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replacement DVD drive for pioneer 420h/520h | ||
| nrobinson posted 2006 Jun 23 04:27 | ||
| these machines have a pioneer -107-XA drive in them. Has anyone had any experience of using any other DVD drives in these machines?
the problem seems to be a non-standard 2 pin ? audio plug on the XA drives ( not on standard drives) All suggestions gratefully received Nicholas robinson | ||
| ndprobinson posted 2006 Jul 15 03:23 | ||
| A DVR-107 would seem to be the answer.
I transplanted the circuit board from the dud drive to a newish 107 drive, changed the faceplates, popped it in and it works! the HD was upgraded to 300Gb , following the instriuctions on the board, and all iis OK total cost £90 ( as opposed to £240 quote for repair) | ||
| dman_warlamas posted 2006 Jul 15 22:32 | ||
| ndprobinson - I replaced the 106XA in my 210 with a standard 107 drive - used the service remote and disc and it works just fine. I left the Digital Audio connector disconnected (I was told that I didn't need it - may be for play back only?)
Look at this thread and others like it: http://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=192334&postdays=0& ... p;start=90 http://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=298856&highlight= Good Luck! D-man | ||
| psymaster posted 2008 Dec 31 17:26 | ||
I ordered a replacement on ebay the listing read DVR-107 Pioneer. Here is the description: The DVR-107 is a high speed multiple format DVD/CD internal writer. The drive enables high-speed recording at 8x with high-speed DVD-R and 8x with high-speed +R media. It combines extended recording speeds with Precision Recording Technology to enhance disk compatibility and a wide range of multimedia and archiving applications. I just received the DVR and this is what I see. TEAC DV-W58DP April 2004 part number 19771350-12. I compare the cases and they look exactly the same. I opened the case and it also looks exactly the same. I've already replaced the DVD-burner DVR-107-XA with a DVR-107-PB (macintosh model) of course I did the Circuit board swap out. The DVR-520h didn't notice the swap, everything worked except for the finalization of discs (new stock verbatim 8x dvr-r) my old drive was doing the samething. So I'm guessing the used macintosh drive optics/laser was just as used/old as the one I'm replacing. The verbatim discs could also be the problem, I've ordered TY's 8x and will test the DVR-520h with them. If the DVR-520h functions normally with TY's I'll leave the drive replacement alone and save the drives for down the road. I'm going to wait until I get the TY's before I do any further dismantling/replaceing/swapping out of drive units and circuitboards. If the TY's don't do the trick I'm going to take the Teac's optic/laser out and install it in the original DRV-107-XA 520h. It looks fairly straight forward and an easy swap, I'll post pics of that proceedure when I get to that point. Here are the pictures of the Teac drive i received advertised as a DVR-107 pioneer. 
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| psymaster posted 2008 Dec 31 18:20 | ||
Here is my step by step in how to strip the dvd drive down to the optic/laser.
remove the four screws securing the protective plate in place 
protective plate removed 
turn the drive over and remove the 4 ribbons connected to circuit board. 
remove the circuit board and the optic/laser is exposed (picture quality sucks) 
Turn the unit over again (really bad picture) 
Use the disc tray emergency release latch (its a white lever on the front of the unit) extend the disc tray, pull the tray unitl the tray stops. 
You can see the two rails that the optic/laser slide on now. 
Now remove the 3 screws, they might be tough to get out because they used lock-tite on the screws. 
Gently ease the optic/laser assembly out, one of the rails will most likely come off (no biggy). Now do the same on the other drive. Swap out the bad optic/laser from the 520H DVR drive and replace it with the good one. Sorry for the bad pictures. | ||
| psymaster posted 2009 Oct 11 19:01 | ||
| Okay, I finally did it. I felt confident enough to go ahead with the swap out of the old drive and replace it with the Teac (after I bought a Service remote off ebay).
I replaced the Teac's circuitboard with the original drives circuitboard. Installed the Teac into the 520h. The DVR-520h works with the Teac flawlessly. It finalizes disc without any problems. I didn't have to use the service disc or the service remote (I'll save those for the HD upgrade). I'm going to see if my source has more Teac drives now. Cheers! |
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