serial #.
(Use the serial number that you used when creating the files the first time or manually fix the serial number folders on the floppy disc as stated below to use the correct serial number).
As stated above the serial # is used to create the folder directories. It is kind of a safe guard so you don't flash the wrong BIN file to the wrong XBOX 360.
You should be able to change the Serial # manually by going to the floppy disc then to the BACKUP folder and change the 7 digit # Folder to the correct 7 digit Serial # and then change the 5 digit # Folder to the correct 5 digit Serial #. Then you can use the proper serial # when using fben or rben.
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 10. December 2008 @ 13:52
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9. March 2009 @ 13:58 |
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I bought the new sata card as was suggested to me by a very smart forum poster :) I was able to push the original and updated firmware out to the drive and all works well except a continuous over heating issue I am still trying to wrap around. Thank you All! I do have a another issue. I have an Hitachi Drive 79FL that won't spin up. I swapped boards with another and the drive spins up and put the board in a working xbox and no go. Is there a way to get that Key read off the drive through an eprom reader.....I would pay someone.....and have it put into a new drive. I think I have read you can spoof another drive and make it work. Thanks!
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