Flashed samsung drive on my 360 tray keeps opening

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Tobyz

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Dec 8, 2002
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Flashed samsung drive on my 360 and worked once, played copied game then put my 360 back togther and now the tray keeps on opening all the time & wen i conected my pc back to drive to reflash it, the pc will not detect it help help
 
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ivanhoe

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I assume that you meant that it played a 'backed up' game once.... if you are are talking about copied games that you don't own then we can't help you.

You can try reflashing it, but with the newer firmwares 4.x and higher you will have to either disable firmguard with the Enable disk, or use the bad-flash method. Read up on the section detailing upgrading firmware;
http://www.360mods.net/Downloads/details/id=61.html

Try to reflash to your orig.bin. If it fixes the problem, then you can try reflashing with Textbook's guide to X5.2. If it does not fix the problem, then double check all your connections - failing that you have some hardware problem.
 
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Tobyz

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Dec 8, 2002
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this works!!!!!

OK, I've seen lots of posts in various topics about people with apparently dead drives.
I had exactly the same problem after my floppy decided to give up the ghost mid-flash and the drive Borked.

Various solutions were offered by the group, none of which worked, so I was left with the task of finding another drive to hotswap with (Yeah, right!) or find my own solution.

This is what I found worked for me. (Twice, as I tested again by borking it a 2nd time)

You'll need a Bootable Floppy with MTKFLASH and your firmware. (we'll call this your original.bin)
Your Borked DVD drive attached to SATA 1 on your motherboard.

Boot from Floppy and get to a Dos prompt.
Type in "MTKFLASH W /SATA /M original.bin
You should get a response from the system with a list of possible sata ports to flash to.
(For arguments sake this is SATA 1 and SATA2 in this tutorial)
Turn off the power to the DVD drive wait a second and turn it back on again.
Now hit 1 on the keyboard to start the flash. (in response to the Sata 1 port on the screen)
OK, now it will start flashing or sits waiting at "Port: d800, Master/Slave: a0"
If it is waiting for more than a few seconds hit escape twice to stop the attempt and power off the drive again and keep trying the last part again. It will work after a few attempts.

This is what I have figured out so far and why this works.

MTKFLASH is looking for a response code 70 from the drive to start flashing.
Whilst the hitachi drives have a distinct recovery mode the samsungs show a code 70 JUST after power on.
I'm assuming this is a small recovery window that we can use.

The MTKFLASH software doesn't really care what device is on the SATA bus at the beginning, as long as it can detect something. Hence is people put a hot swap drive or hard drive on the sata bus, the software says "Ahh, SATA 1 has a device on there" and gives to the option to flash that port.
Only when you press 1 on the keyboard to start flashing does it try to detect what KIND of device it is and waits for the required 70 code to start flashing.

So in summary ..
Get MTKFLASH working so it detects a device on your Sata bus (Either the DVD drive or a hard drive)
Then start the flashing procedure JUST AFTER the dvd is given power, after a couple of attempts it should catch the Code 70 and start flashing.

Hope this helps.
 
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