My Panasonic NV-DS65 doesnt play or record

[Kaapo]

Hello
Thanks to this forum for helping with my camera.
One week ago I recorded a friend's wedding and on the following day, when I tryied to see the video I could not use the camera any more with this anoying blinking led on it.
I was desperated and went to google and found this forum.
I opened the bottom of my NV-DS60 (7 screws) touched softly every thing there and it is now working again!!!
I thought it was not going to work and found my self amazed when the camera started working again.
I'll now try to close the camera back. Let's see if I remember were to put the small and large screws.
Greetings from Finland
Kaapo

[Mamz]

Hi
I had the same problem with my Panasonic NV DS65. I'm glad I visited this forum and saw the postings. We got our cam working. All we did was follow instructions from Agatha's posting. Finally we can now shoot our 7 month old's antics.

Thanks once again. This is a great Forum... keep it going.

[Ryahnii]

Hello

Thanks Agatha. I followed your instructions and my nv-ds65 is now working again. Just in time for Christmas! Your post saved us a lot of money on repair costs.

Ryahnii

[mary christmas]

all was not well with my ds65 - followed the instructions above - gently - and now it goes. now i can video my son tomorrow (xmas) morning. ho ho ho

[petehall347]

just done the same ...wicked that fixed it

[ntreds]

The solution about reseating all the ribbons worked great! Just use a small screwdriver and push on the ribbon cards in the slots gently to see if one needs reseating. Thanks!

[gerogm3]

Hi,

Thanks for this post. Amazing I did the same thing touched all the ribbon plugs to ensure they were seated properly and presto camera works again.

I was quoted $300au to repair as well.

Note on the nv-ds65 there are more 8 screws and one can only be accessed by opening the viewer.

Also, in my research about this problem I came across the warning that you must switch off your pc before connecting for editiing etc. I thought this is what caused my problem originally. But it seems it is not. Nevertheless I am going to take their advice and switch off pc and then connect. Pain in the proverbial.

[Guest]

Hi!

I have the same problem with my Panasonic NV-DS65 and so I tried to do what Aghata posted, fortunately it didn't work. I did exactly as it was quoted, I even loosened all the ribbon cables and reattached them just to be sure, but it still didn't work. Does anyone have any idea?

Ps. I found 7 slots with ribbon cables under the bottom plate, have I missed someone?

Help please?

[PaKMaN]

Hi, I'd like to give a really BIG thank you to Agatha and to the forum hosts!!!

I've had the same problem with my NV-DS65, plays 5 seconds and then blinking shutdown.

I did exactly as described, unscrewed 6 screws (not 7, you don't have to touch the little screw near the "BATTERY RELEASE" label), pushed all the ribbon cables I could find, put the camera back together, and it started working again.

Thanks again, really helped me out on this one!

[Guest]