Sata cable - to connect your 360 drive to your VIA chip VIA Sata Card with Chipset 6421 (bought cheap on eBay) For 64-bit Vista and Win7 users refer to Azzid's tutorial before you start here. This will work for 32-bit and 64-bit OS's. This is an addition to AzzidReign's tutorial using DosFlash v1.8.
Here you can learn how to flash your Xbox 360 Lite-on DVD Drive. Make sure your 360 has the cables plugged in, but AV doesnt have to go anywhere Unplug all IDE and SATA cables from your computer other than the one going into your 360 to ensure you dont accidentally flash another itemĬonnect your USB drive and then, Boot up your computer and go into the boot menu, and boot from the USB drive. Touch the metal cases of the 360 and computer to make sure it is grounded Power down your computer and connect the 360 drive to the first port on your sata card *On a PCI card this port is labeled 1 and is the one on the opposite end of the outside of the PCI slot* Open your 360 using any available guides, or contact me and I will walk you through it if you want personalized help You can also make a boot disk with a floppy disc, but it isnt as reliable, so I wont go into itĬopy the contents from the DosFlash 16 folder into your root directory of the flash driveīefore you go any further, write down the port number for the first port of your Sata card, it will be the first port number in your device manager for it. Make your USB boot disk using the HP boot program and the windows 98 files putting these on your drive without your drive key will result in a non working driveĤ.PCI Sata card with VIA6421 chipset *you can find them off Ebay* that specific chipset isnt needed per se, BUT you DO want either VIA or NFORCE, or else it wont work.
If it looks like the BenQ but with a Yellow wire, it is a Lite-Onģ.Your iXtreme Firmware files get these off Xbins and PATCH THEM TO YOUR FIRMWARE. White wires and empty space = Benq THIS IS THE DRIVE THIS TUT IS FOR
Look at hole#3, you should see one of these three things: Remove your 360 faceplate, you should now see something similar to this.