Bit of an update, please refrain from readin the "I'm not a newb".  Now I'm receiving the three red lights of death and yes my av cables are connected. I ruined it.

Last edited by scubasteve (0704.10 17:30:29)

Yeah, I used a floppy disk.  The only difference is that I bought the SATA card with the VIA chipset on it since my motherboard didn't have that.  I don't know which sucks more, the fact that I ruined a premium 360 or that it belongs to my boss.

Need some help ASAP m8s
My samsung is already flashed with Extreme 4.2 and it wasn´t me who flashed, it was the store owner, so I don´t have the backup files.
All I need to know is this:
1- Will I be able to successfully get a backup file of my driver when I flash this time from Xtreme 4.2 to the newest Xtreme version?
2- The tutorial steps are the same for already flashed drivers, wich is my case?
3- How do I get my 360´s serial number to input in the DOS screen?
4- What is the difference between the A/B/C/D... versions?
5- when I have to choose my driver version MS28 or MS25, it doesn´t matter what firmware is flashed, only what is written on the driver case, right?
6- A 32MB USB memory does fine doesn´t it?
7- Following this tutorial I will get a backup of my driver key (or whatever) right?
8- And when I need to flash my driver with the original firmware, how can I do that? Is it easy?
Well there are a lot of questions, but please answer them all and It would be good to have them in the FAQ.

have you already gone through the windows based process?  I mean, the bootable USB creation?

btw, "xtreme pri master" is what you WANT to see, so as far as I can tell, it's working okay   but it worries me that you didn't know that.  Are you following the tutorial that you found on THIS site?

yea for some reason its not seeing your drive

make shore its plugged in to the master sata port

and try your timing like
leave it a little longer between turning the 360 off and on

Hopefully I get a samsung drive and im compatible

thanks, helped out a lot.

SOME ISSUES I HAD AND HOW I FIXED THEM

DOS CRASH - STACK OVERFLOW
I would get this after I had finished booting DOS, then turned on the 360 (SATA was already attached). As soon as I then pressed any key, the machine would pause, then give an error mentioning a Stack Overflow. The solution was to start with both machines off, connect the SATA, turn on the 360, wait for it to finish loading, then start the PC

NO DRIVE VISIBLE UNDER XREAD
After doing the above, I would run XREAD no drives would be visible for me to flash. The PC would display something like: Port 8400, Master/Slave: a0 and then it would just sit there. I noticed that my SATA/RAID card has several slots and when I tried the first slot (it was marked), this error went away.

DRIVE VISIBLE, BUT XREAD STOPS PART WAY
When xread works, it works quite quickly - you will see the percentage go up very fast. The first time this happened, the numbers stopped at 7% though and went no further ... Hitting escape revealed the error: "status 00=should be 70". Sure enough, when I checked in the backup directory, the ORIG.BIN file was roughly 15k instead of 256k. As mentioned by others, the way to fix this is to make sure tht your PCs DVD drive is also plugged in and powered on. Once I had done this, I tried again and this time the file got to 228K ... note that it also goes higher than 100% .... mine got around to roughly 380% + 80% before it crashed this time.

SUCCESSFUL READ
OK, so this time I tried doing exactly what I did previously ... but it wouldn't work. Got the Port Mast/Slave error continously (like 6 times in a row). I had not changed anything since the last nearly-successful read, but could not get it to work at all. Soo ..... I unplugged my PC DVD-ROM ... and it magically worked! It would seem that the MTKFlash program is a little old and buggy ... so try all of the combinations above and eventually one should work for you!

GOOD LUCK!

do i extract the xtreme52.rar file and use make extreme firmware or just leave it and open it with xtreme boot maker?

hey i have everything i need but soon as i get to the create disk part, it says access to path 'C:\Program Files\X-Projects\Xtreme Boot Maker\resource\xread.bat' is denied.  im doing this on vista and i don't see any\resource\xread.bat' directory in that folder. what's wrong?

hi i plan on using this tut in the near fututre but before i go out and buy a VIA VT6421A pci card i would like to know if there is any chance of it not being compatible with my motherboard.  The comp im going to use is at least 6 years old so if anyone can make an educated guess i would be very thankful.

LukeSki wrote:

what do u do when the flash fails half way thow?

very sry m8 but as far as i no its bricked keep on trying to flash it mite work

scoobysman420 wrote:

do i extract the xtreme52.rar file and use make extreme firmware or just leave it and open it with xtreme boot maker?

no m8 just leave it to xbm to open and sort it out for you

baphomet58 wrote:

nvm fixed my problem, now, im not seeing pri extream master in the selection for devices. all is are my 2 other dvd drives. what's wrong?

make shore its all connected up to the right port on the sata and disconnect your drives maybe that will help

TupacFan07 wrote:

hi i plan on using this tut in the near fututre but before i go out and buy a VIA VT6421A pci card i would like to know if there is any chance of it not being compatible with my motherboard.  The comp im going to use is at least 6 years old so if anyone can make an educated guess i would be very thankful.

you should not have any problems m8 as long as you have the drivers for the sata pci sata card installed

mullinsky wrote:

Noobie here, I have been following this tutorial successfully so far, I now am to the point of booting up the USB drive to read and write the flashes.  I am using windows XP and I do not know how to "boot from the USB".  I have used DOS before, not a lot, but I have used it, however that was when i had windows 98 SE on my comp.  So I do not want to brick my XBOX 360 drive, so how do i go about booting the USB drive?  I tried to run it through the "run" option in my start menu but that just opened up the actual USB drive and its contents.  I am assuming I just have to restart the comp and it wil prompt me to boot from the USB, so i am going to try that.  But all help is appreciated, thanks.

there should be an option for it in your bios a boot order or some thing like that      just set it to boot (usb hdd)