Possible Jungleflasher workaround

[xxTheKingxx]

If you guys get the chance read my post on my unorthodox method on flashing the liteon

[Vric]

Hi

I registered just to say thanks to all those that gives help on this forum. I was reading for few weeks before I flash my Liteon Drive, and it worked flawlessly.

This "workaround" worked for me (Via Sata Card + CK3 + Probe) all done with JungleFlasher. Worked on first try.

Thanks to CoFree for the great vids and sadalius/dalecheesy for this fix.

[technoe]

Just wanted to add that you don't have to "disable" the card in Device Manager, when you rename the viamraid.sys and restart Windows will automatically disable the driver.

[sadalius]

I just disable the card, then rename the driver, then re-enable the card so I don't have to restart windows

[Mackum]

Thanks again guys for the great tip. I was freezing after "Lite-on Erase" using JF. After following the workaround it all went smooth. THANKS AGAIN
(Via Sata Card + CK3 + Probe)

[yginesta]

I can over come the whole freezing thing and as a matter of fact I have always just went into DOS and erased it and flashed it when JF freezes. It is a lot easier for me besides when I disable the Via card with portio intalled JF will not recognize my port. and I cannot find the drive. I am only able to see it when the VIA card is enabled and with no ! sign. Any ideas?

[grandview]

so by disabling your VIA card...can i still use it as a sata plugin cause i dont have a onboard one....

[cainhunpi]

Works like a charm for lite-on's

[grandview]

this method work great...

[stick person]

Hey everyone, haven't been around in a while due to school/no time for video games. Now that I finally have some time I want to give this a try. That being said, I don't want to mess my computer up. How can I make sure everything runs smoothly? My HDD isn't running off my VIA 6421 because I got the card years after I got my puter. What could cause my PC to lock up/what should I look for before doing this? Thanks a lot.

[sadalius]

If your talking about what causes the PC to freeze while trying to do the erase on a lite-on with jungleflasher, the cause is the VIA drivers. They are programmed to poll the device. So once the drive is erased, the drivers poll the drive, of course it doesn't respond because we just erased it. BANG. PC freezes waiting for a response that never comes.

Best way to deal with it if its to where you can, just disable the driver. There is a driver that I haven't tried though thats supposed to work. Someone posted a thread about it somewhere on here. Supposed to be a third party universal driver or something like that.

[stick person]

I basically don't want to mess my computer itself up and trying to figure out how to avoid that. Id I just disable the VIA 6421 driver and rename the viamraid file like you said in the first post, any chance of messing up my PC or nah?

[sadalius]

No man, no chance of that. Worse case scenario, you would have to re-install the driver to get the card to work like normal. It doesn't mess with anything else thats not connected to the card.

[stick person]

Wonderful. I'm gonna give this a try in a little bit and I'll report back. Thanks.

[stick person]

Ah, my computer was so slow when I tried doing this (like another user reported). I did wait it out and saved the key, inquiry, identify, and dummy it made, but it said it couldn't read some drive data or something like that. So I'm just gonna use iPrep. That's another issue.

edit: This is what JF said about my dummy.bin
"dummy.bin is missing some drive specific information. If possible you should re-extract your drive info again with the latest tools... you can rebuild the serial info if you have the original drive available..."
So I guess I should do that, huh?