or.. they don't post so MS dont know what they do.

Hey, gentle... he DID post it a year ago 

dont have any installed at all, jungle flasher will use PortIO to communicate with the card. it works extremely well.

uninstalll your via drivers totally... Arakon has a post on it here somewhere..

put a small switch on the back of the drive... should work.

jungleflasher, maximus xtractor(now...) and the mode b button in JF, then the audio unlock. worked for me.

you could always use dosflash32 (the windows version) damned easy...

damn.

gone for the next 2 weeks... Yay.

hitachi + bad flash = brick. sorry.

easiest to get someone to remove the flash, reprogram externally and replace.

Well, if you want to do it yourself youd need:

A GOOD soldering Iron with preferably, a .8mm or smaller tip,
Some fine solder,
Either Kynar(wire wrapping wire) or some fine enameled copper wire,
an idea of what the f*** your doing.

using a scalpel blade, gently scrape back a little of the track either side of the cut, tin it and use the kynar or enamelled wire to bridge the cut. make sure you dont do it right on the edge, you need to leave a little "virgin" track either side, make it harder to lift the whole thing while your soldering.

Good luck. google for repairing a broken track

Where are you, get it to a "pro" dude, save the grief.

if you install a modchip, than yes, you can boot with an unlocked HDD, only the MS dash needs it to be locked.
If a friend has a solderless mod, put that in, lock the hdd and off u go.

Or, install the mod, and you can run the unlockable 60Gb drive, unlocked.

For some reason, your power supply is "detecting" an arc, or a short.. either way..

try another power supply.. plug your Ck into a mates machine and see if it does it
If it doesnt do it on your mates machine.. new PSU time..

use a lead with aligator clips or similar to ground the DVD with the PC case..

Try unplugging any HDD's , DVD's not being used .. just incase ur PSU aint happy,

okay... no idea WTF that was about.. however..

Not to sit and not think about this.. the MN103 spec sheet shows the presence of a full, async. serial port, but would such a bus be for SPI flash or similar, or as an external comms protocol, which, unfortunately has no use whatsoever in such an application..

 Does it do it in DOS too or only windows ??

if it only does it in windows, fo into control panel and i cant remember where,(system properties, advanced, startup and recovery or similar) but disable automatic restart on error.

try cleaning the motor, they get sticky and it may not be spinning upto full speed.

Is it possible, since the likes of CK3 and Maximus Xtractor are becoming so common, and they have a serial interface for the LiteOn, that these devices could somehow be used to aid in unbricking hitachi's with a bad flash by uploading some arbitrary code over a (does it even exist..) serial bus to enable flashing or reading of the TSOP ??

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do you mean signed to the KV as in by a hash or something, or is there any useful KV data stored in the game data ?

yup, just re-read my own post and wondered what drugs i was on - i think i'll delete so i dont have to be constantly reminded of my own stupidity.. Anyway.. sorry dude, i was nut deep so to speak in some PC stuff and my brain kinda juxtaposed the 2...

Now off to detox i think....

make sure the button hasnt broken off the board, or been physically damaged in transit,
can you press the button with a screwdiriver or pen and open it ??

if it does work, open the drive, and have a good look, compare it to another working drive if you need and see why its not reachng. something may have been bent or moved in shipping.

ive had to straighten a lid and put drawer gears back on once... anything is possible.