try this

from klush
I am assuming this if for a fresh Flash.

It should like he's not giving it enough time between power cycles, could try 30 seconds.

If it is updating a previous firmware he should try inserting the Enable800 DVD. (Enable800 should be burnt to a DualLayer DVD for maximum compatability)

Last edited by tpepsiman (0703.23 14:25:06)

dus it still boot originals m8

just try

a red light

have you got the aerial plugged in as well m8

you need the power gable and aerial plugged in when flashing

it's an MS28

It has created an orig.bin file on the root of the usb flash drive ???

it should not do this it should put it in a subfolder in the backup folder that is on the usb

Hi there!I got some probs with flashing my xbox360 it is the ms25 samsungdrive.
When i use extremebootmaker i get this error:` Index and length must refer to a location within the string. Parameter name:length"

So after a view tries i manually hex editted the key from my original fm to the new 5.2 fw.
Made a bootfloppy in windows and added mtkflash +new firmware.
At first he didn`t flash anything it just hangs,then after a few tries he flashed the360 BUT it didnt work anymore i get an error 66.
So i tried to reflash it.But my computer won`t flash it anymore:( when i use mtkflash i get this error: Port:9f0 master/slaveb0 status=00 should be 70, and sometimes: status=51 should be 70.
It hangs i can press escape and try again but it just won`t work anymore.
Pls guys help me out!Im really frustrated.

Im using a gigabyte GA-K8NSC-939 motherboard,with the nforce 3 chipset.

Last edited by dmarwin (0703.25 12:00:20)

can anyone help please? I got my sata card today (the via vt6421a one) so I presuming you stick it into a vacant pci slot start the pc load drivers all done?? Anyway i made a boot disk though i had to use floppy as my "new" motherboard does not seem to support usb booting?! (edit:) so i solved my problem of it hanging in DOS. i had to turn off the onboard uncompatible sata slots though now i have a different problem... when i run xread with the 360 on
I get this
A:\>xread
directory already exists
directory already exists
mtkflash by jseph lin.mtx 1998 ver 1.83c
Please wait...
No drive detected
1file(s) copied

Then it says in red
ERROR:BACKUPS\1234567\12345 orig.bin does not exist!

Runtime error at 0000:107A.
A:\>

Any help would be much appreciated!! ...one other thing the 360 drive is still fine i tryed it back in the console with an original game and no problems.

Last edited by swisstony123 (0703.26 15:34:18)

EDIT: UPDATE:

Just wanna thank tpepsiman again for this tut and his help by far the easiest tut I could find for flashing a samsung! As I've finally got it all working!!!!!
A few things that I encountered on my MS25
Had to switch off onboard uncompatible SATA in bios
Had to remove all drives even removed soundcard
Had to try different sockets on the sata card and also move the actual card to a different PCI slot
One thing I noticed in removing all drives was that during the flashing process both reading and writing I had to execute more than once to actually get it to aknowledge that the 360 drive was there!!?
Another thing also with the other drives removed it flashed the only thing that was left, so I didnt even have to select a drive!!!
I only had to just type xread in command prompt watch the percentage go up til it stops and prompts to switch off the pc and xbox, then turned pc on and then the xbox and typed xflash let it flash the drive then switched PC off then xbox! worked a treat!

Last edited by swisstony123 (0703.26 20:48:37)

thnx 4 teh guide tpepsiman.

my question is:

After booting from the USB drive u said to type the xread and xflash commands

so, do we type (xRead 1234567 12345) and (xFlash 1234567 12345) or just (xRead) and (xFlash)?
i was looking to make sure, and here (http://www.360mods.net/Forums/viewtopic/t=232.html) it says to use the serial numbers, so i got confused

thnx for ur help

Hi all.

I had almost the same problem as Sentinel, with a MS28 drive yesterday, but I managed to flash it when I disconected all other devices (IDE/SATA) of the motherboard and then plugged the xbox dvd drive on the first SATA port.

It didn't make much sense to me as sata doesn't use the MASTER/SLAVE configuration, but as soon as I did it, the dump and the flashing went fine.

thirty wrote:

I tried about everything now and I am really stuck.

Used an Intel 875 PBZ, (tried a 965 and a 825 too). All with the same results. Did exactly as described above.
But when I try to use xread and select either xtream master or slave (doesnt matter) it just hangs.

When I press ESC I get either a 00 should be 70 or (when I dont turn off the drive before selcting it in xread) a 51 should be 70.

When I use an unmodified mtkflash the drive isnt detected at all. (Although according to the list of compatible boards it should work without patching - ICH5 or ICH7 boards)

Have a Samsung ms28 drive. And right now I really dont know what else I could try...

Did you tried connecting it to the first avaiable SATA port on your mobo?

asapreta wrote:

daInvincibleGama wrote:

thnx 4 teh guide tpepsiman.

my question is:

After booting from the USB drive u said to type the xread and xflash commands

so, do we type (xRead 1234567 12345) and (xFlash 1234567 12345) or just (xRead) and (xFlash)?
i was looking to make sure, and here (http://www.360mods.net/Forums/viewtopic/t=232.html) it says to use the serial numbers, so i got confused

thnx for ur help

I just used xRead and xFlash.
Everything went fine.

Regards.

Thnx, i'll try tht