[This followup was posted to sci.electronics.repair and a copy was sent
to the cited author.]
My DVD Player Stopped Showing Video ever since i tried using an up
grade for it. It still powers on but does not function and the dvd
door wont open and a CD is stuck in it.
Does any one know how to fix it???
Is it a computer DVD player, or standalone? If it's a computer player,
there may be an emergency eject hole on the front, or maybe the back (if
you open up the computer.) Take a paper-clip, straighten it out, and
push it into the hole. You need to do this with the power OFF. This will
at least let you get the disk back.
For a standalone, you probably need to open it up. Sometimes, it's
open enough inside to just push it open by hand. In some cases, it could
be a computer DVD drive mounted inside, with a similar emergency eject
hole.
Odds are you used the wrong firmware upgrade, or some hacked one if you
were trying to enable something like region free? The drive is probably
unusable and unrecoverable.
