Made a big oops

[fiveohhh]

In the process of flasing my burner i accidently flashed my dvd rom(creative 12x) with my burners firmware. I tried to use a program called upgrade while in dos to reflash it, but when it gives me the option of where to flash it to, it autromatically skips giveing me the choice and stops the program saying invalid command, anyone have anyideas what to do?

[Bender]

Do you know if the drive was actually flashed? Even if it is you can probably just find the ROM for the DVD drive and flash it using the same program. Tell me what the drive does?

[fiveohhh]

well, I can't get my computer to boot when the drives plugged in. its sits at the windows xp screen and the bar just moves forever, and every 5 seconds or so theres some HD activity, but its an exact pattern over and over. I tried using the firmware flasher that I found for a creative DVD drive, but it didn't work right, and the one that i used to accidently flash it is a single exe with the firmware in it so I can't change it back.. hope that answers your questions.

[Ridenow]

When ever I do something "dangerous" like flashing firmware of fdisking, I usually disconnect the other drives to keep me from being stupid. Don't feel bad, guess how I learned to do this. :rolleyes:
In your case I recomend you disconnect the burner and other drives (except the floppy) while you try to fix the DVD.

[Dissolved]

Originally posted by fiveohhh
well, I can't get my computer to boot when the drives plugged in. its sits at the windows xp screen and the bar just moves forever, and every 5 seconds or so theres some HD activity, but its an exact pattern over and over. I tried using the firmware flasher that I found for a creative DVD drive, but it didn't work right, and the one that i used to accidently flash it is a single exe with the firmware in it so I can't change it back.. hope that answers your questions.

try booting into safe mode..
and flashing the dvdrom again with its own newest firmwire..
if not, if may have fryed, but u could call its manafactor and ask if they could asist you... :)
good luck

[Escuchamezz]

way 'un-cool' and not appreciated. The same thing as a flame and NOT tolerated.

Shadow ÒÓ

[Dissolved]

whats so funny?
its not cool laugh at the loss of others man.. not cool at all.. :mad:

[Arkamedies]

Doesn't help if you start a flame war either.....be nice even tho someone else isn't.

Perhaps this is the measure we should go by to figure out who to ban from the boards? Post a story that should invoke sadness and teamwork to solve, then wait to see what jackass from another forum comes here and acts like a ...well... like a jackass.

[KeyboardCowboy]

dude what is your problem, this is the 3rd time i have seen you making fun of someone

get a life

this forum is sucessful because each member treats everyone else with a certian level of RESPECT, obviosly your mom didn't teach you much about it

[Tbird man]

i vote to ban the laugher

[KeyboardCowboy]

i am with the bird man on this one

BANNED FOR LIFE!

[Tbird man]

post reported.

[KeyboardCowboy]

nicely done my fine feathered friend

maybe that will teach him some manners

[KILLorBE]

fiveohhh which DVD drive do you have (1240E, 1241E, 1242E or 1243E)?
You probably can find that info on the sticker which is on top of the DVD Rom. (If there's a code behind it (like C01) write that down as well).

[Kingslayer]

Absolutely uncalled for and noted.

Cowboy, can you find the other posts in which this person has made fun of others misfortunes and message them too me please.

[Escuchamezz]

I'm not Jonny Knoxville

[Mr B]

Originally posted by Escuchamezz
I'm not Jonny Knoxville

Sounds like you're not winning popularity contests, either....:rolleyes:

[fiveohhh]

Originally posted by KILLorBE
fiveohhh which DVD drive do you have (1240E, 1241E, 1242E or 1243E)?
You probably can find that info on the sticker which is on top of the DVD Rom. (If there's a code behind it (like C01) write that down as well).

The drive is a 1241e.

Also Anyone know where to find a program that will update the firmware? been looking all over and only found one that was called upgrade.bin, but couldn't get that to work. . . Thanks for al your help its most appreciated

[Dissolved]

Originally posted by Dissolved
whats so funny?
its not cool laugh at the loss of others man.. not cool at all.. :mad:


why was this edited?
i dont see a change neways :confused: :confused:
Shadow ÒÓ?

[KILLorBE]

You could try MTKFLASH (attachment), disconnect the CDRW and put the DVD on the secondary IDE (I believe 'master' works best).
I couldn't find much/any info bout this prog, and I don't have a Creative drive so I wasn't able to test it.

If it doesn't work I have a few other options, one of these options is:
E-mail Creative and tell them your problem (I know their support sucks but I've read about one guy that tried to flash his drive, failed, and got a replacement).

Try these first, cuz the other options are not that easy and they ain't free.

[Bender]

KILLorBE is that program supposed to be a universal flash program. If it is I'm very interested.

[fiveohhh]

Well finally decided to put some effort into trying to get this thing to work, and after a while Finally got it figured out, first command in mtkflash was mtkflash 4 w /b bide00.bin, and the second one took me a bit to get, but i figured it out mtkflash 4 w /a1 /b bide01.bin

Thanks for all your help, and just wanted to tell you that i figured it out and how incase anyone else has a similiar problem