First thing to try is changing electrolytic capacitors. To get to the caps, the drive's disk tray needs to be dismantled. It took me a while to figure it out, but its done like this:
Mounting bracket and casing of drive has been removed (easy). If you need to use force, you are doing it wrong.
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Step 1.
Remove lock-screw and spring, marked in the first image.
Push the disk ejection button to release the upper disk holder mechanism. Push it forwards-downwards to release it.
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Step 2.
Remove springs marked in second image.
Push disk eject mechanism forward to release it.
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Step 3.
Replace the five caps, marked C08, C09, C10, C11 and C05. I used EMLF160ADA100MD73G as replacement caps.
After this the drive works as expected again.
Ok,my question might sound a little bit supid, but hiw do you remove the casing? Thanks in advance.
ReplyDeleteThx for this tutorial, i fixed my Epson SMD-400 with the same symptoms too.
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