Problems dumping Hitachi firmware in Jungle Flasher

[redsquirrell]

Ive always used a dedicated PC for xbox flashing, but years ago i bricked a couple of hitachi drives and Ive never bothered since.

A mate gave me his and its hitachi - i said ill give it a go, but if things start to not go my way ill stop..

Anyway so im using the new jungle flasher. After a few issues, i think ive managed to get it reading the firmware from the drive. However, after a few dots it fails.

Is this a problem with my VIA card? Should i stop now if its having problems at this stage (i dont want it to fail during writing!!)

any advice? thanks

[woody101]

I had a similar issue with my nforce chipset.

It worked fine on mine if I changed from PortIO top WindowsIO after doing the 78's Mode B and Refresh.

Hope it does the same for you

[redsquirrell]

ill try that , im pretty sure i already tried though.

Just testing on my vista media center, first attempt the pc crashed so im not confident this is gonna work..

[redsquirrell]

Managed to get the firmware on the vista machine using the built in SATA.

However...

when i do the next part, it says "dumping flash: upload buffer failed".

Oh dear.

[redsquirrell]

all done :)

I was being silly and misread the instructions - there is a part on flashing ixtreme over ixtreme - this is what was causing the dumping problems after.

[cupraR]

Hi guys

I'm getting the 'RAM poke failed' error msg when i click on flash hacked f/w.

I've followed the jungle flasher guide to the T, what am i doing wrong?

Thanks

[redsquirrell]

Hi guys

I'm getting the 'RAM poke failed' error msg when i click on flash hacked f/w.

I've followed the jungle flasher guide to the T, what am i doing wrong?

Thanks

is this from scratch or from an old ixtreme?

i did get the ram poke failed, but that was cos i was following the instructions for overwriting ixtreme (when there wasnt any on there in the first place).

After i grabbed the firmware from the drive, i click flash ixtreme and it just seemed to work.

I had so many problems along the way though, at least if i have another hitachi id probably know what to do.

[cupraR]

Hey, thanks for your reply.

It's from scratch and im justing following the guide as it is..??

I'll keep on trying and hopefully it'll be flashed!! any other advice?