Ms28 problem freezing

[The Phone Guy]

Now trying to flash a ms28 on an onboard sata VT8237

Ive made a disk in windows with xtreme boot maker.

1,I boot the pc with floppy and it loads up.
The 360 is not attached at all...

2,I then type mtkflash r /m orig.bin
3, Plug in sata and power up 360
4,Hit enter and it comes up with 2 choices

1.Xtrme sata
2. Via 8237

5, I power off the 360
6, select 1
7, Wait 11 secs
8, press power back on


The floppy whirls up and it says found SST39sf020a etc etc and reading and then just freezes at 00%

Any ideas?

Ive tried
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Selecting both 1 & 2
Waiting longer and shorter
Removed and put in other drives etc

[danman]

Is floppy you'r only boot option? USB stick handles the read a lot better IMHO.

[The Phone Guy]

The pc wont boot from usb :(

Will this make much difference?

[burpy]

what motherboard?, whats that xtrme sata thing?, is Sata disabled in bios

[danman]

In my experience yes. I tried many times from floppy (even with MS25) ant it was lousy. I even searched high and low for a local supplier of floppies in case the old ones I had knocking around were past it. As soon as i tried with the exact same files on a 128 USB stick it was easy as pie and I never looked back.

On a couple of my comps I can even use the card reader if your comp has one?
I have plenty of old MMC/Mem stick Pro mem cards lying around from phones and PSP's etc that work just as well as anything.
Might be worth a try?

[The Phone Guy]

I feel like a newb again as last time it worked straight off...lol

The xtreme sata thing is when you use xbox boot disk maker etc...


The mobo i tried today was a MSI one but I have another msi board coming tomoz along with a Via L sata

[dvdsrus05]

Here ya go have a read thru here dedicated page to your problem

h**p://forums.xbox-scene.com/lofiversion/index.php/t555924.html (http://forums.xbox-scene.com/lofiversion/index.php/t555924.html)

[thecheekymonkey]

dont use floppys. its corrupted many dumps when i started doing em, either use a usb or creat a fat 32 partition on hdd > make bootable > set option to boot menu at startup

floppys aint no good.

[burpy]

i use a floppy, never had a problem with any m25's or m28's

[thecheekymonkey]

i use a floppy, never had a problem with any m25's or m28's

i have, may differ from system to system, but i had serious problems using floppys, so straight away used usb stick.

each to there own though, nothing wrong if it works ;) just floppys arent the most reliable things in the world ;)

[godthedj]

Had the same problem, eventually fixed it by typing samread xxxxx xxx (or whatever) on the command prompt with the 360 turned on - then as soon as you hit enter turn it off. Once the list comes up hit your choice then wait a few seconds and turn it on again

worked for me, good luck!