Just fried a Liteon drive

[Han Cholo]

I've been having problems with extracting the key from a liteon recently and I thought it was just a bad drive, until I tried to flash another liteon today and got the same message about bad serial data or whatever. So I figured it was my ck3 probe.

I decided to test it with my brother-in-laws xbox, because he also has a liteon and I flashed his a month ago without incident. Needless to say I got the same message so I figured it was my probe. But just to be extra sure that it was my probe and not my connectivity kit, I tried to bridge the R707 point with a screwdriver. And I still got the same message, but just when I was removing the screwdriver, I saw a little spark.

I fried it. So just a heads up to anyone looking to bridge the R707 point with a screwdriver. It's very possible and surprisingly easy to brick your drive.

[iamwatt]

that drive still might work, and i strongly recommend iPrep. i really don't have any problems with iPrep and lite-ons, upgrades or fresh flashes. . . and i use the screw driver method, im not sure what you did because theres nothing to spark

[sadalius]

If your using jungleflasher with a lite-on thats been flashed before, using the Dummy from iXtreme button. iXtreme is setup to dump that way with jungleflasher.

As for frying that drive. I hate to hear that. I'm like iamwatt in that I don't know what would have gotten bridged over to cause it to do that.

[Han Cholo]

The only thing that I could think of is that I had the probe from the CK3 floating around while I was doing it. So I assume that's what hit something. I hooked it back up to my CK3 and I couldn't get it to open. It seems pretty dead to me. I guess the good part of the whole thing is that I backed up his original firmware the first time I flashed it, so it won't be a problem to spoof another drive into it.

[sadalius]

Just for kicks and giggles, try following the guide on recovering a lite-on after a freeze. Its in the video tutorial section. You use l-o-eras until you get ff72 and then use dosflash to flash it in.

This is worth a shot just to try.

[Han Cholo]

Cool, thanks for the advice. I'll give it a shot. Couldn't hurt.

[3Tupac]

I've been having problems with extracting the key from a liteon recently and I thought it was just a bad drive, until I tried to flash another liteon today and got the same message about bad serial data or whatever. So I figured it was my ck3 probe.

I decided to test it with my brother-in-laws xbox, because he also has a liteon and I flashed his a month ago without incident. Needless to say I got the same message so I figured it was my probe. But just to be extra sure that it was my probe and not my connectivity kit, I tried to bridge the R707 point with a screwdriver. And I still got the same message, but just when I was removing the screwdriver, I saw a little spark.

I fried it. So just a heads up to anyone looking to bridge the R707 point with a screwdriver. It's very possible and surprisingly easy to brick your drive.

did you make sure to eject your tray half way? because i thought i fired my 360xceutor until i ejected it!!!