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Hoping that one would also use the larger MX29F002NB eeprom which I already had a matching TSOP32 to DIP adapter for.

Luckily I found the right TSOP32 to DIP adapter and it was ordered on Amazon for 30,99 Euro.īut Before I bought this adapter that took over a month to arrive, I also had bought a third used (probably one of the last drives still available) LG GDR8163B drive on eBay. And I only was able to read those larger eeproms because I had not yet such a special smaller tsop32 socket to read the SST39SF020A in our good working drive. What made it more difficult was that the deadflashed LG drive used another TSOP32 eeprom type MX29F002NB that was larger than the much smaller 8 x 14 mm that was used in the still working drive. And looking for a datasheet for the MN103S89FDA processor will fail too sadly.

Previous photo showed the Panasonic MN103S89FDA processor with the TSOP32 SST39SF020A eeprom on its right in the secondhand bought still working drive. After some additional changes to the internal drive board it is said that they even work better than the original Thomson Xbox drives do (being more compatible with running most if not all Xbox games). These drives are much wanted for replacing the original defect Xbox DVD drives with. And nowhere on the entire internet that correct firmware eeprom bin file was shared! Although I also tried asking the LG helpdesk for that bin file, they simply couldn’t provide it. And so isn’t available and can’t be used to flash the eeprom on an external used programmer when we desolder that deadflashed eeprom from those defect drives. And those same LG flasher programs killed my friend’s drive to oblivion! Which makes it worse is that the firmware bin file in the LG program that is supposed to program the eeprom over Pata/IDE is packed into the boot flash exe file. What also didn’t help are the LG flasher programs, and other programs, that do not save the old firmware before upgrading the firmware. And everything also depended on which IDE/Pata controller board was used. And there also exists cross FW flashing software. And that program also should help to first make a backup of the original Firmware that is stored in the drive’s eeprom but that also failed on the still working LG GDR8163B DVD-ROM when tried. But that will only fail on our defect flashed drives when tried. There is a software Flasher program from Devil’s Claw that apparently was designed to repair those older wrong flashed drives on older computer operating systems. Since using the Pata/IDE afterwards no longer is possible. With the secondhand bought still working LG drive he hoped I would be able to reflash the now defect first LG drive back to a working DVD-ROM drive. One still working and the other one he had deadflashed over the Pata/IDE port with a wrong turning out upgrade attempt. A few months ago my friend Marco brought me two LG GDR8163B DVD-ROM drives.