OC LG 8481 to 8520 SUCCESS firmware here

by **farookh** on Sun Jan 26, 2003 9:28 am

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

by **jase** on Sun Jan 26, 2003 10:46 am

Well done, excellent news

Might have to get one of these now lol.

by **NW53** on Sun Jan 26, 2003 11:53 am

No problem, farookh. Glad to help!

by **jase** on Sun Jan 26, 2003 3:02 pm

Does it work on the 8480 as well?

by **pedro99** on Sun Jan 26, 2003 4:29 pm

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.

by **Raz0rX** on Sun Jan 26, 2003 5:40 pm

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?

by **Burn2death** on Mon Jan 27, 2003 11:03 pm

How do I use Mtkflash to to overclock it?

by **TheWizard** on Tue Jan 28, 2003 2:46 am

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.

by **dhc014** on Tue Jan 28, 2003 2:49 am

Burn2death wrote:How do I use Mtkflash to to overclock it?

Code: Select all: mtkflash X w /b filename.bin

Replace 'X' with 1 - PM, 2 - PS, 3 - SM, 4 - SS

by **Bhairav** on Tue Jan 28, 2003 6:54 am

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

by **farookh** on Tue Jan 28, 2003 7:47 am

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.

by **Raz0rX** on Tue Jan 28, 2003 8:37 am

Thanks Wizard, didn't know that the list was updated with this burner indeed

by **ReCkz** on Fri Feb 14, 2003 4:27 pm

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

by **Raz0rX** on Fri Feb 14, 2003 7:11 pm

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

by **Ian** on Fri Feb 14, 2003 7:25 pm

Raz0rX wrote: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

I translated it with Babelfish.. didn't really make sense to me.

by **ReCkz** on Fri Feb 14, 2003 7:48 pm

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

by **Raz0rX** on Fri Feb 14, 2003 8:31 pm

Hey Kennyshin where are you

by **patkob** on Fri Feb 28, 2003 11:18 am

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

by **Raz0rX** on Fri Feb 28, 2003 11:28 am

I saw a review on a Korean site for the 8520B and it has firmware version 1.03. Anybody can get it?

by **Scour** on Sun Mar 02, 2003 8:42 am

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

by **Scour** on Sun Mar 02, 2003 9:45 am

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

by **GuJack20** on Sun Mar 02, 2003 6:36 pm

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....

by **Scour** on Sun Mar 02, 2003 6:58 pm

Try it so:

mtkflash <device> w /b /m <FW.hex>

by **GuJack20** on Mon Mar 03, 2003 8:46 pm

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.

OC LG 8481 to 8520 SUCCESS firmware here

OC LG 8481 to 8520 SUCCESS firmware here

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