Flashing BenQ drive w/o CK3 using DosFlash Tutorial

This tutorial will also work if you're trying to flash your drive with iXtreme 1.6 Firmware

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Flashing BenQ drive w/o CK3 using DosFlash Tutorial

So you have the Xbox 360 Benq drive, and you want to flash it with iXtreme 1.51? Good news, this is easy to do. The first thing youre going to want to do, is open the Xbox 360, to get to your Benq drive. Its actually easier than you think. The first step, is to watch this video. Youre going to need a TORX 10 screwdriver.



The next step, is to connect your drive from the Xbox 360 with a SATA cord to your PC, as shown in the image above. Remember that you need to have the Video cord plugged into the console, but it doesn't have to be plugged into a TV (hdmi cable will not work, needs to be the regular Component/RCA cable.) See image below.


Also, make sure you ground the two chassis together, using aligator clips, or a any type of wire, from the console, to your PC chassis. See image below.


Now from here, you have a couple of different ways to go about flashing this. Many tutorials out there, use iPrep ( which can be downloaded from 360Mods.net ), however, I never had any luck getting this to work. So Im going to show you how to use a combination of DosFlash v1.7 to retrieve the key, and JungleFlasher to create your Xbox 360 custom firmware.

Once you have your drive connected to your computer, open up DosFlash. Youll get a polling window, asking to send the vendor info to device on 09F0 ( or whatever yours may be ), just click ok, power off your 360, wait 2 seconds, the power the 360 back on. DosFlash only initiates after your have clicked OK and the device has been turned off/on again.

Youll know if you got it right if the green light on your 360 starts flashing constantly. You may have to play with this for a little bit to get it to work right. Sometimes the first polling window that comes up is actually for other devices you have in your system. SATA hard drives, DVD drives, etc.

You have to retry with the different device address until you get the hang of what works for you. This is why you disable other drives in your system, to minimize the amount of addresses that DosFlash polling windows ask you to resend the info for.

Once it shows your Benq drive as connected, go ahead and read the firmware. Do this a couple of times, making sure your key is the same every time. Once youre good, save it as whatever you want, orig.bin for example. Now its time to open up JungleFlasher.



Now, this is easy, so dont screw it up. All you have to do, is hit Load Source Firmware, and select the firmware that you save using DosFlash. Then, click on Open Target Firmware select the firmware ix15Benq.bin ( if you havent downloaded the firmware yet, you can download it from Team Xecuter ).



Now, the next step, once you have loaded your original firmware, and loaded the iXtreme firmware, is to click the button Spoof Source to Targe. Once done, click Save to File, name is anything you want, I named mine benqmodified.bin. Now, go back to Dosflash 32, erase your firmware off your Xbox 360 drive.

Once that is complete, click the drop down on the top, select Write Firmware, load the firmware you saved from Jungleflasher.

Once its done, you can verify everything is working, by clicking on the eject button, making sure it ejects.

The next step, is just put your Xbox 360 back together, and to burn a copied Xbox 360 game, to make sure it actually works, since this is the goal of yours.

Here are some links youll need to download the firmware and applications for flashing your 360.