Hi, my beloved Beocenter 9000 suddenly died on me. It is a beautiful piece of kit, which I will probably keep for it's aesthetic value alone..but naturally, I would prefer that it worked, so I wonder, does anyone out there have any idea what might cause an abrupt and total failure like this? I came to use it one day, and found the screens were dead...no lights at all. No sound, no opening doors, absolutely no function. I have fixed many TVs, PCs and other electrical stuff, usually by looking very closely for broken solder joints, burnt out components..blown caps and so on.....with this unit, I have checked for everything I can think of....fuses, circuit boards, damaged components etc. All seem ok, and yet there's no function. When you power up, the cd and tape drives spin for a second or so, and then stop. The only interesting thing I have noticed, concerns the relays. There are three that are easily seen: the first (1) is directly behind the transformer coil...the second,(2) to the right of the coil, and the third, to the right of the cd drive. When I power up I notice that relay (1) activates and remains activated, whereas, on a working Beocenter 9000, I have access to, this relay only activates for a second or so, before switching back to it's unpowered state. I notice also, that relay(2) only activates some of the time.....beyond that, the machine remains inscrutable. If anyone has any idea what I should be looking for here, I would be delighted to hear from them. My thanks in advance. Peter
