Did you try the alternative ? Martin

Welcome to Beoworld ! The MCP will stay on only a few seconds after the last operation and then turn off the displays, this is normal. Long enough, however, to allow you to set the clock etc. without rushing through. The "Battery Low" indicator will normally show if the batteries are close to the end of their life but not always. If the batteries

Die_Bogener is correct in that it won't start without a record. It will just rotate the platter a couple of times without moving the arm. However, if the Beogram hasn't been used for a long time, it may seem to start correctly, swing in the tonearm and lower but then lift and stop right after the needle has landed on the record. This is due

I'm currently travelling so I cannot check but there's a good chance that I have the original service manual. Any particular problem or question since you need the service manual ? Martin

Yes, when first some of the traces break, the others will follow shortly. You can take off the top cover, that fairly easy; Losen two screws at the rear a couple of turns each, slide up their brackets and tighten the screws again. The top cover can then be pushed a bit towards the rear and lifted up. Accessing the innards of the front panel is a rather

Are you sure you replaced ALL the caps ? There's one inside the CPU casing too that most people miss. It's a quite important component and often bad, sometimes even disintegrated. The carriage home sensor is not misadjusted ? Martin

The flex-ribbon cable to the flip-down front is broken, this is very common. It's no longer available as a spare part but you can make your own from thin flexible wire. Problem is to get in there, it's a fiddly job. You can force open the front panel by pulling its left side using a bit of "controlled finger-force". Martin

The original woofer in Beovox M75 is SEAS 25F-WB The tweeter and midrange drivers are domes. The cone driver is the "filler". Martin

The clicking comes from the laser lens, moved back and forth, hitting the end stops in an attempt to find the focus point. This is the symptoms that so many repairers diagnose as a bad laser and, admittently, it looks like exactly that but it's not ! It's the spindle motor that is at fault. It runs, yes, and if you rotate it by hand it seems

Hope you have a nice day ! Martin