can you re-flash a screwed cd drive?

[boing]

Hi, i've got an LG 8320 cd-rw which i wanted to upgrade the bios on to v1.04, i googled it, got an upgrade and flashed it, then i realised the bios i'd just flashed said 4320 v1.04. Needless to say the drive won't work but worse the motherboard bios won't recognise the drive at all, saying it atapi incompatible so now i can't access it to re-flash the correct bios.

So the question is, can you think of a way to re-flash this thing?

 

[boing]

Any ideas at all? i really don't want to have to replace a fully functional drive unless i absolutley have to.

 

[xsilver]

I think you answered your own question mate -- its screwed -- the only option is to find/replace the firmware chip dunno if that exists or where it is tho

 

[tomstevens26]

The one time I had a failed flash (a LiteON DVDR) the drive completely died. BIOS didn't recognize it, heck, it was like it wasn't even recognizing power as the eject button didn't even work. It made a good doorstop after that. Good luck!

Tom

 

[AnMig]

yes it is possible to flash blindly. I have done this to my liteon cdrw in the past (bad flash). The drive was not recognizable in the bios.

Look for MTKFLash program (dos) http://dhc014.rpc1.org/howto.htm

you will need a boot disk and the correct bios to blind flash

it flashes any drive attached to the cable, you can direct it to flash the master or slave ect.

make sure you remove the other drives just in case
good luck

 

[boing]

Anmig you're a superstar! i've just checked the compatability list and my drives on it, gonna give it a go now, thanks mate

 

[boing]

worked a treat! thanks again