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    need to remove drive riplock ...

    Discussion in 'HP' started by zero7404, Aug 11, 2011.

  1. zero7404

    zero7404 Notebook Deity

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    i've got an envy 17 with the optiarc BC-5600S blu-ray drive, i want to know how to go about getting the latest firmware files for this drive ?

    i want to remove riplock to enhance read speeds, and MCSE requires the firmware file so that i can disable riplock on it then flash the drive.

    i searched on google and found an hp download for the drive 1H09, but there are no files in this package that i can use in MCSE.

    can i use Sony's 1.03 firmware on this drive or should i avoid ? the firmware version reported by siw is 2.84.
     
    zero7404, Aug 11, 2011
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    Bobmitch Notebook Virtuoso

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    The most up to date can be found here:

    Optiarc BC-5600S Firmware Downloads - Firmware HQ
     
    Bobmitch, Aug 12, 2011
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    it will not install if i try running the executable. the popup mentions the drive name does not match.

    i tried extracting the contents of the firmware file to see if MCSE will recognize any of the files in the installer, but no luck.
     
    zero7404, Aug 13, 2011
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