BENQ First time flasher, some questions the night before my x360usb pro arrives.

adamb2011

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May 21, 2011
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Ok, so first of all some information on what I have.
I know my drive has been flashed as I paid for a flashing service previously.

I have BenQ drive (checked tray and White wire)
I can play ap25 games so guess I'm on LT+1.1?
I'm on dashboard 2.0.12625.0

I don't have a xbox live account and don't intend on playing online at any point.

So now I want to upgrade to LT+9.1 and the new dashboard .

If I understand right the new dashboard will flash my xbox 360 back to stock,
I will of course have to use the USB update of the dashboard as I have no Internet connected to my xbox.

Because I personally have not flashed the xbox I have no backup firmware dump or firmware key.

I have 12v power supply with sata connection called flypower which I've Been given as a friend used to boot up an old internal mac drive.

So now the questions

1. Will I be alright using the flypower says power cable instead of a molex cable?or should I stay with the xbox's own power supply.

2. Can I dump my current firmware and key details with jungleflasher?

3. Should I do this before the update of the dashboard?

3. I understand if I flash back to stock I need a firmware from the "pre" folder in the "stock" folder, but which one?

4. I've yet to go through mire closely how to dis-assemble my xbox, but when I have, can someone explain the method of leaving the tray half open and will I still need to do this if I use the flypower cable instead of the xbox's own power supply?

5. Is it true I have to have the scary lead attached if I'm using the xbox's own power while flashing?

I think that's everything, I know there's a lot of questions, but I've searching for days and I'm nervous about my first flashing experience.

Any help to the above will great.

As princess leia once said
"Help me (insert your name here), you're my only hope"

Many thanks in advance
Adamb
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