benq drive that won't stay closed

[krazyone2006]

ok so someone brought me over a 360 today with a benq drive that will not stay shut kinda like its stuck in b-mode anyone have any clue how to fix this all it does is eject the drive as soon as you close it and the center light just flashes green no mater what i try it just opens up and stays open even when you power the console down it opens LOL

[F4thAcE]

check to see if there are any obstructions in it forcing it to open?

[krazyone2006]

i did i opened the drive up and blew it out and see nothing obstructinting it it just won't stay closed even if i push the button it will close and then open back up 1-2 seconds later its really weird

[F4thAcE]

hmm.. try switching positions like horizontal, to vertical?

[krazyone2006]

ok now the drive is staying closed but the center green light is flashing LOl wtf

[F4thAcE]

what happens when the light flashes like a black screen or you can go to dashboard or what does still work?

[PspKicks316]

The power led flashing means the drive is open lol
Maybe you have the open tray error.

[krazyone2006]

it goes to the dash board and just keeps opening the tray i even spoofed a sammy i had laying around and its doing it too

and when i was spoofing the sammy it would tell me drive returned invalid status but its in vendor mode half tray trick cause i had ix 1.61 on the sammy then it finally wrote to it

[PspKicks316]

Eh. Not to be lazy, but I'm about to go to bed so do this yourself XD Google the open tray error.. kinda sounds like that's what you've got. I haven't looked into it much to see what causes it but you might be able to.

Night. Good luck Krazy.

[jrfhoutx]

if you've used multiple drives in it and they all do it then it's not your drive, check your DVD cable and make sure they all have continuity, if they do, then start checking the pins and solder joints on the mobo...

[krazyone2006]

yeah i would if that was the problem open tray error is where it won't read games fixed that before this is the tray will not stay closed no matter what i do it even ejects after the 360 shuts down the lights are off and the drive still ejects all by itself will not stay closed unless i push it closed after i shut the 360 off and it opens for its last time then as soon as i turn the 360 on the tray opens

[jrfhoutx]

you said you spoofed and used a completely different drive with the same 360 and it did the exact same thing right?

[krazyone2006]

yes i had a sammy laying around from a e74 console that i spoofed and it still did it

[jrfhoutx]

well if it does it on multiple drives then it's not a mechanical issue with the drive, the common items are then your mobo and the DVD cable, the issue must be one of them (unless you have two drives with the exact same problem which is unlikely), basic troubleshooting 101... find the common items in the setup and remove them from the equation 1 by 1...

[krazyone2006]

i have changed out the power cord and sata cord for the drive so i know its not them i don't have another 360 to try this drive in so it might be the mother board then
 

ok i am thinking it has to be the firmware on the drive is corupt somehow cause i got a motherboard here that overheats within like 10 second and i hooked it up to that and turned the motherboard on and the drive ejected instantly so it has to be the drives firmware or something the 360 was opened before i got it to so maybe its another mixed up drive or something i have no clue and am not getting paid enough to figure it out LOL

[jrfhoutx]

the only other thing I've heard is to check the magnet inside the drive it sometimes gets stuck to the spindle... I suppose it's possible you could have 2 drives that are doing that, especially if they've been turned upside down...

edit:
if you put in a disc and close the drive and hold it closed (like with your fingers or something) will it load and play games like normal, or does it make a grinding noise?

[krazyone2006]

i even tried with the top cover of the drive off and it still just ejects the tray on both motherboards. i'm thinking its not the stock drive again or the firmware got corrupted somehow on it but i can still get jungle flasher to read erase and write to it do the vendor outro command disconnect the drive from the pc hook it back into the 360 and as soon i plug it back into the 360 it ejects like i said even when the 360 is turning off powering down it will eject the drive and leave it open until i push it shut like its possesed or something LOL


it will just stay make no noise till i let go then the drive shoots open

[jrfhoutx]

will it read the disc if you hold it shut?

[krazyone2006]

no it does not sound like its reading any disc you can hear the laser move up and down and thats all

[jrfhoutx]

sounds or not, does it actually read it? will it display a game, or dvd or play a cd?

