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I've read a few posts here that users have abled to upgrade their Liteon 48246S firmware, so it upgrades it to a Liteon 52246S, I presume this is the liteon 52x 24x 52x burner with Mt Rainier support.

How do I go abouts doing this. I've also been to the Liteon website, went to downloads and then to Firmware, looked for the firmware upgrade and there is a zip file there named R48SSOA zip, dated 2003/01/03. The description of this file says "match more media", though it does not say anything about upgrading to a Liteon 52246S or even Mt rainier support.

Also to do a firmware upgrade do I need to leave a CD in the drive or not necessary. And this being a windows based firmware upgrade, do I need to unzip the file and just re install it in Windows.

Re the above, I'm only have a think about it, but really not quite sure if I will go ahead and do it. as my Liteon 48246S works very well and I'm very happy as it is.

Firstly, if you're unsure don't do it. The performance increase isn't that stunning TBH.

The way to reflash the drive is simple now. Download the 52x firmware, and a nifty litte util "Flash Fix" courtesy of Dimitri here http://digi.web1000.com/flashfix.htm. Unrar the firmware file, run the flash-fix util on the firmware and flash away. The Flash Fix removes the protection and allows any LiteOn drive to be flashed with any LiteOn firmware.

Just curious, is it possible to overclock the Lite-On 48125W without damaging it?
The reason why I ask is because the firmware for 48246S seems to do a better quality write on the cdr's (based on the graphs of the ppl here that have a 48246S) than the VSO8 firmware for the 48125W?

Jase, the link that you gave for the "flash fix" isn't there, is there another link I can go to to get that util?

Thanks

You cannot overclock the LTR-48125W. Get flashfix here: http://digi.rpc1.org/flashfix.htm