Optical Drive set to region 6 from factory?

I got one of the new MBP 2010 15" iCore 7;s from apple.com. I went to play a DVD today and a notice came up saying that my region is already set to 6 and would I like to change the region. I have seen a couple postings of others experiencing the same thing. Is this a standard apple practice? We're only allotted a few region changes before the drive is locked, does this take up one of them?

Unfortunately, not much help from my second phone conversation with Apple. Talked to a tech person, then to the sales department (to track down where my MBP shipped from?), then back to tech and finally to some manager tech person. No one could explain why this happened. The only offered solution was that someone in a factory in China "tested" out the DVD player prior to shipping. Not sure how that happens since my MBP came brand new and when it started up I got the welcome to OSX / startup customization page. Also, it's not clear why the optical drive would be needed to be tested with a video dvd where any disc media should have sufficed (including the OSX installation discs!). And why would a MBP destined to the US be "tested" with a Region 6 (Asia) video DVD?
I don't see this going anywhere with apple, the support obviously had no clue why this happened.
I also did not like the slight attitude from the manager asking me: "What do you expect us to do about it?"
<rant> I don't know...at least act like you give two s*s about this? <rant />
Obviously, customer relations was not this guy's strong suite, though he did conclude the discussion saying he'd ask the engineers and call me back. Haven't heard from him yet.
In the end this is really only an inconvenience, but it should never have been. For the premium Apple charges on its products (and AppleCare), there is no reason for the lack of suck obvious quality control, nor customer support.

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Optical drive doesn't disks from a particular brand

I am trying to burn some video files to 10 DVD's, but my optical drive doesn't recognize 4 of the DVD's I use (which are all of the same brand and freshly bought) - and had a very difficult time with the other 6. DVD's of other brands he reads and burns fine as well as my rewritable CD which I've used a million and one times and is scratched all over.
The 10 DVD's work fine in the Windows PC and Laptop I have, just not in my MacBook...
Is there any way I can get the drive to be able to burn the other DVD's?
Below the stats of the optical drive with one of the 6 burned DVD's in it:
MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-857E:
Firmware Revision: ZF1E
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipping Drive)
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DVD-Write: -R, -R DL, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, DVD-DAO
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ID: INFOMEDIA
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Overwritable: Yes
Appendable: No
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Other than trying to burn at a lower speed I suspect that there is little you can do. You could try a third-party disc burning application like Toast but that would be a lot more expensive that just trying several different types of media.
If you have an Apple Store nearby then you could probably take your disc to the store and try them in another MacBook at the store (it looks like you are using RW media, so you could rewrite them after these tests).
Of course, if after trying a few different brands you still find that you are having problems then you may just have a hardware problem with your MacBook's Superdrive. I suppose that you could also have a software conflict. Have you tried creating a new user account to see if the disc can be burned there (as a test)?

Cannot see optical drive or read files from superdrive

This is my first ever posting so I apologize if I’m giving too much info.
A couple years ago I installed a Pioneer DVD-RW DVR 107D in the top bay of my G4 (mirrored doors) and put the combo drive (Philips CDD5105) in the bottom bay. Back then I was running OS 9. All worked well, and continued to after I decided to start using OS X. I continued updating all the way up to 10.4.8 (I have avoided updating to 10.4.9 since it caused issues on our IBook). About a year ago the combo drive would come and go (in the system profiler) but the super drive was still working fine. Over the past year strange things began happening. If I would insert a kids games CD it would cause a kernel panic. So I simply used our Ibook to let my daughter play reader rabbit. For about the past 6 months the combo drive has not been recognized in system profiler. But other than the kids cds the super drive seemed to be working well reading & writing both CDs & DVDs. Then it began to error out burning CDs saying they could not be verified but the CDs were turning out ok it was burning DVDs without a problem. Within the last couple weeks it stopped recognizing files correctly. If it is an image or ai document it would say the files could not be opened and it would also not open installers of any kind. I finally decided to try to get it fixed. Last weekend I ran Tech tool & optimized the hard drives and low and behold it was fixed. Combo drive was back & working, Super drive was working correctly & the kids CDs did not cause problems either. This lasted for about 4 days of very infrequent use and all the problems were back. Then yesterday after being off for a couple days I started it up and all was ok again. So I left it on over night planning to make a disk image of it today. At this point I had a theory that my set up might be causing the problem. Since I had been running OS X it was installed and running on a second hard drive I had installed connected to a slave bus while OS 9 was still on the original hard drive connected to the master bus. So I cleaned off the main hard drive and thought since it was working correctly I could transfer the system & apps to the other hard drive and save the working disk image. But of coarse in the middle of transferring files around the combo drive vanished again and the super drive won’t read files correctly. So I decided to reinstall from my OS 10.4 DVD on the main hard drive and reinstall all my apps. But I can’t get it to read or boot up from the DVD. I tried running Tech Tool again with no luck.
Could this be as simple as a bad preference or something?
Here are the machine specs
Machine Name: Power Mac G4
Machine Model: PowerMac3,6
CPU Type: PowerPC G4 (2.1)
Number Of CPUs: 2
CPU Speed: 867 MHz
L2 Cache (per CPU): 256 KB
L3 Cache (per CPU): 1 MB
Memory: 1.75 GB
Bus Speed: 133 MHz
Boot ROM Version: 4.4.8f2
PowerPC G4 dual 867 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

The only thing that seems strange about it being the drives is that whenever the combo drive disappears from the menu the super drive will simultaneously not read files correctly and cause kernel panics etc. And when the combo drive can be seen both drives work with no problems. Would that system still point to failing hardware? It just seems that since it's either both or neither that something that effects them both would be the culprit. Since I posted I was able to reload tiger & after the restart the problem returned. Then another restart it was fine all day. To your point replacement drives are reasonably priced & easy to install so I probably should just get one & try it.
Thanks for your advise
Carl

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Any suggestions?

