Flashing Benq with JF quick questions and help

[mgpilot]

Hello everyone, I want to flash my 360 benq drive (ix v1.3 currently) again since Wave 3 games wont play. Now ive read a few tutorials and looked through this website for help but i still am unsure of what im about to do....so here goes:

ok since the FW on my drive is 1.3 currently i dont need to do the half-open tray step right? as i understand this procedure only applies to drives with FW 1.5 or greater

so based on the assumption above being correct ...all i have to do is just connect the drive via SATA (no connectivity kit required i assume), open JF, MTK flash tab, and click on "Benq UnLock" then on to the reading and writing which i understand for now. Please correct me if im wrong in the above writing and thank you for your help!

[stuzza]

i would sujest you thoroughly read some of the great tuts that are on here before proceding man, because one wrong key press and your doomed lol ther are a few good tuts out there namely the gofree one, dead simple when you have read that one you do need a connectivity kit the xecuter v3 kit works well with optional spear to get key if its a lite on and you dont previously have the backed up files from where you flashed before hope this has made sence much love stu pot

[CoFree]

i dont need to do the half-open tray step right?

that is just a way that has been found to get the drive in debug mode

you should not use jungle flasher with a via chipset
imo. it can and will cause a lot of problems if you dont have your pc set up perfect

i would reflash it with iprep
you would do it just like it was stock and never been flashed

[hyperdrive]

I agree with Cofree if you have the option of booting from USB then try and familiarise yourself with iPrep, its pretty fail-safe.

But you are correct in what you written above regarding JungleFlasher

As per my previous thread, I had a verification error using JungleFlasher twice with 2 seperate Benq's, both worked

viewtopic.php?f=63&t=5690

The benq unlock button "should" work first time, if not give it a second then give it another try, on one of the benq's I had it took three attempts (This drive was a Stock unmodified Drive), I had another that had iXtreme 1.41 unlocked first time,

The steps I took


* Turn off all power

* Check your VIA chipset card is installed correctly

* Take apart the box

* Hook up the PC>Xbox using the Sata, I sat my xbox next to the PC case touching in order to earth it, unsure if that is needed but I did just incase

* Boot PC

* Turn on your xbox

* Run JungleFlasher

* Find your sata port listing the PBDS VAD Drive

* Press Benq unlock

* It should automatically do the vendor intro, and say drive in vendor mode

* Press Read.



Then move to the Firmtool Tab



* Automatically/Manually load your iXtreme 1.6.bin

* It will spoof your key from the Read process to the Target file you open up

* Double, Triple and then again check that the drive key at the top matches the bottom one and has no repeat 77's or anything that looks repetitive. it should be a 16 Byte Hex Number

* At the top of JF, save your key to a file

* Next to the Target iXtreme, press the button to save to file, save your CFW to your desktop or an easily accessable location

Go back to MTKFlash

* Some suggest you should erase before writing, this is not what I done, I just continued and pressed "Write"

* It then erased the 4 banks, and writes the 4 new banks of modified firmware

* I had JF come back after watching it successfully writing saying "Write Verify Failed"

* Not wanting to be stuck in vendor mode and having to mess about with the tray, I continued to press Outro/Reset



I have repeated this same process with 2 boxes both successful flashes.

Hope this helps you affirm that you are on the right track mate.

Good luck, and let us know how you get on.