NEW OPTION: 'UHD Friendly' Firmware Downgrade / Cross-Flash Using Official (Modified) ASUS Flasher for ASUS & LG Drives

[MartyMcNuts]

Hello everyone and thank you for this great forum,

I just got an Archgon MD-8107-U3 UHD drive (made in Taiwan) with the below info extracted from MakeMKV.
I've tried flashing it using ASUS_ODD_FW_Changer but the app wouldn't even launch.
After I double click on it, a window slightly flashes on screen, then the ASUS_ODD_FW_Changer app just vanishes from the folder (Windows 10 Pro).
Any help would be greatly appreciated

Informations lecteur
Nom du lecteur SE : \Device\CdRom0
Profil actuel : BD-ROM
Fabricant : HL-DT-ST
Produit : BD-RE BU40N
Révision : 1.01
Numéro de série : XXXXXXXXXXXXX
Date micrologiciel : 2119-10-16 10:32
Marqueurs d'encryptage bus : 1F
Version AACS la plus haute : 68

LibreDrive Information
Status: Possible (with patched firmware)
Drive platform: MT1959
Harware support: Yes
Firmware support: No
Firmware type: Original (patched version available)
Firmware version: 1.01
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)

Just use the SDFtool Flasher instead.

[Taturz63]

Hello,

I recently received an LG BP50NB40 and I have been using it to rip Blu-Rays to my Plex server. I discovered that this drive cannot read UHDs so I was trying to cross-flash it to the LG BP60B10 software, but I am not having success. The (Modified) Asus Flasher Tool throws an "Updating Error # 5" every time I try to flash and when I followed the tutorial that uses CMD to flash the drive and everything seems to run, but the changes are not reflected in MakeMKV. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you

[MartyMcNuts]

Hello,

I recently received an LG BP50NB40 and I have been using it to rip Blu-Rays to my Plex server. I discovered that this drive cannot read UHDs so I was trying to cross-flash it to the LG BP60B10 software, but I am not having success. The (Modified) Asus Flasher Tool throws an "Updating Error # 5" every time I try to flash and when I followed the tutorial that uses CMD to flash the drive and everything seems to run, but the changes are not reflected in MakeMKV. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you

I asume your BP50NB40 is on firmware 1.03? If so, use the SDFtool Flasher and:

1. Flash BP50NB40 1.03 MK with "enc?" checked as you have encrypted firmware.
2. Then flash BP60NB10 1.01 MK without "enc?" checked as you no longer have encrypted firmware.

[Emspoppa23]

Just wanted to thank Marty, worked great on a Asus drive I just bought, thanks so much and cheers!

[CScace]

Hello! I also have the BP50NB40 on firmware 1.03.

When using the SDFtool Flasher and attempting to flash BP50NB40 1.03 MK, I get "command produced error code 0x8f05c103"

Also, are these the files from https://www.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic ... 19&t=19113 ?

Sorry, I'm quite new to these things.

Help would be much appreciated. Thanks!

[MartyMcNuts]

Hello! I also have the BP50NB40 on firmware 1.03.

When using the SDFtool Flasher and attempting to flash BP50NB40 1.03 MK, I get "command produced error code 0x8f05c103"

Also, are these the files from https://www.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic ... 19&t=19113 ?

Sorry, I'm quite new to these things.

Help would be much appreciated. Thanks!

Yes, the firmware pack is at that link.

The stock BP50NB40 1.03 is an encrypted firmware. Did you check "enc?" before flashing?

You should:
1. Flash BP50NB40 1.03 MK with "enc?" checked as you have encrypted firmware.
2. Then flash BP60NB10 1.01 MK without "enc?" checked as you no longer have encrypted firmware.

[hiyo33]

Quick question. I have an LG UH12Ns40 which has already been pre-flashed to ASUS firmware 3.01. I want to upgrade to 3.10. I have been getting a lot of terrible grinding noise on recent discs. Can the "modified ASUS FW Flasher / MK firmware pack" be used to accomlish this ? Would the process be to just just run the ASUS flasher, and then just choose Asus 3.10 firmware?

Thanks.


Drive platform: MT1959 /
flashed to ASUS Product: BW-16D1HT
Revision: 3.01

[MartyMcNuts]

Quick question. I have an LG UH12Ns40 which has already been pre-flashed to ASUS firmware 3.01. I want to upgrade to 3.10. I have been getting a lot of terrible grinding noise on recent discs. Can the "modified ASUS FW Flasher / MK firmware pack" be used to accomlish this ? Would the process be to just just run the ASUS flasher, and then just choose Asus 3.10 firmware?

