I just flashed the firmware my liteon ltr24102b 24×10x40 cdrw and my liteon ltd163 16x dvdrom drives. I got the firmware for the cdrw drive from the official site. It would appear that liteon doesn’t make new firmware for their dvdrom drives. I guess this is do to the region coding of the drives, and flashing the drives would reset them to default “no region selected” mode, thus allowing a stuck drive to be reset to any region. So I did a quick google search and came up with this site. So the drives are up-to-date. While I was not having any problems with the drives, I just like to be up-to-date with any computer device I own; be it drivers, firmwares, newer hardware, etc. I flash my bios every time a new bios is released (which one hasnt been in awhile, grrr). I would link to asus right now, but their site is giving me troubles.
So I reformatted my windows 2000 pro sp3 install and put on my newly created windows 2000 pro sp4 install. Everything appears to be running smoothly. I needed four critical windows updates after the reformat. I ghosted my drive right after installing IE6 and the windows updates were installed.
Now the tedious process of reinstalling all my favorite apps….. I always miss one; I go to run it and it isnt there so I have to install it right when I need it. Blah, annoying. Must make a checklist of software to install.