[Who has real experience flashing an LG GDR 8163?]

4 minutes ago, Bowlsnapper said:

Oh god. I would a just used an activation hack. I don't think MS cares anymore.

How did you get burned on marketplace?

I'm dumb so no activation hacks for me.

Guy in Florida sent me a dead Dell. Met all specs, would have to provide my own RAM. No problem except the inside was corroded to hell and back. It was a $100 brick (before shipping) and the seller was gone before I could pitch a fit. Next was a guy trying to increase the price when I went to pick it up. I hate Facebook.

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1 hour ago, Bowlsnapper said:

GOD I wanna do this... I want to finally make use of the 3 616T drives I have. I HAVE to get an old PC... Did you use one, or were you able to flash using windows 11?

I had to get an old PC. Sony Vaio something or another running XP sp3. This is after getting a couple of garbage PCs. Having to restore the computer. Having to reinstall Windows, which includes calling the activation number because the online activation no longer works.

I was attempting this on and off for 3 or 4 years and stopping each time because of frustration. But sunk cost fallacy and all that.

Check eBay for a PC. Facebook Marketplace refurbishers burned me too many times.

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SO HERES A FUCKING UPDATE.

After wallowing I remembered I bought a second 8163b incase the first one was corrupted. Flashed on the first try. BIOS reads it as GDR8050L.

Next step is to install OpenXenium and I'll finally have my Xbox back, and better than it was!

I'm so happy I could cry. Thank you everyone again. This community is awesome.

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On 6/8/2023 at 3:14 PM, Hendi48 said:

For anyone wondering, the 8163to8050flasher.exe in the 1fichier link above is from my GitHub repo: https://github.com/Hendi48/gdr-tools/tree/master/Flashers

I created it 2 years ago after being frustrated that I couldn't get the DOS-based flasher to work on my hardware since my IDE controller was too new. Flashing from Windows is much less of a hassle anyway.

Thank you dude. Sorry I took so long to reply. Life got in the way.

Still did not work lol. I started the program and it stopped and threw a "System failure error" at 2%.

Regardless I appreciate the help from you and everyone else in the thread. I will keep fucking around until I get results. 

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The sf8163 program, after being fumbled around some more, returns the message "drive should not be upgraded because it already has NEW firmware"

What the hell even is this software...

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sweetdarkdestiny, what external flasher did you use? I've attempted to run SF8163.exe with all flags and drive addresses. My BIOS screen will always display the drive correctly, but not in DOS.

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Primary IDE via 80pin cable. Set to Master.

[Who has real experience flashing an LG GDR 8163?]

I'm really in a bind here. All my xboxes are faulty in one way or another. They're going to be hard modded, HDD upgraded, and recapped, but I want a working disk drive and I've already sunk a lot of time into this.

I have a GDR-8163B, the computer BIOS recognizes it.

I have a USB drive flashed (Rufus) with FreeDOS.

And I have the Fixed Firmware (8050L), but when I try to flash it, I get the error "no CD/DVD Drive". I am at a loss of what to do to make this work.

Any help would be greatly  appreciated.