TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION..............................3 FEATURES ................................3 SPECIFICATIONS .............................4~6 DISASSEMBLY ..............................7 1. CABINET ...............................7 2. MAIN CIRCUIT BOARD..........................7 3. FRONT PANEL ..............................7 4. BASE PICK-UP ..............................7 EXPLODED VIEW ..............................8 MECHANICAL REPLACEMENT PARTS LIST....................9~10 GLOSSARY .................................11 THE DIFFERENCES OF CD-R/CD-RW DISCS AND GENERAL CD-ROM ..........12~18 1.
INTRODUCTION This service manual provides a variety of service or compatible slim notebook computer. It can write information. as much as 700 Mbytes of digital data into CD-R It contains the mechanical structure of the CD-RW disc, and can read as much as 700 Mbytes of digital /DVD-ROM Drive and the electronic circuits in data stored in a CD-ROM, CD-R and CD-RW disc.
SPECIFICATIONS 1. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS -CPU: IBM Compatible Pentium750MHZ (or faster) -64MB Memory or greater 2. SUPPORTING OPERATING SYSTEM 1) Read 2) Write 3) Recording tool • DOS 3.0 or Higher • Window 98 Second Edition • Easy CD Creator • Windows 95 OSR 2.1 •...
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5. Quality and Reliability 1) MTBF.............. 80,000 Power On Hours (POH) Assumption : Use in a normal office environment -POH per year 3,000 - ON/OFF cycles per year -Operating duty cycle 10% of Power on time (Seek : 10% of operating time) 2) Tray Cycle Test ..........
DISASSEMBLY 1. CABINET 3. FRONT PANEL A. Release 3 screws (A). A. Remove the Front Panel.(The Front Panel is a snap on B. Lift up the Cabinet in the direction of arrow (1). type.) (See Fig.1) B. At this time, be careful not to damage the 3 hooks (a) of the it.
GLOSSARY ATIP Absolute Time in Pre-groove. With an additional modulation of the “Wobble”, the “Groove” contains a time code information. Wobble The pre-groove in the Disc is not a perfect spiral but is wobbled. With : – A typical amplitude of 30 nm –...
The differences of CD-R/CD-RW discs and General CD-ROM 1. Recording Layer Recordable CD has a wobbled pre-groove on the surface of disc for laser beam to follow track. Track pitch(p) a=30nm Read-only Disc CD-ROM (READ-ONLY DISC) Radial Direction Radial Error Signal 0.4~0.5 um Groove Land...
3. Disc Materials 1) CD-ROM disc • It is composed of Silver _ colored aluminum plate and Reflective layer. • Groove (Pit) of aluminum plate make a track. • Laser wavelength : 780 nm, Laser Power (Read): 0.5mW • Signal is detected by the difference of reflective beam intensity between “pit”...
3) CD-RW Disc Label Printing Protective Layer Dielectric Layer(TL) Reflective Layer Dielectric Layer(UL) Substrate (Polycarbonate) Groove Laser Beam • It is composed of polycarbonate layer, alloy(silver, arsenic) layer, aluminum reflectivity layer, protective layer. • An crystalized alloy layer is transformed into noncrystalized by the laser heat. Therefore, writing and reading is enabled by the difference of reflectivity.
5. Writing Process of CD-R Disc Incident (Write) Laser Power (Read) (Read) Laser Spot a b c d e f Position (Time) Laser Below "ORP"– Mark Too Short Spot Reflected At Optimum Record Power ("ORP") Light Signal Above "ORP" – Mark Too Long Recorded Mark Time...
7. Organization of the PCA, PMA and Lead-in Area 1) Layout of CD-ROM disc Disc Center Diameter 120 mm Diameter 46 mm Diameter 15 mm Center hole Clamping and Label Area Information Area Read Only Disc Lead-in Area Program Area Lead-out Area 2) Layout of CD-R/RW disc Disc Center...
8. Function of PCA and PMA area 1) PCA (Power Calibration Area) • PCA area is used to determine the correct Laser Power for a disc. – Method 1 : PCA area is divided by a track. – Method 2 : The previous Calibration value is referred. –...
2) ROPC (Running Optimum Power Control) • Variable primary factor of Optimum Power – Change of Power sensitivity on the Disc. (limited to 0.05 *Po) – Wavelength shift of the laser diode due to the operating temperature change. – Change of the Spot aberration due to the Disc skew, Substrate thickness, Defocus.
