Flashing the 79FK, can it be done?

[ACEVENTURA]

Alright so i flashed my own 360Elite with the 78FK drive just fine and i can play my backups. Then i took my friends elite but it has the 79FK. is there a way to flash the 79fk?

 

[zerach]

it can be flashed but only by the best of the best right now.
there is a chip in the works that you will solder in then be able to flash with toolbox v4.0
im not sure of the ETA

 

[ACEVENTURA]

alright well hes thinking about getting the 78fk drive from etech so i think im just gonna plug that in and take out the 79 so i can flash that. if i just plug the 78 in place of the 79, it would work right?

and im guessing this is the right drive with rom 78

http://www.etech4sale.com/HL_Data_Storage_GDR-3120_Xbox_360/GDR-3120/partinfo-id-308847.html

 

[smurff76]

It wont work without the DVD key from your original drive.
You cant just swap drives from 360 to another, it wont play any games at all, original or otherwise.

I am trying to find out if you can even get the key off a 79 but it dosnt look like it is possible without a mod of some type.

 

[zerach]

the chips are are for the v79 now.that is what you have to do to get the key out of the v79 drive,

i am waiting till all the bugs are out before i do one.

 

[smurff76]

How hard is the soldering for the chip ?? Comparable to modding a Ps2, better or worse ? Obviously number of wires is way less but im interested in how small or close the points are ? The diagram ive seen didnt show the points on the Dvddrom.

 

[zerach]

all i seen is the chips.
i think its going to be about like the wii chips not to bad if you know how to solder

 

[smurff76]

Thanks for reply mate

I can do xbox's fine and the ps1 was always easy but i had problems with the ps2 when i had to put those wires on the chip legs right beside each other. Im ok but no pro, havnt looked at a Wii yet

Regards

Wad

 

[WaferJ]

I've got a Passkey 79 and the soldering on it is way smaller than a Wii or PS2.

Here is a link to the site that developed it (run by C4EVA) . The bottom picture is a link to a PDF to install the chip. 1 ribbon cable header and 1 wire.

 

[WaferJ]

I've got a Passkey 79 and the soldering on it is way smaller than a Wii or PS2.

HERE is a link to the site that developed it (run by C4EVA) . The bottom picture is a link to a PDF to install the chip. 1 ribbon cable header and 1 wire.

Good luck....

 

[Amything]

I already did mine with the passkey. It not worked with the ribbon, is hard to solder properly in the angle that it fits. I soldered all wires to the corresponded points. I flashed it and it working great.

 

[WaferJ]

I fitted the 79 pass key and it isn't a job for beginners.

The easiest way to install the ribbon is to cut the side off the header before you solder it in place. This allows you to align the header up correctly which makes soldering that much easier.

 

[nikon]

so now that your box it modded does playing games on live still work? my concern is that my purchased copy of GRAW2 will still be playable on xbox live. any thoughts on this?

I already did mine with the passkey. It not worked with the ribbon, is hard to solder properly in the angle that it fits. I soldered all wires to the corresponded points. I flashed it and it working great.

 

[WaferJ]

The 79 passkey is to get the drive into mode B. Once the drive was flashed and playing backups i just removed the ribbon cable from the passkey and taped it inside the drive.

The drive is now really sweet and playing my backups on XBL via iXtreme 1.2 rev 2.