TechiMan
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Last night I was in the process of capturing a heap of old VHS tapes to my laptop using my capture device. After I had loaded the last tape into the machine (which as far as I could tell didn't look broken or the tape snapped inside apart from the front label which was partially hanging off), and decided to rewind the tape to the beginning to see what was on it, and I had left the room for a moment but when I came back a few seconds later I noticed the recorder had stopped working - no display panel lit up, the eject button wouldn't work, the ON button wouldn't work, nothing it was dead.
I unplugged the machine (which was plugged into one of those four way adapters, which I suppose isn't a good thing with 3 other plugs plugged in but i've never had this before) and tried it in a different plug socket but still nothing. I also took the fuse out of the plug replaced it with another one, but still nothing. Up until this point the machine was performing flawlessly, although I admit I did have the machine on most of the day chucking in tapes left right and centre, so maybe the machine overheated, that's the only thing I can think of. The machine is a Sony SLV SE740.
Anyone know what might have happened?.
I unplugged the machine (which was plugged into one of those four way adapters, which I suppose isn't a good thing with 3 other plugs plugged in but i've never had this before) and tried it in a different plug socket but still nothing. I also took the fuse out of the plug replaced it with another one, but still nothing. Up until this point the machine was performing flawlessly, although I admit I did have the machine on most of the day chucking in tapes left right and centre, so maybe the machine overheated, that's the only thing I can think of. The machine is a Sony SLV SE740.
Anyone know what might have happened?.