New to Flashing

[slip2010]

Hi i just recently heard about flashing to play backups on my 360 and I have been doing research to try and figure out how it is done. Now I have taken apart my 360 and know that I have a benq drive. And I watched your video tutorial on flashing a benq with iprep but there are a few things I dont understand. I have onboard Sata ports on my http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813188024" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; can I use these to flash my drive? And also where can i go to download the firmware? Im sorry if I sound like a noob to all this but I kinda need some in depth help lol. Thanks for any you can give me.

[lilrevuk]

You should be able to use that board to flash with, but if you run into problems whilst trying, everyone here would recommend going for the card in my sig... One thing I would say before you start trying anything, would be to make sure you set your SATA mode (in your BIOS) to SATA. Most of the time it is set to AHCI by default.

In regards to firmware, you can get that from xbins (I'm sure there's a link in our downloads section for an xbins auto installer)...

[slip2010]

ok so I downloaded the firmware, and when I open iprep 101 and try to load the firmware it doesnt show that its loaded.

[kryptic]

It should look like this

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[CoFree]

It should look like this

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well yes/no
it should only have the 1 firmware you are going to use loaded

[kryptic]

True , my mistake it`s just that i always load all 3.

It should look like this

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well yes/no
it should only have the 1 firmware you are going to use loaded

[slip2010]

do i have to put firmtool on my flash drive or does iprep do that?

[kryptic]

iprep will do that.

do i have to put firmtool on my flash drive or does iprep do that?

[slip2010]

and how do i figure out my drives serial number?

[kryptic]

You can just use 1234567 12345 or look on the back of the xbox it`s on there , you dont need it though it just makes things easier if you are flashing a few.

and how do i figure out my drives serial number?

[slip2010]

ok so I was following the video guide, and when it went to read the drive to make a backup of my OFW the banks read ok but i got an error that benofw.bin doesnt exist

[slip2010]

ok so I attempted my flash and now I get a disc read error whenever I put a disc in. did I screw up my drive to the point where I cant fix it?

[CoFree]

well could be
you should have never flash if it did not go just like the video.
look in the backup folder on the usb flash and see what is there
open what ever is in there with jungle and hope that you have a good key there in a firmware.
if you dont the its game over for the console.

[kryptic]

You can send me the files and i will have a look , to see if the key looks good