Region settings for DVD drive

[finoglach.livejournal.com]

Happy Christmas to all.. problem...''you can change the region a limited no. of times.After changes remaining reaches zero, you cannot change even if you reinstall windows or move your DVD drive to a different computer..''... any solutions would be greatly appreciated but unexpected..

Regards

Comments

[twfarlan.livejournal.com]

Well, it WAS a happy holiday until someone didn't read the community information OR the instructions for the DVD player before submitting a question to a group of people who get PAID to deal with stupid questions and who refuse to answer any more of them for free.

Your DVD player has a limited number of times that you can switch the region before it's permanently fixed on one. You're trying to bypass this designed limitation. Go ask your ridiculous question of someone who cares or pay us to solve it. Either way, shut up.

[zercool.livejournal.com]

Take the drive out of the machine.
Strip the ends of a lamp cord.
Plug the cord in.
*carefully* touch the exposed ends to the IDE connection on the drive. It may spark, but a few sparks are ok.
Smoke means it's working.

When you're done with that, put one of the exposed ends in your ass and suck on the other.

RTFM. STFU. KTHXBYE.

[azurelunatic]

You might want to go to shitty_advice. They'll give you better advice than a community of angry tech support people on their off-time.

[kallell.livejournal.com]

ok ya know, i have wondered about the WHY of this since the other day when i found it

[gilmoure.livejournal.com]

There's a kinetic reset to most DVD drives region settings.

1. Pull drive from machine.

2. Place on a hard surface.

3. Obtain a mass spheroid ('prox 7.3kg)

4. Position kinetic mass tool 1.2m above drive and release.

If this doesn't work, test the mass tool by letting it act on your fingers or face. If you don't feel anything there, your tool may be defective.

[bekscilla.livejournal.com]

Why it happens? Cause all the movie distributors and crap *LOVE* to charge twice as much in some countries as they do in others, and love to try stopping you from buying stuff from the cheaper companies by fucking up your pc.

[kizayaen.livejournal.com]

Are you in the habit of asking questions for "unexpected" answers?

That combined with the sheer existence of your post leads me to believe that it's psychological support, not tech support, that you are most in need of.

[brothersterno.livejournal.com]

I suggest that you put your computer back in the box and ship it back to the person you bought it from and get your money back, because you are far too stupid to be using a computer, much less the internet.

[brothersterno.livejournal.com]

this is a place where users get abused. It's not even an attitude if we are just following the rules for the place.

[silveryrose.livejournal.com]

To quote the community's user info:

For Technical Support Reps to say everything you always wanted to say to a customer, without losing your job.

IF YOU ARE NOT A TECH REP AND YOU ASK A QUESTION IN THE COMMUNITY FOR HELP WITH YOUR COMPUTER, YOU CANNOT HOLD THE COMMUNITY OR ANY OF ITS MEMBERS RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR COMPUTER. THIS IS NOT AN ESTABLISHED TECH SUPPORT HELP COMMUNITY. THIS IS FOR THE TECH REPS TO VENT AND LAUGH AND COMISERATE. SO TAKE ANY SUGGESTIONS FOR THINGS TO DO WITH YOUR COMPUTER, WITH THE KNOWLEDGE THAT WE HAVE DISCLAIMED THIS!!!

If you need that dumbed down so you can understand it, feel free to ask, however I only make promises to do translations on the second Tuesday of the last week of December in odd numbered years that are evenly divisible by 25 ;)

[xrockravenx.livejournal.com]

My, my such hostility..but you know..finoglach, you kinda deserved it. You really ought to READ comm. info, before joining and posting. It's really not as hard as you may think it is. Just have some faith in your reading skills.

[valiskeogh.livejournal.com]

hey... pecker deleted my comment... and i actually had something to HELP.

[brutalentropy.livejournal.com]

christmas was like 5 days ago, dork

also, why are you changing the region on your dvd player so much?

[zercool.livejournal.com]

Pecker deleted my comment too. Twice. So I reposted it. Three times.

Pecker.

Mine was useful too.

Pecker.
Peckerpeckerpecker.

Hm... this is kinda fun!

Peckerpeckerpecker.Peckerpeckerpecker.Peckerpeckerpecker.Peckerpeckerpecker.Peckerpeckerpecker.Peckerpeckerpecker.Peckerpeckerpecker.Peckerpeckerpecker.

Heheheheheheheh.

[gholam.livejournal.com]

...and when pointed to a site that deals specifically with his issue (rpc1.org), he deletes the comment. What a perfect underline to the reason this community exists.

[hisamishness.livejournal.com]

So THAT's where my reasonably non-LARTing comment went? The putz wiped it?

Damn...

Hey Mod! Is there any way to bring back the deleted posts and ban the idjut so he can't wipe them again?

[geekgrrl-ca.livejournal.com]

Not that i know of, but peckerhead won't be posting again. I don't know if that means he can still adjust posts etc...

[blossomingfire.livejournal.com]

I'd venture to say it probably was to watch porn involving two peacocks, a penguin, Gerard Depardieu, and a tin of heinz baked beans.

[jecook]

While we have some god-like powers, ressurecting posts/comments is not one of them. :(

[bonivus.livejournal.com]

That's something I can't do, and that's my business: healing and ressurecting people.

[jecook]

Yeah. Seriously. I don't think I've ever done that on mine, even to see what it would do.

[jecook]

And gay midgets.

[bornofchaos.livejournal.com]

*rolls eyes*

Go forth and Google. ffs.

[benatwork.livejournal.com]

Judging from the four-day-old account, and the deletion of actual helpful comments, my guess would be: troll journal. Probably someone who wants to show how evil and mean this community is. You terribly elitist computer nerds!

[codecattx.livejournal.com]

You just won Teh Internets!

Thank you and blossomingfire for making me spray tea all over my monitor.

[anamacha.livejournal.com]

bwahaha! you win!