Robin Hoods Playground

I have a liteon 83850c July 2009 from my elite jasper. I got the CK3 VIA 6421 PCI card and power from my computer PSU. I have read a ton of tutorials and info about flashing the drive and thought I would be ok flashing with VIA and liteon in JF without the drivers installed. I was wrong, the stupid thing would freeze up on me while writing to any of the banks. The one time i got it to start to write to the 4th bank and it froze and I couldn't get out of FF80.

I made a boot usb drive and have been running l-o-eras on the sata port for the last 3 days trying the many different theories for power cycling and command running to get this back to FF72 so i can flash the drive. I feel as though this is a lost cause and I have actually managed to brick a liteon. I have the key and made a custom firmware, so I can flash the drive as soon as I get out of FF80 and back to FF72.

I've been told there are many helpful and knowledgeable people on this site, so I am coming here as a final attempt to fix this before having to spend more damn money on this project.

Just a few more bits of info. I have tried this on multiple computers with the same VIA card with no other SATA devices connected and I have also tried it on each of those computers' on board sata ports and no devices connected without any luck. this is booted from a usb into dos using l-o-eras.

Lastly, a question... The sata port with my dvd drive on it reports back FF80 as soon as it is turned on, even after I turn it off and continue to run the command I get FF80. I have to reboot the PC inorder to clear that FF80 out. And I have tried just writing to the drive even though it says FF80 but I get a no ATAPI error when running dosflash.

well man im sure you have seen this
but here is the video on doing a recover on a lite on
http://www.robinhoodsplayground.com/for ... 195&t=3226" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I did, and it did not work. I have purchased a benq on ebay and I might see if I can find someone that is willing to give this dvd drive a whack and see if they can't knock some sense in it. Anyone up for a challenge? lol

I''ll have a whack, I'm stuck on the same It would be an absolute honour to whack your drive with a hammer cos thats what i want to do with mine.

having the same problem here, nothing working so far, i'm gonna stop trying to get that status out and order a benq drive...hopefully i've extracted my key and everything right (and haven't damaged the mainboard)

I'm more worried about the bannings and stuff. I mean from the way I see it anyone that has their firmware flashed has been banned or close to it anyway.

Try this,its easier!For me it was.
http://robinhoodsplayground.com/forum/v ... 197&t=7041" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I'm trying to flash my benq drive i got from hong kong with dos flash. if there a step by step video tutorial anywhere? i'm looking for durations on the erasing and writing so i know if things are taking too long.

i'm having a hell of a time with this stupid thing though. i'm starting to think that flashing drives just isn't meant to be for me.

Don't take this the wrong way but have you had a look in the TUT section

pewp wrote:I'm trying to flash my benq drive i got from hong kong with dos flash. if there a step by step video tutorial anywhere? i'm looking for durations on the erasing and writing so i know if things are taking too long.

i'm having a hell of a time with this stupid thing though. i'm starting to think that flashing drives just isn't meant to be for me.

this is the jungleflasher tutorial

this is the iPrep tutorial