Flashing to iXtreme v1.4

[dontjee]

I flashed my drive to v1.3 using iPrep, and I'm planning on using iPrep to update again. Do I need reflash back to my original firmware first, or can I just flash the same way I did the first time. Thanks.

[CoFree]

you can flash right over the old v1.3
its alot like the sam drives
just do a dump that will get your key firmtool/samtool will run and build you a new hacked bin then flash.as long as you kept your orig you dont have to reboot.you can go strait to the flashing
after samtool runs just look there on the page to see the key looks good

[dontjee]

Great. Thanks for the reply.

[sccrbrandon4788]

sorry, didnt feel like starting another thread... i still have my benq-ix and orig.bin files on my flash drive, along with dosflash. you think i should just use iprep or what would you do? im afraid iprep isnt going to work for me because i've actually never used it. 5.3b i used whatever was out before iprep, and with the benq i used dosflash16... i do have the orig backed up in a few places so i can format the usb drive.

[sadalius]

iprep should work fine for you Brandon. Just go at it like its a stock drive. Just make sure that you have your stock firmware safely tucked away, but it sounds like that you do Also make sure to update your definition files. Should be able to do that through iprep though.

[sccrbrandon4788]

yeah i updated it through the program. well i'll reboot into xp and try to flash it sometime soon. hopefully it doesnt screw up

[sccrbrandon4788]

well i just tried to dump my BenQ and it wasnt working with me. i had my xbox off, typed in the command, typed yes, turned on my drive, status went right to ..x80 and then just sat there. i tried it a couple times. then i tried leaving my xbox on until it says to make sure its off, turned it off, typed y, turned it back on, it read the 4 Banks but samtool never came up. so now im going to try to make the usb drive with XP. be right back.

[sadalius]

if it read the 4 banks, look in the /backup/7digitserial/5digitserial/ folder and see if it wrote the firmware. If it did, check it with firmware toolbox. It probably didn't write it since samtool didn't come up though.

[sccrbrandon4788]

yeah i went ahead and checked it, its there and it opened in 360toolbox. bunch of random numbers and letters, so i guess it read it. i had a dual boot on my computer so i just installed the via drivers on my xp partition so i'll try it on xp and see how it goes.

[CoFree]

well i just tried to dump my BenQ and it wasnt working with me. i had my xbox off, typed in the command, typed yes, turned on my drive, status went right to ..x80 and then just sat there. i tried it a couple times. then i tried leaving my xbox on until it says to make sure its off, turned it off, typed y, turned it back on, it read the 4 Banks but samtool never came up. so now im going to try to make the usb drive with XP. be right back.

if that vista computer has a sata drive of any kind hooked up samtool WILL NOT start.you have to unhook all the sata drives

[sccrbrandon4788]

i dont have any, unless i have to unplug my IDE drives too. i havent moved up to sata hdd yet.

[sccrbrandon4788]

btw, the dump i just did matches my orig.bin... is there supposed to be 2 files under the backups folder on the flashdrive? Benq-cfw and Benq-ofw

[CoFree]

no the ide should be fine.i never undue mine

[CoFree]

there would have been if samtool would have run

[sccrbrandon4788]

well i waited a minute and the _ just blinked a couple rows below the command. well im shutting down my pc right now so i'll see what this does.