On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 23:43:45 -0600, Stan wrote:

Hello,

In Oct. 2003 I bought a Panasonic DVD-S35 machine. It was working fine 'til
last night when the first episode of a 2 episode DVD ended. As soon as the
1st episode ended, the machine suddenly turned itself off. When I turned on
the machine, it was on for ~ 2 seconds and then shut itself off. Same
pattern over and over even when I was able to get the DVD out and try
another DVD-- same problem: machine just turns itself off.

Has anyone else has this same problem?

I fixed it according to what a guy in another DVD repair forum told me to try.
He told me this:

"Sounds like the typical spindle motor problem. More than likely motor has
developed an internal short & causing the immediate shut down--may even be
the drive IC that controls it.

If the motor, you just MAY be able to dislodge it by loading a disc & try
rotating it by hand in both direction a few times (if you heard a clicking
sound while doing so, the motor is definitley SHOT)

& if unsuccessful, I can tell you that it is not worth replacing the motor ."

With the cover off but laying over the top, I turned on the machine, put
in a disc and the machine turned itself off. Then I unplugged the machine,
and hand spun the disc in both directions. No clicking sounds- good!
Plugged in machine, and tested it. It works! So I screw down the cover and
have again a working DVD player. [I hope it remains a working one.]

:-D

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