2. Copy Protection and Regional Code Management Block Block Diagram Change the "KEY" HOST DVD PLAYER MN103S63G (EMPEG2 B/D) Scrambled MPEG Data KEY Management Control Brief Process 1. Regional Code for DVD Disc – DVD-ROM drive transfers the regional code of the control data to host by the command of host, the DVD player of host reads the regional code, and plays title in the case of allowed regional code only.
3. About Prevention the DVD-ROM from to be copy A data is able to encode and record in the disc, if a copyright holder wants to prevent the disc from copying. In case of a disc enhanced movie of 3 titles..DISC KEY (2048 Bytes) is used to encode the whole contents in the disc and TITLE KEY (5 Bytes) is used to encode the title respectively.
4. About the DVD-ROM Regional Code Regional code U.S.A PRI. VIR DISC ROM - DRIVE MPEG-2 DECODER VGA CARD MONITOR Receiving Transfer to If the board is setting to the regional The disc has data from the MPEG-2 code 1 for the U.S.A..the regional MPEG-2 decoder...
2. Signal detection of the P/U Infrared Iaser Pick-Up module Focusing Tracking Photo Diode 1) Focus Error Signal ==> (A+C)-(B+D) This signal is generated in RF IC (IC101 : AN22107A) and controls the pick-up’s up and down to focus on Disc.
MAJOR IC INTERNAL BLOCK DIAGRAM AND PIN DESCRIPTION IC101 (AN22107A) : RF Signal Processor for Drive Block Diagram Band-gap 50 (NC2) Ref-current WOBBLE SCFCLK 49 VCC5 AGC, EQ Comp. BPF CLKO (NC4) RECD 48 BMC RECD gen. 47 PKC RFSUM 46 RFENV RRF, WRF signal CLKO...
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• Pin Descriptions The following table shows a list of I/O pin specifications. * The following codes are used in the table. Input pin Output pin I/O : I/O pin PS : Power supply/Ground pin MSC: Resistor/Capacitor connection pin or others Name I/O Funtion Name...
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IC201(MN103S63G) : ATAPI Interface, Write and DSP Signal Processor Block Diagram HOST I/F DMA I/F MPEG I/F ANALOG ATAPI Formatter High-speed I/O bus Instruction SERVO DRAM I/F CGEN MODE memory (128 Kbytes) (Core1 IO) 32-bit OnChip Debug CPU core Data memory ATIP CDENC SERVO...
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• Pin Functions System controller Pin name external connection Destination Description NRD(I) Flash Read signal output to flash NCS(I) Flash Chip select signal output to flash FADR0 CPUADR0(I) Flash Address output to flash FADR1 CPUADR1(I) Flash Address output to flash FADR2 CPUADR2(I) Flash...
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System controller Pin name external connection Destination Description SCLOCK Debug Clock pin for Dwire use NRST Reset input SDATA Debug Data pin for Dwire use RxD/EXTRG1/M CLOCK Debug Trigger pin for serial reception/Dwire use P2/EXINT0 NINT1(O) Misc General-purpose port/External pin interrupt P3/EXINT1 NINT2(O) Misc...
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System controller Description Pin name Destination external connection MDQ8 DRAM SDRAM data MDQML DRAM SDRAM data MNWE DRAM SDRAM control MDQMU DRAM SDRAM data MNCAS DRAM SDRAM control MCLKI DRAM SDRAM clock input MCLK DRAM SDRAM control Power supply (3.3 V) MNRAS DRAM SDRAM control...
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System controller Pin name external connectior Destination Description 107 99 B12 LDCNT2 LD driver control Power 108 100 supply (3.3 V) 109 101 C14 LDCNT1 LD driver control 110 102 111 103 E11 DRV0 DRVIC Traverse drive output/General-purpose port 112 104 B13 DRV1 DRVIC Spin drive output 113 105 D12 DRV2...
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System controller Pin name Destination Description external connection 143 133 H16 JLINE J-line set output Power 144 134 J18 A V supply (3.3 V) for ICO and VI converter use DDWBLC 145 135 E17 CPOP4 Pin for wobble PLL loop filter use Power 146 136 G16 A V supply...
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System controller Pin name external connection Destination Description Power 216 204 supply (3.3 V) 217 205 U11 HDD13 HOST ATAPI data I/O 218 206 R11 HDD2 HOST ATAPI data I/O 219 207 T10 HDD12 HOST ATAPI data I/O 220 208 HDD3 HOST ATAPI data I/O...
