fox: technical difficulties: please stand by. (technical difficulties)
fox ([personal profile] fox) wrote2004-05-20 06:39 pm
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techies, help!

my dvd player is on the blink. no matter what disc i put in, it won't read it. thinks about it for a minute or so, and then says "no play". listening carefully, i think i can hear that the thing isn't spinning at all -- but i take the disc out and make sure it's clean, i gently try to blow out the slot, i turn the thing off and let it sit for a few minutes, i unplug the machine for a few minutes -- nothing works.

help!
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[identity profile] wholenother.livejournal.com 2004-05-20 04:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Ugh. I hate to tell you, but that's how I lost a CD player once. Actually, it came that way and they replaced it, but . . .

If you're talking about a DVD player in a computer ("machine"?), it never hurts to open up the case and make sure everything is plugged in well; it's kind of the next I-don't-know-what's-going-on-let-me-try-this step after shutting the machine off and turning it back on. But it hasn't exactly been very long since that was done, if it's the same machine as the one in December/January. . . . If it is the computer, you might also want to (have someone) switch cables around and see if one has failed.

However, what makes me think it's the player itself and not a cable that has a problem is that it recognizes there's a DVD but then doesn't bother to do anything about that fact. Or does it? Okay, maybe you're clicking on the DVD icon? Are you inserting a DVD and expecting it to do things automatically or are you actually trying to open the drive? If you're trying to open the drive, maybe playing with cables will make a difference.

[identity profile] darthfox.livejournal.com 2004-05-20 04:04 pm (UTC)(link)
no, my bad, it's a garden-variety DVD player. and it does start to read the disc, but the scrolling readout that tells me it's working and will be with me in a moment gets stuck in the "just a moment" position, the disc doesn't spin, and the thing never manages to read the disc. rar.

[identity profile] wholenother.livejournal.com 2004-05-20 04:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Ugh, yeah, unless it's a high-end one, I'll bet it's not worth having fixed, given the price of labor, even if it's something routine. I'm sorry to hear that!
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[identity profile] shezan.livejournal.com 2004-05-20 05:02 pm (UTC)(link)
That's how my Samsung DVD player died on me...

(Anonymous) 2004-05-21 05:30 am (UTC)(link)
Ya coulda just asked... that's a hardware issue. If it recognizes other disks, if it works fine with everything except DVDs, then the way it reads those particular types of disks is shot. You'll need a new player, because it is not worth the effort to fix it. Toshiba carries a very nice combo drive -- CD/RW and DVD player -- for around $50.

terri

[identity profile] darthfox.livejournal.com 2004-05-21 06:34 am (UTC)(link)
it's still not the DVD drive in the computer. :-) this is the actual DVD player, the one that lives over with my TV. all i feed it is DVDs. i'm going to price new ones over the weekend, i think, because even though it did fix itself later -- i meant to turn on the TV but hit the wrong button on the remote, and the DVD player came on and coughed a couple of times and then was up and running -- this has happened before, and not as badly. which means it's getting worse. sigh.

(Anonymous) 2004-05-21 07:01 am (UTC)(link)
Aaahhh... okay. Misread that.

Yeah, it's still a hardware issue. We just replaced our *less than a year old* DVD player, because it kept stopping and skipping. Dang it.

There are ones that are extremely cheap at BJs. Once you price out what you want, tell me, and I'll check at BJs.

terri
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