Problem with Sony 830A External DVD Drive 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.
locate in device manager and uninstall it and reboot pc try unplugging usb lead and back in after reboot
Have you changed regions before ? I've seen on my drives that you can only change the region 4 or 5 times. I don't know what happens after that.
I tried what you said and it didn't improve anything. The drive doesn't try to recognize anything inside of it. Any other suggestions?
i got a feeling updating the firmware while it was knackered wasnt a good idea? as its a serious step, and you may have a dead drive?
Nothing else was working though before I did that. I left it on and off for over 24 hours with the green light and frozen. It wouldn't do anything. So my 2 month old drive is broken already? What should I have done when it became locked up instead of updating the firmware, incase it ever happens again?
Unfortunately, no. I moved to Japan recently and don't exactly know someone who would let me use their computer. Anything I could've done to prevent this?
