Removed the short that was soldered on the new cd pickup assembly.
Unfortunately, same ol' story.

Oh well, at least the stereo works on it.

On 4 Jul 2004 18:00:45 -0700, (b) wrote:

check ribbon cable linking pickup to board and any
tracking/offset/'kickstart' pots etc. maybe controller chip or
transistor is faulty.
Ben

wrote in message . ..
Hi,
Picked up an Awai NSX-3500 (snip) Here's what it does:
-Load a CD.
-CD tray spins around to spindle/pickup.
-Laser pickup will move horizontally and laser "eye" moves vertically
trying to adjust or obtain data. During this time, the CD does not
spin even though I've checked the spindle motor and it will run with
voltage applied.
-CD tray will rotate to location 2, repeat above, then go to location
3, repeat and then standby.