You may have a spindle motor bearing seizing up. If you can access the motor, try a drop of thin oil right at the top bearing and mop off any excess with a wick made from a piece of twisted newspaper. Dominic DiLeo Atlantic TV Freeport, Maine ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In a message dated 10/12/2005 2:21:20 PM Eastern Daylight Time, pkthorpe@xxxxxxxxx writes: Hi All I own a RCA DVD recorder model# DRC8040N still in warranty,I am not a Thomson service center . I do not have any experience on DVD recorders at all .Here is what happens can record 2-3 movies then I start getting disk error,disk error detected, and fan failure. I cleaned the fan with some canned air started to work,but still disk error.I called RCA CSR said to use lens cleaner it sat around about a month cleaned lens,it worked fine for 3 movies recording the 4th disk error. Do I have something heating up or do the CPU's in these things need a hard reset often. Any of you that work on these all help would be appreciated. Thanks Perry Thorpe Thorpe's Electronics Beattyville,KY 41311 pkthorpe@xxxxxxxxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This Email List is accessible to the general public through search engines. Remove: http://www.tech-assist.org/remove.htm Set Vacation mailto:ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=set%20techassist%20vacation Lost Password: http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Login Problems?". Email Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/