[sdiy] Repairability of modern analog synths

[Pete Hartman]

On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 11:41 PM Michael E Caloroso <
mec.forumreader at gmail.com> wrote:

> That was a witch hunt, but it proved the old adage of
> troubleshooting... never rule ANYTHING out.  Even MICROPROCESSORS.


Hear hear.   When all the other possibilities have been eliminated, the
unlikely but still unchanged thing is probably your culprit.

My favorite story along these lines is not a synth story, so I'll be
extremely brief:  I did field support for Sun Microsystems for several
years, and a couple of my peers were called in to troubleshoot an old Sparc
Center 1000 (which was like 5 - 8 years old at this point and nearly past
its service life).  It would randomly crash.  They replaced EVERYTHING in
the box, they reloaded the OS, it still crashed.  The only thing that
hadn't been changed was the physical chassis, which had no reason
whatsoever to cause the crashes.

Guess what part they replaced to fix the problem?

Pete
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