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Philips CDI 210 Service Manuals

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The Philips CDI 210 service manuals are the four service manuals that Philips Interactive Media Systems, Service & Support, published for the Philips CDI 210 CD-i player, one for each hardware revision. ICDIA distributes three of them together as one 138-page PDF and the 210/20 manual as a separate file; here each is hosted on its own, without other changes.[1]

The four manuals
File Versions covered Mainboard Part number Publication code Pages
File:Philips CDI 210-00 Service Manual.pdf 210/00, /05 Mono I 4822 725 24696 P.S. 0793 54
File:Philips CDI 210-20 Service Manual.pdf 210/20, /25 Mono II 4822 725 24715 P.S. 1093 51
File:Philips CDI 210-40 Service Manual.pdf 210/40, /41, /45 Mono III 4822 725 24753 P.S. 1094 42
File:Philips CDI 210-60 Service Manual.pdf 210/60, /65 Mono IV 4822 725 24775 P.S. 0995 42

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The 210/00, 210/40 and 210/60 scans come from freeservicemanuals.info and carry its watermark on every page.[1] The 210/20 file is a cleaner scan of A3 sheets, two manual pages to each PDF page, with no watermark; its PDF metadata names the Internet Archive's PDF software as the producer.[3]

Contents

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Philips CDI 210-45 front
A CDI 210/45 (photograph: Argall)

All four manuals follow the same order as the CDI 220 manuals of the same period: product information (specification, connections, setting up), service information (safety, SMD and ESD handling, the central repair procedure for the mainboard), mechanical drawings (exploded views of the cabinet and loader), service software, electrical drawings (block and wiring diagrams, circuit diagrams and PCB layouts), diagnostics with measurements and adjustments, and parts lists.[4][3][5]

The 210/20 manual's table of contents, for example, runs: 2 product information; 3 service information, ending with 3.6 the monoboard central repair procedure; 4 mechanical drawings; 5 service software; 6 electrical drawings (power supply panel, control and display panel, monoboard with the µP, glue logic and digital audio, digital video, FMV interface, servo, analogue audio and analogue video circuit diagrams); 7 diagnostics; 8 parts lists of the cabinet, tray loader, display and power supply panel, monoboard, and accessories and service tools.[3]

What these manuals do not contain

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  • The 210/00 manual's service software chapter describes the front display and keyboard test but marks it "not for CDI200 and CDI210".[6]
  • The microprocessor, digital audio and digital video sections of every board are central-repair items; the parts lists cover the whole board, but the manuals give no repair procedure for those sections beyond the low-level test.[3]
  • The parts list in the 210/40 manual names some parts as CDI 220 parts ("IKAT CDI220/PH.IV", "ASSY NVRAM 32k x8"), which suggests it was taken over from the 220/60 manual without editing.[7]
  • The Digital Video cartridges are not covered.

Pages that cite these manuals

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The manuals

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CDI 210/00 (Mono I)

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Download: Philips CDI 210-00 Service Manual.pdf

CDI 210/20 (Mono II)

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Download: Philips CDI 210-20 Service Manual.pdf

CDI 210/40 (Mono III)

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Download: Philips CDI 210-40 Service Manual.pdf

CDI 210/60 (Mono IV)

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Download: Philips CDI 210-60 Service Manual.pdf

References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 ICDIA, "CD-i Service Manuals" (retrieved 2026-10-20): cdi210.pdf (/00/05, /20/25, /40/41/45, /60/65) and cdi210b.pdf (/20/25); most PDFs obtained from freeservicemanuals.info.
  2. ↑ Cover pages of the four manuals (part numbers, publication codes, versions, CD mechanism).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Service Manual CDI 210/20/25 (4822 725 24715), PDF p. 1 (cover: survey of main panels, central repair of the µP, digital audio and digital video parts) and PDF p. 2 (detailed table of contents).
  4. ↑ Service Manual CDI 210/00/05 (4822 725 24696), PDF p. 2 (detailed table of contents).
  5. ↑ Service Manual CDI 210/60/65 (4822 725 24775), PDF p. 2 (detailed table of contents).
  6. ↑ Service Manual CDI 210/00/05 (4822 725 24696), PDF p. 15, section 5.1 (the FTD display/keyboard test: "Scope (not for CDI200 and CDI210)").
  7. ↑ Service Manual CDI 210/40/41/45 (4822 725 24753), PDF p. 42 (parts list: 7201, 7241).