[krazyone2006]

no it is not moving back and forth on the track it just moves up and down when the tray ejects and push the button to try to close it

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JungleFlasher 0.1.69 Beta

Session Started Wed Jan 06 22:11:00 2010



This is a 32 bit process running on 2 x 32 bit CPUs

portio32.sys Driver Installed

portio32.sys Driver Started, thanks Schtrom !

Found 13 I/O Ports.

Found 0 Com Ports.

Found 9 windows drives C: D: E: F: G: I: J: K: L:

Found 1 CD/DVD drives G:





Sending Magic Keys to Drive on port 0x0xB400

..........................................

Done!

Sending Vendor Intro

Requesting Device ID

Manufacturer ID: 0xC2

Device ID: 0x11

Flash Name:  MXIC(MX25L2005)

Flash Size:  262144 bytes



Getting Status from port 0xB400

Serial flash found with Status 0x73



Reading Bank 0: ................

Reading Bank 1: ................

Reading Bank 2: ................

Reading Bank 3: ................



Benq Dump file saved to C:\Users\Roger & Dale\Documents\xbox360\Ferancisco's friends Benq\BENQ-OFW.bin

Loading firmware from buffer

Inquiry string found

Identify string found

Drive key @ 0xA030 093BBBDC3BD4CBDD93E7152D53049261

Firmware Osig: [PBDS    VAD6038-64930C      ]

Firmware is:  Stock                           



Key added to database

Key database updated



Loading MTK_Flash source file

Key data saved to C:\Users\Roger & Dale\Documents\xbox360\Ferancisco's friends Benq\Key.bin



Loading firmware file C:\Users\Roger & Dale\Documents\xbox360\BenQ_iXtreme-THX_v1.61\ix161-benq.bin

MD5 hash:  c5d82141594ea2e172449861c29b8ac3

Inquiry string found

Identify string found

Drive key @ 0xE030 77777777777777777777777777777777

Firmware Osig: [PBDS    VAD6038-64930C      ]

Firmware is:  iXtreme v1.61-12x-FINAL-VAD6038



Spoofing Target

DVD Key copied to target

ID strings already match

Serial data copied from Source to Target





Target f/w saved as: C:\Users\Roger & Dale\Documents\xbox360\Ferancisco's friends Benq\Benq_CFW.bin



Getting Status from port 0xB400

SPi flash found with Status 0x73



Sending Chip Erase to Port 0xB400

Writing target buffer to flash

Writing Bank 0: ................

Writing Bank 1: ................

Writing Bank 2: ................

Writing Bank 3: ................



Flash Verification Test !

Reading Bank 0: ................

Reading Bank 1: ................

Reading Bank 2: ................

Reading Bank 3: ................

Write verified OK !



Sending Vendor Outro to port 0xB400





~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

JungleFlasher 0.1.69 Beta

Session Started Wed Jan 06 23:16:05 2010



This is a 32 bit process running on 2 x 32 bit CPUs

portio32.sys Driver Installed

portio32.sys Driver Started, thanks Schtrom !

Found 13 I/O Ports.

Found 0 Com Ports.

Found 9 windows drives C: D: E: F: G: I: J: K: L:

Found 1 CD/DVD drives G:



Sending Vendor Intro to port 0xB400



Serial flash found with Status 0x73



Sending Device ID request to port 0xB400

Manufacturer ID: 0xC2

Device ID: 0x11

Flash Name:  MXIC(MX25L2005)

Flash Size:  262144 bytes



Getting Status from port 0xB400

Serial flash found with Status 0x73



Reading Bank 0: ................

Reading Bank 1: ................

Reading Bank 2: ................

Reading Bank 3: ................



Benq Dump file saved to C:\Users\Roger & Dale\Documents\Key.bin

Loading firmware from buffer

Inquiry string found

Identify string found

Drive key @ 0xE030 093BBBDC3BD4CBDD93E7152D53049261

Firmware Osig: [PBDS    VAD6038-64930C      ]

Firmware is:  iXtreme v1.61-12x-FINAL-VAD6038



Key database updated

Key database updated



Loading MTK_Flash source file

Loading firmware file C:\Users\Roger & Dale\Documents\xbox360\Ferancisco's friends Benq\BENQ-OFW.bin

MD5 hash:  1cf3e05bafdb511e8e406e62cc050f59

Inquiry string found

Identify string found

Drive key @ 0xA030 093BBBDC3BD4CBDD93E7152D53049261

Firmware Osig: [PBDS    VAD6038-64930C      ]

