Thanks for the reply. As for trying to get a new machine -- yes it is the obvious thing to do. Only one catch: the very large metropolitan hospital's sleep center/doctor office I originally had the apnea test done for, back in 2009, and got the prescription for the CPAP, has purged its 2009-era medi...

About 1-2 years ago, my 2009-era Respironics Remstar Plus M Series CPAP machine started exhibiting a problem. When I'd turn it on at night, it would start blowing but then within a 1/2 second, it'd die. Then a few seconds later, it'd beep, then a few seconds later, it'd try to start blowing, and eit...