So are you saying that you have the old/origional drive (and/or the firmware chip) ?...if so PM me, I can dump the firmware off it as I have an external programmer

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I corrupted a flash on a Samsung drive deliberatelly 3 times myself (all on the same drive) - once because the floppy was bad, second time because I pulled the floppy out deliberatelly and the third time I deliberatelly turned off the computer half way flashing (afer I had the key of course)...and I was able to flash new fw to it fine using a VIA card and the "bad flash" method (10 second trick...whatever you want to call it - bearing in mind that you odn't actually have to wait 10 seconds)

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Thanks very much I will take a read of them later (at school at the moment) - cheers


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I *think* my key on this BenQ is at B030...at a quick glance (it is exact right size and has the normal things before it FF etc), if anyone needs help with dumping there BenQ or wants there BenQ dumped (software) I can help

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Yeah I thought there was a problem too, but in fact there is not it just takes along time to dump each bank (say around a minute) - maybe Schrtom could incorporate some kind of progess bar liek mtkflash did (e.g 79%...80%)...there is a total of four banks.  But it shows up like this:

Bank 0....OK
Bank 1....OK
Bank 2....OK
Bank 3....OK

Also I was using a floppy wich would probably take longer

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1. Get TMF's tutorial you can find it here:
2. Choose either method 1 or 2 (I choose method 1, method 2 seems easier (not for n00bs) but after taking away the glue I noticed the the pins on the fw chip look very small and weak)
3. Download Dosflash 1.2 by Schrtom you can find it here: (http://rapidshare.com/files/54510344/DosFlash_V1.2Beta.exe.html)
4. Extract the files and put them onto a floppy disk/usb/whatever
5. Set your computer to boot the floppy/usb/whatever before any other drive
6. Once the floppy/usb/whatever has loaded "A:\", type in "dosflash" (without quotes) BUT do NOT hit enter
7. Make sure your SATA cord is plugged in, your 360 plugged in, and your switch set to "OFF"
8. Turn on the 360 and when ready (not immediatelly wait at least a second) flick it to the on position
9. Hit enter !  The drive should show up under option number 4 (if it doesn't power off the 360 and go back to step 6) with some other stuff and you should see "MX25xxxxxx"
10. Press 4 and enter, press R and press enter, type "orig.bin" (without quotes) and press enter - wait until all 3 banks have been read ("Bank 0....OK 1, 2, 3)

--If you can't get your drive to show up after many tries and your sure everything is 100% correct, start at step 6 but use the command "dosflash r yourportnumber 1 A0 1 4 A:\orig.bin" (without quotes) - example of this command would be "dosflash r 14B0 1 A0 1 4 A:\orig.bin" (without quotes)

Congradulations you have just backed up your BenQ's firmware !!  (Then the tricky part comes of finding the key...but that's another tutorial  comming soon )

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Me too, I know it is possible...what we have to do is geta bunch of different firmwares wich are already spoofed and ready to inject our personal key into (or a new fw toolbox would be nice :p - i know you guys are workign hard)

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Your trick was the first thing I tried...problem solved with Dosflash 1.2 thanks so much guys gotta go to school now but i'll report back later

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Oh man thanks soooo much, I will try it out now before I go to school...I had both those problems hopefully they are fixed !!

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EDIT: problem solved with Dosflash 1.2 thanks so much guys gotta go to school now but i'll report back later

thanks that looks like quite a good tutorial i'd like to see it in English (after you have translated it if it needs a bit of cleaning up I could help)

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oh I see, well you haven't done anything wrong at all so far everything you have done is alright/correct...if I was you I would flash it with 47 firmware (although I am quite sure 46 and 47 firmware is *almost* the same)...get some 47 firmware, inject your key and also spoof it as a 47 then flash that

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Better yet....do what i've done, clean ALL components free of dust, take off the heat sinks and throughly clean them (and the CPU and GPU heat spreaders), replace the thermal paste with AS5...dissemble the whole box including the plastic, pull out the metal cage and cut away the metal in the area of the fan, put everything back in, up the fan to 12v then screw everything up....then see if you have problems from there

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You will need a compatible chipset...in your case there isn't much you can do although you can try a SATA > USB adapter I have read that certain ones work...

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Hi everyone, I have a little problem here - I have a BenQ drive (VAD6038 - 64930C / August 07) that I just can't dump...I am using Method 1 according to TMF's tutorial, my switch and soldering are all perfect and fine (as when I flick the switch one way and power on the 360 I get e65...when I flick the switch the other way and turn the 360 on it boots normal - so no problem there)...when I try dumping it in DOS (with DOSFLASH 1.1 Beta) no matter how many times I try I get error messages - if I try "dosflash" (follow TMF's procedure) I get something on number 4 but everything is all zero's and MTK Intro Failed....if I try the manual command - dosflash r 14B0 1 A0 1 4 A:\orig.bin i get MTK Vendor Intro Failed , I read Schtrom said that the "MTK Vendor Intro Failed" message means the flash is still in protected mode , I have tried all different timmings and tried for hours to dump it but still nothing   If I try mtkflash (which I know dose NOT work) it detects the drive as Xtreme Primary Master.  I have ordered another card from eBay as I suspect my card is the problem (until I re-flowed it today and re did all the solder joints I would have to try for ages before it detected any Samsungs) - my card has 1 E-SATA port and 1 Internal SATA port, chipset is VIA 6421A (new card coming has 2 Internal Ports and 1 E-SATA I believe...a while ago I ran a sort of test with a bunch of people with the same chipset and different cards and we all tried to get our Hitachi's into modeB using the latest Slax...only 2 of us could do it yet we all had the same chipset)...I have also tried in Windows, numerous times and for along time with Dosflash 32 - it detects the drive VAD6038 - 64930C but when I press read it says "No known flash chip on this port" yet it is the same port for the card that I use and if I try any other port it does not detect anything...any help would be appreciated (i'm thinking it's the card), thanks for reading this !!

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I think the drive may already be bricked as it ejects when in modeB (when in Windows) but not when it's NOT in modeB...or there is something wrong with the firmware....how you would go about flashing - it's harder on a Hitachi because you have to flash specific sectors.  To find out which specific sectors you have to flash you'll have to do a lot of reading here (unless you have a programmer like me then you don't need the specific strings : p) - so so far i'm assuming the first thing you tried was inserting your key into your Hitachi (as your post says)...how did you go about doing that (and every other thing after that) ??

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bang bang :p i'm rick james - if you want to know how your violating the TOS and what exact rule your breaking...then read the TOS haha what Arakon said was exactly right and ...as it says in ALL the firmware releases
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Flashing it with 47 firmware won't kill it (and you also have your key I assume, so you have nothing to loose)...if you had a 46 previously and you are going to be using 47 firmware, spoof it to 46 firmware and inject your key - then go about hacking it etc

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Arakon is right, all this stuff is just bull$#!t made up buy salesman and other people who know etc etc...as for this
Microsoft are taking there own action against the offenders - ****not forgetting that the offenders are violating M$'ses TOA**** which seems to be the big thing certain people miss and jump to "i'm going to sue them because xxx" - it takes 2 to tango, don't do anything wrong then you have no reason to feel scared or get busted for anything

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No don't glue that, it's fine like that - that won't cause problems with it not being able to detect/read the disk

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Right, I believe you have absolutely no idea what you are doing...mtkflash is for Samsung drives only - if you have inserted the wrong key into your Hitachi it should still eject, but not play any games what so ever - which leads me to believe you have done something wrong to the firmware and also have the wrong key, read and read

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