Hit a wall so to speak. *flashing problem*

[CoFree]

man
i just dont know else i can do.
wait for sadalius.

do you know the dvd drive was working right before.
before you took the dvd drive out was the 360 playing games ,movies and what every with not problems.

[sadalius]

When you tried flashing your brothers, did it show the signs of mode-b, two presses to eject and two presses to close and showing up in windows or did it behave like your drive?

[FunkyMonk]

man
i just dont know else i can do.
wait for sadalius.

do you know the dvd drive was working right before.
before you took the dvd drive out was the 360 playing games ,movies and what every with not problems.

Ya, works perfect. I've played games and everything since trying to flash it.

When you tried flashing your brothers, did it show the signs of mode-b, two presses to eject and two presses to close and showing up in windows or did it behave like your drive?

The very same thing. Identical. I've never had the two presses for eject though. I've had the flashing power led, and the drive opening itself up after closing(which i read on the Textbook 2008 guide to be a sign of mode-b too).

[sadalius]

Yeah, that is a sign of mode-b, but it should take two presses of eject to open it. Then if you only pressed eject once, it would close but then re-open by itself. If you pressed it two time, it should close and stay closed.

Anywho. I'm convinced that there is something going on with the communication between your computer and your drive. I just don't know what.

[FunkyMonk]

If you pressed it two time, it should close and stay closed.

I could never tell, because my close button doesn't work properly, i was just putting my hand to it to close it, and it would pop back out.

[sadalius]

Only thing I can think of at the moment is maybe try a connectivity kit. That would take the 360 completely out of the picture and with having a pre-59 hitachi, the mode-b button would for sure get the drive into mode-b (not that I think getting mode-b is the problem). And you would be able to reliably test mode-b with the eject button on the connectivity kit. That and try a computer with the VIA sata chipset.

[FunkyMonk]

That and try a computer with the VIA sata chipset.

Yeah, its all been with a via-sata chipset, one of these http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.7598" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Going to just wait for the connectivity kit to arrive so you've a few days peace at least and then i'll be wrecking your heads again if it stil doesn't work.

[sadalius]

Not to worry, it won't leave my head until you say that it's either resolved, or that you've given up on it. I'm not that way. When someone has an ongoing problem, I try to look around and see what I can fins, ask for advice, etc so I can try and be of some help to them. So you might get a post from me with a suggestion while your waiting on your CK kit

[FunkyMonk]

Not to worry, it won't leave my head until you say that it's either resolved, or that you've given up on it. I'm not that way. When someone has an ongoing problem, I try to look around and see what I can fins, ask for advice, etc so I can try and be of some help to them. So you might get a post from me with a suggestion while your waiting on your CK kit

Thats what i like to hear, hehe!

[themusicsoulchild]

funky monk please try this.... it worked for me....

get drive in mode b ... using slax . when closing tray push button once then manually close tray .... reeboot windows

then when in windows open tray put in game or dvd, same process click button once then close manually once drv is registered take out dvd/game.

then same again click once and manually close tray....

now got to i xtreme1.4 folder open double click on flash ix drv letter, then x8,then 4letters of your choice .. hope this works.....

yours sincerely noooooob!

[FunkyMonk]

funky monk please try this.... it worked for me....

get drive in mode b ... using slax . when closing tray push button once then manually close tray .... reeboot windows

then when in windows open tray put in game or dvd, same process click button once then close manually once drv is registered take out dvd/game.

then same again click once and manually close tray....

now got to i xtreme1.4 folder open double click on flash ix drv letter, then x8,then 4letters of your choice .. hope this works.....

yours sincerely noooooob!

Cheers. Willing to try anything i suppose?

[FunkyMonk]

funky monk please try this.... it worked for me....

get drive in mode b ... using slax . when closing tray push button once then manually close tray .... reeboot windows

then when in windows open tray put in game or dvd, same process click button once then close manually once drv is registered take out dvd/game.

then same again click once and manually close tray....

now got to i xtreme1.4 folder open double click on flash ix drv letter, then x8,then 4letters of your choice .. hope this works.....

yours sincerely noooooob!

Gave this a go/. Still no joy unfortuantely. When i clicked and ran "flashix.bat" and ran it as administrator and put in drive letter, drive speed and selected the four random numbers and pressed enter, i get an "access is denied" message.

[CoFree]

are you running the flash from the desktop.

if not move the firmware to the desktop and run the flash bat from there.

[themusicsoulchild]

make sure you place your xtreme1.4 firmware folder on the desktop ........ really important i got that message when it could not find my folder......

so at least its looking for the software to flash and that your gettin past the hang up stage!

BY THE WAY GO GATORS ALL THE WAY!!!!!

[FunkyMonk]

Right, i have my connectivity kit and "x360usb". Is there a guide round here some place that will show me how to set it up correctly? Thanks.