Flasing my Benq drive with iPrep

[lithius]

Hey guys, I'm following the guide I downloaded from 360mods (benq iprep006 tutorial)

I have done all the preparation work and everything seems to work fine up until the part where you do the MTK vendor intro. I hit Y to make it resend the intro, then wait 2 or more seconds (i've tried this a fair bit, waiting different times, switching it on and off) but the status never changes from the 0x80 default.

I'm using my DFI ultra-d onboard SATA which I have read works for this, as it's an Nforce 4. Is it likely that I need to buy that VIA sata card?

[CoFree]

i would say get the card
there are some that get the onboard sata to work.most bang there head in it then get the card.
have you watched the videoif not look at it it may help.
http://www.robinhoodsplayground.com/for ... =110&t=277

[kcfire]

You can try what I did. I couldn't get mine to change, so I connected the xbox and had it powered on before booting into iprep. I turned it off just before hitting "y". Turned it on again after I pressed the "y" button and it started flashing. If you can't get that to work I would recommend getting the card as Cofree suggested. Let us know how it goes.

[lithius]

Thanks guys, I was in the process of downloading your video guide last night but had one in a pdf so i just used it. I have yours now so I might give it a go. One weird thing that I noticed was that when I goto prepare my USB drive I get an error window with the title "Windows - Drive not Ready" Then it says Exception Processing Message c00000a3 Parameters 75b6f7c 4 75b6b7c 75b6b7c. With the options to Cancel, Try Again, or Continue. If I click try again it comes up with the same message, but if i continue it seems to load all the files on there fine, and I can use it to boot from fine...

[lithius]

Also I don't think I ticked "Patch MTKFlash" last night, would that make a difference?

NVIDIA nForce 4 Parallel ATA Controller would be my controller right? It just sounds like an IDE controller or something

[CoFree]

if your in vista make sure to run it as admin

i donr know what the controller would be with the nforce

[lithius]

I think the problem is with my SATA, i've read a lot of threads now about people having to use a modified MTKFLASH for the NF4 chipset, I think it's just going to be a lot easier and less frustrating for but that VIA card. Although it's $35 over here!

[CoFree]

the best price ive found is here.
im not sure where you are.
http://tekgems.com/Products/la-pci22-vt6421a.htm