Bad Flash Recovery
If for some reason your flash failed or you lost power or something unforseen happens you can try this solution.
You'll need your Bootable Floppy with MTKFLASH.EXE and your original firmware 'original.bin'.
Attach the bad DVD drive to SATA 1 on your motherboard.
Boot from Floppy and get to a Dos prompt then type this command
'MTKFLASH W /SATA /M original.bin'
You should get a response from the system with a list of possible sata ports to flash to.
Turn off the power to the DVD drive wait a second and turn it back on again.
Now hit 1 on the keyboard (SATA 1) to start the flash.
It should start flashing or it will display waiting at 'Port: d800, Master/Slave: a0'
If it waits for more than a few seconds hit escape twice to stop the attempt and power
off the drive again, keep trying the last part again. It should work after a few attempts.
Verify the DVD-drive works and you can attempt to flash it once more with the modified firmware.
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