Panasonic DMR-E85H DVD recorder

I have a Panasonic DMR-E85H DVD recorder that started flashing from
the off mode to PLEASE WAIT. When I unplugged it and then replugged
it, it will not power on. Any suggestions?

"jocher126@gmail.com" wrote:
>
> I have a Panasonic DMR-E85H DVD recorder that started flashing from
> the off mode to PLEASE WAIT. When I unplugged it and then replugged
> it, it will not power on. Any suggestions?

If you don't get a reply here worth noting try popping along to
avforums and posting in there dvd recorder section. They seem to get a
good response.

http://www.avforums.com/forums/dvd-r...cording-media/

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jocher126@gmail.com <jocher126@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a Panasonic DMR-E85H DVD recorder that started flashing from
> the off mode to PLEASE WAIT. When I unplugged it and then replugged
> it, it will not power on. Any suggestions?

Recently there has been a discussion of a power supply problem common
to these aging Panasonic models. You can google the usenet groups.
The fix involved changing one or two capacitors in the power supply.

A friend's E85 died with the same problem as yours. He sent it back
to Panasonic and it was fixed for the flat cost of $130. He had
the unit back in about a week.

Is there a, possibly faulty, disk of any description in the DVD drive,
or is it a HD model and could the HD be failing? My website contains
advice on both these problems:
http://tinyurl.com/94ogut
.... standing in for ...
http://www.macfh.co.uk/JavaJive/Audi...cDMRE100H.html

Choose option 3 for the first and 4 for the second.

Also, there is something to the capacitor suggestion, as it's a
widespread problem affecting many brands and models of electronic
equipment of a certain era.

On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 02:41:32 GMT, Paul Heslop
<paul.heslop@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

> "jocher126@gmail.com" wrote:
> >
> > I have a Panasonic DMR-E85H DVD recorder that started flashing from
> > the off mode to PLEASE WAIT. When I unplugged it and then replugged
> > it, it will not power on. Any suggestions?
>
> If you don't get a reply here worth noting try popping along to
> avforums and posting in there dvd recorder section. They seem to get a
> good response.
>
> http://www.avforums.com/forums/dvd-r...cording-media/

Java Jive wrote:
>
> Is there a, possibly faulty, disk of any description in the DVD drive,
> or is it a HD model and could the HD be failing?

I am sure the 85 is a model with hard disc.

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Paul (We won't die of devotion)
-------------------------------------------------------
Stop and Look
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On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 07:41:57 GMT, root <NoEMail@home.org> wrote:

>jocher126@gmail.com <jocher126@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have a Panasonic DMR-E85H DVD recorder that started flashing from
>> the off mode to PLEASE WAIT. When I unplugged it and then replugged
>> it, it will not power on. Any suggestions?
>
>Recently there has been a discussion of a power supply problem common
>to these aging Panasonic models. You can google the usenet groups.
>The fix involved changing one or two capacitors in the power supply.

This should help:
http://vassfamily.net/projects/DMRE85H/dmre85h.html

>A friend's E85 died with the same problem as yours. He sent it back
>to Panasonic and it was fixed for the flat cost of $130. He had
>the unit back in about a week.

**Did it come back with all the programs that were on the hard drive
intact? Do you know if they did any software updates to it or did they
just fix the capacitors?

kaboomie

kaboom <kaboomicus@NOSPAMyahoo.com> wrote:
>
> **Did it come back with all the programs that were on the hard drive
> intact? Do you know if they did any software updates to it or did they
> just fix the capacitors?
>
> kaboomie
>

The hard disk was intact. They did't say what they fixed.