An Odd Problem (BenQ Related)

[ttotheodd]

This is my first post, but I've love the site for a while.

Anyway, here's the problem: Awhile back I flashed my friends 360, a BenQ. Everything was fine with it until a couple of weeks ago when it stopped reading burned games. I burned all of the games for him on Verbatim discs. They worked flawlessly until a couple of weeks ago.

The really odd thing is that legit games work fine. He can put in a game he purchased, or watch a DVD, and he can play/watch it all day long.

Has anyone encoutentered a problem like this? Is there any way to fix it?

[commando_lee]

This is my first post, but I've love the site for a while.

Anyway, here's the problem: Awhile back I flashed my friends 360, a BenQ. Everything was fine with it until a couple of weeks ago when it stopped reading burned games. I burned all of the games for him on Verbatim discs. They worked flawlessly until a couple of weeks ago.

The really odd thing is that legit games work fine. He can put in a game he purchased, or watch a DVD, and he can play/watch it all day long.

Has anyone encoutentered a problem like this? Is there any way to fix it?

first of all you could try flashing it again with the newest firmware which is 1.51 you could try that to start

Make sure you copy the dvd key a couple times just in case something goes wrong, at least then your console can still work

[CoFree]

well you need to have v1.51 firmware if its a wave 3 game(all new games are wave 3)
if he can get any of his backups to play that would be odd
it could be the drive is having trouble.

[ttotheodd]

Yeah, he upgraded to 1.51 AFTER the drive stopped working right. Plus, he hasn't tried to play an Wave 3 games. I'm having a lot of trouble wrapping my head around why the burned ones won't work. You would think that if the drive is going down ALL games, even legit ones, would stop working.

[sadalius]

Not necessarily. These drives were never meant to read burnt disks. It's harder for them to be able to read them than it is to read an original so backups can quit working before originals. A pot tweak may help, but only for a short period of time. I would be looking for a replacement soon.

[ttotheodd]

Isn't there a way to just put a new BenQ drive in there? Are there tutorials on how to do that?

[technoe]

Yes you can replace the drive with a new one, and it doesn't have to be a benq, but benqs are notoriously easy to flash and are pretty cheap as well.

The idea works the same way as flashing your drive with custom firmware. Just flash the new drive with the key from the old drive and Ixtreme 1.51 or 1.6 which is due out any day now.

[ttotheodd]

So, he can put any old BenQ in there he wants as long as he puts the FW on it that he has now? No spoofing?

[technoe]

That's right just flash the drive, there's only one version of the benq so no spoofing required.