Just Want To Say Thanks

[TheJerit]

As the title mentions, I just wanted to give a big thank you to CoFree, Textbook, and all the others who have provided so much knowledge to this community and us noobs... As evidenced by most of the threads you see when you pop in here or other areas in the forums, they are mainly questions and issues so I wanted my appreciation to be known.

I had heard about flashing the 360 a while back, but just wasn't sure I wanted to risk it plus I was afraid I would get in over my head. I am very computer literate, but this was uncharted territory for me. I had a feeling this weekend and stumbled upon this site by a youtube video from sccrbrandon4788. The tutorials and and textbooks guide for noobs made this so much more simple than I thought it would be. The hardest part which delayed me for a few hours was changing a setting for my via southbridge in the bios (didn't have it set as Raid, so Windows wouldn't properly recognize my sata controller ). After figuring that out, it was a breeze and now my samsung drive has been flashed. Testied it out afterwards and it worked perfectly with my retail 360 games. Going to make a backup soon, but I have good confidence all should be OK. I was very fortunate in that I had a Samsung MS25 drive, via chipset already on my mobo, and of course, you guys. It didn't cost me a dime . Can't beat that.

Ok I'll shut up for now and I hope this is posted in the proper section. My advice for noobs getting into this; read, read, read. Start with Textbook's guide and then watch the tutorials here to see it actually being done by someone on video. Combining those things should cut out most uncertainties. And as always, you can ask in here and there are a lot of people that will be glad to help. Still got a lot to learn, but I'm glad I'm on the right track.

Thanks again.

[CoFree]

glad things went good for you man.
and
if you need any thing just post away and we will have a look.


i just have to say it.
make sure you have a back up of you orig firmware,or at least your drive " key ".
some where off your computer would be best.

happy gaming

[TheJerit]

oh that was the first thing I done after booting back into windows . Its on two different drives and I also emailed it to myself. Is the key seperate from the backup folder on my iprep usb drive?

[CoFree]

the key is in your firmware that is in the backup folder.
if you saved the whole backup folder that is fine.

[TheJerit]

Ok, that is what I thought, but thanks for verifying that for me.

[Digital Menace]

glad u got it man.

[TheJerit]

Thanks

Been tested it out this week and things have went as smooth as possible. I think the only thing I noticed was that my dvd drive kind of makes a very low/light almost grunt noise here and there, sometimes more frequent. I think its just the drive itself as I noticed it with normal games too. I chose to use the 5x firmware speed, but from I've read, its really just preference. I think its just probably normal dvd sounds that have been brought to my attention since I have really focused on it now.

[Digital Menace]

yea i use 5x too cuz it's less noisy as the drive doesn't spin up like it does on 8x or 12x.

[CoFree]

I chose to use the 5x firmware speed, but from I've read, its really just preference

well that is a yes and no.
you need to keep in mind a stock drive will read at 12x unless it has a jard time reading the disc then it will step down to 8x or 5x.

[TheJerit]

correct sir if you don't mind me asking, which one do you use CoFree? Is one of your 360s have one of the MS drives?

[sadalius]

Most of us use the 12x. It does step down to the lower speeds if it has trouble reading. CoFree uses 12x exclusivly and so do I.

[CoFree]

all i use is the 12x speed.
i have the sound so load i cant hear any thing but the game any way.

[Digital Menace]

huh so you guys are saying 5x is bad or something ? i dunno.

and of course if you flash a drive with 5x it will read at 5x.


not sure what you guys are trying to say here ? lol

[CoFree]

its not a big deal man.
a stock console comes running at 12x speed.if it is having trouble reading a disc it will step down in speed to 8x speed.
If it still cant read the disc it will step down again to 5x speed.it will slow all the way to 2x speed.

the thing is if you flash a console with 5x speed firmware it will only read at 5x or 2x speed.

most of us flash at 12x speed for two reasons.
1. we want the console to be as much like stock as it can be when we are on live.
2.we hate load times.

[Digital Menace]

yeah of course, but yeah i guess if its a scratched disc then it would slow down to try an read it.

now i see what you guys were tryin to say. lol