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OC LG 8481 to 8520 SUCCESS firmware here
Posted:
Sun Jan 26, 2003 9:28 am
by farookh
Hi,
just did it with a little help from Nicholas thanks mate
Now GCE-8481B to GCE-8520B
[url]
http://personal.vsnl.com/farookh/LG8520.zip [url]
use mtkflash * w /m /b 8520b.bin
Posted:
Sun Jan 26, 2003 10:46 am
by jase
Well done, excellent news
Might have to get one of these now lol.
Posted:
Sun Jan 26, 2003 11:53 am
by NW53
No problem, farookh. Glad to help!
Posted:
Sun Jan 26, 2003 3:02 pm
by jase
Does it work on the 8480 as well?
Posted:
Sun Jan 26, 2003 4:29 pm
by pedro99
That's fast! jase yes it work on the 8480B as well but you lose one light.I saw no other difference whatsoever between the 8481B and 8480B.
Posted:
Sun Jan 26, 2003 5:40 pm
by Raz0rX
I am about to get a LG 52x RW but am worried about its media compatibility as well as write quality.
Farookh, would you mind to post some CDR writing speed picture and burn some CDR to see which ones can do 52x?
Posted:
Mon Jan 27, 2003 11:03 pm
by Burn2death
How do I use Mtkflash to to overclock it?
Posted:
Tue Jan 28, 2003 2:46 am
by TheWizard
Raz0rX wrote:I am about to get a LG 52x RW but am worried about its media compatibility as well as write quality.
Farookh, would you mind to post some CDR writing speed picture and burn some CDR to see which ones can do 52x?
Look at the Media Compatability thread, RazOrX, I added a few results for the GCE-8520B. It looks good, the only stumbles are that Fuji and Princo 48X media won't burn at 52X, but you can't expect all 48X to burn at a higher speed. So, this isn't really a stumble; you pay for 48X media and that is what you get...nothing more, nothing less.
Posted:
Tue Jan 28, 2003 2:49 am
by dhc014
Burn2death wrote:How do I use Mtkflash to to overclock it?
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mtkflash X w /b filename.bin
Replace 'X' with 1 - PM, 2 - PS, 3 - SM, 4 - SS
Posted:
Tue Jan 28, 2003 6:54 am
by Bhairav
Hey Farookh, nice job!
How much did you get that 8481 for? Looking at your VSNL address, I take it you are in India?
Thanks m8
Posted:
Tue Jan 28, 2003 7:47 am
by farookh
Hi Bhairav,
yeap i am from bombay got the LG for Rs 3800/- a couple of weeks back (DEC 2002) heard that its even cheaper now this LG drive is my 6th writer and am i glad i chose the LG.
Posted:
Tue Jan 28, 2003 8:37 am
by Raz0rX
Thanks Wizard, didn't know that the list was updated with this burner indeed
Posted:
Fri Feb 14, 2003 4:27 pm
by ReCkz
with this firmware will i still be able to read CD-R at 48x? and will it damage my drive?
i have GCE 8418B firmware v1.02
if let say something went wrong, can i still be able to install firmware v1.02 back
Thx
Posted:
Fri Feb 14, 2003 7:11 pm
by Raz0rX
Even LG has something to say regarding overclocking from 48x to 52x...
http://www.lge.co.kr/product/helpdesk/p ... 1&seq=2882
BabelFish:
http://babel.altavista.com/tr
Posted:
Fri Feb 14, 2003 7:25 pm
by Ian
I translated it with Babelfish.. didn't really make sense to me.
Posted:
Fri Feb 14, 2003 7:48 pm
by ReCkz
Yeah.. same here
I don't understand what they're saying, even though i translated it with babelfish..
well, it says something about recording quality and failure and also hour product life, but it's not easily understandable
is there any other link that might be helpful?
but anyway in general not only for lg product if one overclock the burner will it damage the drive or reduce the quality?
Thx
Posted:
Fri Feb 14, 2003 8:31 pm
by Raz0rX
Hey Kennyshin where are you
Posted:
Fri Feb 28, 2003 11:18 am
by patkob
I suceed the 8520B ugrade
Burner seems Ok ...could it be that its the same machine(motor)
kinda like CPUs that are under the actual limit speed
Posted:
Fri Feb 28, 2003 11:28 am
by Raz0rX
I saw a review on a Korean site for the 8520B and it has firmware version 1.03. Anybody can get it?
Posted:
Sun Mar 02, 2003 8:42 am
by Scour
Hello!
A question: Where can i get teh FW 1.00 for the LG 8481? I´d updated a LG 8481 from 1.00 to 1.02 and now it writes neweset SKC/Ritek 48x only at 16x
An other LG 8481 with 1.00 writes this CD-R´s at full speed
Thanks
Posted:
Sun Mar 02, 2003 9:45 am
by Scour
Hello!
Can i save the old FW with the LG DOS-Firmware-flasher? I tested it with MTKFlash, but the saved file is much shorter than a original-FW
Posted:
Sun Mar 02, 2003 6:36 pm
by GuJack20
It seems that MTKFlash can't erase the flash of my 8481B...it says "ERR: Flash clean failed"....
How can i overclock it?
Does anybody have a clue....
Posted:
Sun Mar 02, 2003 6:58 pm
by Scour
Try it so:
mtkflash <device> w /b /m <FW.hex>
Posted:
Mon Mar 03, 2003 8:46 pm
by GuJack20
Thanks Scour.
It worked fine. Anyway it seems that my burner doesn't recognizes all the media as it is...
I think that this is a LG problem cos the same problems i got with all LG drives i ever used.