Hey guys !! and NEED HELP PLEASE!

[dcmack3]

not sure if this is the right section to post for help... but id firts want to thank you cofree for those vid tutorials, they are great and they helped me flash all my drives..... now with 1.51 out i have had an issue... so far i tried updating a hitachi 47 and a 79... im using xtractor to power on and all... for the 47 hitachi it went very smooth and works perfectly now.... i recovered oldfw and did 1.51... then unpluged the 47 and tried it and it worked great.... couple min later i plugged in the 79... as soon as i plugged in all the cords to the xtractor and dvd drive and power on xtractor windows froze..??? any suggestions on why would this happen?

ps: i have my via drivers installed... i tried uninstalling like it said in the tutorail in jungleflash and installing portio but then it didnt want to read my drive at all... i was thinkin maybe install portio manually? instead of just double clickin on the icon? does that work better? PLEASE ANY HELP!

[CoFree]

man
im sorry but i have not done a v79 yet
so i cant help

one of the other guys should pick up the thread and help.

[dcmack3]

yeah thanks a lot cofree for the responce.. its a little wierd how my windows would freeze up just by switching to a 79 drive ... not sure but yeah hopefully someone can help me out...

also cofree, are you going to be making videos for updating/installin new fw on liteon/benq/sammy?

[CoFree]

im moving this to the right spot man.
360 dvd drive flashing.

[dalecheesy]

Used to have a similar problem with mine. Turned out i needed to power the drives with an external atx supply attached to the ck3 instead of one of the pc's molex connectors (my pc used to constantly reset as soon as i powered up the drive). But if you've managed to flash the 47 with the same set up that probably discounts that.

[dcmack3]

yeah i dont know this is a wierd prob.... not sure how to fix..

[stutterman]

FOR A HITACHI 79
PUT FLASHED DRIVE INTO MODE B TO DO THIS LEAVE THE TRAY OPEN THEN TURN DRIVE ON OR USE THE SLAX DISC

ONCE IN MODE B FOR 79
AND RECOGNISED IN WINDOWS AND EJECTED TRAY THROUGH WINDOWS CHECK DRIVE LETTER AND REMEMBER IT

Insert the 79 Unlock Audio CD into your Hitachi 79 DVD drive (that should already be detected in Windows).
Windows will probably display an Autorun window asking what you want to do with the disc you just inserted.

You should select to Play the Audio CD using Windows Media Player. Let the track play completely, it is about 3 seconds long. After it has finished, hit play again to start playing it again, then immediately hit pause. Hit eject on the Xbox 360 to remove the 79 Unlock Audio CD

RUN THE OPEN COMMAND HERE ON THE 79 UNLOCK FOLDER
From the command prompt, in the 79 Unlock directory, you need to type 79unlock X and hit enter. Where X is the Hitachi drive letter as recognized in Windows.

Depending on your SATA chipset, you may get a done! reply or an error. This means the drive is unlocked and can now be flashed just like a Hitachi 78 using 360 Firmware Toolbox.

Insert an original retail game or movie DVD into the Hitachi drive AND KEEP THE TRAY CLOSED, 3 PRESSES OF THE EJECT BUTTON TO KEEP CLOSED
OPEN FIRMWARE TOOLBOX 4.8
CLICK TOOLS
DIRECT DRIVE DUMP (GDR ONLY)
MAKE SURE DRIVE IS LISTED IN TOP DROP DOWN BOX (MINE IS D)
SELECT RAW DUMP FIRMWARE AS
SAVE AS (ORIGINAL) IN A FOLDER ON YOUR DESKTOP
CLICK YES TO OPEN E.C.T
THEN COPY DRIVE KEY DISPLAYED IN TOOLBOX
ALSO MAKE NOTE OF "Key information: (@[address])"
E.G (FOR HITACHI 78) 78-4b00 78-4c30 78-4d20 78-4e10
OR (FOR HITACHI 79) 79-4b00 79-4e10
THEN OPEN ONE OF THE ORIGINAL FIRMWARES THAT CORISPONDS TO YOUR "Key information: (@[address])"
THEY ARE IN THE FIRMWARE TOOLBOX 4.8 FOLDER
IN A FOLDER CALLED orig_fw
ONCE OPENED PASTE YOUR KEY INTO THE FIRMWARE YOU JUST LOADED
AND CLICK SAVE KEY
NOW CLICK ONTO TOOLS
DIRECT DRIVE FLASH (GDR ONLY)
THEN ONTO DIFERENTIAL FLASH (RESTORE)
HIT READ AND DETECT DIFFERENCES
THEN START FLASHING
DONE RESTORING





DONE RESTORING NOW ONTO REFLASHIN
DUMP THE DRIVE TO CHECK ITS RESTORED BACK TO ORIGINAL
TO DO THIS IN FIRMWARE TOOLBOX 4.8
TOOLS DIRECT DRIVE DUMP (GDR ONLY)
MAKE SURE THE DRIVE IS SELECTED FROM THE DROP DOWN BOX
RAW DUMP FIRMWARE AS
AND SAVE TO FOLDER ON DESKTOP AND NAME IT ORIGINAL
OPEN THIS IN TOOLBOX AND CHECK TO SEE IF ITS RESTORED (SHOULDNY SAY IXTREME AFTER TYPE OF FIRMWARE)
COPY THE KEY OUT OF THE DUMP ALSO (NOT REALY NEEDED AS IT WILL ASK YOU TO KEEP KEY ON DRIVE LATER)

THEN OPEN YOUR IXTREME 1.51 FIRMWARE IN TOOLBOX
MAKING SURE TO CHOOSE THE CORRECT ONE THAT MATCHES
YOUR "Key information: (@[address])" SAME AS THE ONE YOU USED TO DO THE RESTORE EARLYER
THEN PASTE YOUR KEY INTO THE KEY BOX AND CLICK SAVE KEY
THEN CLICK TOOLS – DIRECT DRIVE FLASH PATCH
MAKE SURE THE DRIVE IS SELECTED FROM THE DROP DOWN BOX
CLICK READ AND DETECT DIFFERENCES (YES TO KEEP KEYS ON DRIVE)
START FLASHING
REDUMP TO CHECK ITS FLASHED IXTREME 1.51 IF YOU WISH
FINNISHED
hope this helps

[gatorlee]

The above post is nearly identical to how I did it but you may want to try running the power from the 360 power supply and having in grounded to your computer thats how I did it.

[dcmack3]

so you think, it started freezing because i had the dvd drived closed when i first powered up with my xtractor? ... and i did try using slax but that didnt even ever give me the spinnin up disc message

[BaDNeWz]

Hey ..... I had the same freezing issue !!

I flashed a 47 Hitachi Saturday with a CK3 .... Took me 7 hours of trial and error to get the thing to work ... In the end I did the following :

Downloaded the latest Via Drivers
Remove Old Driver
Re-Installed New Driver
Went to Device Manager - Disabled New Via Driver
Plugged In The Sata Cable
Re-enabled Driver

& everything worked sweet ....No freeze, and detected drive straight away

Hope this may be of use to someone else struggling as I did


BaDNeWz