How to get a Benq 1640 from a Philips 9701 ?

[gab]

Hello everybody,

 

I have play back problems with my videos burnt with ImgBurn and a Philips DVD8701 on my Dell 9100 (freeezes, stuttering,...). I read in this forum that this burner can be crossflashed with the Benq 1640 firmware which is much better than the Philips one.

So I downloaded the firmware and tried to update my drive. But the firmware updater tells me that my drive is not allowed to be updated. Is there a trick to overcome this ?

 

Gab

 

 

[Edit] I found a thread on another forum which explained how to. It worked all right, and now I am going to test my brand new Benq.

Sorry for this post, I had never "crossflashed" before.

Edited March 9, 2007 by gab

[LIGHTNING UK!]

If there is, you'll be able to read about it at the cdfreaks forum.

 

http://club.cdfreaks.com

 

There's a section for optical drives and then a subsection for BenQ drives.

[gab]

If there is, you'll be able to read about it at the cdfreaks forum.

 

http://club.cdfreaks.com

 

There's a section for optical drives and then a subsection for BenQ drives.

 

Thank you Lightning,

 

I found it and the crossflashing was OK

 

Gab