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Building your own Lite On probe - guide with pictures
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24. May 2009 @ 04:22 |
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nevermind. I figured it out XD
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no_name1
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28. May 2009 @ 12:02 |
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hi, hm, how can i test if my thing is correctly setted up before trying it on.
i bought this transistor at radioshack [url=http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2062610][/url]
would this one work? or do i have to buy exactly the one in the tutorial.
i got my 5V power from the FLOPPY connector, you can actually remove the cable from the white thing then just clipped it to there. (RED CABLE is 5V Black is Ground, Orange is 12v DONT USE ORANGE)
i connected it to the back, clipped the power and turn on the pc, i get a measurement of -.99 V on my tip that goes to the drive. i checked my cables in multimeter to see if they were misplaced but they were correct, why do i get -.99v??
am i suppose to get a NEG or POS measurement, also whats the measurement that should be at the tip (that goes to the drive)
this is my cable that i made..
LOL PIC PENDING, had to put my cam to charge.
in the mean time can you guys tell me if that transistor that i used is good? and the measurements for the tip.
i used 1/4W resistors 1k for power and 10k for tip
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no_name1
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28. May 2009 @ 12:53 |
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this is my work of art lol, why is it not working? what am i doing wrong.
when i use dvdkey32 i get BAD data serial or something like that, then extract aborted.
in red letters.
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no_name1
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28. May 2009 @ 21:02 |
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okay, i got it, had to change my NPN transistor to the one in tut, mine wasnt the one, extracted keys flawlessly =)
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luvsan
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31. May 2009 @ 01:47 |
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This works and it works great and i really thank the uploader i spent the 30 dollars i saved on dual layer disks.
and not to bring a old thread to life for simple thankyou.
I had a problem i CHECKED everything the cables the solder work hell i thought i broke the transister anyways my problem was i soldered too far on the pins and they didn't stick in the serial port casing far enough to make the connection so i took that off and stuck them straight onto the pins on the back of the computer took me a day to figure that simple part out after replacing everything once or twice.
I also scraped at the pinhole with a needle until you could see copper in my non working delerium another revision i used a small saftey pin don't know how the pen spring worked since i didn't have it working at that point.
also I may be retarded with the multimeter but my red molex was showing around 10 volts and it still worked fine.
one last thing is i had two com ports and didn't know which was which you can match the IRQ's you should be able to see what your serial port is in the bios and it should list the IRQ then match that in device manager.
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Nomadic26
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1. June 2009 @ 23:36 |
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Thanks for the great tutorial. Built the probe, with minimal experience, and dumped/flashed my Lite-On in no time.
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MadBoomah
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2. June 2009 @ 04:23 |
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Nevermind. I succeeded getting the key and flashing the drive without much effort! I wasn't opening the drive half way properly lol.
Thank you very much for this awesome guide. It's much simpler to follow than the X-scene one. :)
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POTS adjusted to 400Ohms from 496Ohms and runs everything thrown at it
If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.
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2. June 2009 @ 08:33 |
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Glad it worked for you guys.
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midway22
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4. June 2009 @ 10:50 |
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Could you guys please upload pics of your builds?
Im trying to source a transistor from some old electronics.
Anyone have any ideas on the best places to source?
thanks
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MadBoomah
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4. June 2009 @ 12:39 |
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You should be fine as long as you don't use one of the bigger power transistors (the one in the diagram a couple of posts above).
PS2 V9 with Custom Flip Top
MC Exploit
ULaunchELF 3.78
HDLoader 0.8a with 160Gb Maxtor HDD
Nintendo GameCube DOL-001
XenoGC 2.0
POTS adjusted to 400Ohms from 496Ohms and runs everything thrown at it
If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.
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midway22
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6. June 2009 @ 09:07 |
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Managed to get these desoldered off an old internal modem and walkman.
Just need to know what strength those resistors. The two at the top are exactly the same the on at the bottom next to the resistor has a green strip the others dont
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6. June 2009 @ 12:10 |
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glenc101
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7. June 2009 @ 06:30 |
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hmm can anyone help, i am getting a message saying bad serial data. I have tried everything i could find in forums from different ways of getting the drive to half closed to changing sata ports. The transistor i used is this one http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2062610, after seeing the specs on the one linked in the tut i am guessing its to big. Can anyone confirm before i redo my probe? Any help is much appreciated
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midway22
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7. June 2009 @ 06:36 |
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Thanks for the advice i went online and searched for codes.
I scrapped those resistors as they were incorrect. Desoldered some off an ancient top loader VCR we had in the garage.
