Robin Hoods Playground

here is what I heard........ During the Design Automation Conference, Bryan Lewis, research vice president and chief analyst at Gartner, disclosed that it all begun with a single Microsoft's decision aiming to cut design costs for their Xbox 360 graphics chip. According to Bryan Lewis, the epidemic ...

Fair comments indeed,.....Has the cause ever been agreed. I was told by an insider from MS that, rather than subcontract the design of the processor/GPU to an independent 3rd party design firm, Microsoft instead decided to design key elements in-house with inevitable results. That being the case,......

Hi,
how long does the RROD repair last for on average. My best result was 6 months after using the bolts and washer repair kit. Anyone have it last any longer?

Cheers mate

Hi, a friend got a new one of those Call of Duty, 250gig Elites last week, and it has the Jasper chip-set. The drive looks like a LiteOn..2 yellow wires and no notches on the DVD tray cutout. Anyone flashed one yet or is there anything particular to flashing these drives. Is there a tutorial availab...

Hi Haggard, thanks for thr repkly......That would comply with what I saw happen.....I sent benq unlock command and then tried to read the fw and it hung the whole pc....no mouse,nothing. I then had to reboot the pc and when I did I could see the drive and it reported vendor mode but It would not rea...

What program is used for upgrading an already flashed Benq drive,.....iprep? and is there a tutorial?
I can see a tutorial for new drives allright.

Unfortunately not.....might be able to get it though from the guy who flashed it. Im not sure it is dead though, Im getting a drive being found in JF in vendor mode and the following... Serial flash found with Status 0x73 Sending Device ID request to port 0x8400 Manufacturer ID: 0xC2 Device ID: 0x11...

Hi, I was trying to upgrade my Benq VAD6038 and I was seeing it in JF 1.66 and all. It had already been flashed (1.4 I think) and when I tried to erase it to reflash with ix161 the pc hung and now it is not showing in JF. Is there any way of recovering from this situation, or am I looking at a dead ...

Got it sorted lads, thanks for the help and the great tutorials.....its appreciated.

Thanks for the quick response folks, I thought there was a folder called "Firmware" in the .rar download. can I just add a new folder and name it manually, and then copy in the 79 fw. I have tried to dump the drive which was already flashed to 1.5 I think but now I get an error as follows ...

Hi,
I have looked in all the usual places for the above program but cant find it anywhere. The best I can get is 1.62 with FW pak. anyone got a link?

Hi Folks,
I have dumped the drive and have what is now called the OFW(oldflashedfirmware)..... Can I use the stock Hitachi 47 firmware in Jungleflasher and spoof the dumped OFW to it.

Thanks for the replies folks,....wont get to do it until tomorrow though, so will be back in touch then. Can I tell the guy its do-able though, if I get the key,and other bits ?

Hi folks, I have an Hitachi 47 which was already flashed, and the guy has not got the original firmware. Is there any way of upgrading it to 1.51, without having the original firmware. Jungle Flasher has "stock firmwares".......can these be used to restore the drive. Still a noob at this l...