BH40N (BH16NS40) badly flashed - bricked?

[mikromatio4]

Hello,

I have BD Rewriter BH40N. I have flashed it with firmware on Dell site - https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-us ... v1m&lwp=rt and since the flash, it is bricked. Flasher was not complaining about mismatched device or not compatibile revision. During flashing, there was an error ERR DRAM WRITE NG 00/00/00. Drive will go to BOOT mode. And since this error, the drive is bricked for all of the recovery modes that I have found. When powered it cannot open the tray. No signs of life. Voltages are present on voltage regulators. Before flashing it was working fine. To sum up the recovery options tried:

• Modified HL flasher (to select proper ROM) is outputing checksum error, drive will go to boot mode

• Flasher that damaged my drive is complaining, that Valid ATAPI device cannot be found!!! F/W Model is BH40N

• SDF Tool on all of the versions (old and new like 1.3.5) is not detecting that this is MT1959 Platform, however looking on logic PCB it definitely is (photo below)

• MakeMKV makemkvcon64.exe -f is also not working - by default without providing exact payload it outputs error 0x8d000000, but with -t mtk19xx switch it seems like it is uploading the program but without any effect

• Asus Flasher outputs Error Updating Failure #5

• Win10PE for drive recovery from https://www.mediafire.com/file/8by2zqop ... D.zip/file - Using DOSFlash it prompts that MTK Vendor Intro to Master Failed. I have tried the recovery WinPE on 2 different motherboards - one with Z87 chipset and another one with G31 Chipset - both obviously on IDE mode.

• DOSFlash on standalone Win 7 32bit with ide mode - same effect as above. To be exact, after powering down the drive and reconnecting the drive it tries with the codes on below (0x81 or 0x80 or 0x51)

• I have tried to check if there is any information on UART port (TX and RX) - there is no output from MT1959

Do you know if there is any option to recover this drive or it is completely bricked?

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[MartyMcNuts]

Hello,

I have BD Rewriter BH40N. I have flashed it with firmware on Dell site - https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-us ... v1m&lwp=rt and since the flash, it is bricked. Flasher was not complaining about mismatched device or not compatibile revision. During flashing, there was an error ERR DRAM WRITE NG 00/00/00. Drive will go to BOOT mode. And since this error, the drive is bricked for all of the recovery modes that I have found. When powered it cannot open the tray. No signs of life. Voltages are present on voltage regulators. Before flashing it was working fine. To sum up the recovery options tried:

• Modified HL flasher (to select proper ROM) is outputing checksum error, drive will go to boot mode

• Flasher that damaged my drive is complaining, that Valid ATAPI device cannot be found!!! F/W Model is BH40N

• SDF Tool on all of the versions (old and new like 1.3.5) is not detecting that this is MT1959 Platform, however looking on logic PCB it definitely is (photo below)

• MakeMKV makemkvcon64.exe -f is also not working - by default without providing exact payload it outputs error 0x8d000000, but with -t mtk19xx switch it seems like it is uploading the program but without any effect

• Asus Flasher outputs Error Updating Failure #5

• Win10PE for drive recovery from https://www.mediafire.com/file/8by2zqop ... D.zip/file - Using DOSFlash it prompts that MTK Vendor Intro to Master Failed. I have tried the recovery WinPE on 2 different motherboards - one with Z87 chipset and another one with G31 Chipset - both obviously on IDE mode.

• DOSFlash on standalone Win 7 32bit with ide mode - same effect as above. To be exact, after powering down the drive and reconnecting the drive it tries with the codes on below (0x81 or 0x80 or 0x51)

• I have tried to check if there is any information on UART port (TX and RX) - there is no output from MT1959

Do you know if there is any option to recover this drive or it is completely bricked?

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Why on earth would you flash that to begin with?? I't's from 2012 for f**ks sake!! Way too old for UHD. It should have been recoverable using Dosflash so long as you have the old, original firmware to put back on it. It sound like you have totally f**ked it now though...

It's really not worth the hassle. Just toss it in the bin and get yourself a new drive.