firmware parse failed

[Rhys Verrill]

Hi, a friend of mine has asked me to repair their xbox. (sorry about the essay!)

I have had quite a lot of experiance flashing drives but this one has me stumped!
when booting up the green power light blinks as if no drive is connected, then 1 red light comes on showing E65
so I assume this has the wrong drive (I believe it should have a samsung or hitachi) but there is a Benq drive connected

connect benq to jungleflasher, not reconised, managed to get into vendor mode by 'intro id' when tray half closed
dump flash only to get an error returned

JF log:



JungleFlasher 0.1.91 Beta (300)

Session Started Mon Apr 30 13:36:49 2012



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

portio32.sys Driver Installed

portio32.sys Driver Started, thanks Schtrom !

Found 9 I/O Ports.

Found 1 Com Ports.

Found 3 windows drives C: E: F:

Found 1 CD/DVD drives E:



Sending Vendor Intro to port 0xA000

Status 0x80

Re-sending Vendor Intro:

....

Serial flash found with Status 0x73



Sending Device ID request to port 0xA000

Manufacturer ID: 0xC2

Device ID: 0x11

Flash Name: MXIC(MX25L2005)

Flash Size: 262144 bytes



Getting Status from port 0xA000

Serial flash found with Status 0x73



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

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

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

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



Dumped in 5288mS



Benq Dump file saved to BENQ-OFW.bin

Loading firmware from buffer

Parse Failed !



Loading MTK_Flash source file

Loading firmware file C:\Users\Rhys\Desktop\keys\work\BENQ-OFW.bin

MD5 hash: 703a6e8bd3460b4999cfbfd6abf48a73

Parse Failed !


Is there any way to extract the DVD key from the firmware, I have tried a hex editor but I am very much a novice with that!

any help appreciated, thanks!

[alexhore]

Outro the drive and remove power and sata for a few min then go back through the guide from the start. If its still happeneing then its Firmware corruption.
You could probably get the key from the dump using HEX but I have never tried and I am not sure if there is a way to tell if the key got corrupted with the rest of it.
Not sure you have a way out other than outro-intro-ing the drive a few times.
RGH can be done to get the key from the board but its a lot of work unless you get someone to do it for you and that will be at a price.

Edit, any hardmods been done to it. Eg cut traces and so on. Would not be the first time!