So you have the Xbox 360 Benq drive, and you want to flash it with iXtreme 1.5? Good news, this is easy to do. I’m going to be using the CK3 Connectivity Kit in this tutorial. The first thing you’re going to want to do, is open the Xbox 360, to get to your Benq drive. It’s actually easier than you think. The first step, is to watch this video. You’re going to need a TORX 10 screwdriver.
The next step, once you’re done opening your Xbox 360 case, is to completely remove the Benq drive from the console. Once you have that done, you need to hook up the CK3 connectivity kit to your Benq drive. Just take a look at the image below, pretty easy. Also, for flashing this, I’m using the Via 6421, which is an PCI card, and can be found on Ebay pretty cheap.
Now from here, you have a couple of different ways to go about flashing this. Many tutorials out there, use iPrep, however, I never had any luck getting this to work. So I’m going to show you how to use a combination of DosFlash v1.7 to retrive the key, and JungleFlasher to create your Xbox 360 custom firmware.
Once you have your drive connected to your computer, open up DosFlash. You’ll get a polling window, asking to send the vendor info to device on 09F0 ( or whatever yours may be ), just click ok, power off your 360, wait 2 seconds, the power the 360 back on. Dosflash only initiates after your have clicked “OK” and the device has been turned off/on again.
You’ll know if you got it right if the green light on your 360 starts flashing constantly. You may have to play with this for a little bit to get it to work right. Sometimes the first polling window that comes up is actually for other devices you have in your system. SATA hard drives, DVD drives, etc.
You have to retry with the different device address until you get the hang of what works for you. This is why you disable other drives in your system, to minimize the amount of addresses that dosflash polling windows ask you to resend the info for.
Once it shows your Benq drive as connected, go ahead and read the firmware. Do this a couple of times, making sure your key is the same every time. Once you’re good, same it as whatever you want, orig.bin for example. Now it’s time to open up JungleFlasher.
Now, this is easy, so don’t screw it up. All you have to do, is hit “Load Source Firmware”, and select the firmware that you save using DosFlash. Then, click on “Open Target Firmware” select the firmware ix15Benq.bin ( if you haven’t downloaded the firmware yet, you can download it from Team Xecuter ).
Now, the next step, once you have loaded your original firmware, and loaded the iXtreme firmware, is to click the button “Spoof Source to Targe”. Once done, click “Save to File”, name is anything you want, I named mine benqmodified.bin. 
Now, go back to Dosflash 32, erase your firmware off your Xbox 360 drive.
Once that is complete, click the drop down on the top, select “Write Firmware”, load the firmware you saved from Jungleflasher.
Once it’s done, you can verify everything is working, by clicking on the eject button, on the CK3, making sure it ejects.
The next step, is just put your Xbox 360 back together, and to burn a copied Xbox 360 game, to make sure it actually works, since this is the goal of yours.
For more information, I highly recommend checking out these following links for more information.
Here are some links you’ll need to download the firmware and applications for flashing your 360.
Download iXtreme Firmware 1.51 here – http://www.ixtreme.net/downloads/ixtreme-firmware-for-all-drives-t6.html
Download DosFlash V 1.7 – http://www.ixtreme.net/downloads/dosflash-t15.html
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hey where do you get a ck3 at? I cant find one anywhere
here ya go
http://www.modchip.ca/store/home.php?cat=284
also how is the drive still connected to the 360. and do you know how a cia chipset connects to my comp. is it usb or what. cause i have a laptop not a pc. will it still work.
no, you need a desktop to be able to hook up drive. You really don’t need a ck3 at all to flash the benq drive.
checkout http://www.ixtreme.net/xbox-360-tutorials/flashing-benq-drive-ck3-using-dosflash-tutorial-t21.html
thanks man. thats a huge help. i appreciate it
when doing this u can just have the xbox 360 base plugged in and use that power source if don’t have the ck3 but make sure you still plug back in your patch cords in to the base also because the 360 will turn off at random times unless you have the patch cable plugged in (if don’t understand just plug in the cord u plug too your tv)and it will keep the power going for your xbox 360 and just unplug the xbox 360 sata cable but leave the white one plugged it and run the red sata cable too your pc just have to keep your xbox closer to pc and this works for me enjoy and hope that helps
So you prefer using the CK3 connectivity kit for flashing the xbox 360 benq drive right? Where should I get the kit at?
ok so i have my drive hooked up to the pc. I open dosflash, click yes for it to resend the vendor thing, restart my xbox and the light starts blinking real fast but dosflash doesnt say anything. Any Ideas?
brett, head over to ixtreme.net, and I’ll help you out over their.
Hi
Can I use this
Connectivity Kit V3 (CK3)
i cant find the ck3 kit your using on the modchip site do you have a direct link
Hi, I’m a newbie here so here’s few question for someone. If you do flash your 360 and it works and able to play burned games fine, what about xbox live can they tell if you have flashed your drive? can you play burned games on xbox live? what about your store bought games can they still be played on xbox live with a flashed drive? been looking for these answers and have not yet found them yet will keep looking thanks, newbie Zack
Thanks for cotinrbuting. It’s helped me understand the issues.
thank you very hammer you are the fantastic
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