10k = brown black orange gold
1k = brown black red gold
My transistors is a 2N so it should all work
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dabull69
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7. June 2009 @ 23:16 |
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hey great tut. i just recently jumped into drive flashing and have long been in the modding scene. i was just wondering you think it would be possible to just take apart the dsub to usb adapter and wire it directly to the conections inside, eliminating the need for the dsub and housing. i have seen homemade usb probes on ebay just wondering what your guys input on the sugestion. i already have a dsub to usb adapter cost about the same as the dsub and housing so just wondering if it maybe be a better option or if its even possible.
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MadBoomah
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8. June 2009 @ 00:05 |
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Yes, it is possible, you'd have to find on the adapter where the point for pins 2 (Rx point) and 5 (GRND) of the Dsub are, find the 5V source from the USB to power up the circuit and once you have that done, you can indeed basically created a TTL to USB adapter (well, technically speaking TTL-to-RS232-to-USB lol). I'm sure they wouldn't be awfully hard to find.
So you'd connect the Colletor leg on the NPN to the Rx point on the adapter and the Emmiter leg on the Ground one while powering the 1k Resistor with a 5V point on the board itself. Sound simple enough. A multimeter should help. :)
PS2 V9 with Custom Flip Top
MC Exploit
ULaunchELF 3.78
HDLoader 0.8a with 160Gb Maxtor HDD
Nintendo GameCube DOL-001
XenoGC 2.0
POTS adjusted to 400Ohms from 496Ohms and runs everything thrown at it
If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.
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dabull69
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8. June 2009 @ 00:37 |
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cool thanks for the quick response. ive been doin sum research tryin to find a tut on making a usb probe but cant find much. from what i have come across there is some type of phone data cable that u dont need any transistors or anything u just solder a spear on the end of the wire. but i cant find any detailed description only brief refernces to the device and ive found a few on ebay. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...s%3DI%26otn%3D1 here is alink to what im talkin about.
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glenc101
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8. June 2009 @ 02:19 |
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well i figured my problem, make sure you use the correct transistor and that it's not cooked
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midway22
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8. June 2009 @ 03:58 |
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I hooked mine up and the hyper term test gets back nothing. Took a volt meter to test and look like my transistor is also cooked. Could of been damaged from heat during soldering
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midway22
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8. June 2009 @ 06:36 |
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Ok im glad to say my transistor was at fault. Hooked it up and tested it in hyper terminal and got random text showing up :)
thanks
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glenc101
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8. June 2009 @ 14:55 |
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nice glad to hear it, transistors seem to cause most of the problems, im sure i cooked mine when i had to solder it 3 times. yup no pro here lol.
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MadBoomah
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8. June 2009 @ 16:54 |
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I think you're referring to something like this: http://www.hvwtech.com/products_view.asp?ProductID=409
I'm not sure it's usable with any of the key extracting software out there, but you can do something similar with your adapter right now, just a bit of work if you ask me. Most solutions I've ran into do go through an RS232 interface though so I the picture might just not be showing the complete thing...
PS2 V9 with Custom Flip Top
MC Exploit
ULaunchELF 3.78
HDLoader 0.8a with 160Gb Maxtor HDD
Nintendo GameCube DOL-001
XenoGC 2.0
POTS adjusted to 400Ohms from 496Ohms and runs everything thrown at it
If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.
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mkicy
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10. June 2009 @ 09:25 |
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hey i made an account just to say thanks heaps, had no idea wtf that diagram on xs meant until i had actually made it using your guide which turned out to be a great success.
keep up the good work
once again, thanks alot :)
Hitachi drives - flashed
Samsung drives - flashed
BenQ drives - flashed
Liteon drives - finally.. flashed with a homemade probe :)
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AfterDawn Addict
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10. June 2009 @ 10:28 |
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Congrats.
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dabull69
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11. June 2009 @ 23:21 |
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ok so i still am not gettin this thing to work i went to radio shack and got all the parts that were on ur list put them together exactly how it said and then tried it in JF and i kept gettin the error bad serial data. well i am using a usb to serial adapter just a generic cord i bought off ebay so i thought maybe that was the issue. so i went and found my driver disc for it and updated to the latest pl-2303 driver and still every time i plug in the usb to serial it says usb device not recongized. so then in a desperation attempt i hooked it up directly to the com port header on my MB on pins 2 and 5 and still got bad serial data. does anyone know where i am goin wrong??? i tested it with a multi meter and got 5v n my power line and 3 on the probe line is that right??? or how should i go about testing to find my mistake other than using it in JF.
thanks a bunch in advance
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