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| valuable information for my visitorsRasInTask
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| introduction |
| About one year ago, I posted an article about how to hack the region code
of a thinkpad T21. Now, when I saw a Thinkpad T23 with this cool
144x1050 Display resolution, I had to buy me a new model. Again, it came with a
DVD-Drive and again I wanted to hack it. And again, I succeded, and this time,
it was even easier....
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| warning |
| I am not sure whether patching the firmware (and the DVD-Player-Software) is legal in your country.
I am not even sure wheter it is here in Switzerland. So: If it is not: Please don't run to your
lawyer but send me a short email and I will remove this
page.
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| getting the firmware |
| This time, there is no firmware to download from the web, but a small Tool that sends
undocumented ASPI-Commands to the drive, an Hitachi GD-S200, this time, to reset
the internal counter. This has the big advantage that the dangerous flashing
procedure is not necessary. Also, as your drive will stay RPC-2, you will not have
to hack your Player-Software. On the other hand, as your drive will stay RPC-2, you
will have to use the tool below on every region-change, but this is the same
with the player-software and RPC-1...
The biggest disadvantage: As the hacking-tool is required on every region
change and as it is a windows-program, you need Windows for watching your dvd's,
but as Windows is the only i386-OS that can be used to watch DVDs in an
acceptable quality, this is not that a limitation.
After all, finding the tool was quite simple: I just used the string "dvd-rom hitachi gd-s200 region free firmware"
on Google
and took the first working link to find this tool.
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| aspi |
| My new Thinkpad came with Windows 2000 preinstalled, which I upgraded to WinXP.
Both of those OSes do not come with an ASPI-Layer that can be used with
the tool above.
Using the string "aspi winxp" in Google,
broguht me to a site that explains how to install the ASPI-Layer for Windows 2000 and
XP.
Please download this archive, extract it, preserving
folder names and double-click on Instaspi.bat. Then restart your
computer.
Now you can use the tool above to set the region code and reset the internal
counter back to 4 changes.
Once again: Have fun!
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