u/Ar15ohio

My brother had a pretty clean system that was no longer reading disks so I decided to take it on as a project. I replaced the broken laser ribbon cable and did an optical cap replacement but it still was not reading disks. I took a chance on a $7 Ali Express laser and she is working great agin. It came in a little white bag with no padding and a little banged up but still working. I just needed to make sure that I removed the small solder blob from the ribbon cable. I also turned the laser power down and incremented it 1/8 turn at a time clockwise until it was reading both OEM disks and burned disks. While I was in there I replaced the failing clock battery with a cr2032 holder. Hopefully she is good to go for a long time.