cd player not reading a disc? Laser dirty?

What causes this erratic situ where sometimes the player won't fire up a disc that it was playing a 1/2 hour before?
Could it be the laser is dirty? I clean the disc(again) to no effect.

ptss09-20-2013 5:25pm

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davehrab Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 380 posts 09-23-2013 at 12:27am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Sometimes there is a capacitor in the power supply that directly feeds the laser diode ... when that capacitor begins to fail it will intermittently not hold/store the charge and keeps the laser from powering up ... eventually it will fail completely and the laser will not power up at all Just another possibility to check out

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