Firmware GONE WRONG HELP

Kazu

i flashed my dvd drive with no proplems but i downloaded a LG flash ulitity for my cdrw and when i went to select the drive the drive it says it dosent match and i didnt flash the drive just selecting it and pc froze when i restart pc i have two missing drives the dvd and cdrw in the F2 setup unkown device and the only thing it sees is the hard drive are the dvd and cdrw drives ****ed

CyberGhost

why do you people flash your drives anyway?

Kazu, try flashing those again, with a right firmware

Kazu

well i had a dodgy dvd drive and flash it fixed it had problems reading dual format dvd disks and i got greedy and decided to flash the cdrw drive and ****ed the two drives i cant flash the drives again because they are not showing up

aidan_walsh

NEVER flash a drive unless its absolutley necessary. You were right to flash the DVD by the sounds of it, but as the CDRW was working perfectly, you should have well enough alone.

What I never understand though, is why manufacturers don't backup the original to a file on the computer before the flash begins... Just in case of a situation where it all goes wrong...

Kazu

what can be done for the computer to reconise the two drives

C Fodder

Troubleshooting 101
Have you tested each drive individually because if both are on the same channel the "faulty" one could be pulling down the IDE channel.
maybe they will both work individually and you can sort out your flashing mess

I have to agree with CyberGhost and doodle_sketch dont flash unless totally necessary because when things go wrong they go WRONG as you found out.

Kazu

thanks for the info C Fodder did what you said and found out the only working drive is the dvd drive the cdrw drive is for the dustbin i think it time for a dvd-r drive upgrade

Makaveli

Why did you decide to flash the cd writer anyway?
Obviously there's a point in flashing a dvd drive as you can make it RPC1 and region free (or is it RPC2). But what benefit do you get out of flashing a cd writer?