DOSFLASH problem

[Ultra]

Hi,

have a problem here:

I have 2 Lite-on drives here, manufactured March 2009 & April 2009...

I have successfully extracted the dvd key from both drives through Jungle Flasher, but unfortunately both times my PC froze when Jungle Flasher was flashing the modded firmware to the drive - rendering both drives unusable...

So I am in DOS now (on my Win XP PC) trying to use DOSFLASH to erase and flash the drives, but every time I run DOSFLASH it shows me the version and creators but then I only get a blinking cursor and nothing happens...

Any advice ?

I have...

a. tried DOSFLASH 1.8 16bit version
b. tried DOSFLASH 1.7 16 bit version
c. tried DOSFLASH 1.8 32 bit version - gives me error message that it cannot be used in DOS
d. used CK3 to power drive
e. used 360 to power drive
f. disconnected ALL DRIVES (incl 360) and still I just get the blinking cursor


Also...

g. I have to manually restart my PC since ctrl+alt+del does not work anymore.

h. I am able to use lite-o-erase.exe and get the drive into FF72 status but as described DOSFLASH does not do anything

i. tried the DOSFLASH version from xbins and from this site


What should I do ?


Thanx for your help in advance !

M

[Gazcoigne]

hi dont sepair you are almost there!!

use dosflash 1.8 16bit (for dos 32 bit for windows)

perhaps you have a corrupted dosflash try downloading again?

when you get dosflash running heres the steps:-

first use l-o-erase to get status FF72

once you have status FF72 use dosflash you will see chip is empty with 0kb space

do a liteon erase in dosflash (yes repetitive i know) command liteon e

once done run dosflash again you will see the chip has 256kb free space

then write the hacked fw that you put on your bootable media before you began

Job done!!

[Ultra]

hi dont sepair you are almost there!!

use dosflash 1.8 16bit (for dos 32 bit for windows)

perhaps you have a corrupted dosflash try downloading again?

when you get dosflash running heres the steps:-

first use l-o-erase to get status FF72

once you have status FF72 use dosflash you will see chip is empty with 0kb space

do a liteon erase in dosflash (yes repetitive i know) command liteon e

once done run dosflash again you will see the chip has 256kb free space

then write the hacked fw that you put on your bootable media before you began

Job done!!

Gazcoigne,

thanx for your reply.

I know these steps (thanx for listing them again) but the problem is that DOSFLASH freezes (with a blinking cursor) once I run it in DOS...

I have tried this a hundred times with - as sated above - multiple DOSFLASH versions - and they all hang once i run them...

I don't even get any options to choose from... once I run it, it shows me the version and the creators (all in one line), then in the next line a blinking cursor and that's it...

nothing happens from there on... I have even tried - as stated above - to unplug all my drives, just to get DOSFLASH running but that did not work as well...

it just freezes...

Any idea ?

[Gazcoigne]

the only other easy way is to try another PC

sorry cant help you further as i have never had this issue always worked for me.

[zellsoft]

if it's frozen surely it wouldn't flash. Maybe it's just waiting for another command, or having trouble processing, see if ESC gets it out of it as it has for me b4, or powercycle the drive.

[Ultra]

if it's frozen surely it wouldn't flash. Maybe it's just waiting for another command, or having trouble processing, see if ESC gets it out of it as it has for me b4, or powercycle the drive.

esc and any other keyboard does not do anything - as stated not even ctrl+alt+del works...

it has nothing to do with power cycling the drive as DOSFLASH does not work not even when the drive is NOT connected...

this is really strange as l-o-eras.exe works just fine in DOS and I can get the drive into FF72 state...

really crazy question, but i'll give it a shot:

could that have anything to do with that I have a Win XP PERFORMANCE EDITION installed... I mean as far as I understand it the installation is not even a factor as I boot directly into DOS, but if it is the case then that might be the cause since the WIN XP PE has a lot of things stripped out... I assume this is not the case...

Also, I tried to run DOS with 480MB memory (through Hiren's Boot CD) - I thought maybe it was a RAM issue... did not work as well...

Help !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Ultra]

guys,

solved the problem.

As stated, when I tried to run DOSFLASH in COMMAND PROMPT under Win XP just to see if there would be any error messages (as the DOS version just freezes and does not output anything) I saw that it seemed to not be able to scan my cd/dvd drives...

figured this would be the reason why the DOS version hangs as well...

went back into DOS and this time I issued a port command when running DOSFLASH

--> "dosflash 09E0" (09E0 being my SATA port where my 360 drive was connected)

--> that finally started DOSFLASH, different then what I have seen from other people but at least I was in there...

DOSFLASH presented me with an overview of parameters and options:

Code:

CODEDOSFLASH V1.8 Build 20090808 by Geremia, Modfreakz and Kai Schtrom
Choose a Command Set (1 for Manual Mode, 2 for LiteOn Extended Mode):
DOSFLASH [R|W|E] [PORT] [PORT TYPE] [DRIVE POS] [MTK TYPE] [FLASH TYPE]
         [FLASH SIZE] [FLASH CHIP ERASE OPCODE] [FILE NAME]
         [SEND ATAPI DEVICE RESET]
                      R: Read FLASH
                      W: Write FLASH
                      E: Erase FLASH
                   PORT: Port to send command to e.g. 0970
              PORT TYPE: 0 for IDE, 1 for SATA
              DRIVE POS: A0 for Master, B0 for Slave
               MTK TYPE: 0 for 0x70 par, 1 for 0x73 ser, 2 for 0x72 ser
             FLASH TYPE: 0 for normal handling, 1 for serial SST
             FLASH SIZE: size of flash chip in number of banks
FLASH CHIP ERASE OPCODE: individual chip erase opcode command byte
                         this is only used for erasing a serial flash
              FILE NAME: name of the file to read/write from/to flash
SEND ATAPI DEVICE RESET: 0 for no, 1 for yes
All numbers are intepreted as hex values!

so I basically ran all the usual commands just with DOSFLASH I had to set additional parameters...

1. "l-o-eras 09E0" (09E0 being my sata port number)

--> second time it returned status FF72

2. power off CK3

3. type command "dosflash liteon e 09E0"

4. power on CK3

5. press ENTER

--> erasing was successful

6. power off CK3

7. type "dosflash w 09E0 1 A0 2 0 4 fw.bin 0"

--> 09E0 being your my sata port

--> fw.bin being your hacked firmware

8. power on CK3

9. press ENTER

--> flashed all 4 banks successfully and I was able to recover BOTH drives !

Hope this helps somebody who has the same problems !

Thanx to everybody who contributed !!!