More V9 problems, laser reading this time…

[ihaveanosebleed]

I hate these V9’s!!! first strange bugs and now I got 2 people complaining they don’t read DVD-R’s good. One I have here and it’s a Verbatim DVD-R. I noticed before V9’s didn’t seem to read cheap media quite as good as V7. Has anyone else noticed that V9’s generally do not read as good as V7’s ??

Well now I’m going to attempt to adjust the pots in one by 10% and see how it goes. I can’t even see how to remove the CD Tray so I just have it ejected, weird clip holding the pins down and 2 white Cogs now!!! I guess Sony was thinking “One Cog works so crappy and unreliable, lets put 2 cogs in it”!! Ugh!! Default value is around 1400 on both pots.

Also about the LA/BA chips, on the board all the ones I’ve seen have the sink on the Top left corner but the chip on the bottom left corner has none, is anyone adding a sink to this chip or don’t worry about it?

[spedmetal]

Yeah the 2 cogs is a trip... you get more range of adjustment with 2 I guess, kind of takes the place of the azimuth screw in a sense. I haven’t been adding any heat pads to the one LA/BA that doesn’t have any heat pad and it's been just fine here. There has been much talk about this, or if it would even do any good if the chip gets hit hard the heat pad may not have time to dissipate. I know there have been people jimmying up there own heat sink with light gauge aluminum bent like a 'V' (kind of like a spring loaded heat pad that pushes up against the LA/BA) and gluing it to the heat shield. This seams like a vain attempt to me. There has even been discussion on adding resistors inline with the LA/BA to subdue voltage spices. This also seams like a vain attempt to me. I wish we could find a place that sold something similar to the material Sony uses for the heat pads.

[ihaveanosebleed]

It makes adjustments much harder if this setting goes off, you can’t fine tune like before. Move one Cog and it throws the laser off balance. I got it reading a little better, instead of completely locking up on the FMV it just skipped a couple times and played the game.

Is the big “L” shaped heat pad on the back the same thickness? Once I noticed on a V7, it was just a big square pad, they never bothered to cut the right corner out like usual. I almost clipped it off because it was just flopping around. There would have been enough to do 20 BA chips at least! I think it might be a little thin though.

[ihaveanosebleed]

AHHH!! This is annoying, I need to figure out how to remove the tray so I can fine tune these cogs while playing an FMV.


Uhhh, OMG !!!! It just slides out!!!! That didn’t seem right!! Oh well!