Help - DG-16D2S 7485OC - will not extract key

[nffc4eva]

First of all, congrats on all the research and tutorials on this site, as a fellow resident of Nottingham it's nice to see a site keeping the Robin Hood mentality alive

Anyways, back to my situation....

Hi, I am totally new to flashing drives, the first one I had I bought pre-modded. However, with the news of 3 separate updates of iXtreme in the past year and the new Wave 4 games coming out I decided to learn how to flash drives myself so that I can update them myself. However, after a full day trying to flash a drive today I'm at my wits end, I really have tried everything, different SATA ports on the VIA 6421 card I have, different methods of extracting the key e.g. iprep and JFlasher and simply cannot get the key off the drive.

Here's my setup




The setup when flashing:


Problems with the software:
In Jungleflasher, every time I try to extract the key it either freezes as it's trying to extract the key (I waited 15 minutes holding the probe in the 707 hole and it still did nothing), or it says that there is no drive present and then doesn't show my drive connected to that port any more.

The process I have been doing is to connect everything up SATA cable + Power to the drive (with everything connected to the CK3 as normal). Then I turn on the power, eject the tray, turn off the power, push it in half-way, turn the power back on. Then boot up JFlasher. I have tried putting the SATA cable in at the last moment to see if that does the trick, but that just crashes my computer.

Screenshots of what happens:
When I click VIA only, I get this

Loads up and recognises everything fine..Then after trying to extract the key I get this:




(Have also tried it without clicking VIA only and still the same). In fact after trying to read the key it will no longer recognise the drive.

In iPrep, it simply says there is an error that I need to check I have connected the ports correctly while it attempts to dump the key. I follow all the instructions in iPrep as shown in the tutorial videos on here, and cannot get past the dump stage.



I believe it is a problem with my connection, but have tried every SATA port on the card and still no luck. I have even tried every port on the card with the drivers installed and without the drivers installed. Still I get the same result. I don't think it's a faulty card as it does recognise the drive when I first boot it up, it's just after I click extract key that the drive disappears.

The card I'm using (has three SATA ports and have tried all three):




Possible solution? I have a Dell Precision 380 Computer which has 4 onboard SATA ports. One is occupied by my HDD but the others are free. I'm not sure whether they have VIA chipsets, is there a way of checking? I tried running a google search for the serial number on the chip and have tried finding out through a user manual, but no luck. I have also tried pluggin my Lite-On drive into these ports and they aren't recognised by any of the software and I cannot find them in device manager to point iPrep to them.

Pic:


BTW after trying all these different methods I have now checked the drive and it boots up original games fine, so haven't bricked it AFAIK.

Please help, I would appreciate any input... (Oh and excuse the mess and the length of the post)

[sadalius]

If you think the issue is sata related, I would try the onboard ports. You have to make sure that your on the right port though. Since JF recognized the drive initially through the sata card, I would tend to think that it may be a serial (com) port problem. Also check to make sure that you've got the CK3 setup on the proper com port as this will cause problems with what you are seeing as well.

[nffc4eva]

If you think the issue is sata related, I would try the onboard ports. You have to make sure that your on the right port though. Since JF recognized the drive initially through the sata card, I would tend to think that it may be a serial (com) port problem.

Hi sadalius, thanks for the response.

I can't seem to find those onboard SATA ports in Device Manager and they do not show up in JFlasher.

I'm using a serial r232 connection, so is on COM1 (the only serial connection I have on the computer and the only one I can select from the drop down box in JFlasher).

Also check to make sure that you've got the CK3 setup on the proper com port as this will cause problems with what you are seeing as well.

The only one I can select in JFlasher is COM1 - or is there something else I need to do?

I have an old rollerball mouse with a COM connection, may try that to test the COM port. Other than that I have a cheap USB-Serial connector I bought off eBay years ago I found in my bag of tricks , but don't have any drivers for it .

[sadalius]

You have to uncheck the VIA ports only option in JF on the DVDKey32 tab for the rest of the sata ports to show up. And yes, the serial mouse would be a good way to test your serial port too

[stutterman]

hi is it a new xbox? your is it your pre-modded one if its your pre-mod you dont need to extract the key

[nffc4eva]

Nope it's a new one manufactured Nov 2008 bought off a friend.

[stutterman]

have u uninstall the via drivers & install porti032

[nffc4eva]

have u uninstall the via drivers & install porti032

Yeah tried both with and without the drivers installed. Both did the same.

Port I032 is installed aswell.

[stutterman]

did you remove viamraid.sys from c/windows\system32/drivers

[nffc4eva]

I DID IT!!

It was the SATA card. It dumped my key perfectly when I switched to an onboard SATA port (after enabling it in BIOS this time ). I did get a write verification failed though in Jungle Flasher, but after reading a few posts in here and after testing it out with a backup it works perfectly.

Thanks for the help guys.