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System controller external connection Pin name Description 252 238 FDT9/P29 Flash Data I/O with Flash/General-purpose port 253 239 V4 FDT1 CPUDT1 Flash Data I/O with Flash 254 240 U4 FDT8/P28 Flash Data I/O with Flash/General-purpose port 255 241 V3 FDT0 CPUDT0 Flash Data I/O with Flash...
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IC601 (M12L16161A) : SDRAM Overview The M12L16161A is 16,777,216 bits synchronous high data rate Dynamic RAM organized as 2x 524,288 words by 16 bits, fabricated with high performance CMOS technology. Synchronous design allows precise cycle control with the use of system clock I/O transactions are possible on every clock cycle. Range for operating frequencies, programmable burst length and programmable latencies allow the same device to be useful for a variety of high bandwidth, high performance memory system applications.
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FUNCTIONAL BLOCK DIAGRAM Data Input Register Bank Select LDQM 512 x 16 512 x 16 Column Decoder Latency & Burst Length LCKE Programming Register LDQM LRAS LCBR LCAS LWCBR Timing Register L(U)DQM •Pin Function Description Name Input Function System Clock Active on the positive going edge to sample all inputs.
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IC602 (MX29LV400BTC): FLASH MEMORY GENERAL DESCRIPTION The MX29LV400T/B is a 4-mega bit Flash memory organized as 512K bytes of 8 bits or 256K words of 16 bits. MXIC's Flash memories offer the most cost-effective and reliable read/write non-volatile random access memory.
TROUBLESHOOTING GUIDE Reproducibility check. NG item re-check? Go to visual check. In that case of a READ/WRITE problem, go to “monjc3 check”. Visual check Lens dirty? Lens cleaning. Connector lock. Connector lock? The soldering state check Soldering correction. on PWB. Go to each items check.
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Monjc3 check. Set “Audio heatrun” mode. PIC<10(ave.)? PIE<1(ave.)? PID>95%?(DVD-RAM) Tilt move PI* Skew adj. NG improvement? CD & DVD-RAM CRAMp 4D balance too bad. 012Bh 029C or FD64? P/U NG (sub RF signal is too small). CD FEP 0Ch AC or B0? Change MD Set “Audio heatrun”...
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System Check Load Tray without any discs. Does Pick Up move to Go to “Sled Motor Servo is abnormal”. inside? Does Pick Up lens move Go to “Focus Servo is unstable”. up/down? Go to “LD Control is abnormal”. Does LD turn on? After eject tray, Insert CD-ROM disc and check rotation.
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Tray Control is abnormal Eject button Check. Replace LED. Eject Tray? Are each FPC connection LED blinking? Is TL354 5V? Check soldering of Q304 and Is it a GND level while R311. Are each FPC connection TL353 pushing the ejejct Check soldering of IC201.
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Tray would not close at all (Tray motor abnormal sound). Check soldering Repair soldering of NG parts. around SW301 and SW302? Check soldering Repair soldering of NG parts. R260, R254 and IC201? Replace SW301, SW302. Focus Servo is unstable Focus Error Check. Go to “LD Control is abnormal”.
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Focus Drive Check. 1) Check Soldering of PG301. 2) Check voltage of TL338(5V). Replace Unit Mecha and Is Focus Drvie normal? 3) Check voltage of TL347(1.65V). Execute LD Calibration. TL343. 4) Check insertion or damage of Main FPC. Repair/Charge NG parts. Is Focus Drive normal? Check LPF (R250, C250).
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Disc Motor Servo is abnormal. Disc Motor does not rotate. Is Focus servo stable? Go to “Focus Servo is unstable” Check TL338(5V). Check 5V Line. Check Vhalf(1.65V) Line (Out Check TL347(1.65V). put is IC101 10pin). Check LPF (R226, R227, Is SPD signal normal? TL346.
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Disc Motor servo is unstable. Replace Unit Mecha and Is FG signal normal? Execute LD Calibration. TL352 Check LPF Is SPD signal normal? CD-R, CD-RW? (R226, R227, C216) TL346 Is WBL signal normal? Repair/Charge NG parts. 1)Check TL117. soldering of PG301. 2) Check insertion and damage of Main FPC.
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Tracking Servo is unstable. Tracking Error Check. Go to “Focus Servo is Is Focus Servo stable? unstable”. Go to “Disc Motor Servo is Is DiscMotor Servo stable? unstable”. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ e ? @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ e ? @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ? e @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ e ? @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ? e @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ e ? @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ? e @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ e ? @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ? e @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ e ? @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ? e @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ e ? @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ? e @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ e ? @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ? e @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ e ? @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ? e @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ e ? @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ? e @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ e ? @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ? e @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ e ? @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ? e @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ e ? @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ e ? @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ? e @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ e ? @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ? e @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ e ? @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ? e @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ e ? @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ? e @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ e ? @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ? e @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ e ? @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ? e @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ e ? @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ? e @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ e ? @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ? e @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ e ? @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ? e @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ e ? @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ? e @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ e ? @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ? e...
