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[Console Repair/Mod Center / dead refurbished CD-ROM2 drive.]

I recently sold a CD-ROM2 drive that either 'thesteve' or 'Keith Courage' refurbished for me a few years ago. New laser, new gears etc. When the buyer got the package he claimed it didn't work, so I told him he could have his money back if he returned it.

When I got the package, I notice the the ground wire to the bottom plate was slightly sticking out above the DC jack. I opened the unit to make sure it 'really' was the unit I'd sold him, as I've been burned before. The ground strip that goes to the laser ribbon cable was loose as well. The gears seemed okay, there's a black two wheel setup with a cable between them and I think 'Keith' did it this way so decided to return the buyer's money.

My thought is that the post company dropped the package or something, the ground wires came loose and something shorted when the unit was turned on. I tried to make a claim at the post office, they did a brief investigation but decided that they hadn't done anything wrong.

Anyway, the laser and motor is totally dead, won't move at all. When the 'Run' button is pressed, the  'Wait...' message is displayed and 'PC' is lit up on the player but nothing else happens.

Any ideas?

[Off-Topic / thesteve Check your PMs!]

Haven't heard from you, thanks.

[Console Repair/Mod Center / PC Engine cdrom problem.]

My PC Engine cdrom is starting to act up, sometimes it hangs during loading and during certain cutscenes there's no sound with a strange buzzing noise coming from the unit itself.

Like in Popful Mail, the first two intro movies, the in between levels cutscenes, as well as the ending has no sound, but during gameplay it streams audio fine (for the most part).

One time it hanged after I'd cleared a level, it wouldn't load the world map. I restarted the console and it wouldn't load the game at all, so I thought I'd give the lens a quick clean up using a qtip to see if that'd help. The lens felt loose, it moved a good couple of millimeters in all direction, is it supposed to do that? Anyway the game started to work again after that. It happened again a few hours later, and nudging the lens with the qtip worked again. What's up with that?

Any idea what the problem might be, is the laser dying on me or what?

Thanks,
Issun.