WAIT!
I had a beautiful CD machine that stopped reading (Philips 880) and destroyed it in a fit of passion. It turned out to be just a big capacitor on the board that failed. By then it was too late to fix it! As the parts I had mangled in my rage were alreading on the way to the dump.
Another CD changer (A Sony CD89ES that had played for tens of thousands of hours failed and that was just a worn out wire connecting the lens sled assy to the circuit board. Both are under $1.00 repairs.
So look it over carefully before trashing it.
The laser assy are all very long lasting... and usually some other problem besides the laser itself is to blame.
I had a beautiful CD machine that stopped reading (Philips 880) and destroyed it in a fit of passion. It turned out to be just a big capacitor on the board that failed. By then it was too late to fix it! As the parts I had mangled in my rage were alreading on the way to the dump.
Another CD changer (A Sony CD89ES that had played for tens of thousands of hours failed and that was just a worn out wire connecting the lens sled assy to the circuit board. Both are under $1.00 repairs.
So look it over carefully before trashing it.
The laser assy are all very long lasting... and usually some other problem besides the laser itself is to blame.