Preparing for first flash, couple questions.

[DarkZ]

Hello, I am preparing to do my first flash. I have been reading over and following the .pdf guide (Textbook) off 360mods.net. I have my 360 open, I found out I have a Samsung m25 drive and am now preparing the firmware. I believe I have all the needed tools, however I have a couple problems and questions;

1) Do I need to have my AV cables hooked up to my 360 while I flash the drive?

2) I am using Xtreme Boot Maker (v0.3.6.142200), I select my (onboard) SATA chipset (Silicon Image SiI 3114 SoftRaid 5 Controller, ASUS A8N-SLI Premium motherboard) then when I try and select "Detect ID/IO" I get an error "Unable to generate MSINFO dump"

I am using Windows Vista Ultimate, Is this incompatible with the Xtreme boot maker? I've tried to do my own export via msinfo32.exe and try and dump that into the Xtreme Boot Maker directory but have had no luck. I have tried to make sure I am running the program with administrator privileges, no luck either... Any assistance as to what I am doing wrong or how to fix this would be highly appreciated!

p.s. I should also mention I am currently running RAID-0

 

[johnjohn]

1) yes or the 360 will turn off in the middle of flashing. Doesnt have to be hooked up to a tv. Just to the back of the 360

2) i am not sure

 

[dan13l]

ok on the ms32info load the sata info before the fw that will fix the problem

 

[DarkZ]

ok on the ms32info load the sata info before the fw that will fix the problem

this does not work for me. I still get the following error;

"An error has occured.
Unable to generate a MSINFO32 dump.

Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID
{273380E8-1438-4B2C-95B0-713284FBC302} failed due to the following error:80040154."

hit "OK" and I get the following error;

"An error has occoured:
Unable to parse the MSINFO32 Dump.

Could not find file 'C:\Program Files\X-Projects\Extreme Book Maker\msinfo_dump.txt'."

hit "OK" again and get the following Xtreme Book Maker pop-up;

"An error occurred while querying for IO data:
Object reference not set to an instance of an object."

 

[DarkZ]

I have done my own msinfo32 dump (to txt), maybe someone can tell me... can I can look for the data myself in there, then copy & paste the device ID and IO Port into Xtreme Boot Maker. If so, where do I find that info?

 

[Textbook]

First of all, if you're using Vista, you have to use the newer version of Xtreme Boot Maker found at X-Projects.org and the updated tutorial posted over there. Not much difference, the commands are xRead and xFlash instead of Samread and Samhack.

Also .. your SIL SATA chipset won't work. It may work if you flash it to an IDE BIOS, I don't know.

 

[DarkZ]

Also .. your SIL SATA chipset won't work. It may work if you flash it to an IDE BIOS, I don't know.

could you elaborate a little as to why the chipset won't work? In the guide it says it is compatible.

 

[DarkZ]

First of all, if you're using Vista, you have to use the newer version of Xtreme Boot Maker found at X-Projects.org and the updated tutorial posted over there.

Lovely, my anti-virus lit up like christmas when I downloaded the newest version from x-projects.org....

 

[DarkZ]

Okay, I downloaded Xtreme Book Maker version: 0.5.3 (RC1)

I think the anti-virus (Avast!) was detecting a false-positive, as McAfee had no problems with it... (odd...)

So I loaded up the new version, selected my drive (Samsung m25) and then selected the Xtreme52.rar and was able to successfully select my on-board SATA controller, selected 5.2b firmware and it says I successfully flashed my USB drive. So... everything looks good so far now... I hope everything goes well.

 

[DarkZ]

So I got it to boot and it looks like it 'sees' the drive when I do an "xread 12345467 12345", i get the following

1. XTREME
2. Sil3114

however after choosing either, it just hangs... nothing...

any idea's?

 

[DarkZ]

bump

 

[Textbook]

If you didn't flash your SATA chipset to a native/ide bios, it's not going to work. As was stated by myself in my earlier post, and if you were to look in the comments of that compatibility chart in the PDF.

 

[Ha><or]

Hey Textbook, I have the same error on my VIA - VT6421A chipset on my SATA card. Can you please explain to me how I go about flashing my "SATA chipset to a native/ide bios" in Windows Vista Business? Thanks.