Bad firmware flash dvd-rom.... now what?

[rimshaker]

Made a classic mistake when I was flashing the firmware on my Liteon dvd drive: forgot to turn off autoplay. The flash program went into some infinite loop at the end. Had no choice but to close it down. Now thanks to a corrupt firmware, the dvd drive doesn't even power on with the rest of the system. It's totally dead.

Was just wondering if there was any way I could fix the corrupt firmware. Anyone recover a dead dvd-rom before?

 

[MrYogi]

did u back up the firmware?
you could actually try to flash it again

 

[MrYogi]

did u back up the firmware?
you could actually try to flash it again

 

[rimshaker]

The flash program didn't have a backup option. And I can't reflash since it won't power on anymore

 

[Goi]

You could use Mtkwinflash, and download a firmware version, and reflash it again. Check out the CDRfreaks forums for more info. Bad flashes are relatively easy to recover from for drives with Mediatek BIOS chips

 

[rimshaker]

Originally posted by: Goi
You could use Mtkwinflash, and download a firmware version, and reflash it again. Check out the CDRfreaks forums for more info. Bad flashes are relatively easy to recover from for drives with Mediatek BIOS chips

Goi, THANK YOU!!!! I never knew utilities like that existed to recover dead drives. I actually had to use the DOS version Mtkflash cause not even the windows version Mtkwinflash recognized my drive. I now have my dvd drive back... sniff, sniff... . thanks again!

 

[Goi]

No problem, just spreading the word man