orange county, ca needs flash for incompatible BIOS

MrKite

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Nov 18, 2004
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Anaheim
I live in orange county,ca. Specifically in anaheim, the person who installed my chip told me that I need a new BIOS, because it is incompatible with my v1.6b.[/i]
 

chasealicious11

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Nov 1, 2004
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I am in santa barbara
not free though

AIM: chasealicious11

I have most other messengers just dont use them often so if you have another just ask me and i will IM you on it
 

xbcustoms

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Mar 18, 2005
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ill do it for lunch

hey man im in San Diego, and i can install everything and get you back in the game, all i request from you is lunch, maby we could work something out this weekend? im not sure, please email me at [email protected]
 

Ascoe

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May 16, 2005
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I'm in huntington beach until august.

feel free to email using the email in my profile.
 

Seraphim

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Dec 24, 2003
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Brand new Benq invisible to JF

Hi, I am trying to install/Spoof my new BenQ as my old Hitachi 59, but JF (0.1.72)does not seem to see it. It sees my Hitachi fine and I was able to acquire the Original FW/Key. Connection method through SATA cable and Xbox power with Nvidia chipset. I put the benq into vendor mode with the drive half open and the power light blinking and JF does not see it, so I cannot Intro/Devise ID nor BenQ Unlock.
Please Help!
Thank you very much.
 

Seraphim

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Dec 24, 2003
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Re: Brand new Benq invisible to JF

Edit: Cannot enter Vendor mode because unable to Unlock, I meant to say, I do the half open tray. Also it plays originals and DVDs, but I cannot get my PC to see it, I've tried multiple SATA ports. Please help.
 

GodZilla

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Oct 31, 2003
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Re: Brand new Benq invisible to JF

half open tray is only for PRE-Flashed Benq's with 1.5 ix up to 1.61 ix
close tray - may even aid detection
try Benq Unlock button!
 

Seraphim

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Dec 24, 2003
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Re: Brand new Benq invisible to JF

Tried it all without success, so turned to my friend with xecutor connection kit and spoofed the BenQ to iXtreme 1.6, but I wanted LT. He told me that BenQ isnt spoofable with LT yet, something about JF not letting you do it. Is this true?
 

Onix1

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Dec 19, 2003
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Re: Brand new Benq invisible to JF

yep. LT for all drives including future will NOT be spoofable.
 

flycom

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Nov 9, 2003
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Re: Brand new Benq invisible to JF

joesinger47 said:
benq LT IS spoofable
joesinger47 is correct.

LT is not spoofable for Liteon drives only, this is due certain things with the ofw itself.

JungleJim said:
To begin with ix 1.5 - 1.61 was not really spoofed at all. There is a difference with Lite-On from the other drive.

In Hitachi, Samsung and Benq the Inquiry data and Identify is stored as plain data somewhere in the flash.

There are a few differences in the way the data is stored. For example, in Benq, the data is repeated in all 4 banks. In Sammy and Hitachi the Identify data is stored as it is returned in the reverse format, but in benq it is readable. These idiosyncrasies all present issues, but nothing that can't be overcome.

With lite-on 2 issues presented themselves.

Firstly, the lite-on encryption algo was not available to team JF :(

Secondly, Inquiry data and the Identify data is not stored "as is" per say. The data returned has to be built up, firstly the the Inquiry/Identify data is read from the encrypted area of flash and THEN the drive barcode is superimposed over it, and for Inquiry the H/W rev is also inserted.
This made "safe" or correct cross spoofing pretty much impossible BECAUSE the area where the barcode goes in Identify and Inquiry is now "Common" data. BUT Benq, Bammy and Hitachi have different data in these regions. So if you got the Inquiry correct the Identify would be wrong.

So, for ix 1.5 - 1.61, iXtreme set aside and area at 0x13E00. If the Inquiry or Identify routines could see that this area was modified it would return this data instead. Team JF were given the various Indentify and Inquiry strings pre-encrypted and are written to this area based on the spoof required.

This routine IS considered to be NOT "Lite-Touch" material and was dropped.... so no more cross spoofing in LT.....
 

ReMix

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Nov 4, 2003
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Re: Brand new Benq invisible to JF

thanks prankster, i hadn't read the details of why

one step closer to enlightenment now
 

Seraphim

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Dec 24, 2003
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Re: Brand new Benq invisible to JF

Thank a lot for the help guys! Will try to get the BenQ LT spoofed asap! =]
 

Onix1

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Dec 19, 2003
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Re: Brand new Benq invisible to JF

I had no idea about that. I guess I was misinformed.
 

Lexer

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Nov 18, 2003
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Re: Brand new Benq invisible to JF

the title of this is very misleading, almost sayin that there is a new benq drive out when really its hardware errors on the users side,