OPTICAL DRIVE FOR LITEON LVW 5045?

I just replaced the drive with an LG GSA4167B too.Recording Ok playing OK. Thank you

jose luis
December 2016

I recently had a go at replacing the Liteon 5045 internal DVD drive with a Liteon IHAP122. I had the same problems as some others in having to "modify" the internal steel slot that the drive goes through. This is necessary to get the front of the DVD drive flush with the inside of the plastic front facia.

I found it was fairly simple to remove the front face off the new drive as well as the drawer front. The Liteon 5045 drawer front can slso be unclipped. To reattach this to the new drive you need to make a few incisions to make some "keyways" for the drawer front to locate in place properly.

I also found that I could screw the drive down if I drilled a couple of 5mm holes in either side of the aluminium casing above the location points in the existing case. At these points on the base of the DVD drive there are two circular plastic areas. By drilling a small hole through these I was able to insert some screws and tighten them up by putting the screwdriver through the case.

I re-assembled the case and tried it out and it recorded and played back first time. Unfortunately I forgot that the drive needs to have the region code initialising. I did this using an IDE to USB cable but you can obviously just mount the DVD drive temporarily in a computer first.

Once the computer sees the drive if you try and use it to play something you get a pop up message saying what region do you want to set it to. Once this is done the drive plays back commercial DVD's no problem.

As I have used the region hack on the 5045 I used to be able to play region 1 but I haven't checked that out since replacing the drive.

Dunc
March 2011

Having read a huge number of similar posts around the net I have today replaced the drive in my 5045GDL+ with a Liteon IHAS 324-32 (£16.99 from Play.com), using a SATA to IDE adaptor (£19.99 from Maplins). I butchered the case of the drive to make it fit when I should have simply cut a damn great slot in the face of the 5045 and fitted the new drive easily (other than only using two screws to retain the drive instead of the four of the original unit, and having to drill through the case of the dvd drive to get at the screw posts), leaving the dvd drive's front bezel alone and making it look less of a mess aesthetically. I'll learn for the next time. More happily, it all works , even fast forwarding; albeit the FF is less smooth than from the HDD. Everything plays, records, transfers in either direction, and still remains multi-region.
If I did it again I figure that it's less than an hour's work.

G
March 2010

I just replaced the drive with an LG GSA4167B. Therfor i had to cut away the two metal parts that stuck at the back of the front and I had to remove the front of the LG drive. in this way i could push the LG drive in the back of the metal front. Recording Ok playing OK. Only i have to find a way to mount the front of recorder on the LG drive.

Rein
July 2009

Hi.
I have a 5045 and have replaced the drive with a PC drive SOHW-1693. It does the business. If you follow the two links below it will show you the models compatible with the 5045 and what modifications need to be done to fit them. I have tried newer drives and the machine freezes. Hoping this is helpful to you. It is getting harder to find these older model drives.

replacement drives
http://www.techolio.com/forums/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3044&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=

Modifications need to fit
http://www.techolio.com/forums/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2723

Paul Topham
June 2008