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Thanks ori1a. I’ve just had time to come back to this. Unfortunately I don’t think that’s my issue - the drive appears completely dead - no movement at all. So I’m still on the lookout for another PCB or complete (but non-working drive) to try to figure out what the problem is. piacc64 - did...

Hi! The drive would take many restarts to actually manage to spin up and read a disk. Reading around, it seemed the likely cause was bad caps. I asked a friend who does a lot more soldering than I do to recap it for me and now... it’s dead! Have traced a few lines with a multimeter, but not...

Hi, Looking to harvest the PCB from a CDTV CD-ROM unit. Will consider buying CD-ROM units which show signs of life, but do not read discs due to a faulty laser/stepper motor or other mechanical issues. Thanks!