RE: DUO R, GAME CD'S LOADING ISSUES ( SOMETIME GOOD, SOMETIME BAD)

[thesteve]

vr105 affects mostly later tracking.
the pot on the lens is laser power (too much or too little causes read issues) CW to increase, typically dont touch.

[whitecatangel]

hi steve, any mate who have experiences...
Now I got my duo-r ( with new lens installed, greased, pots tuned) read cd till the last track( with noise when play last 2 tracks) load and play games , but some game plays perfectly, some often no red book, any idea how to get cd read track plays reliabliably without noise?
cheers
darren

[thesteve]

the only 2 possible causes are the laser sled (lens) getting stuck, or pots need adjustment.
look at the wires, with the lens all the way out and make sure they arent pulled tight

[whitecatangel]

hi steve
i have removed the "original good working lens" from my duo-rx to my duo-r( lens replaced), after simple pots tuning , all go good! It seems like the new hop m3 lens are not as good as the original lens from old days.....
   I have another duo-r with s-video and region moded, bought with new lens replaced, also shows not reading cd correctly when arrived in Australia.  I have 1 x duo-RX, 1 x duo-r with rgb moded, 1 x duo-r with s-video+ region moded) I move the original good lens to the "s-video duo-r ", I just can't make it perfectly sounds clean when plays last track... will keep trying...

[thesteve]

you are correct about laser performance (new VS original)
most of the new ones can be adjusted to perform well, it just takes more work. (some never work right)
i have bought 5 recently from 2 venders.
1 vender had much better workmanship in the assembly of the lasers than the other.
i had 1 no-go laser from each.
the better lasers were all set too bright to read CDR

[whitecatangel]

yo!! thx for confirmation about old/new lazer issues!!  i thought it is strange...it took me 100+ hours to work out...damn   btw, where u get the good lazer? I might get some as trial

[thesteve]

the best ones i got are from "switch electronics" on ebay
the worst from another ebayer
on the ones from switch i had to turn the pot CCW about 1/8 turn to get them to read CDR, but they worked with stamped disks as received.

[whitecatangel]

thx steve,
 Btw I just couldn't get my duo-r   (s-video moded and fitted with good original lazer that works perfect on my duo-rx) to play the last track of cd without cracky noise, the best i got is just minised the noise.
Then I test with games discs, most games no problem from beginning till the end, but certain titles, have Back ground music issue, it loads the music, but the music will stop, while all sound effects and game plays no issue...
any further advices?
cheers
 
 

[thesteve]

is your spindle bent?
try a complete known good drive in it

[whitecatangel]

i did changed the whole spindle with lens unit!

[whitecatangel]

hi steve,for the update, after the best pot tuned(only last track has some cracky noise) i did, i just leave it like that for few days, now  it seems no noise at all, and the games which has no music somtime , now seems ok, no music rate get very low l think the situation is like hifi equipment that has not been used for long time, it need a period of time to hv the parts run in again:-) , i will hv my post update if any other situations come up, wish this can be helpful for turbo fans who hv cd reading issues:-D