Hi
I realise it's not really worth the effort (I'm WAY past that point!) but I've started and I don't like to give up.
I was given this by a friend because it would no longer recognise discs - the problem turned out to be the motor that spins the disc.
Having resolved that issue, the player has quickly progressed to being essentially unusable.
It's usually painfully unresponsive when first plugged in - tray won't eject/close; does not respond to the remote - but usually recovers.
When watching a DVD or AVI (via USB or from disc) it will freeze/restart after anything up to an hour; sometimes it will display "Service is not running or scrambled" in place of the TV signal. After powering off and on, it might work again for up to 10 minutes before failing again.
Voltages appear to be OK but since the problem is intermittent this may not mean much.
No obvious capacitor failures.
It seems that this is not an uncommon problem but I haven't been able to find any suggested fixes.
I'm on the verge of replacing the main power supply capacitors, but the board is bristling with electrolytics and I don't really want to replace them all - especially since this may have nothing to do with the problem.
So I thought I'd see if anyone here has any suggestions?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
I realise it's not really worth the effort (I'm WAY past that point!) but I've started and I don't like to give up.
I was given this by a friend because it would no longer recognise discs - the problem turned out to be the motor that spins the disc.
Having resolved that issue, the player has quickly progressed to being essentially unusable.
It's usually painfully unresponsive when first plugged in - tray won't eject/close; does not respond to the remote - but usually recovers.
When watching a DVD or AVI (via USB or from disc) it will freeze/restart after anything up to an hour; sometimes it will display "Service is not running or scrambled" in place of the TV signal. After powering off and on, it might work again for up to 10 minutes before failing again.
Voltages appear to be OK but since the problem is intermittent this may not mean much.
No obvious capacitor failures.
It seems that this is not an uncommon problem but I haven't been able to find any suggested fixes.
I'm on the verge of replacing the main power supply capacitors, but the board is bristling with electrolytics and I don't really want to replace them all - especially since this may have nothing to do with the problem.
So I thought I'd see if anyone here has any suggestions?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
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