help with ms28

[K-Naledge]

hy, im new to flashing a 360 but i have been reading the tuturials and i have some information in how to do it.

im using:
-iprep
-ntfsdos cd
-VIA VT6421A
-windows xp

here is my prob, im using the ntfsdos cd it loads and everything, but when i do "idump" the VIA VT6421A dosent show it only shows only one sata "(something) pri master" i chose that sata (because theres only one) and do the bad flash method and wait 10 sec turn on my 360 but nothing hapens the idump dosent read my 360 original firmware . what can i do?? i need some help.

one more thing do i link the 360 to the motherboard or to the VIA VT6421A? thx

i have instaled the VIA VT6421A with her original drives them update to latest drives, or should i had instaled the VIA VT6421A alredy with the lastest drives from the frist place

i relly need some help with this i have the Textbook tuturial.

here is a link to the board that i have bought:VIA VT6421A

one more thing do i link the 360 to the motherboard or to the VIA VT6421A? thx

 

[Nafster]

can i ask why your are using the dosCD instead of a usb??

 

[K-Naledge]

because my computer dosent boot from a usb i have alredy tryed to upgrade the bios but still the same.

another question must i link a sata cabel from the VIA VT6421A to the motherboard??

 

[Nafster]

because my computer dosent boot from a usb i have alredy tryed to upgrade the bios but still the same.

another question must i link a sata cabel from the VIA VT6421A to the motherboard??

no the sata cable goes from the VIA Card to the Xbox360 DVD Drive inside your xbox.

 

[zeggie]

first of all if you buy the Via vt6421A sata card, the cd drivers that it has been provided to you by the manufacturer is enought, so as long as you installed it correctly like it said by the manufacturer you should not have a problem.


second you connect the xbox 360 via a sata cable to the internal sata entry on the via vt6421a

and make sure you disconnect every thing except the dvdrom that your booting the ntfsdos cd


xbox360 has the video and the power cable connected, and is off

the pc has all the ide cables harddrive and other drives disconected from the mother board, except for the cable that connects the dvdrom to the motherboard that the dos cd is inserted.

bios to boot from the dos cd


sata cable in the back of ms28 disconnected

sata cable connect internally to the sata card

sata card installed correctly

1st turn on the PC, after the bios finishes runing

connect the sata cable to the back of the ms28

2nd turn on the xbox 360

3rd wait till the dos cd is finished booting

4th type on the command line idump (and the xbox serial number)press enter

5th then will appear ixtreme primaster

6th turn the xbox360 off

7th press 1 where the ixtreme primaster is, ( if you have a watch is cool) count to 10( 10 sec) and then turn the xbox360 on

8th it should imediately dump your original firmware

then should be ready to be flashed your drive

then do the same as above but instead of idump use the iflash


is pretty easy once you do once.

any questions let me know

Peace

 

[K-Naledge]

Mr.NiceGuy i must say that your tuturial is great it told me exactly what i need to know THX A LOT

but still I have a doubt, you say i must disconected the harddrive but dont i need the harddrive to save the original firmware???

 

[K-Naledge]

i have done it everything went nice just like in the tuturial thanks for all your help

just one thing i didnt disconect my harddrive 8)

 

[ibis69]

I'm having the same problem! Though I tried to follow the instructions Mr. NiceGuy, but when I disconnect the IDE from one of my Drives, it goes the the "how do you want to start Windows" and I select Boot windows Normally, and it won't even boot from the Disc. So I just left the drives connected, but when I do iDump and my Serial number, it brings up Primary Master, and slave! I've tried both, but nothing seems to happen. I'm also using the DosCD, because my PC as well can't boot from USB! Do you know what I can do?

Thanks!

 

[ibis69]

Sorry, for the double post but I fixed it!

I plugged the Sata Cable into a different Sata port on the Card, and it found it! I did the iDump and the iFlash, and it all went good! I'm now backing up my Original Firmware! Thanks for the help anyways! Thanks Mr. NiceGuy for the tutorial! That really helped me out!!!