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    Default going to flash drive, need a heads up

    I have been asked to flash a 360
    i believe it has a benq drive (do the new lite-on/benq drives look identical when you eject the tray?)

    Whats the latest benq f/w these days? When i done mine i used 1.41 ixtreme f/w



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    Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee.

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    Except if you have the new lite on drive you can't flash it and probably never will be able to

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    cheers, i dont actually have the box with me but he sent me a pic of the ejected dvd drive which looks like the benq. thats why i was asking if the liteon look the same

    should be right to go
    thanks

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    what is the date code of the box?, March 2008 is suspect, April and you probably have the liteon.

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    Have a look here.


    As you can see the old flashabe Banq/Philips looks identical to the newer unflashable Benq/Lite-on when tray is opened.

    So you will have to go by the manufacture date.

    March 2008: Older flashable drive
    Mid April 2008: Nerwer unflashable

    Running the following flashed Philips/Benq drive works perferct:
    Benq: Iexteme 1.41 @ 8x
    Burn @4x using ridata dvd+r DL.

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    I thought the Ridata's were 2.4x max,unless you force it to 4x? Anyway, Verbatim +DL at 2.4x ,bit slower but cant go wrong
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    Quote Originally Posted by nsdn View Post
    Except if you have the new lite on drive you can't flash it and probably never will be able to
    Never say never.

    They said that about the Hitachi 79 - only able to be done with a passkey mod. Now able to be done by flashing only, no hardware mod required anymore

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ljay View Post
    I thought the Ridata's were 2.4x max,unless you force it to 4x? Anyway, Verbatim +DL at 2.4x ,bit slower but cant go wrong
    Nope RIDATA DVD+R DL are 8x though I have burnt all my 360 backup onto them at 4x using ImgBurn and they all worked perfectly first time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by waddpsw View Post
    Never say never.

    They said that about the Hitachi 79 - only able to be done with a passkey mod. Now able to be done by flashing only, no hardware mod required anymore

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    For one I said probably :P

    and 2, the chipset is fundamentally different in that the flash is embedded, and if you believe the patent info and if it applies to this chip then we are basically screwed.

    The hitachi 79 was able to be done for AGES before the pass key by pulling the EEPROM off the board and reading it...bit hard to do that when its embedded

    But I DID say probably :P

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    Ok - didnt know that

    Quote Originally Posted by nsdn View Post
    the chipset is fundamentally different in that the flash is embedded, and if you believe the patent info and if it applies to this chip then we are basically screwed.

    The hitachi 79 was able to be done for AGES before the pass key by pulling the EEPROM off the board and reading it...bit hard to do that when its embedded

    But I DID say probably :P

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