Flashing Help

[acidduck]

Hey,

So i'm trying to flash my drive for the 1st time and i've encountered a problem. After i've booted from iprep and run the software I'm at the stage where you key in your serial number, dBen 1234567 12345 etc... I do this and get an error...
"General failure writing drive c:" Abort, Retry, Fail..... I can't do anything after this error appears, I have to reboot.

Any ideas?

Cheers

[CoFree]

make sure you are usinga via6421a or L pci sata card.
http://tekgems.com/Products/la-pci22-vt6421a.htm

if you are then change to a different usb flash.
if you have a floppy that works good then try that just to see if you will get the dump.or at least get it to list xtrene pri master
then you will know it is seeing the 360 drive.

if you dump with a floppy then you have to wait after the dump
it will say reboot computer
"DONT WAIT FOR FIRMTOOL TO RUN" it will take a couple of min for this to start.
after it builds your hacked firmware then restart and check your key

[acidduck]

Would've thought my nforce chipset could do it, ordered a via now and also encountered this error in iprep when 'preparing', perhaps this has something to do with it?

[CoFree]

let me know when you get your sata card.

[acidduck]

Got the card now and still encountering the same problem

[CoFree]

ok man
the firmware loaded in iprep when you built the flash with no errors

try a different flash drive or if you have one try building it on a floppy disc.

[acidduck]

Same thing happens on a different flash drive, unfortunately havnt got a floppy drive to test out

[CoFree]

crap man just reread the tread
you get that error when you make your iprep flash right.

open iprep then go to tools the check for update.
this should update your def file.
let me know how it goes.

[acidduck]

Yeh getting that error when im preping, i'm currently up-to-date with the latest def file and no updates are available to me

[CoFree]

are you in vista if so you need to run as admin
right click on iprep run as admin

[sccrbrandon4788]

yeah that sounds like an admin error i got when i didnt run as...

[acidduck]

Running on XP I have no idea whats wrong, seems a strange thing to happen

[sccrbrandon4788]

try getting another copy of iprep. sometimes it just doesnt install right.

[acidduck]

Fixed the error by disableing the floppy disk controller, now I can get past the dben stage... Here is where I encountered another hich up - I'm stuck on Status: 0x7F I turn the 360 on and it does nothing, so im guessing its not reading the drive at all??

[lilrevuk]

correct acidduck, 0x7F means the card isn't seeing the drive, try a different PCI slot, and a different port on the card.

good to see someone else form Notts on the forum by the way...