I had problems with my HDA's connector after messing with the cable. It tended to work loose more often than I wanted to deal with. So I hot-melt-glued it. Then the connector block ripped itself apart from the same stresses that made the cable work loose in the first place. So I had to mess with the connector block and crimp/glue/melt it back together (seems to be working fine now though). You might want to open the player, pull out the drive tray, and look at the cable and its HDA connector block.