Today I had a problem playing a Region 2 DVD on my Region 1 DVD drive installed in Windows. I was asked to change the Region of my DVD drive to play the DVD movie and that I would only have 3 changes left become the change would become permanent. This was a relative new DVD drive that I had installed in my computer, I knew what to do to make the DVD drive play DVDs from all regions without this irritating message.
I had to update the firmware of the DVD drive with a altered firmware that would make the DVD drive region free. Here is how I did it. First I wrote down the exact type of my drive. You can find that information by pressing Windows Pause, clicking on Hardware and there on Device Manager.
Locate the DVD / CD-Rom drives entry and expand it. If you look at the picture below mine is called GSA-H10N and was manufactured by LG. (You find the company logo on the drive itself normally).
Now that I had the information needed I went to the Firmware page which is a repository for many altered firmwares for a lot of DVD drives. I searched for my drive and found it on that page. I downloaded the new firmware and executed the file. I was able to change the firmware with the click of a button (the only button available is Update) and the new region free drive was available immediately.
I did check the region of my dvd drive with Drive Region.
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Did this a couple of years back and I’m sure that I had to do something within XP as that is also region coded with regards to DVD’s.
hi do you know if it is also available for Fujitsu’s DVD drives? TSSTcorp DVD TS-L632H ATA