Richard_lench(Competent) posted this on Tuesday, 18th June 2002, 23:31
Hi
Just got a new PC and was using my DVD-ROM drive and noticed I could play Region 1 discs. All was well until earlier on when i got an error message saying the drive was locked to region 2.
I later found out it was because the software I use (Cyberlink PowerDVD) lets me use 5 multi region viewings and then locks itself to region 2. Have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the software but to no avail. Any suggestions?
RE: DVD-ROM and multi-region problem
John72(Competent) posted this on Friday, 21st June 2002, 15:56
First of all it is not Power DVD (although it does have its own regional locking system,) but is the DVD-ROM it`s self. Since 2000, their have been selling DVD-ROMs with something so called RPC-2 which only lets you change regions 5 times as you have found out.
I would recomend that you go to http://www.firmware.fr.st/ and then go to the Utilities page and download a small progam called Driveinfo v2.1 and post back all the info it tells you.
