Wierd Situation With Lite-ON Drive
Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 5:34 pm
Ok So something weird happend to me today while I was flashing a brand new lite-on drive.
I got it out of the box, took off the cover and hooked it up to my pc via the a port on my motherboard. I ejected the tray, turned it off, closed the tray half way, and turned it back on. I went into JungleFlahsher. I found the drive on the right port and used my CK3 and probe to get the key, which went fine.
Now this is where the weird thing happend. I clicked on the Lite-On erase button, hit ok to the two prompts and then power-cycled the drive really quick. Everything was normal and then BAM!!! Right after it went into 0x73 status, it IMMEDIATELY sent an Outro Vendor for some reason. At that point the drive seemed like it was bricked. It would not eject, would not close, nothing.
This had never happened before. All the lite-ons ive done in the past been fine. So i tried to unbrick the drive using cofree's video, but I came across another post which told me to just connect the drive to the pc, and send another Intro vendor, and I should be able to flash it. The first time i tried it, it didnt work, but the 2nd time I tried it, it did work. I was able to flash it ok and it came back just fine.
I found this REALLY weird and I have no idea why this happend. My PC has an ASUS P5QL Pro Mother board and I just gave it a reformat yesturday. I have flashed a Sammy, and a Benq after this reformat and BEFORE this lite-on and everything was as normal. The only other thing I can think of is that I dont have a video card driver installed but I dont see how that would affect the flashing. My pc also has the VIA Sata PCI card installed, with the driver taken out and portIO installed.
I thought id just share this and maybe see if anyone has any insight into this?
I got it out of the box, took off the cover and hooked it up to my pc via the a port on my motherboard. I ejected the tray, turned it off, closed the tray half way, and turned it back on. I went into JungleFlahsher. I found the drive on the right port and used my CK3 and probe to get the key, which went fine.
Now this is where the weird thing happend. I clicked on the Lite-On erase button, hit ok to the two prompts and then power-cycled the drive really quick. Everything was normal and then BAM!!! Right after it went into 0x73 status, it IMMEDIATELY sent an Outro Vendor for some reason. At that point the drive seemed like it was bricked. It would not eject, would not close, nothing.
This had never happened before. All the lite-ons ive done in the past been fine. So i tried to unbrick the drive using cofree's video, but I came across another post which told me to just connect the drive to the pc, and send another Intro vendor, and I should be able to flash it. The first time i tried it, it didnt work, but the 2nd time I tried it, it did work. I was able to flash it ok and it came back just fine.
I found this REALLY weird and I have no idea why this happend. My PC has an ASUS P5QL Pro Mother board and I just gave it a reformat yesturday. I have flashed a Sammy, and a Benq after this reformat and BEFORE this lite-on and everything was as normal. The only other thing I can think of is that I dont have a video card driver installed but I dont see how that would affect the flashing. My pc also has the VIA Sata PCI card installed, with the driver taken out and portIO installed.
I thought id just share this and maybe see if anyone has any insight into this?