Firmware is:  Stock                           



Loading firmware file C:\Users\Roger & Dale\Documents\xbox360\Ferancisco's friends Benq\Benq_CFW.bin

MD5 hash:  91d1c847651fabc309a237b1f8f5de8b

Inquiry string found

Identify string found

Drive key @ 0xE030 093BBBDC3BD4CBDD93E7152D53049261

Firmware Osig: [PBDS    VAD6038-64930C      ]

Firmware is:  iXtreme v1.61-12x-FINAL-VAD6038



Spoofing Target

DVD Key already matches

ID strings already match

Serial data already matches





Target f/w saved as: C:\Users\Roger & Dale\Documents\xbox360\Ferancisco's friends Benq\Benq_CFW.bin



Getting Status from port 0xB400

SPi flash found with Status 0x73



Sending Chip Erase to Port 0xB400

Writing target buffer to flash

Writing Bank 0: ................

Writing Bank 1: ................

Writing Bank 2: ................

Writing Bank 3: ................



Flash Verification Test !

Reading Bank 0: ................

Reading Bank 1: ................

Reading Bank 2: ................

Reading Bank 3: ................

Write verified OK !



Sending Vendor Outro to port 0xB400



[jrfhoutx]

does your screen display a disc read error when you try and play a disc?

wait, have you put this thing back in the 360 or are you trying this with all the flashing hooked up still?

[krazyone2006]

nope it won't stay closed long enough to try to read it 1-2 seconds after i close the tray it opens right back up and even when i hold it shut you can hear the laser move up and down with the tray but not attemp[t to read the disc
Post Merge: January 06, 2010, 12:00:05 PMno i put it in jungleflasher thinking somehow it got kicked into a mode-b cause the kid brought it over like this he was playing codmw2 yesterday and his drive just ejected and since then it would't stay closed it just keeps ejecting\

its in the 360 when its doing all this i use the 360 to power the drive and no it wasn't hooked to the pc while trying all this i just posted the jf log to show that its picking up reading the firmware erasing the firmware and writing to the drive so the firmware is there

[jrfhoutx]

ok back to square one.

First, flash the original drive back to original firmware...

Second, hook it all back up to the 360 so that you could use it to play a game (if everything were working properly)...

Third, Put a disc in the tray.

Fourth, turn on the 360.

Fifth, push the eject button to close the drive and as soon as the drive closes HOLD IT CLOSED and don't stop holding it until you have finished step 6

Sixth, see what happens. ie. does the drive read the disc (will it read a game dvd or cd)? does the drive make any noises?  does the TV that the 360 is hooked up to display any errors (like 'disc read error')?

Seventh, check to see if you have a secondary error code:
* Turn the xbox 360 on, and wait till the 3 red lights are flashing.
* Press and hold the sync up button (the small white one), while holding that button press the eject button.
* The LEDs will now blink the first number in the code (as described below).
* Release the eject button and press it again.
* The LEDs will now blink the second number of the code.
* Release the eject button and press it again.
* The LEDs will now blink the third number of the code.
* Release the eject button and press it again.
* The LEDs will now blink the forth number of the code.
* Release the eject button and press it again.
* The LEDs will go back to the 3 red flashing lights.

You should be able to determine the difference between the 3 flashing lights and the error code lights by the rate in which they flash.

Here is how you interpret the LEDs to get the code number:

* All four lights flashing - 0
* One light flashing - 1
* Two Lights flashing - 2
* Three lights flashing - 3

Eighth, report the results here...

I have to go walk the dog, should take you about that long to do all that...

