Help with optical replacement. Can the resistance be too low and prevent function?

[Released: 2001] The GameCube, with the Game Boy Player attachment, it is able to play Game Boy/Color, and Game Boy Advance titles. It's successor, the Wii, supports backward compatibility. Panasonic released a DVD player hybrid Gamecube.

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Help with optical replacement. Can the resistance be too low and prevent function?

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Got our DOL-001 out of a multi-decade storage and it wont read discs. Read on adjusting pot, and reduced it down by ~25 ohm bumps until I was reading below 90 ohms on the pot. Figured the laser was bad, so I ebayed another.
It just arrived, and I started the resistance at 450 at the pot and essentially the same thing happened. Did I just get another bad laser? Could the resistance be too low on a DOL-001 and prevent proper reading? I am so frustrated with the thing at this point it is close to seeing a hammer...
Any advice?

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