Xbox 360 Mod/Hack FAQ

I'm too lazy/nervous to flash my own 360. Where is a good site to go to find someone who could do this for me?

 

I am a soldier in iraq I have an xbox 360 and was wonderig what do I need to do to play the iraqi burnt games they sell here they tell me I have to give them my xbox360 and they do a hardwar mod but I dont trust em can anyone help me

 

Hi, My x360 was banned couple of weeks ago from xbl. This question might have already been asked. Sorry if it has. It is a modded one with Samsung drive-I think-. By upgrading with the latest firmware will the xbl again or just wasted energy. Thanks!

 

The consoles banned for good, upgrading the drives firmware will not make any difference, its the serial number of the machine thats been black listed by microsoft.

 

Thanks! That's what I was afraid of. I gotta buy a new one. Alright!

 

can someone please answer my questions stated above.. thanks. been waiting for a reply for a long time now.

 

ummm i have been hearing about being banned and i know you mentioned it before but how exactly do they catch you? can you get like an ip blocker or somthing?

also does the dvd drive to burn the backups have to be DVD RW DL or can it be DVD RW?

 

An ip blocker will not work, and also you need a DL burner to backup games.

 

so i bought the pcmia card stated in this topic. It is an esata card, and the drive in the xbox 360 has a sata input. i bought a sata cable and an esata cable and they obviously don't work. I need to go back to Fry's and buy an esata to sata cable correct? is that what you used? has any body else used this? thanks!

 

I think you should have bought a SATA PCMCI card rather than an eSATA, but if you have already bought it, then you will have to buy the esata to sata cable.

 

i bought the one that was refered to in this thread. Has anyone had success with it?

 

well i guess i can answer my own question... for reference it didn't work, kept getting a "can't read from drive error." computer wouldnt boot up as it would just hang at the windows loading screen after the drive was put into mode b (78fk)

 

Once at the boot screen did you have the drive tray ejected, I know it should automatically stay out, but sometimes I have had to manually force it back in, then let it eject at the windows loading screen to get windows to boot.

 

sorry i didn't explain myself well enough..

i plugged the drive to the port, booted up slax, got to login screen, drive was in mode b. close drive (the right way) and proceed to next step.

I restart computer take out slax disk, when it gets to the loading screen, the bar doesnt move or even appear actually (just the outline is there but no blue bar moving through it)

i restart computer several times, same problem.

i unplug sata to computer just to allow the computer to boot. By the time it boots i plug it back in and insert a dvd to try the drive. Autorun starts and i close that. I launch toolbox 4.6, go to dump firmware and get "cant read from drive" error popup. (at the same time the disk in the drive stops spinning)

i have tried it several times with several disks to be safe... no difference...

any help?

i tried closing and opening the drive a billion times at the loading screen... no difference..


HELP ME!!! im thinking of ordering a via vt6141a (i think thats what its called) for my pc. once again i have a hitachi 78fk.. help? ?

 

I've flashed a 78 drive using a via chipset, Im not sure what might be causing the problem here, how long did you wait at the boot up screen?

 

ok so a follow up...

i managed to get the original.bin from the drive with toolbox 3.0

then i tried to flash with toolbox 4.6, and to my luck, my drive is now bricked.

I can confirm the pcmcia card does not work, and your better off with a via 6141 card..

any help for bricked drives?

 

Were you not able to get the original firmware off of the drive through toolbox 4.6??
And is the drive tray not ejecting anymore?

 

i extracted the .bin with 3.0. I then opened it with 4.6 and tried to flash it that way.

the tray is not opening anymore, and im getting the E64 error message. help?

 

Its definitely bricked, you can use something like the chillifix chip to recover the drive, not sure if you can recover it without the chip, or flashing another drive could work, but I dont recommened you use that pcmci card to flash it.

 

hi all,

After reading the tutorials over and over, I decided to mod my friends 360. It had a Hitachi 59 Drive. Use the two-wire resistor trick to set drive in mode B. Connected the drive To my sata ports
(integrated to my Intel D945PVS motherboard) And Flash with ixtreme 1.4 flash. Downloaded Call for Duty 4 burn with clone cd. And it work!!!! On my first try.. And This week will try to do another one.
Will like to do with a different drive. Well just wanted to share my expirience.. Good luck to all on your modding!!!!