I have a combined DVD / HD-DVD / Blu-ray drive on my machine (yeah, I'm very much the big man) which is all great and everything. 

However, I've got quite a few region 1 DVDs that it won't play. I know I can switch my drive's region but this is limited to 5 times only. 

Is there a way I can make the drive permanently multi-region or lift this limit, the same way you can with most DVD players?