"Jamie" t wrote in message
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Arfa Daily wrote:

"William Sommerwerck" wrote in message
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Toshiba is legally obligated to provide repair parts for several years
after
a product is discontinued.




Many manufacturers won't or can't supply parts such as replacement decks,
even when the unit is in warranty. With integrated units, even if they
are prepared to supply the parts, the cost is often so prohibitive as to
render the unit BER. To the OP. Does the unit play anything ie CDs. If
not, is the laser 'home' ? Does the loading sequence complete correctly ?
Can you see the laser burning ? Does focus search take place ? Does the
disc spin up ? There could be lots of (easily fixable) reasons why it's
not playing, as well as some that are not so readily resolved.

Arfa
Also, one unit I looked at was using a conventional Laptop type DVD
player/burner in it. Which means the whole deck is replaceable..


With units that use an apparently conventional integrated IDE drive, for
sure, that's often felt to be the case, but even if you get what appears to
be exactly the same make and model of drive, usually, it doesn't seem to
work. Presumably, as an OEM purchaser of these drives, the manufacturer has
them 'customed' with some kind of 'soft' ID that the equipment that they are
putting them in, recognises. There may even be changes to the control
software to suit the protocols of the equipment's system bus, rather than
those of a standard computer IDE bus.

Arfa