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My Solution! Re: SONY Mavica C:13:01 ERROR (for MVC-CDxxx) (Formatted!)

MC-Escher Posted Jun 11, 2004, in response to:MC-Escher

ed note: same as parent, but It wasn't readable as a huge block of text. Hi all! my Mavica MVC-CD1000 same error that everyone else had. It came on somewhat suddenly where the CD could no longer be accessed. If I were to boot while holding it at different angles when starting up, sometimes it worked for a little while, and sometimes it didn't. Eventually, it stopped working all together. I hit on the idea that I'd just take it apart and put it back together (maybe I'd find a snowman with his hat blown off, or something else obviously wrong.) I'd seen many references to CDR alignment problems causing it not to read the disk, so I disassembled from the middle of the camera all the way to the back, thinking maybe something was loose or bent. When I got to the CDR module, I was kind of dismayed, because everything looked in order and not damaged. Before putting it back together without fixing anything, I hit the message boards and the critical message caught my eye (thanks piclucia!) Stating that a Canadian shop had told him/her that the gears were chewed up. I went back to the CDR module itself and started to disassemble the housing where the gears existed. Low and behold once I got it open, I found there was a sort of mini worm gear. which was linked to the laser housing by a tiny plastic 2-spur gear on a flexible metal arm. This spur was almost not touching the worm gear any longer! So, I bent it a little, here's how: Recommended Steps to repeat my repair: (WARNING this is involved, it took me 2.5 hours and there were lots of screws and connectors) 1) get a piece of paper and draw a simple view of your camera, then note all the places where the screws exist. (draw a line out from your picture and then a circle or something) 2) now remove all the screws you can find on the outer housing minus the ones on the front of the lens and the eyepiece (There should be 13), and carefully lay them on the little circles you drew on the paper, so you'll know where they go later. 3) Gently pull the viewfinder module straight up, and detach the 2 ribbon connectors and molex from the main camera body. (I'd recommend making another drawing where each ribbon goes in relation to the body of the camera because there are lots of them you'll eventually have to remove.) Place the viewfinder module aside. 4) Gently remove the ribbon cables and molex that are connecting the lens assembly to the main body (One of them will be attached with a little foam pad with adhesive, it's ok to pull this off for now) 5) Pull the main body backward and set the lens assembly aside. 6) Now, looking at the inside of hte main body, remove the two brass screws holding the top two circuit boards to the bottom one, as well as any ribbon cables and connectors that attach the top boards to anything below (I think there's 4 ribbon cables and one molex), and slide the top two circuit boards down away fro the notch/tongue at the top. Set the top two circuitboards aside. 7) Remove the 3 black screws on the top (two are for the hinge in the door), one black screw on the top left of the metal bracket (kind of recessed), and one black screw near the bottom right. If you did everything correctly, the whole metal bracket with attached CDR should come away from the back door assembly. Set the back door assembly aside. 8) now flip the bracket over and you'll see the CDR and laser assembly (a black plastic thing) which is attached by 3 plastic connectors and rubber grommets) Before continuing, flip it back over and remove the largest ribbon cable located under the sticker about replacing the fuse. (I didn't detach the smaller one) 9) on the CDR side, Gently pull the tabs on each plastic foot away from the center and it should lift off the metal bracket. (I left the 3rd one with the ground tab on it, but I did remove the screw that secured the ground tab.) Then flip the CDR over. 10) Near the bottom you should see an area where a small white gear is exposed, this is attached by 3 screws, remove them and the gear housing lid. 11) Once the gear train is exposed it should be a simple matter to see the worm gear (metal and long) and the little spur gear on the metal tab. 12) Gently bend the metal arm a little so the spur gear makes better contact with the worm gear. 13) Carefully reassemble everything. 14) You're Done! I hope that fixed your problem! If anyone finds this helpful, just send me a note, so I know I saved someone $200+ in repair fees =) Escher

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    I can fix this error for users in canada that do not wish to send their camera to the states for repair or do not wish to attempt this repair themselves. I am located in Ottawa and am an electronics technologist with all the necessary tools to do the job. I charge $60 for the service plus shipping. I performed this fix on my sony and it works great now. thank you to the original poster of this fix. brian brian_santoro@yahoo.com

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    Escher, Excellent!!!!! I got the same error and I had to hold mine at funny angles to get it to read/write. I followed your instructions and got to the "spur gear". It was still making contact, but I bent it in more and when I re-inserted the worm gear, it was a much more snug fit. I reassembled the camera (you weren't kidding about the time - 2 hours) and it works like new! Thanks again for your post! and add me to your list of who you saved 200 bucks! Rob

    Comment 1, Last comment by Mallory Sep 23, 2005

    Hi there I just want to say thank you so much for the help with fixing the problem with our mavica canera,just one problem now,when i put it all toger it now says"NO DISC" i WOULD APPRECIATE YOU HELP PLEASE YOU ARE A GOD SEND,as we are in New Zealand,we are a long way from help. Regards Bob

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    Hi all! I have bought faulty Mavica MVC-CD200. It has famous 13:01 error, I had this error each time I wanted to initialize blank CD. I was on the way of searching nearest repair shop but I found it was able to read CD I have made with Mavica borrowed from friend. So, I have also found it works quite normal with disks initialized in "good" mavica. I'm taking pictures on disks prepared in this way and I transfer them via USB to my computer. And I have found this: http://www.mav-magazine.com/Oct2000/format_cdr.htm And it works, I don't need to borrow working Mavica for initializing disks anymore while I can initialize and finalize disks on my computer. And it makes me more confused what this error code really means. Regards Cez

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