Robin Hoods Playground

Phew! Finally got it to flash. Using dale's formula, I finally got the older version of iPrep to recognize the current 1.5 firmware, but after booting up, it couldn't even unlock the drive. So, I ended up switching to the other SATA port on my VIA PCI card. I gave Jungle Flash another try after maki...

Ahh! Brilliant! Another piece of the puzzle - I gave Jungle Flasher a try and had more or less the same problem. I can open Jungle Flasher, send the unlock key, get the Device ID, and then begin to read the firmware. Half way through reading Bank 2, the Xbox's power lite starts to blink, and Jungle ...

First - thanks for the help and sorry to be such a failure. I tried running iPrep with the SATA cable unplugged while Dos was loading up - no change. Then I tried an entirely new flash drive. No change. Then I tried using the old 6.2 version of iPrep, but even after I copied the ixDef file from v8 t...

Thanks for the suggestions! I'll try out the SATA cable business. When I try to use iPrep 101 v6 and load the iXtreme 1.5 firmware, I get a "No Valid Firmware" error message. Is there a way around this, or do I need to flash with an older firmware? Also, I've noticed something else - I bel...

I'm using A PCI verison of the VIA VT6421A to flash my BenQ drive, but not having much luck. After using iPrep 8.8, I get as far in the firmware reading process as "Reading Bank 2..." - and then nothing more. The Googles haven't found anyone else with this problem, so I'm looking for some ...