Dell laptop, not acceting dvd.

choccyface2006

My friend has just bought a new Dell laptop but it won't play DVDs. It says that the region code dose not match that of the DVD but they are original region 2 dvds so they do match.

Anyone else had this problem?

Thanks

Sarah

JonnyThunder

Has he set the DVD region for the drive?

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/archive/DVDregion.mspx


You can only do this 5 times per drive (its firmware embedded)

Bucky

Get a copy of AnyDVD and install onto the laptop. This will let you play any region DVD's.

ABH_3

If you can find the version of the drive itself, there is usually a firmware 'upgrade' that can remove such limitations.

Otherwise, there http://www.dvd43.com/ which is like a free version of AnyDVD: http://www.slysoft.com/en/anydvd.html

HTH

choccyface2006

Hi, region code is already set to 2.

Thanks for the software tips, thought it might have to be sent back to Dell!