techies, help!

[fox]

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!

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

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

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

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)]

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