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Posted by Quanta on 09/23/06 09:40
"Nightcheck" <Nightcheck@cox.net> wrote in message
news:1158971919.421023.256830@m7g2000cwm.googlegroups.com...
> Hi .
>
> I've had a Pioneer Elite DVD Player (DV-47Ai) for a few years with
> no problems.
>
> Recently the DVD's were making noise while spinning - sometimes getting
> caught when loading (about half way through the load), spinning slowly,
> etc - which of course did not produce any video. Checking the DVD's I
> noticed dozens of circular grooves, no doubt caused by the DVD not
> spinning freely and rubbing against something internally. I tried
> numerous DVD's and same problem.
>
> Though I know next to nothing about repairing these - sometimes just
> opening the case - one can immediately see the problem and fix it
> easily. In this case, threre was a plastic circular object (about the
> size of a half dollar) which I assume would fit in the hole in the DVD
> while it would spin. I believe I corrected that problem - put a DVD in
> - did the load and unload dozens if times and - smooth as silk. I
> thought I was a genius. Little did I know...
>
> After hooking the DVD player back to my receiever - with the DVD turned
> off - I turned it on - and tapped the button to "Open" (which it did
> very smoothly and silently) putting in a new DVD - Then the following
> events occurred:
>
> 1) Once the Disk tray closes with the DVD in it - the Display flashes
> "Closed"
> 2) The Display then flashes "Loading"
> 3) Then on the display it looks like: 0 0 0.00
> 4) Above the first 0 on the left the display says "title" - Above the
> 2nd 0 displays CHP - and the next 3 (0.00) has no display dicator.
> 5) - Now the problem - The discs go into nicely - appears to load ok -
> but the "spinning mechanism" stopped working completely. It previously
> did work when the disks were making noises and probably not being
> inserted in correctly - but somehow when I corrected the open/close
> issue - I must have done something to cause the "spinning" to cease
> working.
>
> Any idea on what happened - and how I can fix this would be so helpful.
> I really don't want to buy another DVD player now - as I want to wait
> until the BlueRay/HD battle settles down and the HiDef Players come
> down in price.
>
> Thanks so much in advance
> Rick
>
My guess is that in the sequence of events, the laser has not been able to
track and read. Therefore the machine shuts down.
It is a gonner.
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