A little help flashing my BenQ please....stuck on 0x7f

[Crof]

hey guys i have been running around online trying to figure out what im doing wrong but nothing seems to work. Im hoping someone here can help me out. i am attempting to flash my Benq drive. I have the rosewill 212 sata card. i DLed iprep v006 and all the latest DL's off of xbin. i watched and followed the iprep v006 tut and still am comeing up with the same issue.
the issue being
after booting off the usb stick going through all the y's and entering my xbox's serial number, i get stuck at 0x7f and i dont get the d1 or anything of the sort when i conn my sata cable and power on my drive.

any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks a lot.

[sadalius]

ok, I've basically figured out that the dosflash status code of 0x7f means that the computer does not see the benq drive. I've researched a little and found a couple different things that worked for other people.

First, when you try the on, off, on approach, and you still get 0x7f, try just turning the drive off for about 5 seconds, then turn it back on and see if it starts giving you status codes then. If it does, then you can do off, then back on to get it to read.

Second, I read one post where the person trying to flash tried it on the second sata port. For what ever reason, iprep configured his for the number 2 port instead of the first port.

Then, are you using a sata card with the via 6421 chipset?

[Crof]

hey, yea my card has a via 6421 chipset and is one of the recommended cards to use for flashing. I tried using the card in all 4 ports 2 internal and 2 external with no luck, the status stays at 0x7f. I am trying to run this through iprep v006 but was previously trying to run it through dos the longer way. using the c:\>DosFlash r (port #) 1 a0 1 4 c:\orig.bin 0 command line. I only found the new iprep today. But, when i was running it the long way what i got was the same message, except that when i pug it in and turn the system on the code switched to 0x80 and would freeze on that.
i since then updated my drivers from the cards site and goten all the new drivers off of xbin. So this being my new problem .... 0x7f.... any more ideas guys? thiis is two days of me searching with no luck now. thanks.

[Freebeer187]

I just used the rc-212 and it really is a good quality card. Try doing this:

(After installing drivers and setting up iprep)

1.boot usb
2. after u press y to accecpt, connect the sata cable from the internal port closest to the front of the pc.
follow directions and d1 should come up not problem

[CoFree]

well i would say
freebeer is right dont hook up the sata cable till the computer is on and in dos

sadalius is right the computer is not seeing the card
you say that your sata card has 4 ports(rc-212) .we will be working with the one inside and closest to the front of your computer
stay with that port till all opinions have been tryed then you will do it all over using the next sata port.ect...

try a different sata cable
try a different pci slot in your computer
try a different usb flash drive
try using the floppy

i woyld do these 4 thing at each sata port.then if you have to then on to the bad stuff

now this gets bad.
try a different sata card
try a different computer.

i would say do it just the way i do in the video.
http://www.robinhoodsplayground.com/for ... =110&t=277

[Crof]

hey guys ... yea i just sat on freebeers thread for a while followed it through and basicly tryed everything. even disconected my HD and DVD sata drives( did i need to ? dono) ok i tryed both internal ports still getting 7f no change no fun... connecting after i enter the first y... connect to 360....dben s.. y 7f.... no luck....switched sata cables.... no luck same garbage.....only think im left to try that i havnt taken a shot at is switching the pci slot.... think this could work?

and as far as the this gets bad part... you forgot to mention the if this takes me much longer + the 3 days i have been trying to do this and my comp has been laying in pieces with my xbox all over the floor. my girlfriend will hook up the seta ports to my nuts, throw the comp out the window.... and see if i fallow. =)

cheers guys gota leave ill try switching up the pci slot tomm.

[Crof]

also for the other comp i normally would be screwed but i just happen to have fixed my gf comp 2 days ago and its at my house so lastly ill try throwing the card in there and see what happens on her 5-6 yr old rig.

question... saying as i am able to boot into dos mode and all with my usb stick it cant be that rite? or should i try a diff one?

nite guys and thx again ill get back to ya tomm.

[CoFree]

even if it boot on the flash it still could be that the flash wont let the information flow in from the 360 drive.not all flashes will work(most will)
you have tried a floppy drive.

[Crof]

dont have a floppy drive didnt stick it in when built it.

[sccrbrandon4788]

check your drivers: http://www.viaarena.com/Driver/vraid_driver_v550b.zip
if you dont have these then you might want to install them. install the drivers and not the utility.

[Crof]

hey guys sry been a little preoccupied this weekend, but been having no luck with the xbox..... tried a different pci slot and still getting the 0x7f error.
Is there any way to check my card and that specific port im plugging it into without the xbox? just to check if it works fine and the card works fine and all?

[CoFree]

if you have a sata cd/dvd drive or a sata hard drive hook it up and the power.see if it works.

[Crof]

ok i installed the newest drivers online for my rosewill 212 card. it throws an icon in the toolbar saying the detected items hooked up to it. when i just put in the xbox it didnt detect it. but now i put in my dvd drive and xbox and it is detecting both. But, tryed to flash and no luck. tryed leaving it on before it and no luck.... still getting 0x7f how is it saying this (wich i asume to mean undetected) if it is aparently detecting it......? any more ideas guys? at least i know the card works now...

Questions
1- When i make the boot drive in iprep... select my card then switch to ide based ctrl.... which one in the ide ctr list do i leave it on?

2- also this is what i have in systoms storage scsi. these are my port numbers. just wondering if everything looks fine cuz when i was trying the old iprep everyone was saying the 1190 i have, is saposed to be letters not numbers.

Name VIA VT6421 RAID Controller
Manufacturer VIA Technologies, Inc.
Status OK
PNP Device ID PCI\VEN_1106&DEV_3249&SUBSYS_32491106&REV_50\4&35FAE160&0&10F0
I/O Port 0x00001190-0x0000119F
I/O Port 0x00001180-0x0000118F
I/O Port 0x00001170-0x0000117F
I/O Port 0x00001160-0x0000116F
I/O Port 0x00001140-0x0000115F
I/O Port 0x00001000-0x000010FF
IRQ Channel IRQ 18
Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\viamraid.sys (5.1.2600.310, 72.38 KB (74,112 bytes), 12/9/2007 8:08 PM)

Name SCSI/RAID Host Controller
Manufacturer (Standard mass storage controllers)
Status OK
PNP Device ID ACPI\PNPA000\4&5D18F2DF&0
I/O Port 0x0000FFE0-0x0000FFEF
IRQ Channel IRQ 9


and thx again

[Jman 31]

Are you sure you are picking up the proper sata card when you are using iprep? The drop down menu may show other sata choices if you have onboard sata (built into motherboard)

[Crof]

yep im sure im only getting 1 option for the sata card and its via vt6421 raid controller. and i know its the rite one because i dont get that when the cards not in.

updated my last post too if ya can take a look