SONY AWG-170A (Optiarc 18x NEC a like jobbie)

[Skeelsie]

..NEWBIE..

 

Firstly hello from the UK really appreciate the info you guys provide on here, good layout aswell.

 

Problem,

 

Had a Sony AWG-170a Delivered yesterday for a very reasonable ?19.04 from lowestonweb.com, though I'm doubting my purchasing decision as it fails to read hardly any of my pre-recorded and cloned disc's.

 

Slip a disc in and i get an Any DVD error up saying your region may not be set (it is set to region 2) or you may have rpc1 or 2 problems with these disc's, also says something about menus and regions yadda yadda yadda.

 

Had a snout around and found Some RPC1 and 2 firmware updates off a dutch website, tried the NEC/Sony firmware flashing software and it just hangs, uninstalled my Nvidia drivers thinking that might be an issue but to no avail, it makes a successful dump of it's original firmware but won't take a new version despite appearing to communicate with the drive, progress meter shows nothing after half an hour and the flashing app won't close afterwards.

 

Has anyone used this drive or got any suggestions, shall i send it back and buy something more flexible.

 

It won't even read Macrovisionless region free disc's, or region 2 Simpson's disc's, total PITA! My LiteOn 8x from the dark ages would read anything.

 

Any advice greatly recieved.

 

Sorry if this is in the wrong place.

[dontasciime]

what does the drive report in ImgBurn for model number etc. Or what is on back of drive. (don't think this will apply but just checking)

 

you say you took out nvida ide drivers, so in device manager now it looks like this or not.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is the drive set as master ? on 40 wire or 80 wire IDE cable ? (you got raid set up at all) ?

 

check ide cable is in good enough do the same for power cable to drive

 

pop in region 2 disc then use the drives properties page and try and set region again to 2.

 

scan your computer for spyware viruses etc as well.

 

take out anydvd as well

[Skeelsie]

Brilliant - uninstalled Any dvd and took the zip drive off my IDE cable and all started to work well.

 

Thanks for your help!!

[lfcrule1972]

Thanks for coming back to us !