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- From: johnme@ecs.comm.mot.com (John Meyer)
- Subject: Re: Doc, Doc, my CD player can't locate the tracks
- Organization: pcb_design
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 10:39:50 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.103950.21039@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com>
- Keywords: CD player malady
- References: <1992Dec15.172624.2766@news.acns.nwu.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec15.172624.2766@news.acns.nwu.edu> yuen@casbah.acns.nwu.edu writes:
- >Have this Onyko CD player for 4 yrs and it recently started to say
- >"No disk" even when there's one in. The first time it happened, I
- >sort of wiggled the sliding disc-holding cartridge and the problem
- >went away. The same cure did nothing though last week when the
- >problem arose the second time. So i opened the thing and found the
- >disc wasn't spinning after the cartridge moved in. After cleaning up
- >dust and turning the spinning motor (not the track reading motor that
- >moves the laser) a few rounds, the disc spins again.
- > BUT NOW, the thing will take from 2 minutes to an indefinite
- >amount of time to find the 1st track (although the initial # of tracks
- >& time info was displayed), if it finds it at all. Other symptoms
- >include:
- >
- >1. it has not find any subsequent tracks (on a number of disks)
- >2. if it finds the first track, then it will continue to play the other
- > tracks normally
- >3. can use fast reverse & fast forward (FR & FF) but not next or last
- > tracks - however, during FR & FF the sounds were very different
- > from before
- >
- >I sort of think some misalignment between the spinning motor & the laser
- >has occured so the servo mechanism cannot operate (the reading motor is
- >working), but manually aligning and twisting any corners did not help.
- >
- >Any clues from you audio gurus out there ?
- >
- >
-
- try changing the laser drive belt,its' probably stretched and slipping!
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- john
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