Symptom: Your DVD player may be completly dead or it may power up but not be able to load or read a DVD.
Resolution: Remove top cover and locate the power supply board. On the end of the board is a 4 conductor output plug. Measure the 12V and 5V pins. The 12V may be find but the 5V may be low, less than 3.5V. The cause of the low 5V is that that the filter capacitors are bad. One is a 2200ufd @10V located next to a heat sink. Its top may be bulging. The second one is a 1000ufd @ 10V. Replacing these two capacitors will fix the problem and the 5V will be restored. PLEASE NOTE: These caps are rather physiclly small for their stated values. Replace caps with those that have the same dimensions. If you try to rig a larger cap using pigtail wires off the board, the 5V will remain low.
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Toss this junk to the garbage can, this is how I solved my frustrations with my two units
Symptom: Your DVD player may be completly dead or it may power up but not be able to load or read a DVD.
Resolution: Remove top cover and locate the power supply board. On the end of the board is a 4 conductor output plug. Measure the 12V and 5V pins. The 12V may be find but the 5V may be low, less than 3.5V. The cause of the low 5V is that that the filter capacitors are bad. One is a 2200ufd @10V located next to a heat sink. Its top may be bulging. The second one is a 1000ufd @ 10V. Replacing these two capacitors will fix the problem and the 5V will be restored. PLEASE NOTE: These caps are rather physiclly small for their stated values. Replace caps with those that have the same dimensions. If you try to rig a larger cap using pigtail wires off the board, the 5V will remain low.