Is it Possible to change the DVD drive to Bluray for HP Pavilion dv6-6176sx

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Is it Possible to change the DVD drive to Bluray for HP Pavilion dv6-6176sx Entertainment Notebook PC?
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Sure it is not even very difficult. Do you just need a BR reader or a burner/reader? The replacement disk drive will be $80-120 or so, maybe a bit less. You can find them on eBay. You can use a generic one but that may require some reworking of the faceplate or just get an original dv6-6000 BR drive on eBay. Swaps out with a couple screws on the bottom; slide out and slide in the replacement. You will need new software to play BR movies, of course.
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Sure it is not even very difficult. Do you just need a BR reader or a burner/reader? The replacement disk drive will be $80-120 or so, maybe a bit less. You can find them on eBay. You can use a generic one but that may require some reworking of the faceplate or just get an original dv6-6000 BR drive on eBay. Swaps out with a couple screws on the bottom; slide out and slide in the replacement. You will need new software to play BR movies, of course.
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I have a Compaq Presario SR1850NX desktop computer. It's about 8 years old now but what I want to talk about today is specifically about the DVD Burner that comes included with the desktop.
The model is a Liteon SHW-160H6S OEM drive packaged with the CP81 firmware (OEM firmware, not retail firmware).
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@HP Customer Service
If you have the original firmware possibly somewhere in your archivces but I won't bet on it, it would be great if you could provide me access to it so I can try to revive my dead DVD drive. Many thanks and I just hope I can get this drive working again someday!
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http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/product?cc=us&lc=en&product=1843679

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The only Firmware that is available for the Drive is in the "Drivers" section of the link that you provided.
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7) Open iDVD and load your project in the theme that you have modified.
Here are what it looks like for my images.
When not selecting arrow.
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c261/Matt_Skorina/Picture5.png
When selecting the arrow.
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c261/Matt_Skorina/Picture6.png
This is not esay. Make sure you back up the theme you change.
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