Phillips Benq

[iliveinuk]

Hi,

Have just tried to flash my frienss new 360, it has a phillips benq inside, I get to the stage where it sats reading bank 0 ... then just hangs, cant these new drives be done? Its april 2008 drive.

I have noticed from a few threads that they were complaining of not being able to flash a new drive, they were calling it a phillips lite on, but this one deff says phillips benq, april 2008 , just wont let me read it, so im guessing its the same drive, but benq on the name, not lite on

 

[Oggy]

Are you sure its not a Philips / Lite-ON?

 

[iliveinuk]

Are you sure its not a Philips / Lite-ON?

Deff says Phillips Benq on it, april 2008

Just hangs when trying to read

Its a premium box, hes here with me now and going to take it away, but like i say, def phillips benq written on dvd drive case

 

[Highlander]

i did an April one last week, no probs.

it was a philips/benq drive

 

[iliveinuk]

strange, i set it up using iprep, then booted up as norm, did the dben serial number etc, went through all that, powered on off etc, it started to read but just hung when reading bank 0

I shall try and get it back, and get the firmware issue etc, but I tried about 5 times, always hung on reading bank 0... that was it, never had that before

 

[iliveinuk]

Did you use iprep highlander? then boot up into dos etc?

 

[mxwizard]

iprep the way to go with the benq mate

what is the revision number of the drive? VAD6038?

 

[iliveinuk]

im going to have to get it back, hes gone now, shud have written it all down
Just dont know why it froze when reading the bank 0... thats all i got

Hi mx m8,

Iprep, then boot from dos yes? then go through all the dben serial etc, then switch on etc till it finds the corect number which i did, then it started to do the reading bank 0... then that was it, stopped grrrr

 

[iliveinuk]

im going back to get it now, shall give u all the details on it in a bit, let me know what you want mx m8, any other way of doing a benq, never had this problem b4 grrrrr thanks m8, wont be long

 

[mxwizard]

Just making sure its the benq VAD6038 that you have there mate. I've had one freeze at this point when I was using a mates pc to flash his benq for him and it done it a few times but I'm stubborn and kept at it until it eventually dumped... still dont know what caused the freezing but like I say I just kept trying over and over until I eventually got it to dump

 

[iliveinuk]

hi m8, its a vad6038, ur correct, gonna keep having a go at this then
thanks

 

[iliveinuk]

well i be blowed heh, it worked first time this time, the only difference i can think of is i switched off the pc after using iprep instead of rebooting, thanks again everyone, best place for sure, you lot are great

 

[mxwizard]

Thats cool then mate... this is definately capable of being flashed and its not the new lite-on drive mate

Make sure the iprep definitions are all up to date as per the tutorial and make sure you're using the ixtreme1.4.1 firmware as this had a fix from the 1.4 for the benq.

Good luck....hope you get it sorted mate