[krazyone2006]

1 flashed back to stock firmware

2 hooked everything back up inside the 360 turned on 360 to put disk in ejected tray instantly
 
3 closed tray with nba2k10 held it drive made no noise except the laser movining for the tray to go out and in

4 cannot hear drive reading disc no game pic even shows up on dashboard under the drive just says close tray no errors on the screen either

5  no secondary code

[jrfhoutx]

ok...

first check to see if the spindle magnet is stuck down (possible if you can't hear the disc spinning). if so, reposition it and try it again.

one other thing to try is to let it open and gently pull out on the tray and see if you hear a click. then check the operation again

if that doesn't work, look for this:

"inside the disc drive there is a white plastic guide track that makes the disc lift up and down when eject and close the tray. it has 2 grooves that are shaped like an z that raises and lowers the laser and disc spinner. what mine was doing, was whenever you close the tray the laser and disc spinner wasnt going up high enough to pick up the disk and trigger the switch to indicate that the laser and spinner is all the way up. to fix the problem i first removed the white plastic track guide and cleaned it. then where the tracks slide along the z groove. when you open your tray the laser and disk guide should be all the way to bottom of the z groove. when trying to close the tray and go to the top it will get hung in the top bend of the z. i used a dremel to remove the sharp coner on the topside of the z groove. i then re greased the groove, reinserted it into the drive and put it back in my xbox and it works like new"

sorry that took a while...

[Modded Matt]

do you have another opened xbox?

I got one off ebay (RROD) someone tried to fix with penneys unsucsessfully. I got it for 8 bucks. when I got it, the drive was unpluged and just sat in the xbox, when I hooked it up, the drive opened, then closed, then opened half way, and closed, and opened, and closed....all on its own without me touching it.  the center light would just keep flashing, or not...I thought it was posessed.

I ended up replacing the cables and it stoped.

dont know if thats your problem or not. but it was mine.

[krazyone2006]

yeah i replaced both cables took the motherboard outta the chasis and cleaned around the eject button cleaned the laser sprayed the drive out compared it to pics on the net and it all looks fine and it still does it stock firmware or ix i'm starting to think someone tried to flash it and bricked it that what everything i read on the web last night gonna mess with it some more later today see what i come up with

[jrfhoutx]

It's possible that it could be the wrong drive for the console and when you flash another drive it doesn't work either cause you don't have the right key, but I would think that that would at least give you some kind of error code, but I wouldn't know cause I don't flash drives, I buy games...

I still don't think it's your drive since you said it happens with another drive, too...

[Modded Matt]

agreed, I am 99% sure this is coming from your mobo, not your drive, the main reason I feel this way is how the center light is acting.

a bad flashed drive dont actlike that, a bad flashed drive, even the wrong key or wrong drive still wont do that, they will usually still act normal and even play dvd's just not games.

you must remember the 360 software has an eject function, not just the button on the console. try the drive in another xbox. if you can.

also a tip for helping the forum pages load smoothly, when making very long posts, where you are copy/pasting the results of a programing window, or such with large spaces, use the "insert code" function. this will help people scroll through the thread easier.

[PspKicks316]

I didn't read anything except for Matt's last post...

The power led directly correlates with the drive status.
There's a wire on the DVD cable that has either 3v3 running through it (closed) or 0v (open).

My guess is that the problem is that wire is dead and is staying at 0v which means the 360 keeps the drive tray open (the drive itself opens the tray when that line is 0v).

I think the 360's eject button (based on how the drive acts) is a NC Tact switch. That is, the 3v3 is always connected to the drive and when it's cut (pressed) it triggers the opening. That depends on if the button is directly wired to the DVD drive connector.
It could also be a grounded switch which triggers it.

I'm too tired to think about this right now, but would there be a simple way of wiring up the eject button and DVD connector so that there's 3v3 running to the drive and then when the button is pressed, it cuts it?

This would mimic how the drive works, and since it looks like the 3v3 line is dead on the connector, this should effectively fix the problem.

Any thoughts?

[jrfhoutx]

My guess is that the problem is that wire is dead
Any thoughts?

that was kinda one of my first thoughts, I said to actually put a meter to each wire in the dvd cable and check for continuity and resistance. sometimes the wires can burn out, also sometimes the wires can get pulled from the connector on removal, they look like they're in place but really aren't and don't provide a good connection...

[PspKicks316]

Ah, sorry. Like I said I didn't read anything else lol

[jrfhoutx]

Ah, sorry. Like I said I didn't read anything else lol

it's cool

so what ever came of this? did it ever get figured out krazy?

[krazyone2006]

no haven't figured it out yet just walked in the door had alot of appointments today fun fun fun i'm going to take another look at it in a bit gonna eat first and take of a few other things  LOL and taco bell 5 layer beef buritos are calling my name LOL