The display on the system has now dimmed until it is unreadable. can I repair or exchange it? The laser is also on its way out as it rarely can read a cd. I understand a Sanyo SFP100S is the laser I require ( about £20) any idea what size socket as there are at least two types.
I puchased a second lifestyle unit on ebay but the laser has gone on this one too. just my luck. any help appreciated.
Regards
Steve

steve-thomson@ntlworld.com, January 2009

Did this work? I have the same problem. And am about to try Anon´s Solution for dead display.

Dgls, October 2012

I read in another site that this is also due to defective electrolytic capacitors see C16 thru C19 and replace them. I hope this helps!

Michael, February 2011

Interesting. I had a lifestyle 25 with a dead display with cd reading intermittently. Took the top of the unit - pretty simple unit with boards that are modular. Looking at from the front behind the display, the one lying on a slope seems to be the main board and the one that plugs into that on the left is the power board. The power board is easily detached from the main board by just pulling it apart at the plugs (2) and makes working on it a breeze. Put my ESR meter on the electrolytics and 3 of the 5 100uF caps had high reading (bad) and one was open circuit. One of the 470 uF caps was also high resistance. The long and short of it is that I changed all the electolytics on the power board and have a fully functional console again with a working CD player - think the laser mechanism was not getting the right voltage and nor was the LED display. Hope this helps.

Anon, December 2010

My bose 5 module display light is not working, how can i solve this problem?

laurence, July 2009