Benq + ICH9 HELP

[kandiman]

Is it possible to flash ixtreme firmware using onboard ICH9R sata?

I have 2 controllers in device manager as the below pic illustrates which one do i use and which is the primary?

I also tried dosflash 16, i got to this part Do you want to resend the command until drive responds (Y/N) press Y and plug the power cable back into the drive. The drive kept on toggling between 0x51 and 0xD1 constantly, can't pass this stage  :uhh:



Any help would be awesome =D

[Arakon]

you can't do the power plug thing since you don't have a via chipset. use dosflash 1.6 beta to unlock benq drives on other chipsets.
as for the sata, it doesn't matter.

[kandiman]

thanks for the reply, would there be a tutorial to use dosflash 1.6?

[kandiman]

after doing some research finally flashed the benq firmware on ICH9 controller, very easy i read this thread, and followed these steps using dosflash 32 1.6 and setting my sata ports to Legacy mode =)

http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=659942

1. disable any secondary SATA/IDE controller in bios and make sure primary sata(ports 0-1) are set to legacy (NOT native). Unplug any drives or devices from your sata/ide except your primary C: drive (just in case!) All this is to make sure dosflash32 can only see your Benq to make things simpler.
2. plug in your benq to Sata-0
3. unzip the dosflash32 folder. Also have the ixtreme 1.41 folder of your choice unzipped and handy ( I opted for 12x)
4. Turn on your 360, wait 5 seconds.....then double click dosflash32.exe. If you start dosflash too quickly, you wont get the unlock option. If everything is fine between your drive and dosflash, it will shoot you a "MTK Vendor Intro failed....because there seems to be a BenQ VAD6038 drive connected....do you want to send the magic28 command"
5. Click YES. dosflash will pause briefly and shoot you a "MTK Vendor Intro failed...Do you want to resend command until drive responds?"
6. Click NO. At this point the drive will have been detected, unlocked, and available for read/write. Make sure the Manu and Device ID have values other than 0x00. Mine showed as 0xC2 and 0x11.
7. Click the "read flash" button and name the file "orig.bin"
8. Copy "orig.bin" to ..\Benq iXtreme v1.41\12x or the folder that corresponds to the speed you chose and double click Make iXtreme firmware.cmd in that folder to create the hacked ix14.bin.
9. back in dosflash, change flashing task to write and click the "write flash" button. Point it to your "ix14.bin"
10. It will erase banks 1.2.3.4 then write banks 1.2.3.4. the whole operation takes around 8 seconds. After you see "success" wait a moment and turn off the 360.
11. restart system and reenable anything you switched off in the bios and plug your drives back in if you followed step 1

[The Black]

Thank you very much kandiman. I've been doing all sorts of crap for the whole day, trying to flash benq from DOS and in the end
succeeded with dosflash32 in 5 minutes by your instructions.

ICH10, MB is Gigabyte ep45-ds3p

btw I flashed drive with dosflash32 1.7 which recognized drive right away so I guess steps 5 and 6 are obsolete.