Thanks.


Drive platform: MT1959 /
flashed to ASUS Product: BW-16D1HT
Revision: 3.01

correct.

[jonghotti]

Quick question. I have an LG UH12Ns40 which has already been pre-flashed to ASUS firmware 3.01. I want to upgrade to 3.10. I have been getting a lot of terrible grinding noise on recent discs. Can the "modified ASUS FW Flasher / MK firmware pack" be used to accomlish this ? Would the process be to just just run the ASUS flasher, and then just choose Asus 3.10 firmware?

Thanks.


Drive platform: MT1959 /
flashed to ASUS Product: BW-16D1HT
Revision: 3.01

Did you get that from me? Just wondering.


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[hiyo33]

Yes, you win the prize.

[jonghotti]

Yes, you win the prize.

Cool! Feel free to hit me up with stuff like this, happy to help.

[BucklesMcGee]

Hi, I recently purchased a ASUS BW-16D1HT and it was working with BD/DVD. But today it seems to not be able to read BD's anymore it just shows the "No Disk". Yet DVD's still work fine. So I do not think that it is a sensor issue. Below is what it is showing in MKV.

I have tried and pretty sure successfully loaded the 3.10MK firmware into it. I did have 3.10-01 or something. When I would try to use the tool it would report something about Flash Update. That was when I was trying to go directly to 3.02. I then side loaded to the 3.10MK using the ASUS tool. And yet still same issue. Any guidance would be helpful. Thank you in advance.

Note: I just noticed that the "profile" is showing as DVD-ROM is instead of BD-ROM. How do I change the profile?

Drive Information
OS device name: F:
Current profile: DVD-ROM
Manufacturer: ASUS
Product: BW-16D1HT
Revision: 3.10
Serial number: XXXXXXXXX
Firmware date: 2119-01-04 10:14
Bus encryption flags: 1F

LibreDrive Information
Status: Enabled
Drive platform: MT1959
Firmware type: Patched (microcode access re-enabled)
Firmware version: 3.10
DVD all regions: Yes
BD raw data read: Yes
BD raw metadata read: Yes
Unrestricted read speed: Yes

No disc inserted

[jonghotti]

What was the last thing you did with the drive before it stopped working? Were you ripping a disc and did that rip finish or fail?

[Billycar11]

Hi, I recently purchased a ASUS BW-16D1HT and it was working with BD/DVD. But today it seems to not be able to read BD's anymore it just shows the "No Disk". Yet DVD's still work fine. So I do not think that it is a sensor issue. Below is what it is showing in MKV.

I have tried and pretty sure successfully loaded the 3.10MK firmware into it. I did have 3.10-01 or something. When I would try to use the tool it would report something about Flash Update. That was when I was trying to go directly to 3.02. I then side loaded to the 3.10MK using the ASUS tool. And yet still same issue. Any guidance would be helpful. Thank you in advance.

Note: I just noticed that the "profile" is showing as DVD-ROM is instead of BD-ROM. How do I change the profile?

Drive Information
OS device name: F:
Current profile: DVD-ROM
Manufacturer: ASUS
Product: BW-16D1HT
Revision: 3.10
Serial number: XXXXXXXXX
Firmware date: 2119-01-04 10:14
Bus encryption flags: 1F

LibreDrive Information
Status: Enabled
Drive platform: MT1959
Firmware type: Patched (microcode access re-enabled)
Firmware version: 3.10
DVD all regions: Yes
BD raw data read: Yes
BD raw metadata read: Yes
Unrestricted read speed: Yes

No disc inserted

do a full shut down flip the power switch or pull plug on psu and hold power button for 10s then reconnect/flip on switch and see if it then works

[BucklesMcGee]

So I was in the process of ripping my entire library. So earlier in the day it ripped a BD successfully. Then I had been ripping DVD's then I tried to rip another BD and it just showed it as no disk. This actually happened before I changed the firmware on the drive. I was just running the firmware out of the box. I do not own any UHD disk's so I was not worried about updating the firmware right away.

For context at the time it was connected to a Ubuntu setup. Since then I had moved (physically) to my windows computer and it has the same issue on there. So it has been powered off fully and back on. Oddly, windows showed it as a BD-Drive soft of, in the file explorer that is what the drive was called. Yet still putting in a BD disk it just said there was nothing there. Windows still probably did not read it as a BD drive just was labeled as such.

Since I just purchased it from Amazon. I think I am just going to do a return on it for faulty hardware.