Blown headgasket ...Damn dell

[fiddidilip]

I have spent the last 5 days trying to dump and flash my Xbox360 m28 samsung drive with my Dell 5150 with a Intel(R) 82801GB/GR/GH (ICH7 Family) Serial ATA storage Controller - 27C0 chipset with no luck. We can't even dump the firmware to make a backup. I have been trying to follow your excellent tutorial "hacking the xbox 360 for dummies" and can't get it to work. I can get to select option in dos where I select Extreme and it freezes with with the usual error Port: d800, Master/Slave: a0 or something like that. I don't have an option in the bios to turn off RAID only set it to on or autoI think. Anyways if you could help me that would be great.
I am using a flash USB.

 

[ivanhoe]

Well, you haven't been following it very closely then, because it clearly says that for MS28's you need a VIA chipset to do the bad-flash process. That, or take a soldering iron to your unit with the VCC approach (not recommended).

Get the recommended VIA 6421 card and you should be good to go

 

[fiddidilip]

If I do get the card will it still work even though i can't disable raid in bios.

 

[desmolej]

it worked just fine for me.

 

[ivanhoe]

yep - you only need to disable onboard raid if flashing with the onboard sata. The PCI card should work just fine

 

[fiddidilip]

Thanks for the fast reply. I will order one of the cards and let you know how it goes.

 

[fiddidilip]

I just bid on "4 Port SATA+IDE PCI Controller Card VIA Chipset VT6421A" I hope that it works.

 

[hubbley2k]

They are the most popular ones mate and yes they work fine but then again anybody with any sense would not buy a Dell computer