I have a Sharp DV740U DVD player (SAMPO DVE611 clone) that had been giving me grief ever since I bought it. I should have returned it but I hung on to it. At the time, I did some googling & found that the apparent problem was overheating, so I cut down an old socket 7 CPU heatsink to 1" x 1" & glued it to the offending chip. I also cut a hole in the rear of the unit & installed an old CPU fan to help exhaust the warm air from the case. The fan had a 4-pin molex & all I had to do was daisy chain it to the DVD unit. That seemed to help for a while but eventually it started skipping & locking up again, so I bought a new player.

Anyhow, I was cleaning up the other day I decided to experiment with it one last time before finally kicking it to the curb. When I plugged it in, it went into a constant on-off loop & I wasn't able to accomplish anything. Bad power supply maybe?

Any suggestions or should I just sh!tcan it & move on?

Thanks.

"And that's the fishing line, because Sharkboy said so!"

(edit) Dumb post by me. Please ignore.