"Disc Cannot Be Played... Please Check The Disc"?

El-cheapo Panasonic.

Tried two discs. Same message.

Put both discs in another player (similar make/model), they played no problem.

Pulled the cover off, blew some air on the little laser thingie, then wiped it
with a photographic lens cleaner.

Put it back together.... no-go.

I'm guessing this thing is toast.

Or is there some other simple procedure that I could try myself?
--
PeteCresswell

"" ) writes:
"Disc Cannot Be Played... Please Check The Disc"?

El-cheapo Panasonic.

Tried two discs. Same message.

Put both discs in another player (similar make/model), they played no problem.

Pulled the cover off, blew some air on the little laser thingie, then wiped it
with a photographic lens cleaner.

Put it back together.... no-go.

I'm guessing this thing is toast.

Or is there some other simple procedure that I could try myself?

I don't know.

But if this is a boombox, I found it pretty easy to take out
the dead CD player in a boombox I found waiting for the garbage
truck last year, and it was easy to trace the audio lines and
bring them out to jacks, giving me external inputs to use
with a "Walkman-type" cd player, or for the now popular "MP3
player compatibility".

Michael

(PeteCresswell) ha escrito:

"Disc Cannot Be Played... Please Check The Disc"?

El-cheapo Panasonic.

Tried two discs. Same message.

GET A Q TIP, MOISTEN WITH ALCOHOL, AND GENTLY CLEAN THE LENS (oops,
just realised caps lock slipped on!)
Anyway where was I.... try the above, BTW, is there any disc rotation
?

-B.

"(PeteCresswell)" wrote in message
...
"Disc Cannot Be Played... Please Check The Disc"?

El-cheapo Panasonic.

Tried two discs. Same message.

Put both discs in another player (similar make/model), they played no
problem.

Pulled the cover off, blew some air on the little laser thingie, then
wiped it
with a photographic lens cleaner.

Put it back together.... no-go.

I'm guessing this thing is toast.

Or is there some other simple procedure that I could try myself?
--
PeteCresswell

I'm taking it that this is a DVD player rather than a CD player, as that
error message is usually associated with their DVDs. It normally indicates a
defective laser. Try playing a CD in it. If that plays OK, then you can be
pretty sure that the laser is bad on its DVD side of things. Cleaning is
unlikely to help, as DVD laser lenses tend not to get dusty due to the
self-cleaning effect that the wind created at the disc surface by its high
rotational speed, has. Exceptions to this are where it's not been used for a
long time, building work has been going on in the house, or it lives in a
very smoky atmosphere.

Arfa

"(PeteCresswell)" wrote in message
...
"Disc Cannot Be Played... Please Check The Disc"?

El-cheapo Panasonic.

Tried two discs. Same message.

Put both discs in another player (similar make/model), they played no
problem.

Pulled the cover off, blew some air on the little laser thingie, then
wiped it
with a photographic lens cleaner.

Put it back together.... no-go.

I'm guessing this thing is toast.

Or is there some other simple procedure that I could try myself?
--
PeteCresswell

Try goggling the model number and/or error message, if it's a common problem
it may be on a website. Bought a Cyberhome that went bad after they went
belly up. Found a website with detailed instructions and pictures. Bad caps
in it's power supply lowers voltage that keeps the drive from reading the
discs.

Fixed an Emerson that couldn't read discs by pushing a ribbon cable into
it's socket. Sometimes you can get lucky just by looking and smelling
around.