HITACHI 79 This drive keeps crashing my system

[evertonman67]

Hiya fellas,i'm hoping someone might be able to help with my despair here lol.I've got my hands on a 2007 Zephar HDMI 360 ( Halo 3 limited edition ) and the drive what's in it,is an Hitachi 79 version ( stock & unflashed ).
My motherboard i'm having to use is an Asus a8n-sli premium/Nforce4 chipset and running Windows 7 32xbit as my Asrock K8 Upgrade stopped working.Now my problem is,is when i connect this Hitachi 79 to my motherboards SATA and connect my trusty CK3 Lite and run Jungleflasher my system freezes for a while then it crashes to the blue screen of death.When i connect to my VIA card ( with the VIA drivers removed of course ) Jungleflasher can't even detect this Hitachi drive what so ever.
I've re-installed the Nforce4 drivers ( vista ones in Compatibility mode as there's no windows 7 drivers for this chipset ) but i can't understand why it keeps crashing my system to the blue screen of death.
Any help would be really awsome from you fellas,thanks indeed

 

[evertonman67]

I would if i had one.Game Over but moving house at the end of week,so i can't order one for a while yet

 

[BL4K3Y]

The JungleFlasher PDF explains how to use a VIA 6421 PCI card (with drivers removed) with a Hitachi drive.

 

[evertonman67]

Thanks Martin but i've followed the JF tut to the letter,removed VIA card drivers from the Windows/System32/Drivers folder,restarted my computer and JF still doesn't detect this drive

 

[evertonman67]

UPDATE: i switched over SATA cables and now JF can see my drive at last ( must have been a faulty cable i was using at first ),can i ask if i still need to use "Free Flash" in JF to flash the LT+3.0 firmware to this drive.Again i'm using my CK3 Lite kit and connected to my VIA Card instead of my onboard SATA

 

[BL4K3Y]

The latest version of JungleFlasher will flash the correct Hitachi firmware files without having to use Free Flash.

BTW, I'm not Martin lol.

 

[evertonman67]

Thanks indeed,BL4K3Y,just the last time i used "Free Flash" on a v79 Hitachi,i ended up bricking the drive as it was writing to the banks,JF just froze,so i DON'T want to nacker this drive up lol

 

[evertonman67]

I CAN'T highlight PortIO in JF v0.1.94 but my Hitachi v79 shows up in the left pane,please can anyone help ?

 

[evertonman67]

Close my thread please,admin,i've got it done in the end