Need help flashing my drive

[Ricerider]

I've been trying to figure this nonsense out for 2 days now.

I have an older 360 with a samsung-toshiba ms25
I used iprep to get up a usb flash boot
it detects the drive.. sorta.

I do the dSam command, select the drive but then it says "Port:d800, master/slave:a0" and pauses and does nothing.
When i try to control c to end process i get the error "No SAM-OFW.bin Found"

This is where i thought i bricked it. So i burned a enable800 dvd. getting no reaction from the dvd usage.

it just stops at Port:d800, master/slave:a0.

Any tips would be awesome.

[CoFree]

when you made your iprep flash drive did it give you any errors

you say is detects the drive. does it give you "xtreme pri master" that is the drive.

[Ricerider]

i got no errors. and it does detect xtreme sec master.. not pri

[CoFree]

whenyou start up your computer to boot on the flash are all your other drives unhooked

[Ricerider]

yes.. everything is unhooked... it only shows xtreme sec master
when i hook everything back to normal, i check the flash drive and in backups i find SAM-CFW.bin does this mean it dumped that?

[Jman 31]

Are you flashing off you mother board or of a via card?

[Ricerider]

using a usb drive through a motherboard. Using a Asus P5k-e

[CoFree]

well thats the first thing i would say
get this card.
http://tekgems.com/Products/la-pci22-vt6421a.htm

[lilrevuk]

i think I'm gonna add that link to my sig...

[Ricerider]

ok.. ordered the via card. didn't realize that my mobo was one of those that would need it. couldn't find it in any lists.

Will bother you guys in a week when i get it and try again.

[CoFree]

even though some have got on board sata to work most can not.
the card it the best bet.

no problem man
if you need help just post.

[parminder]

hey mate i have the same make board asus p5k not e thought but they both have same raid chipset which is jmicron. i tried flashing my benq and it did not work. so you need the card cofree is talking about. if you are based in uk then this is the website to get it from

http://svp.co.uk/product/via_vt6421a_sa ... _card_5617

the other thing you can try is changing the sata port because when i tried flashing benq with via vt6421a it did not work but then i used the other port and it recoginsed it. try this and see if it works

[MsK]

the other thing you can try is changing the sata port because when i tried flashing benq with via vt6421a it did not work but then i used the other port and it recoginsed it. try this and see if it works

Predominantly it's the internal port on the card - usually the one closest to the front of the card

[parminder]

yeh that's rite

[Ricerider]

I don't really understand the difference between Samsung ms25 and "benq" .. i am pretty sure my dvd is a samsung ms25.. cuz it says so on the device. whats benq?