Korg Poly800/EX800 Users

does the "enermax" sticker have a little star on it ? It's probably
just a sticker from a computer power supply some joker put on there.
I have one on my Cell that came with the 485 watt PS I use for my
music PC.
Have you tried loading the factory sounds? When I got mine every
preset sounded like gibberish, but I sussed the interface and
figgered out that a lot of the presets were scrambled from having no
battery. bn

--- In korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com, Shayne Cafferata <scafferata@s...>
wrote:

> a crippled dw8000 was recently passed on to me. at first i thought

it

> was the key contact problem i read about, but further inspection
> revealed that within the first minute or so of turning it on, the

keys

> do trigger and also it will trigger thru midi. the problem is that

the

> output sound is complete distortion and not related at all to the

actual

> programmed sound. i know this because every once in awhile i will

hear

> the real sound for a second or two. the distortion will carry on

for a

> couple minutes, then fade into silence. somtimes the distortion

will

> return thru continued playing of the keys or midi input, but it

always

> cuts out or fades again. if i switch it off for a few seconds and

back

> on, sometimes the distortion will appear again. the battery seems

fine

> as parameter changes are retained in memory. can anyone suggest

what

> these symptoms indicate and what i need to do to fix it? could it

be a

> faulty power supply? there is a sticker on the unit that

says "enermax

> power inside". is this the factory power supply for the dw8000 or

has it

> been replaced?
> thanks,
> shayne