Flashed wrong bios for BD rom drive

[bridgetfisher]

Hi and greetings all my first post

I recently reinstalled windows, went fine. Then downloaded a bunch of drivers from the support.dell.com site for my alienware.

One of them flashed the firware for my bd rom and now it reads as a CD rom in windows explorer.

Running the bd firmware, it just says it keeps updating but never does.

How can I restore it to a BD drive?

In explorer it says CD drive it is actually a BD drive, pushing eject does nothing, if I hit eject via right click in windows explorer it says device not ready.

My Computer is an Alienware Area-51 ALX

Processor: I7-975

Ram: 12 gb

Video: dual amd 4gb sapphire 6990 (total of four gpus)

When updating it says the drive is a SATA PLDS DVDRWBD 0d111 (this is wrong)

The drive should be a HLDS BH20N SATA HH 6x BD-RE which I read is really a LG BH08NS20 clone

any help is appreciated.

[BumbleBritches57]

Does it read BD Discs? if it does, who really cares?

~Edit~

Just finished reading your post, and yeah that's definitely a problem, You should find the correct Firmware and flash it.

[bridgetfisher]

I have the correct firmware but it does not flash it just updates forever instead of actually flashing.

It does not read any discs and hitting eject does nothing, I need it to be able to do startup repair with the disc but I cant get it to read the disc.

[TEX4S]

Uh oh - You might need an external BD drive as this one might be toast.

If there is no jumper on the device to reset it back to factory, (probably not) - you are screwed.

[bridgetfisher]

Uh oh - You might need an external BD drive as this one might be toast.

If there is no jumper on the device to reset it back to factory, (probably not) - you are screwed.

There are 3 sets of 2 pin holes but no pin thing can I bridge them to restore the default?

these holes are located to the left of where something is plugged in maybe the power or data I do not know which.

[Open Minded]

Is your computer still under warranty?

[bridgetfisher]

Is your computer still under warranty?

Yes but their trying to do a system exchange over a bd drive and I really want to try and fix this myself rather than do a system exchange.

[TEX4S]

I dont know about the jumper - find out who actually made the drive & see if you can find some tech papers on it.

Why dont you want a system change ? You get a brand new computer replacement for free!

If its because you dont want to start over -then clone your HDD, give them the PC, and when you get the replacement - upload your backed up image and you're ready to go.

[bridgetfisher]

I dont know about the jumper - find out who actually made the drive & see if you can find some tech papers on it.

Why dont you want a system change ? You get a brand new computer replacement for free!

If its because you dont want to start over -then clone your HDD, give them the PC, and when you get the replacement - upload your backed up image and you're ready to go.

my bd drive is a LG BH08NS20 clone trying to do some reasearch

I dont want a system exchange because they dont ahve this chassis available anymore and the aurora can not run these powerful cards.

[Open Minded]

I dont want a system exchange because they dont ahve this chassis available anymore and the aurora can not run these powerful cards.

If that's a hang-up for you, can you ask Dell to keep the chassis you have now and just put the replacement parts in there?

EDIT: Have you tried anything on this page? If not, I don't think it would hurt.

http://www.firmwarehq.com/LG/BH08NS20/files.html

[HawkMan]

They're not going to do a system exchange over a BD drive. they'll replace the drive. but since you're the one who screwed up the flashing they're probably gonna replace it anyway, unless you can blame it on something else.

[bridgetfisher]

I took out the drive and dissassembled it there seems to be no jumpers there are 3 sets of 2 holes in the rear like i said can i stick something in there a paperclip maybe to bridge them?

[Biohead]

The holes are typically for the emergency eject mechanisms - nothing to do with firmware.

Best bet be to find a command line flashing tool for the drive (the LG version would probably be best) and hope it has a "force" option, in that it will attempt to flash the drive and disregard any errors.

[TheLegendOfMart]

You can't reset firmware chips, much like if you flash the wrong BIOS on a motherboard or graphics card they stop functioning. Its not like BIOS settings where its stored on volatile memory that has to be powered to store the settings.

Firmware sits between the software and the hardware telling the device what to do, if you have flashed it with a different model then the firmware is telling the drive to do something it can't do due to missing or different hardware in the device.

Once you have flashed it, that's it, it's done usually rendering the device inoperable, if its not detected by windows and its not ejecting it means the drive is dead, you can't bring it back to life without either replacing the firmware chip or replacing the full PCB with an exactly the same make and model PCB.

[bridgetfisher]

I sense an enginnering flaw here :(

haha well ok thanks guys it was good trying to trouble shoot but its dead cant do much about that from what I see from the experts here.

So thanks for helping, appreciate it and have a great summer!!!

[TheLegendOfMart]

I think its more of a software flaw, usually the tool you use to flash something detects whether you are flashing the right firmware for the device and usually brings up an error telling you that they don't match.

[bridgetfisher]

I think since alienware cloned the LG that somehow something was lost when they stole it from LG, i mean the updaters look the same but clearly they are not.