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Laptop Question

Flavenoidz · 2004-08-17 15:50:05

Hello all, A friend of min recently brought a dell inspiron laptop back from USA. They can't play region 2 dvd's on it. Could anyone help to solve the problem? Many Thanks, Flav

17-08-2004 03:50PM

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Flavenoidz

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Hello all,

A friend of min recently brought a dell inspiron laptop back from USA.

They can't play region 2 dvd's on it.

Could anyone help to solve the problem?

Many Thanks,

Flav

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#2 17-08-2004 04:28PM

Stephen

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http://forum.rpc1.org is your friend. You will need to find out the make and model of the DVD drive in the Dell. Also, don't try flashing the drive when its running on batteries!!

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#3 19-08-2004 06:04PM

pyrogenx

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Stephen do u think this is a Hardware restriction? would it not do if using differnt region SW ?

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