flashing phillips/benq drive

[daqid]

i have a philips/ benq drive and i seen the tutorials on how to flash the benq drive and very great videos but i was wondering when you say benq, does those just apply to benq drives or does that also apply to the phillips/benq drives. i've googled and seen the product stickers that have just benq and some (mine) that has philips/benq on them?

[CoFree]

there is a lite-on
that is a benq
the benq (only is a vda6038)

the other will have lite-on on it
but
it will be small writing.

[daqid]

thanks for the quick reply i installed my via chipset and opened my xbox and want to go ahead and get this done with so i can close my xbox back up. i just took this picture my phillips/benq drive sticker. so i just use the benq tutorial right?

[iamwatt]

yeap. . .

viewtopic.php?f=195&t=3557

[Backslash]

Or you can follow this guide for JungleFlasher.

viewtopic.php?f=197&t=3724

[daqid]

once thanks again for the quick reply. one more question(s), i have iprep v008 8 installed already but where do i get the firmware. xbins.org has a lot of files and i don't know which one to pick. will that be all i need? whats the whole ixtreme 1.5 thing, do i need that too? is jungle flasher easier?

[Backslash]

JungleFlasher can be easier for some but for others its worse.. stick to what you know and love, so that would probably be iPrep. For xbins just go to Firmware > Hacked Firmware > BenQ VAD6038 > BenQ_iXtreme_v1.51-FINAL. Also grab the ixdef from there also its for iPrep. When unraring the ixdef, put it in iPrep resources.

[daqid]

thanks i will let yall know the verdict when i get done.

[iamwatt]

Or you can follow this guide for JungleFlasher.[/url]

lol! i see what you push. . . ima push iPrep. . .

battle of the flashers. . . lol!

[Backslash]

I only suggest it because it works great for me. iPrep is solid but rebooting PC every flash is getting old.

[CoFree]

if he is using a via chipset
there is no question it is best to use the iprep
to flash with

[daqid]

if anyone happen to be on at this time, i need help. i followed the benq flash video provided by cofree (great video by the way) i saved my files and booted back into xp and saved the backups like the video said, i re watched the video before continuing making sure i did everything right and i noticed that i didn't get the unlock drive prompt. the whole turn off the drive open it half way, etc. after i picked the drive, it went straight to the read/write prompt. i'm not using a connectivity kit my xbox is powering the drive, could that be the reason? is not getting that prompt a problem? should i continue?

[iamwatt]

not necessarily, i remember seeing that some other guys that flashed their benq drive said they never got that prompt and the drive flashed no problem. . . as long as your key is good, you should be good to go

[daqid]

i went ahead and tried to flash it but when i type in BenCFW.bin i get file not present error, then it goes back to A:\>. any idea why its doing that?

[louisM92]

Try the re-flashing process again but type in ben_cfw.bin not bencfw.bin, that MIGHT be the problem