Psycotico
So I just bought the connectivity Kit (CK3 Lite essentially) and a USB probe. I have 3 Liteon 7xxxxx series drives that are having the exact same issue. Given that it's all 3 drives I am confident that the issue lies in either A.) The flashing process or B.) The connectivity kit hardware.
The problem is such. I am running Windows 7/XP in dual boot and have done flash attempts in both. All drivers are loaded and functioning. I have tried also doing the flashes in DosBoot with a Dos loader USB drve to no avail. In both Maximus Xtractor Reader and JungleFlasher 1.74 and 1.75 I am receiving the same errors.
When I connect the drive, I turn it on (Sata not connected) and do the tray half out. Then I turn the drive off, connect Sata and turn it on. I open JungleFlasher and go to DVDKey 32 tab. It shows me the complete drive info and probe info EXCEPt at the bottom where it says DVD Key just says Not Found.
I connect the probe to R707 and hit the DVDKey32 button to begin the dump.
It goes about 2 seconds then :
Drive is Lite-On.. Sending DVDKey request to I/O port 0x0970 and COM4
................ Serial Data is bad,
DVDkey files extraction aborted!
This is coupled with a pop up box saying "Warning: Serial Data is Bad".
So here's where I'm at. I've tried this around a dozen times with the trays in different positions, putting the probe on the bottom pad of R707, R708 (just to try), and in the R707 hole. I'm a beat away from soldering the R707/R708 holes to a bridge to not have to deal with the probe but frankly I don't like the idea of having payed for a probe that is useless.
The essential fact is this, I've watched several postings here of people having bought the connectivity kit and have the same issue. I'm starting to question if perhaps it is not just the kit that is the problem?
In general even CK3's Lite version has the issue as well. So when it's telling me Serial data is bad, is there something short of sending this back and getting a refund that I can do to fix this problem? I have followed all the tutorials carefully step for step several times, I have uninstalled and reinstalled drivers, I have tried on several machines with same equipment, I have done Windows 7/XP, Mac OSX, Linux and Dos and nothing seems to make a difference.
At the end of my rope.
Psycotico
I've given each of those a look and done their methods a couple times to no success. I find this sort of odd. I have done this before with the CK3 Pro and the CK3 Blaster but I ordered this kit because my Pro went out and I needed something quickly and inexpensive.
I'm finding that the kit doesn't even want to really work on other drives as well. BenQ, Samsung, and Hitachi all are having issues finding the key or staying connected. I've done a lot of these drives and have never run into so many issues before.
As far as holding them on different points as I mentioned I gave it a try but I didn't see any difference. I think a frustration is the lack of having an LED indicator to tell me if there's a proper connection. At this point I'm going to try just doing a bridge solder on R707 and 708 to see if I can get the key and files dumped. Hopefully it works but with the board not working quite right with other drive models as well, I'm a little worried about success even with doing that.