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[ultimta]

My lizard has been acting up the last day or so. A few hours ago I tried to extract the key from my Phat Liteon using the scorpion, after getting probably a half dozen bad reads and after all possible troubleshooting, I tried extracting the key with the Trident, also without success. I had a backup of the key online, and figured it might just be something wrong with the MPX01 connection, however, when I tried to erase the firmware and rewrite it some strange things occurred. The firmware was erased nearly instantly, and it would 'erase' whether the drive was on or off. Then when I tried to write the CFW, the drive would not MTK. It would not MTK if I tr it from the menu either. Im not sure what the problem could be, but Im thinking I should order a new lizard as soon as I can, as I have customers waiting for the LT+ 3.0 update.

[vgcrepairs]

how are you powering the drive? Allot of drive issues can be related to that crappy power drop

[ultimta]

Yes the drive is being powered, it ejects fine.

Powered Via CK3 Pro, molex through pc and powerdrop unit.

[vgcrepairs]

take power drop out of equasion

[ultimta]

Tried, no results. Do you think its possible that my lizard is dead and I should simply order a new one?

[vgcrepairs]

I highly doubt your lizard is dead

[Skywalker]

Lizard definitely not dead. Try giving the Lizard a fresh install of the latest Gecko fw. Make sure none of your cables are faulty.

[ultimta]

Tried, didnt work. Drive works fine, reads disk. Did some soldering for buzzer and had a hard time getting the solder to stick to the board as I only had high diameter solder.

[XxsQuallenxX]

MTK from the menu is for MRA hacks so that wouldn't help you anyways. To force MTK on an erased LO you need to power on the drive while grounding MPX01 (this works with all drives btw), then go straight to writing the f/w.
However, if you kept a lot of heat on the Lizard while soldering then you very well could have damaged it.
Also, if you have a spare drive try reading and writing to it. You can't test on only one drive to troubleshoot the Lizard failure, it could be the drive itself.

[ultimta]

Im just using MTK as an example of the issue. Im almost positive its the Lizard as even after 'Erasing' the firmware, the drive still reads games just fine. Im not sure of what I should do now. Could you please PM me some contact information? (Aim, Msn, Etc.)