Apex AD-1100W suddenly displays "NO DISC" error

[John Massachusetts Pigye]

I couldn't explain why, but my 3 month old Apex AD-1100w DVD player says "NO DISC" on the screen in spite of having a DVD or A CD in it. I was watching "I Spit On Your Grave" and turned it off just to turn it back on in the morning to give me that error message. I didn't even remove the disc.

 

[Jerry G.]

Try another disk, and if it still does not respond, you can try cleaning the
laser lens. If this does not fix it, then bring the machine back for
warranty service. Technically, you should take out your disk and bring it
back without doing any self maintenance.

These machines are not service supported by the manufacture. The dealer
will send back the machine, and you will receive a new one on exchange. If
they are low on inventory at the distributor, someone over there may change
the complete laser, or main circuit board assy.

Some dealers if they have some spares in their inventory, they will exchange
the machine as soon as you put it down on their counter with your bill of
sale.

In these low cost machines, the laser assy, and spindle motors have a high
rate of failure. The main electronics except for the power supply are
generally reliable. Usually a machine of this level should last about 2
years with average use.



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"John Massachusetts Pigye" <broken_apex_dvd_player@hotmail.com> wrote in
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I couldn't explain why, but my 3 month old Apex AD-1100w DVD player says "NO
DISC" on the screen in spite of having a DVD or A CD in it. I was watching
"I Spit On Your Grave" and turned it off just to turn it back on in the
morning to give me that error message. I didn't even remove the disc.

 

[Mark D. Zacharias]

Contact Apex for warranty repair / replacement or throw it away.

Mark Z.


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"John Massachusetts Pigye" <broken_apex_dvd_player@hotmail.com> wrote in
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I couldn't explain why, but my 3 month old Apex AD-1100w DVD player says
"NO DISC" on the screen in spite of having a DVD or A CD in it. I was

watching "I Spit On Your Grave" and turned it off just to turn it back on in
the morning to give me that error message. I didn't even remove the disc.
>

 

[BOB URZ]

"Mark D. Zacharias" wrote:

Contact Apex for warranty repair / replacement or throw it away.

Mark Z.

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"John Massachusetts Pigye" <broken_apex_dvd_player@hotmail.com> wrote in
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I couldn't explain why, but my 3 month old Apex AD-1100w DVD player says
"NO DISC" on the screen in spite of having a DVD or A CD in it. I was
watching "I Spit On Your Grave" and turned it off just to turn it back on in
the morning to give me that error message. I didn't even remove the disc.

Good luck with Apex. My wife bought a AD1200 DVD. It was working for
a very short while, then started screwing up. (she did not want me to look
at it because it was under warranty). After much phone tag and hold, she
got a RMA from Apex and sent it back. About 3 weeks latter, a replacement unit
came. Took it out of the box and hooked it up. Came up with "NO DISK" error
right out of the box. Such high quality units they are......

Bob



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[K. Hastings]

We have an identicl unit and it did this same thing a few weeks ago. Since
we had rented a DVD and the kids were disappointed we had to pop the cover
and do a little real-time resussitation.

So here's what we found: disc not spinning (could have figured that without
popping lid by sound). There's not much to check on, so we wriggled all the
pcb's and checked the inter-pcb bus cables & conectors and it started
rotating again. It's never re-occured so we suspect a loose bus wire.
Sorry we don't know which one specifically.

PS you may already know but this particular unit is famous with
technologistsbecause it is inexpensive, plays just about everything, and has
many net-supported mods. See
http://www.nerd-out.com/darrenk/1100W/1100W.htm for an excellent collection
of web resources to help you if that interests you.

K



"John Massachusetts Pigye" <broken_apex_dvd_player@hotmail.com> wrote in
message news:200401011340.IAA20877@orion.besthost1.com...

I couldn't explain why, but my 3 month old Apex AD-1100w DVD player says
"NO DISC" on the screen in spite of having a DVD or A CD in it. I was

watching "I Spit On Your Grave" and turned it off just to turn it back on in
the morning to give me that error message. I didn't even remove the disc.
>

 

[Sarah]

Why? Nerd-out.com has an easy tutoring on adjusting the spring so that
it works again. Pretty easy to do. You canalso turn the machine off
with a disk in it & back on & it should recognize it again.



On Thu, 1 Jan 2004 09:44:17 -0600, "Mark D. Zacharias"
<mzacharias@yis.us> wrote:

Contact Apex for warranty repair / replacement or throw it away.

Mark Z.

 

[Parker Jefferson Sneeihl]

John Massachusetts Pigye <broken_apex_dvd_player@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:200401011340.IAA20877@orion.besthost1.com:

I couldn't explain why, but my 3 month old Apex AD-1100w DVD player
says "NO DISC" on the screen in spite of having a DVD or A CD in it. I
was watching "I Spit On Your Grave" and turned it off just to turn it
back on in the morning to give me that error message. I didn't even
remove the disc.

Throw it away. It isn't even worth the trouble. Buy a new one, perferably a
Japanese brand.

 

[K. Hastings]

Your post got me looking this AM to the Nerd-out forum more carefully and I
found this great resources specifically written about AD-1100W players with
the NO DISK error. Enjoy!

http://www.nerd-out.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=28420

 

[James Sweet]

"BOB URZ" <"sound(remove)"@inetnebr.com> wrote in message
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"Mark D. Zacharias" wrote:

Contact Apex for warranty repair / replacement or throw it away.

Mark Z.

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"John Massachusetts Pigye" <broken_apex_dvd_player@hotmail.com> wrote in
message news:200401011340.IAA20877@orion.besthost1.com...
I couldn't explain why, but my 3 month old Apex AD-1100w DVD player
says
"NO DISC" on the screen in spite of having a DVD or A CD in it. I was
watching "I Spit On Your Grave" and turned it off just to turn it back
on in
the morning to give me that error message. I didn't even remove the
disc.


Good luck with Apex. My wife bought a AD1200 DVD. It was working for
a very short while, then started screwing up. (she did not want me to
look
at it because it was under warranty). After much phone tag and hold, she
got a RMA from Apex and sent it back. About 3 weeks latter, a replacement
unit
came. Took it out of the box and hooked it up. Came up with "NO DISK"
error
right out of the box. Such high quality units they are......

Bob

Some of the Apex units are actually pretty decent, easily upgraded firmware,
my 1500 has been working great ever since I replaced a capacitor in the
power supply.

 

[SEVEN SEVILLE]

JUST TAKE IT BACK TO THE ORIGINAL PLACE OF PURCHASE AND RETURN IT, BUT BEFORE YOU DO, THROW IT ON THE GROUND AND TAKE A PISS ON IT.

 

[JURB6006]

I was going to ask what kind of (_|_) hole you were, so much for that.

JURB

 

[Andre]

jurb6006@aol.com (JURB6006) wrote in message news:<20040108022133.15425.00002915@mb-m03.aol.com>...

I was going to ask what kind of (_|_) hole you were, so much for that.

To be fair, I wouldn't buy any DVD player that didn't have at least a
3 year warranty, due to this very problem. I've seen quite a few that
failed in short order, probably ESD damage to the laser or circuitry
during manufacture or shipping.

Some of the more expensive models use a standard PC drive, which can
easily be swapped. Get one of those if you can, you will thank me
later. <g>

Also, the spring fix mentioned might work so try it. Obviously you
will void the warranty in principle, so be aware of that one.

-A

JURB