Bricked Lite-On? Read Here First Before Posting, JungleFlasher can't open .bin files? No COM Ports in JungleFlasher Options

[BoNg420]

I am posting this to hope that people quit making the same post, BRICKED LITEON OMG PLEASE HELP!! People don't think first before they post to look and see if someone else had the same issue, they post the same questions several times a day it seems... So please make sure you read the tutorials over several times before you try to flash your liteon, hopefully you read this post before doing so, so you know what you might run into. If you are unsure of what to do still, pay someone to do it instead of having to pay another $200 for a new Xbox 360!!

First off, if you plugged in your power cable in, well upside down? Smell smoke? Drive don't work anymore? Then you need to buy a new xbox and be more careful! Learn from your mistakes.

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Problem: JungleFlasher can't open bin files (key.bin, inquiry.bin, identify.bin, hacked.bin, dummy.bin)

Solution:

Put JungleFlasher.exe in the same directory where your bin files are, then start it again. (key, inquiry, identify, hacked.bin, dummy.bin)

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Problem: No Com port in DVDkey32 in JungleFlasher OMGWTF?

Solution: Just type in your com port in the box. So if you are using com port 1, you would type COM1 in the box where the drop down menu is. IMPORTANT=> you must put COM before the Port number!!!

or this might be resolved in the latest version of jungle flasher, i know my com port now shows in the latest beta.

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PC freezing issue:

If you were in windows and using Jungle Flasher and you have successfully got your key and created your firmware from your dummy.bin or even have got as far as getting your key, inquiry, and identify.bin files, then you should be ok, just make a dummy.bin and then make your liteon firmware!

So your pc froze? You were erasing your liteon and then when you did the power cycle, your PC froze? Well you are in luck. As long as your key, inquiry, and identify.bin files were correct, then you can save your drive. What will happen at this point is your drive will no longer eject, so you think oh no bricked drive. This can be fixed. Make sure you can boot to DOS by floppy or USB drive and have the proper files on it.

You will need L-O-Eras.exe, latest dosflash16, and your hacked firmware file. Well what you do, restart your PC with your liteon connected, but not powered on, boot to DOS. Once you get to DOS restore power to your liteon drive. Go to where your files are.

Type L-O-Eras SATAPORT <-- put in your sata port that your drive is connected too. If you don't know your sata port, you can do dosflash really fast and figure out which port has the liteon drive on it. So after you do L-O-Eras SATAPORT you should return status FF72 I believe. I haven't had to do this way for awhile so if I made a mistake on the status please PM me so I can fix this. After you do this, go type DOSFLASH, then enter the proper # for the port that has the liteon drive on it. Then type W for write. Then enter your hacked firmware file, usually lite_cfw.bin then it will erase and write the firmware to your drive. After it is done, turn the power off on your drive, then turn it back on and press eject and if it does, problem solved!

Now you have flashed your firmware to your Liteon drive, put your system back together and test a backup.


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Note:

Also for those who are having problems with PC freezing. Make sure your Windows is up to date. Make sure you have the latest drivers for your chipset. For example I was having problems with my onboard nforce 650i sli. I went to nvidia.com and downloaded the latest drives for the 650i sli, installed them, then installed portio32.exe and restarted. Now my PC doesnt freeze anymore when erasing a liteon and power cycling in windows. If you don't have nforce, you will have to figure out where to get your drivers from.

If I missed anything please PM me or post what I was wrong with here.


This post has been edited by BoNg420: Jan 26 2009, 02:34 PM

[ruph]

great post! thanks for the advice. however, Jungle Flasher still freezes my computer the instant i open it even after updating my nforce drivers with the latest from nvidia.com.

It worked for a while but now i just cant seem to open the application at all without freezing my system.