THE LITE-ON TUTORIAL

The purpose of this tutorial is to summarize all equipment and handling necessary for the extraction of the dvd drive key and the spoof identification from the lite-on dvd-drive.

With that, you will be able to replace your lite-on drive which is not yet flash-able, with a flash-able Drive BENQ recommended.

/!\ Warning /!\

Before we continue please understand that this is only a guide made from information found by doing research on the internet, I myself or anyone else mentioned in this tutorial cannot be held responsible for any damage caused either to your equipment, property or to yourself, whatever you do with this tutorial is AT YOUR OWN RISK, if you agree to the above please continue otherwise please close this guide, if you find any errors or have anything you would like to add please don’t hesitate to contact me via efnet.

A replacement DVD Drive, I only recommend the use of the BENQ drive at this stage, using other drives gives a very high possibility of getting BANNED if you go on LIVE, obviously any drive can get you BANNED but the Samsung & Hitachi give a FAR HIGHER POSSIBILITY YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

Here we go hope you are ready

A1.) Summary of hardware and software needed.

To do this you will need:

1. The software dvd Key 16 bit (dos) & 32 bit (windows) versions now available by Geremia: download it here

2. A cable RS232 based on a chip MAX3232 for a conversion TTL: Buy here or here

3. Firmware Toolbox v4.8 download it here

4. A hex editor: A freeware tool: download here A DOS boot floppy or USB DOS Boot-able Key.

Optional:

5. A connectivity kit v2: buy here or here (360ToPC and CK1 also works, but I will not discuss their modification)

6. Drive Switcher v1.3.848.0: download here

A2.) Preparation of materials.

Dvdkey allows the extraction of the dvd Key and the spoof line identification. And this is possible on the Benqs & Lite-On drives. With the unique difference for lite-on as this requires a little modification of the drive.

Open your Lite-On DVD drive, and look at the PCB power connector. There are two small tracks to be rebuilt so that the link Tx, Rx of the power plug is connected to the chip-set itself.

reconnect the points with some solder which are indicated by the arrow “Reconnect both solder points”
Ignore for now the other indications.

B1.) Preparation of connectivity Kit v2

[Optional]

This step is optional, but recommended because you then don’t have to solder any wires to the lite-on dvd drive, you will then also be able to use this kit on many other drives.

If you are not using the connectivity kit please go to step B2.

Here, we must now connect the outputs of the RS232 cable to the connectivity kit. There are 4 cables to be soldered.

Your RS232 cable must respect the following pattern:

More specifically, it looks like this:

We will therefore connect points : Tx, Rx, Gnd, and V +

Connect points as follows:

Cable RS232 ————–> Connectivity Kit

Gnd ===================> 1
V + ====================>8

You will notice that the basic connectivity kit doesn’t have any connectors for points Tx and Rx. We must add them on the cable itself:

So now add two new cables to the connectors which will connect from the dvd drive into the RS232 cable

Cable RS232 ————–> Connectivity Kit
Tx ====================> 11
Rx ====================> 12

B2.) Preparations for the dvd drive step 2 [Only if you do not have connectivity kit]

In case you don’t have connectivity kit v2, you can solder the RS232 cable directly to the PCB.

Relying on these two photos:

Weld points like this:
Cable RS232 ————–> DVD
Tx ====================> TxD
Rx ====================> RxD
Gnd ===================> Gnd
V + ====================> 3.3v

C1.) Preparation connections

/!\ Warning /!\

Steps C1 & C2 cover the 16 bit (DOS) version of DVDKEY only

Now we will prepare the connections.

1. Turn off your PC.

2. Connect your lite-on dvd drive to the connectivity Kit (Only power/ No RS232 cable plugged in / No SATA cable plugged in either)

/!\ Warning /!\

stages 3 and 4 are very important and must be followed exactly,

3. Turn on the PC, and turn on the connectivity Kit. Use the Eject button to open your dvd drive, once opened, use the button again to close the drive, but cut off the power to the connectivity kit (or dvd power) just before the drawer is completely closed and turn off your PC.

4. Half Close (Without force) the drawer of your lite-on dvd drive but only halfway.

/!\ Warning /!\

stages 3 and 4 are very important, because it requires that the dvd drive is open but with closed status. In other words, it must be physically half-open, but the last known status of the dvd drive must be closed. It must feel closed. Obey therefore step 3, not cutting off power when the drawer is in the process of being closed.

An alternative is also a dvd drive closed, use a paper clip to manually unlock the drive door to open it in half.

