BQFlasher

a 810a can't be crossflashed into 1670....

sorry, type wrong, actually wat i mean is dw1640.

There seems to be some incompatibility issues with the latest Sony 810A-R drives and BQFlasher atm, when attempting crossflash to BenQ DW1640.

Precaution! Your drive can be damaged out of possibility to recover.

So yes I bought a Norwood Micro DW1640 at CompUsa with GSOB firmware so my next step is crossflashing. I want to go to BSLB. Is there any way of backing up whats in the firmware and making the process uneventful incapable of failure. Yes I've been to the threads which pertain to the process. But just for fun give me alittle step by step. It would be appreciated. Thanks

Just use the BQFLASHER or WinDWFlash to crossflash your drive. Download either of those flasher programs from zevia's or zebadee's signature. With the WinDWFlasher you have to use the CVT firmwares but with the BQFLASHER you can use the EXE firmwares. You may flash the drive in safemode and make sure there is no disc in the drive when flashing it.

Download the CVT files from this link: (use Internet Explorer to open up that link or if using Mozilla firefox browser you'll need to download and install IE TAB, otherwise the link will open up to Microsoft.com)

http://dvd-rw.hoppy.tk/dvd-rw/benq/1640/

Boot to SAFE MODE. To Flash with WinDWFLASH double click on it to open it up and then direct it to the Compusa norwood micro drive and then to the BSLB cvt firmware. Then let it flash and it will tell you when it's done. Then reboot the pc. The drive will then read BENQ 1640 in device manager. I've flashed all my rebadged BENQ 1640's that way.

Man you are the Man. Live long and prosper......

Can i crossflash my philips dvd8701 with the Benq1640 firmware

anyone flashed 1650 to 1655 without any problems?

I did no problem at all

Yes it can be crossflashed without problem but you wont get the LightScribe features.

how do i crossflash it? and what are the advantages?

You just use the tool in the first post of this thread and point it at a CVT of EXE flasher file with the 1655 or 1650 firmware you want to flash to. There aren't any advantages, unless you like seeing an ID of 1655 instead of 1650.

Please help. New in crossflash. I have a Norwood Micro drive from Compusa which is a DW1640. I have dled the BQFlasher and Nero ASP and put them both in same folder. When I load the BQFlasher, it shows drive as ATAPI DVD DD 8X16X8X16 and version GSOB. clicked on open firmware but it onlu show bqflasher.exe as only file to load. Can I get step by step instructions, please? I apologize for being troublesome. Thanks

got it working...I flashed to BSLB..Is that a good f/w to flash to?

Lots of members in this forum use firmware BSLB. I have all of my 1640 drives with different firmware. It would really depend on what brands of dvd media that you're going to use with your drive.

hey guys. i have a strange prob. i have a philips 8801 and i tried to crossflash it with bqflahser to a 1650, but my prob is it doesnt show any drive even with the command lines activated, i can only select the firmware in menu....

Hi guys:-).
I've only recently registered and I want to thank Quikee and all the others who have lead me through the process in this thread.
I was in the market for a new burner so I came to CDFreaks for guidance. It became apparent to me that the Benq was the way to go, but I couldn't find one anywhere. After reading a LOT of threads I bought a I/O Magic external drive that turned out to be a BTC instead of a Benq:-( at a local Fred Meyers. I took it back. So then it was off to a CompUSA which is quite a further drive but I was on a mission! There I found a Norwood Micro with a DW1650 number on the box. Could it be? I asked one of the guys there to open the box and sure enough it was a Benq 1650!!! This was an internal drive but I can always get an external enclosure if i want. The external I/O Magic was being sold for $75 and I had to pay $79.99 for the internal drive but I paid the extra for the Benq.
Now for the cross flash. I read this entire thread (took awhile:-)), and followed the procedure to the letter and everything went smooth as pie:-). I now have a Benq 1650 with F/W BCDC. It was getting late last night by the time I got to this point so I burnt a 3 1/2 gig data dvd and started a Nero scan and crashed. Now I have to get up to speed on running scans but if i did everything right the disc scanned at 6 errors for the PI and 0 for PO and 100% for disc quality. Needless to say, I'm very pleased.
Again, thanks to everyone here who takes so much time to help the noobs. Many times through all these pages the same question is asked again and answered helpfully, you guys are awesome! and i think Quikee is probably a genius.

For your records Quikee: I used BQFlasher to succesfully crossflash a Philips DW1650/L.01 to a BenQ DW1650/BCIC on a system with nVidia chipset. It went smooth from the first shot.

However, what I was missing is an option to backup the current firmware. Since the Philips DW1650 is such a new type (for an existing drive ), there's no official firmware available from Philips. That means, with the crossflashing done, I have no current way to revert (should I ever wish to).

But you can easily crossflash to Philips DVDR-1660

Michael

Could've been interesting to compare L.01 to recent BenQ DW1650 and Philips 1660 firmwares, but now it's gone...

There is no known way to backup/dump the Benq style firmwares.

Both BQFlasher072.exe & WOPC_Tool_1.3.0.exe are unable to list/access the dvd drives in my computer, from both my User and Admin accounts.
I can list/access the drives just fine using, Alcohol120, ImgBurn and CDSpeed4700. I am using WinXP+SP2 and all latest patches. I would like to
solvethis problem so I can flash my Benq drives or change its settings from within XP.

I have the following in the same folder:
BQFlasher072.exe
wnaspi32.dll
WOPC_Tool_1.3.0.exe

I have several XP+SP2 boot cd's/dvd's which I can also use to boot into a working XP OS, then I am able to list/access the 3 drives using the BQF
& WOPCTool.

I used the following boot cd's:
WinPE 2005 - 1.6 - W2k3+SP1
minipe 2006-jul-04
BartPE

I have the following drives:
PM- DW-1655
PS- ND-3450@3500
SM- DW-1640

Where did you download the wnaspi32.dll from? Try downloading it again from the Nero website.

Hi
See if replacing winaspi with frog aspi helps.
FrogAspi:

DVD_ADDICT: I suspected the winaspi driver as the first culprit and had re-downloaded it from nero's website, but it did not fix the problem.
b.t.w. I downloaded it again from this URL http://ww2.nero.com/nero6/en/WNASPI32.DLL.html, that URL is also listed in Quikee's first post
at the beginning of this thread.

zebadee: Uh thanks for that. Guess what, that FrogASPI driver did fix the problem. Man is there anything you cant do/dont know?

Now heres the funny part, why didnt Nero ASPI driver not work? First it was working before I reinstalled the OS several months ago! This time
however I did not install Nero suite or the BurningRights software. However I had ENABLE'd 'Restrict CD-ROM access to locally logged on user
only' using secpol.msc so that user accounts can also access/burn media on the drives. So I do not think a security policy/setting restriction
caused this problem.

Also another problem is still persists, it has no bearing on usability of the computer if it is not solved, but it might be related to whatever
caused the nero aspi driver thing, so I'd like to see if I can also solve this, only the first virtual cd/dvd drive, created using Alcohol120,
shows up in all burning software, altough I have 2 virtual drives!

Well, again, DVD_ADDICT & zebadee thanks for the help.