max # of eeprom read cycles

[Rob]

Tony Allgood wrote:
> 
> Nothing to do with EEPROMs but a similar fault with ageing. I have a
> Korg Wavestation that powers down for a short moment every 30 or so
> minutes. It is a switch mode power supply problem but its a right pain
> to fix, so I rang Korg UK, and by sheer coincidence they have one with
> the same fault. The engineer told me that this could be the start of
> something big. Watch out for built in obscelesence in digital stuff.
> Probably running some of the components out of its SOAR. Or worse,
> because it is so hard to spec... average values are being met, but the
> peak transients are too big. 1nS 10KV spike anyone???
> 
> Oh, if anyone knows of this fault, mail me and I will make the poor Korg
> guy very happy. He is busy replacing every component on the board until
> it works.

heheh! My studio440 is doing the exact same things..
I tried a new powersupply, but that didnt do too much..
Rob