Need: Dos files for dosflash16

[GMSteuart]

I know dosflash16 is an older way of flashing the benq, but i cant seem to get iprep to work for me. i tried 007.3 and 005, i have not tried 006 because i believe you need vista for this?

i would just like to use dosflash 16 to flash and do everything. And the only thing i need are the dosfiles.

[CoFree]

the iprep to use is v006.2
it works best with xp.

the is a guide on flashing with dos flash here.
http://www.robinhoodsplayground.com/for ... 134&t=1769" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[GMSteuart]

yea, i just saw that tutorial earlier today, but its for dosflash32, not 16. I guess i have time to try iprep 006.2

[CoFree]

that is what i would do

[GMSteuart]

my only problem, is i always get stuck at this 0x7f when im reading, and it never changes to D1..I just tried with iprep 006.2 and thats what happened...is not suing a connectivity kit a problem? cause i can always just hit the power swith on the xbox cant i?

[sccrbrandon4788]

Did you grab a VIA6421 SATA card?

[GMSteuart]

Did you grab a VIA6421 SATA card?

yes.

[GMSteuart]

ok. this is what happened, i reconnected the sata cable to the closest port on my via card, and it started to work, and i got past the d1 and everything..YAY! BUT, it just stopped after it said, reading finished datasum = ??? and it didnt bring up the success prompt...what should i do?

[CoFree]

look in the backup folder on the flash.
see if it got a good dump of the firmware.
use firmware toolbox to open the firmware and make sure the key is good.

if you have any other sata drive hooked up firmtool will not run and build your hack firmware.
if you had anothers sata drive hooked up.unhook it/them and start over.

do not flash till you know you have a good key saved in more than one spot.

[GMSteuart]

look in the backup folder on the flash.
see if it got a good dump of the firmware.
use firmware toolbox to open the firmware and make sure the key is good.

if you have any other sata drive hooked up firmtool will not run and build your hack firmware.
if you had anothers sata drive hooked up.unhook it/them and start over.

do not flash till you know you have a good key saved in more than one spot.

what do you mean, dont flash until you know you have a good key saved in one spot?

was i supposed to save the key they give me in firmtoom? cause i didnt see that mentioned in your tut...but i do have two copies of my original fw...is that fine?

[Digital Menace]

i'm not a pro with dos16 but this way works.

i dunno if you need a whole guide but heres pretty good explanation.


alright first thing to do is boot up your Windows PC and throw in your floppy disk. Right click on the A: drive, go to format, and create a MS Boot Disk. download and extract the DosFlash16 file folder to your floppy disk.

now you should have a MS Boot disk floppy with the DosFlash16 folder in it. Now before we reboot the machine into DOS we need to grab the starting address of your SATA card. You can either get this by clicking Start -> Run -> msinfo32.exe.
Go to components, Storage, SCSI. We need the starting address of your SATA card; mine was in the first range… you will see something like 0×00007000……… write down the 7000 part, this is the starting address. Different chipsets use different ranges so you will want to look for your first.

ok now you can reboot the PC and boot into DOS using the floppy.

Make sure the 360 is TURNED OFF and plug the BENQ drive to your PC’s satas card using a sata cable.

Type cd DosFlash16 and then:
DosFlash r 7000 1 a0 1 4 A:\orig.bin 0 (where 7000 the starting addres, read above) if you have a VIA
or
DosFlash r 0970 1 a0 1 4 A:\orig.bin 1 (where 0970 the starting addres, read above) if you have a NFORCE

k get ready and read ahead before hitting Yes. What you need to do is hit yes turn ON the 360, wait 2 seconds turn it off then wait 2 seconds again and turn it back on. If you did everything right it should start reading the banks and creating your orig.bin file. If everything went OK you should see the word “OK” from all the banks. After this is done we can shut down the 360 and reboot back into Windows.

choose which speed you want and make ya firmware.

copy your orig.bin file to the directory then run FIRMTOOL.EXE.

If everything went OK you should have a benq-ix.bin file in the same directory.

Copy that binary file to your floppy disk and boot back into DOS.

Get back into the Dosflash directory and type:
DosFlash e 7000 1 a0 1 4 D8 0 (for VIA)
DosFlash e 0970 1 a0 1 4 D8 1 (For NFORCE)

You may need to do the same procedure as the read, but after I hit yes it started to erase right away. You DO NOT need to erase, but its good to know how to do incase you mess up the next step. Make sure the 360 is powered off before you do the write procedure.

While you are still in the DosFlash directory type:
DosFlash w 7000 1 a0 1 4 A:\benq-ix.bin 0 (for VIA)
DosFlash w 0970 1 a0 1 4 A:\benq-ix.bin 1 (For NFORCE)

Once again you may need to do the same procedure, you may not… In many forums, people suggesting to restarting after each Dosflash command.


Should work for u man.

[CoFree]

yea
the key is in the firmware.
as long as its a good key.
open it in firmware toolbox and check.
as long as its a lot of different letters and numbers then it should be ok.
if its all 00000 or ffffff.
something all the same that would be a bad key.