So I installed the viper and all and now i wanted to flash it. But when I am to write the bios to the programmer it says Viper GC not found. I checked the on off buttons and they are right, the computer is on, the gamecube is on, the pport is right and the flexwire is inserted right. So whats my problem?
remember to plug in the parallel cable BEFORE starting the flash tool. I had this problem and thought my Viper was broken...
I had the same problem with mine. Seems many are getting this. I did some research on google and the general suggestions were these: A) Go into your BIOS (reboot required) and change your Parallel port to ECP mode. Try flashing again. To check if your Parallel port is in ECP mode, press [Window Key]+[Pause/Break], click Hardware->Device Manager, click the [+] by Ports, and see if your LPT port is listed as ECP. B) Still doesn't work? Didn't for me either! Another hint was plug the viper flasher DIRECTLY into the PC. This one was a toughie. I had to unscrew the screwholes on the flasher board, and keep the GCN disassembled while I stretched the cord just enough to plug the flasher directly into my parallel port. C) ??? I got it to work at this point. Perhaps others could post hints as to how THEY got theirs running, if they had problems?
I connected the programmer directly with a notebook. Some d-sub 25 cable run seriell instead of parallel. Perhaps that's why many people cannot connect it correctly...
Yeah, I am having the same problem and I think if you were to get a male to female adapter for the ViperGC programmer side, you could hook up a regular parallel cable and everything would be fine.
Here comes the question why the viper team didn't used a USB cable instead of these parallel cable to reprogramm the chip....
it is called windows xp let me explain because many people with gamecubes ps2's and xboxs have the same problem when using windows xp home or professional edition to flash a mod chip if you remember back in the craze to make a cheap digital camera polaroid decided to make a digital camera for 50 dollers that connects to the serial port of any computer not the parallel cable but you will soon see my point any ways in windows xp you could not use this digital camera at all because windows xp wouldn't allow the digital camera to send and receive data to that port it is the same way with mod chip flashing utilitys and flashing devices on several manufactures of computers the parallel cable is set to read only so the computer can only send and receive information from inside windows and inside windows applications so in order to fix this problem you need to go into your bios on your computer and check to see if your printer port supports what is called bi-directional and set it to it i have a matrix mod chip for my xbox that i thought was bad and come to find out it wasn't a bad mod chip or programmer it was a bad computer bios setting that just told it to read only so make sure your printers parallel port supports bi directional
hey but that wasn't the point. We asked why the hell the team choose a parallel instead of a USB cable. And to your BIOS setting point: I think we read it already in so many threads, manuals and FAQs... But nonetheless nice story ;-)
when you power up your gc do dose your laser move ,its just i had the same problem as this because my lid bypass failed ,put it back to its origenal state and you should be fine.
