Vintage Synth Repair

thank you mike and duncan...
i indeed had the problem of "crap on my CPU" (to use a technical term) thanks to an 
overzealous confetti operator at a new year's show at hammerstein ballroom a couple 
years back. i thought i had cleaned it all out. maybe i hadn't... i will recheck the options 
you guys have given me.
-J

--- In vintagesynthrepair@yahoogroups.com, "duncan" <ferrograph@...> wrote:
>
> jamie,
> mike's advice is good- this is the same problem that caused the
> infamous "insane" behaviour in early/unmodified moog source units; in
> that case, the series regs were not soldered at all, but sat loosely
> in a connector. removing this & soldering them in place would cure the
> moog but meant exercising extra care when removing the case for other
> surgery.
> it's possible you may have CPU problems though- I have had a 106 in
> bits that lost it's mind after "liquid ingress"; the board around the
> CPU is quite sensitive & it may just need a clean to remove something
> that's deposited there & is "C-shunting" across some CPU connections;
> anything that can be carried in the air can settle on a pcb & cause
> this, especially if there's dry-ice or smoke involved... :-)
> 
> duncan.
>