LITEON DG-16D4S - SLIM Reading out firmware question

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somethingclever

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Hi,

I have done a lot of reading and I think I have the answers to my own question but I am just wondering if someone can confirm the following for me.

I have a 360s with LITEON DG-16D4S drive in it, I tried to dump the firmware using a VIA add in card, using an old RROD 360 as a power source for the drive (I know thats stupid, I read the warnings, shame on me...)
Long story short R1 and C6 belw up pretty spectacularly, to the point of the board catching fire before I managed to pull power!

Much to my surprise I managed to bring the drive back from the dead by soldering in a new cap and bridging R1 (from my understanding its a protection resistor) I aim to put a 0 ohm resistor in at some point (would fuse wire work?).
The drive is now detected by xbox and Jungle flasher and plays games. PHEW!

I cant read out the firmware using a VIA add in card
Into fails but I have now ordered a X360USB pro V2. Is it likely to read out the firmware correctly? Also do I need to install a Sputnik (or similar mod) to be able to dump the firmware? Its my understanding that I only need a Sputnik to write to the drive, is this correct?
The drive is MXIC (serial starts 03).

I have ordered a replacement PCB onto which I hope to flash my DVD key. Not sure how extensive the damage was but since the damm thing caught fire I dont want to risk running the original PCB any longer for fear of damaging something down circuit.

Anyway sorry for the long post, in essence Im asking:
Do I need to Sputnik my drive to extract the DVD key? (latest dash, 0225 fw I think?)

Thanks,

Long time reader first time poster :)
 
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somethingclever

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Oh crap, I was dreading that! I did try and install a Sputnik 360 Switch on the PCB but the drive was not recognised by Jungle flasher when set to Unlock, figured it was a bad solder job so de-soldered it, re tried again, then de soldered it a final time which resulted in completely lifting the pad just to the left of the trace cut. I believe this is where you need to probe?

Are there any alternate points that can be used? I can post pictures of the trace but its completely gone as far as I can see :(
 
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no you dont need to do the sputnik install to read the key,you say you ordered a tx pcb and a usbpro v2 just use slim key in jungleflasher to get a dummybin then write it to the tx pcb when you get your usbprov2.if you want a full frimware dump you can install a sputnik switch are use a sputnik probe
 
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missed the bit that you ordered new replacement TX pcb as well so no you wont need sputnik probe as you dont need to unlock the mxic
 
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somethingclever

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Thanks for the reply, thats great news! I was scared I had lost all means to retrieve the DVD Key from the drive!

Heres a pic of the PCB, do you think theres any way to recover it? alt points? Otherwise It can be yet another example of what not to do :eek:

Thanks for the advice :)

 
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somethingclever

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I understand I don't have to repair it as I will use the new TX PCB by extracting the drive key from the old pcb and flashing it to the TX (along with FW).

I was just wondering if its fixable or if there are alternate points to probe/Sputnik switch?
 
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You will be able to fix the traces if your good with a soldering iron I don't know if there are any alternate points best thing would be to see if you can cut the trace further up
 
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depending how deeply you burn the pad you could get away with using a bit of kynar wire and soldering it in the hole but keep in mind from what damage you already done you could make things worse if you tried that.. or i presume probing one of the points arrowed in this picture will do the same without repairing the trace/pad
 
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if you want to sell the pcb let me know :)
 
molsondude69

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looks fixable add some flux and solder the trace back see if it works.. if it does sell your replacement or donate it to me ;)
 
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