No CD Sound on PCE Duo

[kokuryu]

Hi!  I just recently got a PCE Duo for a great price in excellent condition - but the one problem with it is that any of the audio coming from the CD part does not play.  Non-CD based music and sounds come out - its totally fine when I play a Hu-Card based game.  When I play an audio CD, the Left/Right channel info shows up fine so I can see that at least at the low level, the audio IS being read from the CD, and CD based games all work, but with either no or minimal sounds.

I have read something about heat sinks causing some sound problems in the original Duo's - does anyone have any direct references about this or know exactly what should be replaced?

[Necromancer]

It's a common problem with Duos, caused by a bunch of dried out capacitors.  See this thread for the culprits' locations.

[kokuryu]

Awesome!  Thanks!  I'll have to do this over the weekend and see if I can get everything working!

[Necromancer]

Good luck and let us know if the operation is successful, or where to send flowers if it isn't.