Topic: Newbie Help : Sony DAT TCD-D8 Tape pb

[Cooker]

i am going to totally contradict other advice given here, but i used to have similar problems with my old D8 that had been stepped on.

when the deck is flashing "load", firmly press on the closed lid. hold until you see a result, maybe it will work, maybe it won't, but it won't hurt it.

[tchoub]

I tried what cooker said.
"Load" was flashing, then I heard a *new* noise and "TOP" and then 0h00m00s appeared so I thought that the deck had succeeded in loading the tape.
Then "Load" appeared again and thge screen shuted off and went back with 0h00m00s. It failed !!

But I have now another problem, I tried to put the hold/open selector on hold and I couldn't. The hold/open selector is now no longer working !!
I opened manually the lid and saw that the tape was jammed in the deck. I managed to remove it but the open/hold selector is now dead ...
This is a nightmare ...  

[F.O.Bean]

you can buy my d-8 that is just sitting here.....it werks too....