Unable to Choose Region for DVD burner

[Pangeejay]

I just bought a Lite-On DVDRW SHW 160P6S DVD Burner. Windows will not allow me to set the Region on it. It keeps telling me I have to have Administrator Rights or have Media for Region 1.....I don't know what that means and I need to burner something very important yesterday. Can someone please help me. I also downloaded the latest driver still it won't allow me to choose Region 1. I was able to set Region one for my new DVD Rom with no problem. Please Hep me!

[G]

Try a firmware update.

[Pangeejay]

I did and it didn't work.....I have also tried a Region bypass patch nothing has worked. I can't even find the right driver for my Sony DW-Q120A DVD burner. I have looked all over Sonys website and others its impossible

[G]

The optical drive is a standard, so the driver will be Windows based. What you will get from Sony is a firmware update only unless you need the optical device to be seen within DOS.

Authoring software, e.g., Nero, makes a CD-R/RW and DVD-R/RW writeable and rewriteable.

If you have changed the region a specified number of times, i.e., 5, then it will be region locked now.

There are ways around this though.

[G]

Is it communicating to a router, if so it is wise to get the same manufacture?

What is the NIC you are using now that is causing the problem?

Otherwise, Netgear are good. I’m not a network expert so may be post in the networking forum for a definitive answer.

[G]

The last post was for:

http://www.sysopt.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1388323#post1388323

[Rocketmech]

Tools for LiteOn drives :
http://dhc014.rpc1.org/LtnRPC/
http://forum.rpc1.org/viewtopic.php?t=239
http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=83441#rpc1-ltnrpc