The Firmware Page

I got it to work, I had to turn on "use as adminstrator" and unblock, then I typed "C:\users\in8\desktop\tsdnwin -nocheck" and it started. I had moved the program from the download file to my desktop. TSDNWIN does not install and the shortcut is the actual file. I got it to flash and now my Drive Region Info V2.2 says I have TSSTcorp CDDVDW SN-S083N SB02 and says this drive has no region. I played a Region 1 DVD and it played fine, then I went to play a UK dvd (Region 2) and it would play on PowerDVD, but it wouldn't play on Media Player and doesn't show up as a disc on the Computer window with the drives and kicks it out if I double click on the drive. I don't know if it might just be the disc or what, I will try a different one. The really weird thing is that it asked be to set my region and said that I can only change 2 more times. I thought that was supposed to not happen after I a flashed the rpc1 firmware.

Have a look at this FAQ entry: viewtopic.php?t=239

Thanks cvs. I now can't get my drive to recognize a disc regardless of region. It just shows the drive as empty and then spits it out. I checked the link and now my question is how does one tweak Windows because, that seems to be the problem and there isn't a link in the thread for that. It looks like there should be, but there isn't. PowerDVD seems to work fine regardless, I just want my drive to recognize the disc, so I can open it with dvd shrink if I have to copy the disc because my kids scratched it up.

Also the drive doesn't recognize or autoplay cd's as well. It is weird that PowerDVD will play dvd's but I can't get windows itself to recognize a CD or DVD or autoplay it. It will autoplay a blank dvd though.

Now my computer seems to have righted itself after a windows update. I can now open and burn stuff from DVD shrink and it recognizes cd's and dvd's, and autoplay kicks in again. My PowerDVD still has region switching, so I will get one of the programs listed in the link above. Does anyone have any suggestions for Media Player, or is that a lost cause? But thanks to everyone for their help, I really do appreciate it. I have no idea what all of a sudden changed, but I will take it.

If you install one of the programs mentioned in that FAQ section, that should take care of both the OS and the Media Player software region protections.

No way because thats impossible, there isnothing on a BLANK media...
And the FAQ already shows that VLC is a good good start.