A customer brought me this console and said the DVD was jammed and that it had RROD.

I pulled out the DVD drive and the epoxy covering the pins of the (eprom??) chip on the PCB is blackend on one side and brown on the other. The console boots fine without the DVD drive connected.

Is there any chance the the DVD key can still be extracted and flashed to another drive? It's a stock drive and there's no back up.

I've never flashed any drives before, but I have done jtags.

(click for fullsize)



I've never seen anything like this before

(Mods, I wasn't sure if this was the right place to post, please move if it belongs elsewhere)

RGH the console, Dump Keyvault, Flash new drive?

Get another BenQ drive and just swap the MX chip from that toasted one to the new one, done.

I never even thought about swapping the spi chip to another drive. I'll have to see if I have one on hand somewhere; I'll probably have to get one off of ebay.


Thanks, RDC

Well, I desoldered the chip successfully, but I don't have the skill to solder it to another PCB.

Anyone willing to do it for some money?

I can send you the chip, I'll need another BenQ pcb because I fubar'd the last one I had

PMed you