gilgan@ug.cs.dal.ca (S.O.D.) (02/09/90)
I have a Mission CD player. I bought it second hand. Recently (as of Christmas) after recieving a couple CD's, the stupid thing started freaking out. It would be playing along merrily and then suddenly "rest".(it would stop playing and then pretend there was no CD in it) NOW it won't even play a CD!! When I load a cd in it looks at it and then pretneds nothing is there.. I have been told that the laser needs re-allignment. First question: is that true?? Second question do you know what the hell is wrong with it? and better yet how do you fix it? I don't have a dime to take it to get fixed, and I can't play any of the new disks I got. Please reply if you have a solution, because without a solution I have NO music( egads!!) thanks Tom
chris@procyon.la.locus.com (Chris Davis) (02/09/90)
In article <1990Feb9.012038.13369@ug.cs.dal.ca> gilgan@ug.cs.dal.ca (S.O.D.) writes: >I have a Mission CD player. I bought it second hand. Recently (as of >Christmas) after recieving a couple CD's, the stupid thing started freaking >out. It would be playing along merrily and then suddenly "rest".(it would stop >playing and then pretend there was no CD in it) NOW it won't even play a CD!! >When I load a cd in it looks at it and then pretneds nothing is there.. >I have been told that the laser needs re-allignment. First question: is that >true?? Tom, my Yamaha CDX2 CD player started doing exactly the same thing last week. I took the cover off and blew all the dust out with a Radio Shaft [tm] dust remover spray, but that didn't fix it. Then I tried turning the little disk that the CD disk sits on by hand, and now it recognizes disks. Each time it starts pretending that there's no disk in there, I can remove the disk and reach a finger through the open door and turn that little drive disk, and it fixes the problem for a while. I can live with that inconvenience for now. Unfortunately, the player also now likes to skip a lot and on occasion it starts to really chew up the sound although it continues to play (this is really hard to describe in writing so chewing up will have to do). I suspect contamination in the optics is the cause. Although it is an unscientific method, I have found that severe physical shock is often the best way to repair consumer electronics. Out of respect for the delicate CD mechanism, I just tried shaking the player at first, but that didn't have any effect. So I dropped it about 4' onto the carpet. It seems to play just fine now. Hope this helps. > >thanks >Tom __ __ o __ | |__| |__| | |__ Chris J. Davis lcc!chris@seas.ucla.edu |__ | | | \ | ___| (213) 338-7820 ...!{ucla-se|turnkey}!lcc!chris
fmgst@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Filip G.) (02/21/90)
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