hi, ran into problems with flashing my benq with iprep008

[flamethrower]

wooooooooooooooooooooo

reformatted and tried again... firmtool just finished running!!

right, reboot and check now

[CoFree]

you only loaded that one firmware benq 1.5 right

man you are close
i would not start mess around with the batch file
they work fine.

just take your time
dont get in a hurry and brick that drive.

[CoFree]

now man
this is going to hurt (im sorry)
but
i would not try to flash that drive from the floppy
if you have to fine
but

i would go back to work on booting up on a usb flash.

make sure to keep a copy of that backup folder that is on your floppy now.
that is like gold if it has the good key in it.

[flamethrower]

i got the backup file now

i hear what you are saying, but i do not think there is any other way if it wont boot off the usb

i will try it once more tho, just to be sure!

watch this space!!

[sadalius]

There is a img file that you can download from xbox-scene.com that you burn to a CD. It has all the flashing tools on it including dosflash and it will let you put the firmware on your hard drive. You might try tracking that down and giving that a try.

[flamethrower]

this is really doing my head in... now i checked the FW

tried fben ....

got the same disk space error.. and it wont flash it due to the file not being present!

so i am gonna try to flash it with jungle flasher in windows seeing as i now have the custom and orig FW

[dalecheesy]

What have i missed? If its just a problem with booting to dos you could use an ms-dos startup floppy and when it says A:\ type in B:\ to change the destination to your usb stick (or whatever your usb is) and continue as normal.

[flamethrower]

this is a joke man

now JF hangs when doing the intro/device ID

[dalecheesy]

Have you disconnected any other devices attached to your motherboard, hard drives, dvd roms etc? and installed the io drivers

[flamethrower]

when in windows everything is undone apart from the hdd

[CoFree]

man
this jumping all over the damn place is going to cause trouble.
pick one and stick with it.

[flamethrower]

redoing the usb now, will try to go via b: when booted as suggested

[dalecheesy]

If your using jungleflasher yip but if your using iprep disconnect it. especially if its a sata hd. Persevere with iprep if your using the via card

[sadalius]

Here is what I would do since you seem to be having some luck with dosflash. If your going to use a floppy, after iprep creates it and your going to use dosflash, you can delete off all the iprep bat files. Make sure that when you run iprep that you only select the benq firmware, as the others aren't needed and will take up more space on the floppy. You'd have to use jungleflasher to create your hacked firmware, but you can use dosflash to dump and then flash the drive.

[flamethrower]

to free up some space i did

del benofw.bin
copy a:\fben.bat a:\backups\xxx\xxx\benowf.bin

so it will still be there when it checks, but i hope it will now not run out of space and will be able to flash the drive