Upgrading 360 ixtreme firmware with a laptop?

[bshegg]

Can anyone give a rundown flashing ixtreme (benq) using a laptop? Or point me in the right direction to some good resources?

[drtoker]

http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=513412
partway down the page is benq

[bshegg]

I believe all of those are tutorials using a serial cable connected to a desktop computer. I'm curious as to if the BenQ can be flashed without a desktop now like the hitatchi. Also, 1.5 is the most current firmware (I believe).

[shawners]

I ave a ISO disc that does the job for you, but you need to the USB connector that connects to your laptop. I think their off any xbox mod shop. IXTREME 1.5 saved my bacon. I had gotten my xbox back from the service, they swaped the old drive that was a Benq out with a LITEON. So i went on ebay, ordered Benq drive to have flashed and spoofed as a liteon drive.. So the week came that i got the drive which took forever in the mail since it was christmas time and coming from China as Parcel Post. So soon as i got it, they released the 1.5 that made liteon drives flashable. Thanks to the endless effort on the xbox 360 scene. So i put the drive up on ebay, sold it within 2 hours.

Ok, i read the NFO file for the modifcation disc. Cant use the USB connector with the disc.
360 Modification Disc v1.5 by FrostyTheSnowman (Public Release)
---------------------------------------------------------------



Features:

- Complete Modding Solution for Samsung/BenQ/Lite-On
- iXtreme v1.5 (12x) Firmware
- Supports Samsung TS-H943
- Supports BenQ VAD6038
- Supports Lite-On DG-16D2S
- Supports Previously Modded Drives
- Supports Previously Spoofed Drives
- 100% DOS Based Dumping & Flashing
- Supports FAT32 & NTFS Filesystems (WinXP/Vista 32-Bit & 64-Bit)
- Fully Automatic Dumping & Flashing
- Step-by-Step Instructions
- Backup of all drive-related files to HDD




NOTE: This disc requires a VIA VT6421 PCI SATA (or compatible) card
installed, and a NTFS formatted drive/partition as the 'C:' drive
for this disc to work properly.

NOTE 2: This disc *might* work with other types of SATA chipsets/cards,
but it is recommended that you use a VIA VT6421 SATA card.

NOTE 3: USB serial adapters are NOT compatible with this disc!




Usage:

- Make sure you have a VT6421 (or compatible) PCI SATA card installed in your PC

- Burn this ISO, and boot this disc in your PC

- Follow the prompts to mod any Samsung, BenQ, or Lite-On XBOX 360 DVD-ROM drive

- All firmware dumps, modified firmware, and other files related to the drive being
modified will be placed in the following directories on your 'C' drive:

Samsung TS-H943 - C:\SAMFILES

BenQ VAD6038 - C:\BENFILES

Lite-On DG-16D2S - C:\LONFILES




Disclaimer:

I take absolutely no responsibilty for the use of this disc by anyone. Use at your own risk!




Special Thanks & Credits:

Team Jungle - For the awesome iXtreme v1.5 firmware used by this disc
Datapol-Technologies - For their shareware NTFS4DOS software (NTFS support)
Dennis Bareis - GETRESP (used to input variables into MS-DOS batch files)
Franck Uberto - XMSDSK (used to create a RAMDISK under MS-DOS)
Geremia, Modfreakz, Podger, Redline99 and Tiros - DOSFLASH (BenQ/Lite-On)
Joseph Lin - MTKFLASH (Samsung)
Caster420 - Firmtool (Samsung/BenQ/Lite-On iXtreme firmware generating)
TJ - DVDKey & DummyGen (used to dump firmware for the Lite-On drive)
yaywoop - Original design of the included (and slightly modified) serial diagram

[drtoker]

Sorry bout that, should have read closer :x