Slim Winbond drives hack !

joker@

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w8QuddJYbE&feature=player_embedded

Thanks Geremia

Reamer Fanny

Have been looking for a hack for the winbond chip does this actually work?

wotzgoingon

Was looking at that hack since it was first released. Sourced all the parts today as im in Galway for the night and when i go home tomorrow i will try it. I will report back success or complete and utter failure. Hopefully the first.

witnessmenow

oO

Reamer Fanny

wotzgoingon wrote: »

Was looking at that hack since it was first released. Sourced all the parts today as im in Galway for the night and when i go home tomorrow i will try it. I will report back success or complete and utter failure. Hopefully the first.

Don't forget to dump your slim first with the x360 or lizard would be smart to have a backup since this method is risky

TouchingVirus

Looks MEGA!!

No wonder they're calling it the kamikaze method though

witnessmenow wrote: »

oO

o_O sums up the expression on my face when I saw the dremel, and then the flamethrower

wotzgoingon

justryan wrote: »

Don't forget to dump your slim first with the x360 or lizard would be smart to have a backup since this method is risky

I dont have the Lizard im using the original files Geremia posted and my sata ports.

EDIT: I have my original dump already taking.

Reamer Fanny

So you supply 3.3v with 100ohm resistor to the dremel while drilling near one of the traces under the chip?

wotzgoingon

justryan wrote: »

So you supply 3.3v with 100ohm resistor to the dremel while drilling near one of the traces under the chip?

Yes and wait till you hear the bleep and then stop. Hook up drive to pc and flash with Jungleflasher and then hook back up Geremia's program and lock drive.

Reamer Fanny

wotzgoingon wrote: »

justryan wrote: »

So you supply 3.3v with 100ohm resistor to the dremel while drilling near one of the traces under the chip?

Yes and wait till you hear the bleep and then stop. Hook up drive to pc and flash with Jungleflasher and then hook back up Geremia's program and lock drive.

Let us know how you get on with it

Jimbobjoeyman

still easier than the old hack for the fat lite on with the cutting and soldering cant think of what the hack was called
Yet I can see some idiot drilling a hole all the way threw the chip and pcb and coming on here wondering what went wrong

wotzgoingon

justryan wrote: »

Let us know how you get on with it

Will do!

Reamer Fanny

Jimbobjoeyman wrote: »

still easier than the old hack for the fat lite on with the cutting and soldering cant think of what the hack was called :P
Yet I can see some idiot drilling a hole all the way threw the chip and pcb and coming on here wondering what went wrong

MRA method was not too bad I'd be nervous about drilling into an IC especially doing it for someone else...

wotzgoingon

justryan wrote: »

MRA method was not too bad I'd be nervous about drilling into an IC especially doing it for someone else...

Yea i know what you mean. I own the xbox so i have nobody to blame but myself if it goes wrong but i think its not so bad of a hack to do.

Jimbobjoeyman

justryan wrote: »

MRA method was not too bad I'd be nervous about drilling into an IC especially doing it for someone else...

MRA thats what its called
Ahh it wasn't bad when you had a bit of practice
I think this looks easier just take your time with the drilling

@wotzgoingon
Let us know how this goes for you

wotzgoingon

Jimbobjoeyman wrote: »

@wotzgoingon
Let us know how this goes for you

Will do! I'm just hoping my brother is not on the house pc as mine has too new a sata controller for it to work. Alot of people said not all controllers are compatible.

joker@

I read already about lads who couldn't wait and started work with standard drill with small drill bit

wotzgoingon

joker@ wrote: »

I read already about lads who couldn't wait and started work with standard drill with small drill bit

Thats just askin for trouble!
There is a big difference between a dremel etching bit and a drill bit.

Thor

I'm loving the taught of the guy who came up with this idea!!

I bet he was thinking like this!!

" Lads I can unlock this drive no problem, Just pass me that drill there""

Sounds ridiculous when you think about it, But hey, These guys impress me more and more everyday.

Reamer Fanny

No doubt Team Xecutor will try and commercialise this into a more user friendly solution

joker@

Friday new JF with support and they starting shipping Sputnik switch plus probe.

wotzgoingon

Well i was all set to do the hack and then i had an incompatible chipset. So after searching online somebody said put drive in vender mode using the PMT. Yes i know that was for the phat 360's but this person was sure of it and somebody else comfirmed it worked so i odered the 1F 2.5 V electrolytic capacitor so i will just have to wait till it arrives before i try the hack again.

I'm a little annoyed as i was all set to do it and then. "Problems!" Typical!

Reamer Fanny

You can make a simple PMT with the probe v1 or probe v2(two prongs) just solder a switch to the 3.3v line

Reamer Fanny

Just out of interest how do you put the drive in vendor mode with a PMT I tried with a via card and ck3 but couldn't get status code 72, the only way I could read the firmware was with the 360 lizard

wotzgoingon

justryan wrote: »

You can make a simple PMT with the probe v1 or probe v2(two prongs) just solder a switch to the 3.3v line

I made that today and it wouldn't work for the slim.

justryan wrote: »

Just out of interest how do you put the drive in vendor mode with a PMT I tried with a via card and ck3 but couldn't get status code 72, the only way I could read the firmware was with the 360 lizard

1. Run JF
2. Power on -> LW
3. Press Intro Device ID
4. Put the PMT on MPX01
5. MTK Vendor -> Yes
6. Power off -> on
7. done!! Vendor Mode

I just copied and pasted that above from another site somebody said do that and then use Geremia's program and it should work so as soon as i get that capacitor i will try it. I don't even know if it will work, but somebody posted and said thanks to him for getting his to work, so all i can do is try and if it doesn't work i will have to wait till its integrated into Jungleflasher!

