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Hello to all. I have a few questions for you experts. 1) If you make something wrong to the construction of the RS232 to TTL converter, when you start the procedure of dumping the key can you damage the drive? 2) As i read you can construct the RS232 to TTL converter by using the MAX232 chip. As i checked the datasheets of MAX3232 and MAX232, it seems that the do the same job with the difference that the MAX232 requires 5v in order to operate whereas MAX3232 can work either by 3.3 or 5. My question is: If i supply the MAX232 with 5V from the PSU of my PC and not with the 3.3 of the XBOX360 controller, is their any chance to damage the drive? 3) I built an RS232 to TTL converter based on ST3232 chip. I did not manage to dump the key although i followed the guide (WITH NO CONNECTIVITY KIT) step by step. The error i was accepting from DVDKEY was the following: c:\DVDKEY>dvdkey 9000 Port 9000 Drive Present Wait about 20 seconds It didn't work, sorry reg1: 54 DVD key: 00000000000000000000000000000000 Seems NOT a good DVD Key!!! 00 00 KEY.BIN saved I am sure that the COM communication is ok as i tested my RS232 adapter by looping the tx and rx cables to the hyper terminal. Also my port has the right setting (3F8/IRQ4). I tried several times with a lot of different variants of the dumping procedure with no result i was taking the same error all the time. After testing and testing i realized that i had misplaced the tx,rx cables to the RS232 adapter (to wrong RS232 pins). I corrected them and tried to dump again with the same outcome (same error as before). The problem is that now when i turn on the 360 it starts up ok no errors on the screen but when i put either games or movies to the drive, it does not read them and then i get "Unreadable error". Is it any chance that i destroyed my drive or just i had a laser de-calibration? If it is the second case i will build a new converter based on the MAX3232 chip and not to the ST3232 as it seems to have differences. Thank you all in advance, i will appreciate your help.