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bhynes
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i have a toshiba 5005-s504 with a matshita udja710 dvd/cd-rw drive. it will not read dvd+r or +rw disks. according to compatibility charts i have seen on the net it says it should read disks. nero info tool says it shoild read disks. i have tried bit setting sofware , with no luck. i have also read that because toshiba supports the -r & -rw spec that they didn't put support for the plus disks on their laptops.

my question is if i upgrade the bios with a wimbios upgrade will i then have the ability to read the plus dvd disks on my toshiba laptop. any help any one has on this subject would be greatly appreciated
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bhynes wrote:my question is if i upgrade the bios with a wimbios upgrade will i then have the ability to read the plus dvd disks on my toshiba laptop. any help any one has on this subject would be greatly appreciated
A wimbios upgrade ? What do you mean ?
bhynes
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my error, i thought wim'sbios was the place to purchase a bios upgrade. I see it is actually esupport.com that sells the bios 's
If I purchase a new bios for my Toshiba laptop 5005-s504 would the new bios give it the ability to read dvd+r and dvd+rw disks. As I said in my previous post , different places on the net say that the dive Matshita UJDA710 is capable of reading the disks, but Toshiba doesn't support in their laptops.

thanks
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DVD firmware is never included in the system BIOS...
bhynes
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i understand that firmware is not in the system bios chip, could the ability to read or not read dvd+rw and dvd+r disks be in the system bios.
according to what it says on the bios upgrade site , with a new bios you should be able to read all dvd + or - disks. I have e-mailed them and have got no response.
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The problem is with the drive hardware or firmware.
Patched and tested BIOSes are at http://wims.rainbow-software.org
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