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Somewhere aroung May 20th, I purchased the EH75 that stevethebrain was selling. It came at a nearly perfect time, as my EH55 had a HDD failure, and just replacing the HDD was unsuccessful, so I had to ship it from California, all the way to MICKINCT. I put the EH75 in the spot where the EH55 had been, and used it for the two and a half weeks that it took to get my repaired machine back. I then removed itr from my entertainment system, and but the EH55 back.
After testing all the connections out, I realized that I had content on the EH75 I wanted to save, so I just ran a power cord to it and connected a composite video cable, running the other end to the front panel input of my EH55. When I turned it on, it didn't work! Well, sort of anyway. It wasn't useable. It would come on, and then in about a minute and a half, turn itself off. There was no error message, it would just power down. I powered it up several times, and this happened every time, and was VERY repeatable, to within a few seconds.
I wondered why it had worked perfectly while it was in my enteratinment center, but not now. thinking that i had to send yet another DVD recorder to MICKINCT, and wondering why my luck with DVD recorders had been so poor lately, I decided to open the case and see if there was anything obvious--what did I have to lose? Still, this is a bit like a driver who really knows next to nothing about cars. When his vehicle dies while he's driving, he opens the hood and looks in to see what's up, even though he would't know or be able to detect an obvious fault.
Okay, so I remove the seven screws and take the cover off. then I startd to laugh. Apparently, when stevethebrain packed the recorder for shipment (and it was packed very well) he used styrofoam peanuts for the majority of the packing material. Some had managed to get into the VHS door of the EH75 during shipment, when the box had been jostled around. When I removed it from my entertainment center to put my EH55 back, I briefly set it down on its side--its RIGHT side. This allowed one of the bits of styrofoam to fall from the left side of the machine where the VHS deck is, to the right side of the machine. When Iplugged it in and turned it on, that peanut got lodged in the cooling fan and jamed it. I removed it, and turned the machine on, and TA-DA, it now workes properly again. You would think that there would be an error code or something to suggest a bad fan, but there was nothing at all.
What I thought might be an expensive repair was really, absolutley nothing. I wonder what MICKINCT would have thought, had I sent it to him?
After testing all the connections out, I realized that I had content on the EH75 I wanted to save, so I just ran a power cord to it and connected a composite video cable, running the other end to the front panel input of my EH55. When I turned it on, it didn't work! Well, sort of anyway. It wasn't useable. It would come on, and then in about a minute and a half, turn itself off. There was no error message, it would just power down. I powered it up several times, and this happened every time, and was VERY repeatable, to within a few seconds.
I wondered why it had worked perfectly while it was in my enteratinment center, but not now. thinking that i had to send yet another DVD recorder to MICKINCT, and wondering why my luck with DVD recorders had been so poor lately, I decided to open the case and see if there was anything obvious--what did I have to lose? Still, this is a bit like a driver who really knows next to nothing about cars. When his vehicle dies while he's driving, he opens the hood and looks in to see what's up, even though he would't know or be able to detect an obvious fault.
Okay, so I remove the seven screws and take the cover off. then I startd to laugh. Apparently, when stevethebrain packed the recorder for shipment (and it was packed very well) he used styrofoam peanuts for the majority of the packing material. Some had managed to get into the VHS door of the EH75 during shipment, when the box had been jostled around. When I removed it from my entertainment center to put my EH55 back, I briefly set it down on its side--its RIGHT side. This allowed one of the bits of styrofoam to fall from the left side of the machine where the VHS deck is, to the right side of the machine. When Iplugged it in and turned it on, that peanut got lodged in the cooling fan and jamed it. I removed it, and turned the machine on, and TA-DA, it now workes properly again. You would think that there would be an error code or something to suggest a bad fan, but there was nothing at all.
What I thought might be an expensive repair was really, absolutley nothing. I wonder what MICKINCT would have thought, had I sent it to him?
