My battery recently died and I had to get a new battery. Upon replacement of the new battery, by CD player stopped working. It is an 6 disc unit integrated with the AF/FM and is original equipment. When I press the "eject", it states "no disc" and when I press the "load", it states "disc loading error". There are 6 discs in the unit presently although the unit is not recognizing them. The "disc in" light does not light also. The dealer tried some reset button under a panel on the driver's side of the dash to no avail. The AM.FM works properly. I sometimes hear the unit making a noise like it is trying to do something, but no results yet. Any other solution other than buying an ew unit to replace the old one? Could a disc be "jammed"? Any way to get the discs out and not have to replace the unit?

PAUL MC G

• 1280 Answers
• Posted on Mar 26, 2011

SOURCE: My battery recently died and

I am very sorry to read your problem, but I'm afraid the unit is 'non-repairable'. I've seen this on more than 2 dozen Hyundai Sonata's. Replacing the battery had nothing to do with it... it's when the original/other battery went dead, the internal (already weakend/aged) circuits went permanently to sleep and will probably never wake up again. The 'reset' the dealer tried was merely removing power to the unit. In a sense, when your battery went dead and you replaced it, you also did a 'reset'.. but it wouldn't come back completely. The CD changer has known problems. The noise you hear is the CD Changer trying to 'boot up' so to speak. It's programmed to complete an internal 'Set Up' and "identification' of any CD's which may already be there -- it just quit working. Its Electronics have malfunctioned - basically the CD changer circuit board.