LG WH14NS40 with WP50NB40 drive inside possibly bricked?

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texrex5
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LG WH14NS40 with WP50NB40 drive inside possibly bricked?

Post by texrex5 »

Hi all experts,
Newbie to remuxing here.
Apologies in advance for posting this here, in case there is another related thread.
I received this drive and I didn't notice that the internal drive is WP50NB40 ( don't know where to look for the SVC code). I is an internal drive, but WP seems to be a slim version of the drive, so I am confused what LG sold to me. The tags all over the drives clearly says WH14NS40, but device manager says WP50NB40.
Anyhow, I flashed it with the internal drive firmware DE_LG_WH14NS40-NS50_1.02.bin and ticked both "encryption and include bootloader" when writing in the SDF flash tool.
Now the eject button is not working at all.
I tried to do recover and rewrite with DE_LG_WP50NB40-NB50_1.03_MK, but I am getting the "Command produced error code 0xff05c103".
Is the driver bricked and not recoverable?

These are the details:

Drive Information
OS device name: D:
Manufacturer: HL-DT-ST
Product: BD-RE WP50NB40
Revision: 1.03
Serial number: **********
Firmware date: 2120-05-07 09:29
Bus encryption flags: 17

LibreDrive Information
Status: Enabled
Drive platform: MT1959
Firmware type: Patched (microcode access re-enabled)
Firmware version: 1.03
DVD all regions: Yes
BD raw data read: Yes
BD raw metadata read: Yes
Unrestricted read speed: Yes

No disc inserted
Billycar11
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Re: LG WH14NS40 with WP50NB40 drive inside possibly bricked?

Post by Billycar11 »

i can recover it for you but it may be dead already
drives done live long when they are flashed to slim or 5.25 when thats not what they are unplug it until you a recovering it
did one like this just a few weeks ago but laser was dead by time i got to it
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texrex5
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Re: LG WH14NS40 with WP50NB40 drive inside possibly bricked?

Post by texrex5 »

Ah! I would probably get another one then. But which one should I flash on a drive which says internal WH outside, but has a slim WP inside?
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Re: LG WH14NS40 with WP50NB40 drive inside possibly bricked?

Post by Billycar11 »

texrex5 wrote:
Mon Jan 13, 2025 2:16 pm
Ah! I would probably get another one then. But which one should I flash on a drive which says internal WH outside, but has a slim WP inside?
post your drive info when you get another one or just buy a better preflashed pioneer from one of us me marty and asmcom all have pioneers with the correct fw and they are much better then the lg/asus drives
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texrex5
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Re: LG WH14NS40 with WP50NB40 drive inside possibly bricked?

Post by texrex5 »

I got the new drive. This one is correct with WH14NS40, SVC NS50. But with 1.05 firmware.
What should I flash it with?

Drive Information
OS device name: D:
Manufacturer: HL-DT-ST
Product: BD-RE WH14NS40
Revision: 1.05
Serial number: ************
Firmware date: 2120-05-06 14:44
Bus encryption flags: 17

LibreDrive Information
Status: Possible (with patched firmware)
Drive platform: MT1959
Harware support: Yes
Firmware support: No
Firmware type: Original (patched version available)
Firmware version: 1.05
DVD all regions: Possible (with patched firmware)
BD raw data read: Possible (with patched firmware)
BD raw metadata read: Possible (with patched firmware)
Unrestricted read speed: Possible (with patched firmware)
texrex5
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Re: LG WH14NS40 with WP50NB40 drive inside possibly bricked?

Post by texrex5 »

nvm. I saw one thread where the suggestion was to use the 1.02 firmware for WH16NS60.
I flashed that one and I am able to rip my first Blu-ray: Interstellar.
Hope it doesn’t give any errors or crash in the middle.
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