Post by Jussi on Jan 3, 2010 15:02:23 GMT
Hi guys and gals!
It took me over 4 hours to make this work, so I decided to write it down...
My PC is HP Pavilion Media Center TV m8156.sc Desktop PC and it came with TSSTcorp TS-H653L DVD-drive. Now this drive did not recognize my new Dragon Age Origins DVD. So I did a bit (a lot of) googling and found out that I need to flash a new Firmware on it to make it read the new EA game DVD's...
The problem was that my DVD-drive already had the latest, released over 2 years ago, Firmware v. 714...
I also found out that my TS-H653L is actually the same as Samsung's SH-S183L. Now Samsung has made SB03 Firmware, which was said to fix this issue. But of course the Samsung Firmware installer would not allow me to flash their new Firmware on an OEM DVD-drive.
Luckily I was able to locate a step by step guide by Morphosis on how to get this sorted...
So, now my TS-H653L is using the SH-S183L SB03 Firmware and is able to read the game disc.
Jussi
PS. I bet it now reads my Need for Speed Undercover game disc too!
It took me over 4 hours to make this work, so I decided to write it down...
My PC is HP Pavilion Media Center TV m8156.sc Desktop PC and it came with TSSTcorp TS-H653L DVD-drive. Now this drive did not recognize my new Dragon Age Origins DVD. So I did a bit (a lot of) googling and found out that I need to flash a new Firmware on it to make it read the new EA game DVD's...
The problem was that my DVD-drive already had the latest, released over 2 years ago, Firmware v. 714...
I also found out that my TS-H653L is actually the same as Samsung's SH-S183L. Now Samsung has made SB03 Firmware, which was said to fix this issue. But of course the Samsung Firmware installer would not allow me to flash their new Firmware on an OEM DVD-drive.
Luckily I was able to locate a step by step guide by Morphosis on how to get this sorted...
4. The HP FW update is floored so I started hunting for a Samsung one as this drive is identical to the Samsung SH-S183L. First you need to get Samsung updater to not check its a Samsung drive. Download updater version 3.25.4 (SFDNWIN3.25.4.exe) from here.
5. Then you need to find the .bin file which is the fiirmware file but I couldn't find the latest version (SB03) as its bundled with the new flasher utility that won't allow the drive to be flashed yet. I downloaded the patched region free SB01 from here
6. Run a command prompt. (start menu>run>cmd)
7. Locate the folder in which youve downloaded the FW and flasher. Type "SFDNWIN3.25.4 -nocheck". The flasher should run with nocheck in top right corner. Open the .bin file you've downloaded from the flasher and run it. It took a couple of mins for mine to flash and it should prompt to restart.
8. My drive instantly recognised the disc it was having trouble with and I was tempted to leave it there but I crossed my fingers and downloaded the latest samsung SB03 firmware here and it detected my drive and flashed it no probs .
So there you are. I hope this helps some of you guys out to fix your shoddy HP drives that you spent your hard earned $ on. DONT EXPECT HP TO . Luckily I got my drive off a friend for nothing so all this trouble its caused isn't so bad...
So, now my TS-H653L is using the SH-S183L SB03 Firmware and is able to read the game disc.
Jussi
PS. I bet it now reads my Need for Speed Undercover game disc too!