Problem with Sony 830A External DVD Drive

[infinitycure]

I was using DVD Shrink and forgot that the movie I put in was a different region so DVD Shrink prompted me to change the region from 1 to 2. I did and it game up with an error. Then the drive became locked up with the green light stuck on and would not eject the disc even after turning it off and back on. The only thing I could think to do was to update the firmware. After I did that, it seemed to fix the problem except it doesn't read discs at all. It's not that in can't, it won't even try to. It doesn't recognize any discs ever being in it. It says the region of the drive now is 0 and needs to be set. I try to set it to 1 and its says that either there is no disc in it which there is or that I need to be the administrator which I am. So now my DVD drive is completely useless. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[DeporJuan]

try uninstalling it...

[acruxksa]

Can you revert back to the old firmware? If not, you might want to check out http://forum.rpc1.org/portal.php They have custom firmware for several optical drives, perhaps yours is one of them. You are supposed to be allowed to change regions a few times on a drive, but to be honest I've never done it so I can't really say how to fix it. I would imagine that if you can't revert to the previous firmware or find a fix on the above listed site, you would need to uninstall the drive and re-install it, find some kind of registry hack or reinstall the OS (not a viable option if you ask me, dvd drives are cheap enough that I wouldn't even waste my time)

[cauzomb]

What model DVD drive?

[cauzomb]

oops seen the title.. I wasn't able to find any info on your particular issue. If you don't find a solution, you might try to RMA the drive.