Re: Blinking power light fix for DVP642 DVD Player

The C316 cap fixed worked for me. I pulled the 1000uF/10V "TBOR" brand cap, and measured it at 110uF instead of 1000uF (which shows how bad it can get before it actually fails). I replaced it with a 920uF/12V cap out of my random capacitor stash (which measured at 1020uF, good enough) and the player is working OK so far.

What's funny about this is that one of the first switchers I ever fixed was in one of the early Sun Microsystems "pizza box" workstations, back in 1990 or so. I posted a description...