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Sled Motor Servo is abnormal. Pick up doesn’t move to inner position 1) Check soldering PG301. Replace Unit Mecha and Execute Is Control signal normal? 2) Check insertion and damage LD Calibration. TL349, TL350. of Main FPC. Check LPF (R232, R233, C260, Is Control signal normal? C261).
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LED doesn’t blink. Replace Unit Mecha and Execute Is FG signal normal? LD Calibration. TL352 CD-R, CD-RW? Is SPD signal normal? Check LPF, capacitor R226. Is WBL signal normal? TL346 R227,C216 TL117. Is SCFCLK signal normal? 1) Check IC101 (77). soldering PG101.
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Laser operation is abnormal Execute ‘S4LPCHK.exe’ and * Power meter is required. choose ‘1. Test ALL’. Execute LD power calibration. Is EEPROM Data valid? Set λ=780 [nm] of the power meter. Is ‘Read Power check’ OK? @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ e ? @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ e ? @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ? e @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ e ? @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ? e @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ e ? @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ? e @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ e ? @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ? e @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ e ? @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ? e @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ e ? @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ? e @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ e ? @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ? e @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ e ? @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ? e @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ e ? @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ? e @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ e ? @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ? e @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ e ? @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ? e @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ e ? @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ? e @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ e ? @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ? e @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ e ? @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ? e @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ e ? @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ? e @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ e ? @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ? e @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ e ? @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ? e @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ e ? @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ? e @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ e ? @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ? e @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ e ? @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ? e @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ e ?
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Check connection between conector and FPC. Check if FPC is not broken. Execute ‘S4LPCHK.exe’ and choose ‘2. Read Power Check’ NG 1 RDRV level Measured Power Replace the P/U and execute LD 50[%] -150[%]? Power calibration. 2.1[mW]-3.5[mW]? RDRV level FPD level 150[%] over? 50[%] under? NG 3...
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Execute ‘S4LPCHK.exe’ and choose ‘3.White Power Check’. WDRV level Replace the P/U and execute LD Measured Power (AC) 50[%] -150[%]? Power calibration. 5.7[mW] -10.7[mW]? WDRV level FPD level 150[%] over? 50[%] under? FPD level Replace the P/U and execute 150[%] over? LD Power calibration.
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Recognition Fail Case1: CD-ROM Fail. LD Check. Go to “LD Control is abnormal”. Does Focus Servo Go to “Focus Servo is unstable”. operate normally? Does Tracking Servo Go to “Tracking Servo is unstable”. operate normally? Check Pickup RF signal(TL313-315,317) was 200~800mVpp? 1)Check Soldering of PG301.
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Recognition Fail Case2: DVD Disc Fail. Is Q303 Pin6(linked to Replace the IC101. Is PG301 34pin (TL330)? R309 and R310)level 3.6V or more? Check after replacing Replace the Q303. Pickup unit. Is it OK? After Power On, does Pick up Go to ‘Focus Drive check’.
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Recognition Fail Case2: DVD-RAM Disc Fail Is Q303 Pin6 (linked to Replace the IC101. Is PG301 34pin(TL330) R309 and R310) level 3.6V or more? Check after replacing Replace the Q303. Pickup unit. is it OK? After Power On, does Pick up Go to Focus Drive check.
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Write Part Check Refer “Laser operation is abnormal”. Load tray with CD-R/RW. Run the Writing Tool (Nero-Burning ROM). Run the Writing with Tool (Nero-Burning ROM). Does Writing finish without any error? Is the written file Eject Tray read normally? Go to “LD Check (Write Power Check)”.
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Does the disc have any Dust, disc has log width Scratch, change it. Scratch, Fingerprint..? Is the write Tool (version) supported by Use LG bundle Software (Write Tool & HLDS CD-RW/DVD-ROM Version) -NERO-Buning ROM- Drive? Check disc information on Writing Tool.
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No Audio Output (CD-DA Play) Audio Circuit Check. Check output signal of Check soldering of IC201. C401 and C402, IC201side. Check soldering of R401-R405 Repair soldering or replace parts. and C401-C404. • Check soldering of IC201. Is IQ402(Base) High level? •...
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