Since it is a fresh install, the only drivers that are installed are the ones that came on the Windows XP SP2 CD and the JMicron RAID drivers that I slipstreamed in. However, the directory structure and instructions for use weren't very clear in the .zip file that the RAID drivers came in. It says:
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Try a cleaning disc--that won't hurt and might help. I believe Best Buy and others carry these.
You might also want to shop around for an external optical drive--this might be a less expensive way to go.
I still have my original optical drive, which has been trouble free. It is a Matshita DVD-R UJ 85J with a firmware revision of FBZ8. Since yours and mine are different, the firmware revision is likely different too.
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IDE Annoyance-Please Read if you have 2 Optical Drives

Does anyone else with a multiple IDE optical Drive set up have this problem? Can you verify this using a blank CD?
I have 2 optical drives; A Plextor PX-708A and a MSI CR52-M. Whichever Drive is connected to IDE 1 will not read/recognize a blank disc. When a blank disc is inserted, and the drive icon double clicked in Windows Explorer, I get a “:\ is not accessible: Incorrect function” message box. This error follows the IDE 1 connector on the mother board. In other words, I can move this error to the MSI or the Plextor drive depending on the IDE slot it is plugged in to.
On the Other hand the drive on IDE 1will always read/recognize a disc with data on it (as will IDE 2, along with recognizing a blank disk.)
I have tried the following with no success.
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In BIOS having the PCI BusMaster both enabled and disabled
Every permutation and combination of master/slave relationship
Trying single IDE cables
Dual IDE cable in both IDE 1 and slot 2 (The error is still there on the second drive)
Re-installing the OD BIOS on the MSI drive using Live Update
Re-connecting cables
New cables
Checking for bent pins on the IDE 1 slot
Trying both the blue side of the cable and the black side of the cable connected to the motherboard
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I’m out of ideas. Any help would be appreciated.

BAS,
I have the Drives Connected to different IDE ports and the problem follows IDE1 (whatever drive is connected to IDE1 has the problem. However if both drives are connected to either IDE1 or IDE2 one of the two drives has the problem.
Thinking that it was the combinations of drives I tried the same thing with an old NEC drive I had. Same problem... Very strange

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Noise from Optical Drive?

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I have a problem with noise in my optical drive. It keeps making "seeking" noises every minute that goes by. it sound like eek eek erk erk. LOL but yeah extremely annoying especially at night. BDAqua has the same drive as me, purchased from OWC:
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Hello peoples,
@BDAqua: Yeah, It burns fine. Fast as can be. no problems with burning, erasing, formatting, reading. On any media. Ive tried all types of blank and burned Discs this drive supports (yes I have no life LOL) and everything checks out A-OK.
A. Timleck wrote:
First of all you're NOT crazy.
Thanks! Good to know.
And it's awesome when I logged in here to write about this problem that you're note was here - I'm >not crazy either.
Awesome. I'm glad that nobody here is a pyscho.
My G5 Quad Core does this and it's annoying as... About every 20 minutes I get this "click click >clack" as the drive is checked for media. The machine is on 24-7 and doesn't have sleep enabled at >all, save put hard drives to sleep when possible.
Sounds exactly like my Machine. Go in the System Profiler and post your optical drive specs here please? Thanks in advance.
The thing is that it did this in my dual G5 that I had right before it - so I thought it was maybe >software (it JUST did it while I was typing this - it's TAUNTING me!).
Yeah same here my friend.
Like yourself it's actually in a place where, at night, though subtle, it wakes me up! I'm threatening to >go in there and pull the plug on the drive completely...
Tell me about it. My Power Mac G5 is right beside my bed. LOL Too lazy to leave my room to check my email and Facebook and stuff, LOL (even though I have my iPhone 3GS...) but I still like falling asleep with my iTunes on.
Would be interested to hear if you find a solution - this didn't happen on earlier G5s I had so what >gives....
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—Matthew—

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Looks like we posted at exactly the same time, Glynn! LOL
Anyway, I did just what you said, drag'n'drop and all. The problem is, when I boot from the USB hard drive, it's exactly as if I were booting from the CD: first I'm asked to choose a language, then the install screen appears, and I can either reinstall on my startup disk from the USB hard drive (that's kinda cool, but I don't think I leave in on my USB hard drive, which can only content 40Gb, because I've almost 25Gb worth of data to retransfer soon...
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Almost time to go to work. A 5 minute walk, though...

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The other is missing HD and ram, with a dysfunctional MB, but pristine as far as aesthetics.
My goal is to replace my hingeset, display enclosure and optical drive on my working 4530s with the parts from the non-working one.
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2. What tools would i need aside from a small phillips/flat?
3. As I am fairly inexperienced with computer/laptop hardware, (I've only installed ram and replaced a keyboard) am I getting myself in too deep with either or both of these options? (my warranty is no longer applicable).
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