5. Plug the cable RS232 to the Port COM1 of your motherboard. leave the SATA cable unplugged.

Go to the next step..

C2.) Dump the DVD KEY and the SPOOF identification.

At this stage you should have:
– The cable RS232 (linked to your connectivity kit) connected to the COM1 port of your PC
– The dvd drive lite-on with his half-open drawer, and power connected to the connectivity kit.
– The SATA cable unplugged.

1. Turn on your PC, and boot on DOS.

2. Once under DOS, the SATA connect your lite-on dvd drive to a SATA port on your motherboard, or card VIA 6421 PCI Card.

3. Turn on the connectivity kit to power your dvd drive.

4. In dos Type “dvdkey xxxx” where xxxx must be the address of your port SATA. If you do not know, run dos flash in Auto mode to find (refer to the tutorials on benq for this).
Here in this example the port is the EFE0.

After 20 seconds, you should get this:

Keep safe the following generated files namely:
Key.bin
Inquiry.bin
Identify.bin

These files will then be used to prepare a replacement drive.

You can turn off and unplug the drive & connectivity kit, the dump of the key and the line of identification is now complete.

Now that we have all the info from the lite-on, we will now see how to prepare a replacement dvd drive.

/!\ Warning /!\

I only recommend the use of the BENQ drive at this stage, using other drives gives a very high possibility of getting BANNED if you go on LIVE, obviously any drive can get you BANNED but the Samsung & Hitachi drives give a FAR HIGHER POSSIBILITY, YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

D1.) The spoofing the replacement dvd drive [Manual method].

Hacking the firmware and injection of the drive key.

To begin with, apply the ixtreme patch to your firmware

/!\ Warning /!\

(it must be original firmware).
The method depends on the dvd drive brand, please refer to the corresponding tutorials.

Then open the firmware from your replacement dvd drive in fwtoolbox v4.6, (there is a v4.7 floating around but I believe that its buggy so don’t use it at this time, discussions with the author Maximus are ongoing and a new version should be out soon) and open in the hexadecimal editor the file Key.bin from the lite-on drive.

Copy the same key shown in the Key.bin to fwtoolbox

Click “Replace the key” and close both windows.

D2.) Spoof firmware as lite-on

This step is the same whatever the firmware of replacement dvd drive is. Hitachi / Samsung / Benq

Open your the firmware from the replacement dvd drive in the hex editor.

Open the file Inquery.bin from the lite-on drive.

You should get this:

Keep the tab of the firmware from the replacement drive active, then select the search option (Find) in the Search menu, then select Hex Values from the drop list. Next, enter the following value: 000005800032

The search should lead you to the place where firmware stores the identification line .

Now in click on the Inquery.bin tab, select all the data set (6 lines), and do a CTRL + C to copy the data.

Click the tab of the firmware from the replacement drive and at “05 80″, and select the menu option “Write Paste”.

In the end you should get this:

Now save your firmware and flash your drive replacement with it, as usual.
Please refer to the corresponding tutorials.

/!\ Warning /!\

I only recommend the use of the BENQ drive at this stage, using other drives gives a very high possibility of getting BANNED if you go on LIVE, obviously any drive can get you BANNED but the Samsung & Hitachi drives give a FAR HIGHER POSSIBILITY, YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

E1.) The spoof of another dvd drive [Method auto].

With the latest update of drive switcher, everything is automated for you.

Run the software, then click on “Browse” to select the firmware source, and select the file INQUERY.BIN previously dumped from your lite-on:

If the file KEY.BIN is placed in the same folder as the file INQUERY.BIN you just selected, it will automatically add it, if not the application asks you to select it.

Then select the firmware destination. Here it is a Benq firmware, you should see this:

We’ll now have to click Generate the firmware. Choose the destination location of your new firmware and validate.

Now we have made your new firmware flash your drive replacement with it, as usual.
Please refer to the corresponding tutorials.

/!\ Warning /!\

I only recommend the use of the BENQ drive at this stage, using other drives gives a very high possibility of getting BANNED if you go on LIVE, obviously any drive can get you BANNED but the Samsung & Hitachi drives give a FAR HIGHER POSSIBILITY, YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

Last update 09/01/2008

Thanks to: Geremia, C4eva, DeViLs360, Maximus, Podger, Tiros, Schtrom, TMF, Redline99. SoulHeaven, XboxHacker.net for the initial info. original source: http://liteon.got.owned.hu/

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