DrGreenthumb

so anyone **** up a dirve yet doing this?

cant see it being too practical for flashing for other folk as of the risk of ****ing it up

Reamer Fanny

DrGreenthumb wrote: »

so anyone **** up a dirve yet doing this?

cant see it being too practical for flashing for other folk as of the risk of ****ing it up

The MRA hack wasn't very practical yet with practice it was easy to do, this seems easy enough to me.

DrGreenthumb

never got into modding the slims, must look into it but it just seems to high risk drilling into the chip, granted it looks easy there is one thing watching it and another doing it

Reamer Fanny

DrGreenthumb wrote: »

never got into modding the slims, must look into it but it just seems to high risk drilling into the chip, granted it looks easy there is one thing watching it and another doing it

There's a picture on the Maximus website that shows you were to draw the lines on the IC you just drill were the lines intersect I'm going to practice this on a dead 73450c PCB.

joker@

Impossible is nothing

Reamer Fanny

I do not really recommend this method it's very difficult to control the dremel to cut the two traces

wotzgoingon

justryan wrote: »

I do not really recommend this method it's very difficult to control the dremel to cut the two traces

Did you try it?? How did it go?? (I'm assuming it went bad going by your post. But i could be wrong) I was meant to post my results but the parts never arrived before i went out of the country and i won't be back for another few weeks so i won't go to try it till i come back. The guides all make it look easy but i suppose somebody with shaky hands is hardly going to make a guide.

Also justryan TeamXecuter have the replacement Pcb boards on sale again in limited supply if you ruined your original board it would be best to purchase one but i recommend pre-ordering as i would say they will quickly.

Reamer Fanny

wotzgoingon wrote: »

Did you try it?? How did it go?? (I'm assuming it went bad going by your post. But i could be wrong) I was meant to post my results but the parts never arrived before i went out of the country and i won't be back for another few weeks so i won't go to try it till i come back. The guides all make it look easy but i suppose somebody with shaky hands is hardly going to make a guide.

Also justryan TeamXecuter have the replacement Pcb boards on sale again in limited supply if you ruined your original board it would be best to purchase one but i recommend pre-ordering as i would say they will quickly.

Yeah I attempted it, I broke the wrong traces as it won't eject anymore. I'm on the hunt for a replacement PCB now, I've heard you can use a 9504 drive or PCB and flash the key & 0225 firmware to the drive if the write enable hasn't been locked.

wotzgoingon

justryan wrote: »

Yeah I attempted it, I broke the wrong traces as it won't eject anymore. I'm on the hunt for a replacement PCB now, I've heard you can use a 9504 drive or PCB and flash the key & 0225 firmware to the drive if the write enable hasn't been locked.

Yes you can do that but M$ can detect that it is not locked and since there are TX pcb's available it might be the better option to purchase one of them as i'd say a 9504 drive would be the same price if not more expensive than the replacement TX PCB's.

Reamer Fanny

I have ordered a TX PCB from ninjabox.fr they were the only supplier on the Team Xecuter website who had this item in stock, I am hoping it's actual stock and not a preorder.

Reamer Fanny

Slightly off topic but it's rumoured a new Xbox dashboard is going to be released soon: http://www.consolemonster.com/newspost.php?id=0000008552

wotzgoingon

justryan wrote: »

Slightly off topic but it's rumoured a new Xbox dashboard is going to be released soon: http://www.consolemonster.com/newspost.php?id=0000008552

Another dashboard?? They've brought out so many updates to the dashboard since the blades it's not even funny. But if true about connecting your smartphone, i hope it allows Android and not just Windows phone 7. I'd say there will be minor changes to this new dashboard.

joker@

And new Lt 1.92 and new troubles ....never ending story.

Reamer Fanny

SexyJoe wrote: »

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Ok thanks....pro

wotzgoingon

I just tried my first Winbond hack last night. I had originally ordered the X360USB Pro to do it but i was out of the country for a long time and when i got back it was faulty so i was not able to do it. I then tried sata ports on my own Desktop but the ports were not compatible. I then tried an old Desktop with ICH5 ports which worked for all other drives in the past but would not work for a slim. I also have a VIA 6421 sata controller and it would not work with that either so i found a guide online a while ago saying use the VIA IDE port with a IDE to SATA convertor and it should work. And sure enough it would not fit in the case while connected to the VIA controller but it would fit whithout the sata cable connect. So i got a right angled sata cable a squezed it in and soldered power cables to it and got it to fit in. So i finally got it to boot up and connected my Winbond drive to the computer and started drilling and got the police siren and stopped drilling(I used the original files by Geremia) So i got it working. I didnt even have to drill far into the chip.