SileEeles Posted October 20, 2013 Report Share Posted October 20, 2013 My N710 ... has a mind of its own It's a tad worrying. I never noticed until now because I've not used it for a while, instead choosing to use my MD-MT80 instead. I used the N710 for titling tracks via sonic stage. All that required was pressing "stop" on the unit to make it write the new TOC. However, I have just picked it up, and none of the buttons do what they are meant to. "menu" does nothing. "stop" has become "play". "play" will skip forward to the next track, pause works fine, "group" activates the "edit" menu, volume up and down activates the "group" function. forwards and backwards seem to work fine. All buttons respond with "HOLD" when the hold switch is on. It has been dropped, once, but it was working fine afterwards, I made sure of that. So I have no clue what the hell is going on. I can only assume something is dying. The unit is left on its stand for the most part, carefully looked after. No one but me touches it, since I am the only one who lives in my flat. Also, I tested it with an LCD remote, all was fine, all the remote buttons work as they should. Just not the buttons on the unit itself. I can no longer press "stop" to trigger TOC writting whilst the device is in NetMD mode anymore either Eventually it writes itself if you leave it, so thats something I guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SileEeles Posted October 20, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2013 Ok, I'm guessing its the ribbon cable. I've opened the lid of the unit, and when i pressed "stop" nothing happened. When i pressed play, it turned on, disc started spinning and playing. I've since put the lid back on and all the buttons function correctly. I am tempted to open the other side of the unit to see if anything (such as the ribbon cable) is loose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SileEeles Posted October 20, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2013 Nothing seemed out of place on the underside, i made sure the ribbon cable was connected firmly anyway, but nothing else looked wrong. But then, im not an expert. If I had to hazard a guess, it would be that the PCB with the buttons on is the problem, age has maybe made the solder a tad iffy where the ribbon cable attaches to the PCB? I don't know. But its all working again ... for now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilippeC Posted October 21, 2013 Report Share Posted October 21, 2013 Jim Hoggarth is your friend, contact him Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SileEeles Posted October 21, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2013 If he knows anything more than what I've been able to descern from the unit, that would be great. But in all likeliness, its probably something I can fix myself by picking up a unit that is going for spares/repairs. Were it messing around with the laser apature/recording mechanism, I'd be saying something different Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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