Mysterious region change

I have a DVD drive in my Dell set to UK region. It has worked fine for ages.
However, I have just played a DVD in it that has caused the region to set to
'unset'. I did nothing unusual: just played the DVD. All works well if I set
region back to UK, but it has used up one of the DVD's drive 'lives'. Anybody
any idea why this happens?

Thanks

"Timothy" <Timothy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote

>I have a DVD drive in my Dell set to UK region. It has
>worked fine for ages.
> However, I have just played a DVD in it that has caused
> the region to set to
> 'unset'. I did nothing unusual: just played the DVD. All
> works well if I set
> region back to UK, but it has used up one of the DVD's
> drive 'lives'. Anybody
> any idea why this happens?

UK is Region 2. What region (1, 3, etc) is the drive now?

--
Bob

Kanyak's Doghouse
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It was working fine on region 2. I played a DVD and without doing anything it
changed to 'region unset' and would not play anything. I have changed it back
to region 2 and it works again. My question is how can just playing a DVD
cause the region to change to 'unset'.

Thanks

Timothy

"Opinicus" wrote:

> "Timothy" <Timothy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
>
> >I have a DVD drive in my Dell set to UK region. It has
> >worked fine for ages.
> > However, I have just played a DVD in it that has caused
> > the region to set to
> > 'unset'. I did nothing unusual: just played the DVD. All
> > works well if I set
> > region back to UK, but it has used up one of the DVD's
> > drive 'lives'. Anybody
> > any idea why this happens?
>
> UK is Region 2. What region (1, 3, etc) is the drive now?
>
> --
> Bob
>
> Kanyak's Doghouse
> http://www.kanyak.com
>
>

"Timothy" <Timothy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote

> It was working fine on region 2. I played a DVD and
> without doing anything it
> changed to 'region unset' and would not play anything. I
> have changed it back
> to region 2 and it works again. My question is how can
> just playing a DVD
> cause the region to change to 'unset'.

Was the DVD a region other than 2? Or was it perhaps
"region-free"?

It may not have been the DVD. I did a Google search on
"region unset" then "DVD" and it seems it could be a bug in
firmware bug.

See if anything here matches your situation:

http://tinyurl.com/7svjk

--
Bob

Kanyak's Doghouse
http://www.kanyak.com