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Subject: Re: Broken AN1x..... please help

From: "Jon" <jondl_2000@...>
Date: 2006-11-14

--- In AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com, "ikeinthepost6" <idelongc@...>
wrote:
>
> so friday my yamaha an1x worked fine at my buddies house for band
> practice. i bring it home today, power it up and can't get any
sound
> out of the main outs, and the thing keeps rebooting every six
seconds,
> faster if i try to play any keys. I plug in a set of headphones to
the
> hp jack, and get about a half second of sound, between when the
an1x
> finishes booting up and when it crashes. That half second of sound
is
> pretty much normal, but as it crashes i get some nasty digital
bleeps.
> The more I play around, the longer the time between rebooting gets,
> and as of right now i get randomly between 15 secs and a minute or
two
> . I still get no sound out of the main outs, and there is a loud
hum
> in the headphone jacks.... the hum is as loud as the signal, which
> makes it almost useless... everything still works the same, as in
the
> knobs still do there assigned function, patch switching works,
menus
> work fine....
>
> i've only had it for three weeks, and at worst have lightly bumped
it
> once in a while when transporting it to and from band practice. i
have
> noooo idea whats goign on here so any help would be greatly
appreciated
>

Few things to try...1st, open the case and inspect the ribbon cable
connections to the mainboard, something may have come loose. 2nd,
try a seperate power supply - the AC adapter may have died. 3rd,
perform a Factory Reset and see if that clears the problem.

Jon