Sony 830A External DVD Drive Issues

[Landon]

I am using DVD Shrink and accidently put the movie in some different region so DVD Shrink prompted me to change the region from 1 to 2. But after doing this it gave me some error. Soon the drive locked itself and wont eject the disc even after turning it off and back on. So i thought of updating the firmware. It fixed the problem but it wont read the discs.I also tried to set its region to 1 cause it said before that the region needed to be set but still its says that either there is no disc in it which there is or that I need to be the administrator which I am. As of i think that the Dvd is completely of no use. Please suggest me any solutions that you can come up with. Thanks

[EINSTEIN_007]

Have you tried uninsatalling the drivers?

[ApPy10]

Try to revert back to the old firmware. This link http://forum.rpc1.org/portal.php you might want to check out caue they have custom firmware for many drives. I think that the regions can be changed a few times on a drive but i have never done it so cant say what to do. You might try to uninstall the drive & reinstall it if you cant revert to the previos firmware, or you can find registry hack or even try to reinstall the operating system.