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Best options for a V4 that has phoned home (modified 0 times) DeadSock Profile | Email Hi all, I'm about to embark on hacking my second IO. The first was a V1 so was a no-brainer. The second unit is a v4 that has been connected to the IO "service". It's time for that unit to undergo the hack, and I'm wondering about the best way to proceed ... Is it possible to hack with the C/H/S hd trick? (the question really is that since this has been phoning home, is that trick now 'disabled') Would it just be best to buy a badflash bios for it? opinions wanted thanks 04-26-2001 09:24:55

RE:Best options for a V4 that has phoned home (modified 0 times) * StarFish * Profile YES, Just purchase one from BadFlash, If You can ask Yourself This Question, I Think It is Your Answer ! GREAT / FAST / FRIENDLY Sevice ! Give Him a Try, You'll Like Him While You Wait for other Opinions, You might Want to Review This Thread ? I-Opener General Posts / Can't Access QNX Prompt (Please Follow My Links & review those Threads Also) If You are thinking about HotFlashing, You Have To be Ready to "Bet The Farm" (You could Lose it All.) I have Done it. You Really want a Good Chip Puller & it is still a Pain. I will be Happy to answer what I know? (But going to Play on The Surface for awhile) Have a Great Day * StarFish * 04-26-2001 09:57:58

RE:Best options for a V4 that has phoned home (modified 0 times) BadFlash Profile | Email If you can get a QNX prompt following the thread, then you can likely do the QNX flash. Be sure you have the flasher that uses the RISE and a proper V4 image. The V3 image and flasher won't work. 04-26-2001 11:48:41

RE:Best options for a V4 that has phoned home (modified 0 times) Dude2222 Profile BadFlash is the way to go - I thought I burned my bios (one purchased from badflash) but it works like a champ. He's quick, fast and is willing to help. --Dude 04-26-2001 17:38:34

RE:Best options for a V4 that has phoned home (modified 0 times) Deke Profile Ok, I'm completely new to this whole thing, but I got a v4 iopener and just want to get it up and running Win98. I haven't had any luck at getting the QNX prompt which I assume is because it was phoning home until just recently. So from what I understand I need to flash the bios, correct? Is just buying the chip from badFlash alot easier than trying to do it myself? I'm not computer illiterate, but I only ever flashed my desktop bios, and this sounds like it involves alot more work. How difficult is swapping the chip, what all is involved? Any step by step instructions would be appreciated. Thanks.. Deke 04-28-2001 08:54:20

RE:Best options for a V4 that has phoned home (modified 0 times) * StarFish * Profile Yes, You Should Buy your BIOS from BADFLASH ! Since You will have your I-Opener apart & laying on it's Face, (Don't Break the Display ! & Remove Power to the I-Opener. I used a 1" thick piece of stiff packing foam. USE a PLCC Chip Extractor (Radio Shack 276-2101 $10) Extract the OLD Bios Chip. ***** This is the HARD PART ! ***** Always Observe Pin #1 (The Dimple & the 45 degree Corner) Place the New BIOS chip in the Empty socket. Gently Press it straight down. Now You are Ready to Test it. If it doesn't Boot up, Try Not fully seating the Chip. 04-28-2001 09:40:00

RE:Best options for a V4 that has phoned home (modified 0 times) Deke Profile Ok, I'm completely new to this whole thing, but I got a v4 iopener and just want to get it up and running Win98. I haven't had any luck at getting the QNX prompt which I assume is because it was phoning home until just recently. So from what I understand I need to flash the bios, correct? Is just buying the chip from badFlash alot easier than trying to do it myself? I'm not computer illiterate, but I only ever flashed my desktop bios, and this sounds like it involves alot more work. How difficult is swapping the chip, what all is involved? Any step by step instructions would be appreciated. Thanks.. Deke 04-28-2001 10:38:30

RE:Best options for a V4 that has phoned home (modified 0 times) Deke Profile Sorry for the duplicate post..accident.. Deke 04-28-2001 10:40:41

RE:Best options for a V4 that has phoned home (modified 0 times) BadFlash Profile | Email The basic steps are to get a 12.7mm or thinner hard drive, a "flipped" IDE cable, and a bios chip. You use a 2.5-3.5" adapter and set up the 2.5" drive on a desktop computer so it will boot, then you copy the Win98SE cable files, the via 4in1 drivers, and mode.com onto the drive. Plug in the cable & drive using you choice of mounting methods. Swap out the bios chip, observing polarity. You don't need a chip puller. A small flat blade jeweler's screwdriver worked into the open corners will get the old chip out. Just use finders to press the new chip in. Polarity dot on the shoulder of the chip goes toward the modem. Backward=bad smell and dead IO. Plug in a standard PS2 keyboard, boot up and as soon as you see light start hitting CNRTL-ALT-ESC to enter setup. Change the boot sequence to C-Only. Save settings & exit. It should now boot to the C drive. Type mode co80 and run setup to install Win98SE. Load the VIA 4in1 drivers and you will have a Win98 Machine. If you want ot get wild & crazy you can boost the machine to 128M ran and a 450Mhz K6-2P with a little soldering. It isn't as easy as it sound, but a lot more enjoyable. Prepare to get addicted 04-28-2001 19:57:37

RE:Best options for a V4 that has phoned home (modified 0 times) Deke Profile Great, thanks. A couple questions, what exactly are the Win98 "cable files"? I thought I read I just needed to copy over all teh setup files. I was planning on using plain old Win 98, is this ok, or does it need to be SE? Also, what is the mode file for. I'm just a little curious. Laslty, are there any procesors better than the Rise that can just be dropped in? Thanks for all your help. I actually just ordered my bios chip from you yesterday. Deke 04-29-2001 09:45:50

"Cable" files? Should be .CAB files (modified 0 times) NormConquest Profile | Email Must be a typo by BadFlash. The install/setup files are compressed in a format called "cabinet," with a .cab extension. 04-29-2001 11:33:11

RE:Best options for a V4 that has phoned home (modified 0 times) BadFlash Profile | Email Yea, should be cab files. Got cables on the brain... 05-01-2001 10:43:05

RE:Best options for a V4 that has phoned home (modified 0 times) BadFlash Profile | Email Win98SE is a much better choice. You can get a Win98SE upgrade from Win98FE for $14 at directdeals.com. mode.com allows you to set the screen mode to color 80 character (mode co80). The IO does not naturally boot up in this mode. If you run SETUP without running the mode command first the screen goes white and you can't see doodle and won't know what scandisk is asking. 05-01-2001 10:47:19

RE:Best options for a V4 that has phoned home (modified 0 times) Ragnar Profile I wondered why when I first ran setup that I couldn't get past the scandisk part. That had me perplexed for a minute, until I remembered how to skip the scandisk part of the setup using the old dos command switch c:>setup /is to completely skip the scandisk program from running during setup. Wow, learning something new most everyday. 05-01-2001 19:54:32

RE:Best options for a V4 that has phoned home (modified 0 times) Deke Profile Well all my parts finally arrived...no thanks to Global Micro, and my iopener is now useful again. THanks for all of your help. I do have a question though. It shows a removable disk as teh a drive, and says it needs to be reformatted, but when I went to format it, it showed only 180k. I had assumed this was the sandisk. can anyone tell me what is going on. I was hoping to make limited use of teh sandisk as a recovery option, but am not sure how to go about putting anything on it if it's not there. It is shown as my primary slave on bootup. Thanks to badflash for the bios chip..worked perfect the first time. Deke 05-05-2001 19:45:11

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