MC909 fault help
Posted: 07:39, 15 August 2012
Hi all.
Asking for assistance on behalf of a friend. He turned his MC909 on last night.. it powers up fine but no lights or controls working. It still receives MIDI and still generates sounds (got start signal from Electribe MX-1) I think he said the screen is still working. So i'm thinking it's a problem with the control surface not getting power. I'm hoping it's just a loose connection somewhere. I'll be checking on the forum for a walk thru on opening the beast up so I can know what to expect inside and how to logically get her open... or even better find a thread where someone has fixed the same problem before. Haven't had a chance to look at it myself to do further troubleshooting but I'll go have a look at it tonight to isolate whats working and what isn't to try narrow down the problem.
Is there a ribbon cable connecting the control circuitry to the main board that could've worked loose? or some kind of power cable to the control cirtuitry?
He played a gig with it 6 days ago and all was working perfectly fine then.
PS: i'm really surprised that the MC808 gets a dedicated link on the main page of this forum and the MC909 is relegated to the back rooms :P
Asking for assistance on behalf of a friend. He turned his MC909 on last night.. it powers up fine but no lights or controls working. It still receives MIDI and still generates sounds (got start signal from Electribe MX-1) I think he said the screen is still working. So i'm thinking it's a problem with the control surface not getting power. I'm hoping it's just a loose connection somewhere. I'll be checking on the forum for a walk thru on opening the beast up so I can know what to expect inside and how to logically get her open... or even better find a thread where someone has fixed the same problem before. Haven't had a chance to look at it myself to do further troubleshooting but I'll go have a look at it tonight to isolate whats working and what isn't to try narrow down the problem.
Is there a ribbon cable connecting the control circuitry to the main board that could've worked loose? or some kind of power cable to the control cirtuitry?
He played a gig with it 6 days ago and all was working perfectly fine then.
PS: i'm really surprised that the MC808 gets a dedicated link on the main page of this forum and the MC909 is relegated to the back rooms :P