pioneer dvd 105 firmware how to

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  1. agenda

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    how do i upgrade my firmware to 1.33?
    i can find the file on pioneers website, but they dont give me any exe to run it against.
    any help would be greatly appreciated.

    thanks
     
    agenda, Jul 9, 2003
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  2. easydisk

    easydisk Guest

    go and have a look at http://www.dvd-recordable.org, go to downloads, then firmware.
    once downloaded, make sure u disconnect from the 'net', nothing is in the 105, no other progs are running, and then double clik the 'upgrade.bat' file u just downloaded.
    i have done 8 105's and every one a winner!!!!!!!!
     
    easydisk, Jul 9, 2003
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  3. agenda

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    thanks dude!
    im on it.
     
    agenda, Jul 9, 2003
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  4. Oriphus

    Oriphus Senior member

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    THis is the upgrade i have on my Pioneer. Now its multiregional and rips at 6x instead of 2x. You also dont have to close down any programs or anything.

    http://pioneerdvd.rpc1.org/

    Its 2/3 down the page.

    Chris
     
    Oriphus, Jul 9, 2003
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  5. rob12770

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    1.33 ?
    i thought the latest 105 firmware was 1.30 or am i wrong ?
     
    rob12770, Jul 10, 2003
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  6. Tosca

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    Beyond the 6X speed ripping (which I never bother with, why wear down the burner with ripping when you can rip it 16X with a cheap ass dvd rom) what is the big pull for upgrading to 1.33 for the 105?
     
    Tosca, Jul 10, 2003
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  7. rob12770

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    ok, i have just upgraded to 1.33 from 1.30, will i see any difference ? what does it do ?
     
    rob12770, Jul 10, 2003
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  8. Oriphus

    Oriphus Senior member

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    It will make your drive region free and will increase the read speed from 2x to around 6x with a maximum of 12x reading. It does a lot
     
    Oriphus, Jul 10, 2003
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  9. Tosca

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    Not knocking the firmware or anybody, but if you rip from a dvd rom (at 16x) why would you bother upgrading the firmware?

    If you don't read from the pioneer you won't need it to be region free...

    Just my 2 cents.
     
    Tosca, Jul 11, 2003
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    carlitob Regular member

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    i didn't work on mine. I can't rip any faster than 2-4x i have fw 1.33 and it used to go faster, but for some reason it just stopped. I have a dvd-rom drive i use to rip now.
     
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    Oriphus Senior member

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    I agree Tosca, but i only have enough power suplpy for two drives since i have two 80GB hard drives installed. I have a 52X CDRW that i like to keep for CD Burning. The firmware upgrade lets me rip an average of 7x. I used this one:

    http://www.chrismccann.co.uk/pioneer_firmware_upgrades.htm

    Chris
     
    Oriphus, Jul 11, 2003
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  12. rob12770

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    yeah i have 3 drives a dvd rom a dvdw/r and a cdw/r i only use my dvdr for dvd writing, im pc, is also an htpc, so it needd to be running well at all times,
    i will have to get a pci ide slot card as i want an additional hdd,
    anyway i put the 1.33 in and it still worls fine, im a little aprihensive about firmware, but this was frim pioneer, so alls fine.
     
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  13. carlitob

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    I had the same problem rob. What I did is I bought a PCI-IDE-RAID card except didn't do RAID, I just use the 2 ide channels it made available to me. I have 3 HDD's, 120GB, 80GB, and 30GB for my OS. I also have DVR-105, TEAC-CDRW540, and Creative 12X PC-DVD. and i still have 2 ide slots open. the card only cost me like 15$ on pricewatch.com
     
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